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(04/23/09 3:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The whole season has come down to this: If the Hoosiers pull through with solid matches in the Big Ten Tournament this weekend, they could move onto the NCAA Tournament.But if they stumble, their season could be over.In a conference dominated for the past four years by the team in Ohio’s capital city, IU heads into Big Ten Tournament play as the No. 6 seed. The ranking leaves the team with a first round match; only the top five seeds received a bye into the second round.The Hoosiers (13-13, 5-5) begin the 2009 tournament against a team they dominated this past weekend, Michigan State. Devouring the Spartans 5-2 on Saturday, the Hoosiers are in search of another victory over Michigan State, which lost all Big Ten matches this year.Match play begins at noon today. The winner of the IU-MSU matchup will take on No. 3 Minnesota (17-6, 7-3) on Friday.As the winner of his past four Big Ten matches, the Hoosiers are led by sophomore Lachlan Ferguson.“I just go into all my matches with the belief that I’m as good as any of the guys I’m going to be playing,” Ferguson said.
(04/23/09 3:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A reflection of the season will show two losses to Big Ten teams, Northwestern and Ohio State. The fifth-seeded Hoosiers drew No. 4 seed Ohio State for their first Big Ten Tournament match.After the regular season indoor loss against Ohio State, IU coach Lin Loring said the Hoosiers would have had a better shot against the Buckeyes outdoors.“Overall, they’re more of a power team than we are, so it’s easy to play power tennis indoors,” he said. “It will definitely help us more to play the match outdoors. Right now, according to the weather forecast, we’re going to play outdoors.”The Hoosiers will be given another chance to write a new score against the Buckeyes on Thursday, playing outside, weather permitting.With the match taking place in Madison, Wis., neither IU (14-9, 6-4) nor Ohio State (14-9, 7-3) will carry the home court advantage.Ohio State beat IU 7-0 on April 12 in Columbus, Ohio.“A lot of the matches were close in singles,” Loring said. “We just need to play better in doubles.”The Hoosiers and Buckeyes will compete to play against No. 1 Northwestern, which has not lost a conference match all season.“We don’t have to do a lot of things different,” Loring said. “It just came down to big points in singles. They won them, we didn’t.”
(04/23/09 1:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>This weekend, the jewel of Indiana might not be found in the cornfields or in the kegs of the infamous Little 500 parties, but in a bottle waiting to be uncorked.The seventh annual Wine Weekend launches Friday at the Story Inn, just south of Nashville, Ind., where more than 25 wineries will bring their best to taste and to test. Wine Weekend is one of the largest wine events in the Midwest.To TasteVintage and state-grown grapes create the wines that can be bought on site. None of the wines are reserves, which means there is an extremely small quantity of a wine that is not in enough supply for people to buy. These vintage and state-grown grapes have qualities Hofstetter said are smiled upon.“It’s an opportunity to allow wineries to roll out their very best and make money doing it,” Rick Hofstetter, founder of Wine Weekend, said. “It’s kind of a debutante for the wineries.”With the wineries being housed under tents, rain or shine, the weekend will pour on.With an estimated attendance of more than 5,000, Wine Weekend regular and current employee of Story Inn Miriam Griffith said she believes the increase is due to the word of mouth previous guests have passed on. “They uncorked them for us and sold them to us right there,” Griffith said. “We already had our Story Inn wine glasses to drink out of, so we were able to enjoy some live music and drink some cold wine with good friends with plenty of food around the property.”The array of food spreads begins Friday with “Wine and all that Jazz,” a musical evening hosted by the IU Jazz Ensemble and including a full buffet dinner. The event benefits the Brown County Citizens’ Scholarships and leads into Sunday’s “Hoosier Cuisine Gone Wild,” an event of native Indiana dishes matched with one of the seven gold medalist wines chosen by judges earlier in the weekend.To TestAlthough the weekend is about giving the wineries around Indiana a chance to pour, from the Grigios to the Zinfandels, all the wines are tested with a five-point scale on four simple conditions: color, aroma, taste and finish.“It’s not like sitting back to enjoy wine,” said wine judge Allen Dale Olson. “Judging and assessing wine is a lot different than drinking and consuming.”To test the wines, judges take a sip of wine to let sit in their mouth before spitting out the wine to record their impressions.“You have to concentrate, drink and take notes,” Olson said. “You don’t dare swallow much because you’ll be consuming close to 200 different wines over about a four- hour period.” Regardless of how much is consumed, shuttle service from Story Inn to the Nashville courthouse will take place all day long. While popularity has shown a great increase with each festival, Hofstetter said he was told the idea of having a wine festival would never work.“I was under the influence of wine when I came up with the idea,” he said. “It’s been a stunning success every time we’ve done this, every time.”
(04/22/09 2:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Tucked in the back corner of the west wing of the Indiana Memorial Union is a studio awaiting photography lovers, clay-seekers and everyone in between.Union Studios, located directly behind the Back Alley, is open to anyone interested in pottery or photography classes.“We have students, past students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members,” said Adam Svoboda, Union Studio’s pottery instructor. “We’re always looking for new members and students.”Freshman Sean Arata said he wants to sign up now that he knows about the classes.“The Union seems like one of those places on campus that everybody should go to,” Arata said. “I’ve always wanted to take classes in it.”Two photography and three pottery classes are available. The six-week classes are for beginners or those interested in brushing up on skills.For 10-year member Libby Gwynn, the studio is the only place in town she said she can visit day, night or even on the weekends to work on her pottery.“I actually did ceramics when I was younger, in college, so I’ve kind of kept it up off and on over the years,” Gwynn said. “It’s good to take a class every so often just to get your skills back and maybe learn some new techniques or decoration styles.”The classes take place in the evening once a week. Svoboda said the studios are a relaxing way for students to take part in an extracurricular activity.“It’s all recreational, so it’s not for a grade,” Svoboda said. “It’s not for a credit.”In the beginning pottery course, students learn the basics of sculpting pottery and free form. Creating ceramics like bowls and mugs, the students learn hand-built and wheel-thrown methods. The intermediate courses are more involved, with different textures and glazes.The class supplies a blazer and clay.There’s no need to worry about self-taught photography books. The beginner’s photography class teaches newcomers everything from F-stops to filters.Once a storage room, the darkroom was pieced together with some dividers and enlargers from the other darkrooms that shut down on campus. Located down the hall from the class, the darkroom allows for the old techniques of film to be practiced.“Frankly, people get tired of being in front of a computer screen 24/7,” said Union Studios photography instructor David Derkacy. “It’s just so easy for it to say ‘error, disk unreadable,’ and it’s gone forever, whereas this, all you have to do is develop it.”With glosine envelopes that keep the film strips preserved indefinitely, a negative can be seen only with a ray of light or an enlarger. The best part, Derkacy said, is that film never changes, unlike the continual updates of digital cameras.“Enlargers haven’t changed for 50 years because it’s just a lens and a light bulb,” he said. “If digital came first, people would flock to film. Instant gratification is what drives digital, but then you lose the craftsmanship by seeing what they get, then thinking things through.”
(04/20/09 3:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In the last two Big Ten match of the season, sophomore Lachlan Ferguson picked up his third and fourth straight win. Yet, the Hoosiers won only one match.Collecting another Big Ten win, No. 53 IU beat Michigan State, 5-2 on Saturday. The No. 76 doubles tandem of sophomore Santiago Gruter and Jeremy Langer took down more than the No. 79 doubles team.Winning the doubles point with their 8-6 match, Gruter and Langer also helped the Hoosiers score, winning in singles in straight sets.Freshman Will Kendall and No. 114 sophomore Lachlan Ferguson also beat their Spartans in straight sets.“We lost the last two matches that were on,” Ferguson said. “It’s always hard to win away from but it would have been better if we could have gotten the 7-0 result.”Ferguson’s success continued over to Sunday’s match when the Hoosiers took on No. 48 Michigan. The Hoosier’s lost 6-1 to the Wolverines.Senior Peter Antons and freshman Maxime Armengaud picked up their second win of the weekend, but it was not enough for the doubles point.Ferguson downed his fifth ranked opponent, for his sixth Big Ten win, beating No. 94 Jason Jung, 7-5 6-4.“I just go into all my matches with the belief that I’m as good as any of the guys I’m going to be playing,” Ferguson said. “The more ranked players that I’ve beat the more strong that belief becomes for myself which has a huge impact, especially late in the match.”
(04/20/09 3:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After a solid four match Big Ten win streak, IU (14-9, 6-4) dropped two consecutively before beating Michigan State to end the regular season with a win.No. 43 IU started off its final home weekend with a loss to No. 18 Michigan, 5-2.IU’s recurring season theme of dropping the doubles point happened against the Wolverines, with only sophomores Maria Guerreiro and Katya Zapadalova able to win their match.Sophomore Myriam Sopel was able to win the first point for the Hoosiers, downing her opponent in two sets. Junior Lindsey Stuckey picked up the other point, with a three set win.“We did a good job in doubles and almost got the doubles point,” Fischer said. “In singles they were kind of overpowering us in some positions.”On Sunday, the Hoosiers earned a victory 5-2 over Michigan.The cream and crimson not only picked up the doubles point against the Spartans, but swept the matches.Senior Alba Berdala’s final match in Bloomington was a 6-1, 6-0 win. Senior Sigrid Fischer finished her Hoosier home record with a blanking of the third set. Wins also came from Sopel and fellow sophomore Charlotte Martin.“This morning I thought I really want to win,” Fischer said. “I went into the matches pumped for doubles and I wanted to win singles. It was awesome I won both.”
(04/17/09 4:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With three seniors and only two Big Ten matches, No. 43 IU will take on the state of Michigan to end its season.No. 18 Michigan and Michigan State will compete against IU at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, respectively, at the IU Varsity Tennis Center. Seniors Alba Berdala, Sigrid Fischer and Stephanie Heller hope to end their season with a pair of wins. The seniors and their Hoosier squad are looking to rebound after a 7-0 decision in favor of Ohio State on April 12.“Senior weekend is the kind of day that everyone always thinks about, but you see it so far away,” Berdala said. “I always wanted the day to come, but at the same time, I’m sad that everything is almost over.”Saturday’s matchup between the Hoosiers (13-8, 5-3) and the Wolverines (13-5, 7-1) marks the 44th meeting between the conference teams. The Hoosiers have the all-time advantage, leading the series, 29-14.“A win against Michigan would be huge for our rankings,” Berdala said.IU beat Michigan twice last season, with a regular season decision of 7-0 and a Big Ten Tournament semifinals win, 4-2.On Sunday, IU will take on Michigan State.The Spartans have only won a single Big Ten match this season. The matchup between the Spartans and the Hoosiers will be both teams’ final regular season match.“It’s my last match, so if I play as good as I can, that’s the best feeling,” Berdala said. “Because, no matter what, if I give all I have, I’ll be happy.”
(04/17/09 4:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After winning their final home match on April 12, the Hoosiers will spend the last weekend of the regular season taking on Michigan State and Michigan on the road.IU competes against Michigan State at noon Saturday in East Lansing, Mich. Competition continues at noon Sunday against Michigan.Michigan State might have a ranked doubles team, but the Spartans have only one win against a ranked opponent this season. Unable to win in its last 10 showings, Michigan State has yet to win a Big Ten match in 2009.Moving from East Lansing to Ann Arbor, Mich., IU will take on the Wolverines. Although Michigan holds the all-time series advantage, 50-14, IU stole the 2008 meeting with a 5-2 win.Both teams carry a ranked doubles team. IU sophomore Santiago Gruter and freshman Jeremy Langer combine to make the No. 76 doubles team.Another important meeting will occur in a duel of the sophomores as IU’s No. 114 Lachlan Ferguson matches up against Michigan’s No. 94 Jason Jung.
(04/17/09 3:39am)
Sophomore Myriam Sopel swings through a forehand. Sopel won both her matches in straight sets and her win over Minnesota helped clinch the win for IU.
(04/13/09 3:58am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Opening their road trip with a 6-1 win against Penn State, the Hoosiers (13-8, 5-3) closed the weekend losing 7-0 to No. 43 Ohio State.With eight of 20 matches this season decided by a 4-3 score, the Hoosiers said their struggles were related to losing the doubles point.However, No. 38 IU won the doubles point against the Nittany Lions on Friday.Smooth sailing continued for the Hoosiers as they won two singles matches before dropping a match. Senior Alba Berdala, junior Lindsey Stuckey and sophomores Myriam Sopel and Charlotte Martin all won in straight sets to solidify the match. Sophomore Katya Zapadalova pushed her match three sets for the win.Yet the Hoosiers were not able to break down the Buckeyes on Sunday. IU was unable to pick up a single match in nine played.“We were very, very close to winning four of the first sets,” IU coach Lin Loring said.Senior Sigrid Fischer lost the match in three sets. Both Berdala and Martin pushed their matches to a first-set tiebreak before eventually losing.“If Alba and Charlotte had won the first sets, it could have been a very different match because that would have kind of turned the momentum for us,” Loring said.
(04/13/09 3:55am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Dominated by Ohio State on Friday, the IU men’s tennis team came from behind to beat Penn State on Sunday.IU (12-12, 4-4) ended its home record 10-4. With the Buckeyes bringing a No. 3-ranked doubles team and five ranked singles players, IU stood little chance against No. 3 Ohio State. The cream and crimson lost all matches across the board.“The match against Ohio State was good to kind of see where we’re at,” sophomore Lachlan Ferguson said.Sunday’s matchup against Penn State went better for the Hoosiers. Losing the doubles point, freshman Maxime Armengaud grabbed his match in straight sets. Fellow freshmen Stephen Vogl and Jeremy Langer both fought from behind to win in three sets.“It’s always impressive when you see a young guy come through and fight from behind, especially under the pressure of a Big Ten match when a team’s down or behind,” Ferguson said.Ferguson solidified the win for the Hoosiers, winning his third set, 6-2.“I didn’t officially know because (IU) coach (Randy Bloemendaal) never really brings it up, and I didn’t ask,” Ferguson said. “But judging by the reaction and support of the fans and the guys of the team, I had a fair idea that my match was going to be a decider.”
(04/13/09 1:40am)
Sophomore Maria Guerreiro serves against Iowa on April 4 at the Outdoor Tennis Courts. The Hoosiers face Michigan on Saturday at 11 a.m. at home.
(04/10/09 4:15am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Three straight Big Ten losses is a rut the Hoosiers are determined to get out of.The No. 53 Hoosiers look to clean their slate against No. 3 Ohio State and No. 61 Penn State this weekend at home.Senior Peter Antons said that although losing Big Ten matches is difficult to accept, the team realizes its mentality needs to change.“We just need to go out there with a sense of urgency and look at all these matches just as opportunities,” Antons said. “We just need to believe that we can win these matches.”The Hoosiers will compete in their last home match of the season.IU (11-11, 3-3) begins its weekend competition against Ohio State (23-1, 6-0). The Buckeyes bring two top 10, nationally ranked players to Bloomington. Ohio State has defeated 15 ranked opponents this year. The Buckeyes have also won the last seven matchups between the two “You can’t really look at numbers,” Antons said. “Numbers only mean so much. It’s more of a mental thing.”The cream and crimson continue play Sunday against the Nittany Lions, who have wins against only two ranked opponents. IU leads the all-time series 11-8. Yet, Penn State has managed to walk away with the last two matches.“It’s going to be our last match at home,” he said, “and hopefully the guys will be all pumped up and wanting to kick some ass.”
(04/10/09 4:12am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Eight away matches have led the Hoosiers to their final road trip this weekend against Penn State and No. 43 Ohio State.IU won last weekend against conference opponents Minnesota and Iowa, both matches by a 4-3 score. Although the No. 38 Hoosiers are 7-1 in 4-3 matches, they hope to walk away with a bigger winning margin this weekend, junior Lindsey Stuckey said.“It’s a little stressful,” Stuckey said. “We know that one of the main problems that we’re having ... is that we’re not winning the doubles point, and that’s what’s making it really tight in the singles.”All three teams enter the weekend on an even playing field with no ranked players. But home-court advantage in the Big Ten is key.“We have to travel all day,” Stuckey said. “We get just a little exhausted from all the traveling, so we’re just going to have overcome that.”IU (12-7, 4-2) is on a roll, winning its last three Big Ten matches.
(04/10/09 4:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Lin Loring is a ladies’ man. Loring has become a legacy in his 32 seasons as the IU women’s tennis coach. With 731 career victories, he is the NCAA’s winningest women’s tennis coach in Division I history. A 326-71 record also makes him the most successful coach in the Big Ten for women’s tennis.A competitive golfer and runner in high school, Loring developed an interest in tennis after rooming with the No. 1 tennis player at his alma mater, the University of California, Santa Barbara. He began volunteering for the women’s team when he got his first glimpse into the world of coaching collegiate women.“I was just volunteering my time with the women’s tennis coach,” Loring said. “She became ill, and the athletic department asked me to finish out the year with the team because I was the only one that knew the players.”Since his introduction to coaching, his players have been named All-American 24 times. Loring is also a five-time Big Ten Coach of the Year and two-time National Coach of the Year.“Everybody’s coaching style is kind of a collaboration of everything you’ve kind of stolen from everybody else that you’ve worked with,” Loring said. “I was just fortunate enough to work with a bunch of really good people as I was coming up through the ranks.”Joining Doc Counsilman and Bobby Knight when he first came to IU in 1977, Loring has outlasted them both. He is the only active IU coach with more than 20 years of Hoosier experience.That experience has led to a string of 104 consecutive Big Ten victories from 1978 to 1985, 16 Big Ten championships and a national championship in 1982.“As I look back, I don’t think I could have ever had a better coach for my four years in school,” senior Alba Berdala said. “He understands tennis and everytime you’re on the court, he knows what you have to do in order to win.”In the past four years, Loring has coached Berdala to consecutive Big Ten honors. He has also coached 12 undefeated conference seasons.“The fact that he’s been around for so many years makes him even better because it just shows how much patience and understanding he has to have to be 30 years around that many girls,” Berdala said. “It’s not an easy job.”Loring said much of his success comes from his non-tennis background.“The fact that I didn’t come from a playing background made me want to really study and learn the game,” he said. “Sometimes really good players aren’t good coaches because everything’s come naturally to them. They’ve never really studied the game.”Studying the game alongside assistant coach Ramiro Azcui for the past 17 years has contributed to the Hoosiers’ and Loring’s success.The tandem has a 291-164 overall record and is 140-58 in the Big Ten.“I’ve been able to learn, day by day, how he operates, how he plans his practice and how he runs the team,” Azcui said. “It has been a great experience for myself, to which I enjoy tremendously.”Along with Azcui, Loring and his team share the IU Varsity Tennis Center with IU men’s coach Randy Bloemendaal and the men’s team.“We share ideas and help each other out, but he’s certainly been coaching a long time, so he doesn’t need me telling him X’s and O’s,” Loring said.Loring does not need plays drawn out for him, either: The team has a (12-7, 4-2) record and a No. 38 ranking this season.“The fact that I’ve won that many means that I’ve had a lot of good people around me, but it means that I’ve just done it longer than a lot of people,” Loring said.Accomplishing feats of which no other women’s tennis team has been capable, Loring pushes through the season living his life, building his Hoosier legacy.“At a certain point it’s not my alma mater, but at a certain point it becomes your alma mater,” Loring said. “I’ve been here 32 years. You grow attached to the place.”
(04/10/09 4:06am)
IU women's tennis coach Lin Loring addresses his players during their match against Iowa Saturday afternoon at the outdoor tennis courts. They won their match 4-3.
(04/09/09 3:53am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Before coming to IU, coach Randy Bloemendaal used to think Bloomington was only miles of cornfields.In his second year as IU head coach, leading a No. 53 ranked team, Bloemendaal now knows there is more than corn in Indiana.Racket in hand since age 11, Bloemendaal always believed he would be a player, never a coach.“It was just never something that had entered my mind,” Blomendaal said. “Then once I did it, I caught the bug in coaching and kind of fell in love, and here I am today.”Bloemendaal said a push from his college coach and the void feeling of team unity also persuaded him to go into coaching.“When I was out playing all those tournaments, I missed the team part,” he said. “I try to take pride in other parts of the game ... but my passion is being around the team.”Sophomore Lachlan Ferguson said Bloemendaal helped him understand how to reach his full potential while always remaining fair to the other players.“He never makes rash decisions or statements he hasn’t thought about,” Feruson said.Before IU, Bloemendaal coached men’s and women’s tennis in the same season. He spent eight years at his alma mater, Division II Lees-McRae, and two years at Division I Charleston Southern. While at Lees-McRae, he was named CVAC Coach of the Year six times and is a three-time Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Coach of the Year.Despite the awards, coaching two teams was difficult for Bloemendaal.“One team could win, and you could be really happy, and the other team could lose and you’re like, ‘Wow, we never should have lost that,’” he said. “You’ve only got one head on your shoulders, so it’s hard to show all that at one time. It was tough.”Yet, IU assistant coach Scott Linn said Bloemendaal possesses a mind for the game. Linn said that in a sports world obsessed with instant results, Bloemendaal does not value the quick way out.“He values the long-term effort of giving him the best you can be,” Linn said. “Sometimes to do that you have to go through stages of development, and if you’re looking for immediate gratification a lot of times athletes don’t do that.”But Bloemendaal said coaching is a learning process he continues to analyze. He calculated that he spends seven hours a day, seven days a week, 12 months a year coaching. His duties include recruiting new players, practicing with his team, scheduling trips and filling out paperwork.Bloemendaal said he is fortunate to have Linn plugging away with him.Thirty-two-year veteran Lin Loring, the IU women’s tennis coach, also helps Bloemendaal occasionally.“Coach Loring’s been a huge help because he has a wealth of knowledge, especially at Indiana,” Bloemendaal said. “I learn from everybody, but any time you’re around somebody who’s won multiple championships, I think that’s a tremendous opportunity to grow even more.”In January, Bloemendaal reached his 200th career victory against Gardner-Webb. He joined the team in 2005 as an assistant coach. After four years at IU, Bloemendaal now knows the true terrain of Bloomington.“What a neat place, Bloomington. I fell in love with that immediately,” Bloemendaal said. “It’s just a wonderful institution to represent. The students here are just very passionate about athletics as well. To me, it looked like the sky’s the limit. You can go after Big Tens. You can go after national championships, and that’s what we’re trying to accomplish here.”
(04/09/09 2:29am)
IU Womens Tennis Coach Lin Loring addresses his players during their match against Iowa Saturday afternoon at the outdoor tennis courts. They won their match 4-3.
(04/09/09 2:27am)
IU Mens tennis coach Randy Bloemendaal watches the mens tennis team practice Tuesday afternoon at the IU Tennis center.
(04/08/09 4:30am)
IU coach Tom Crean greets a guest on Thursday evening at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. Crean spoke of the past and future of Men's basketball and any other question asked by Beta Theta Pi members, as well as many new changes, like plans for a named student section at Assembly Hall.