Field hockey sets single game scoring record
The Hoosiers’ 11 goals Friday set a team single-game record.
The Hoosiers’ 11 goals Friday set a team single-game record.
Junior Kelsey Duerksen of the IU cross country team started her 2013 season with a victory Saturday at the Indiana Open in the women’s 5-kilometer race.
Navy (1-0) bested the Hoosiers (1-1) 41-35 tonight. This is the second straight year Navy has beat IU by less than a touchdown.
The IU volleyball team (3-0) will head to Charleston, S.C., this weekend for its first road matches of the year in the College of Charleston Invitational.
This game against Navy is important for IU. No, it’s not the Missouri game everyone circled at the beginning of the season. No, it’s not a Big Ten team. But yes, it’s a good team. And it’s a game IU should win.
The Hoosiers play No. 18 University of Alabama-Birmingham at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Birmingham, Ala. The last time the Hoosiers were in Alabama, they brought back a national championship trophy.
The season opens Friday with the Northern Intercollegiate Tournament at Rich Harvest Farms Golf Course in Sugar Grove, Ill. The Hoosiers will be among 15 schools fighting for the top spot.
After a weekend road trip, IU women’s soccer returns home undefeated (3-0-1) to host Eastern Michigan at 6 p.m. Friday and Eastern Kentucky at 2 p.m. Sunday.
IU (1-0) will host Navy at 6 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium. It will be the first time the Midshipmen have played in Bloomington since 1986.
As IU (1-0) prepares for Navy (0-0), they will have to defeat Navy’s unique style of offense: the triple option.
Coming off of a difficult set of games in Raleigh, N.C., the IU women’s field hockey team heads into the weekend to play against St. Louis Friday and Radford Sunday in Bloomington.
The IU men’s and women’s cross country teams will kick off their seasons with the Indiana Open at 9:20 a.m. Saturday at the IU Championship Cross Country Course.
Last season Monica Melink played out of position on defense, but proved her worth on the other side of the ball.
The IU men’s soccer team lost a tough contest against UCLA Sunday in Bloomington, but I wouldn’t get too worried just yet.
Similar to last season, the Hoosiers will have 16 conference games, half of them at home.
Looking at the full scope of the schedule, a handful of games both in and out of conference do exist that should pique the collective interest of the Hoosier fan base.
In 68 minutes, redshirt junior Monica Melink matched her career highs in a single season for assists and goals.
Seniors Cody Miller and Lindsay Vrooman and junior Steve Schmuhl made the team after each posted one of the top six American times in their respective events.
In his first year as head coach, IU Coach Curt Miller and the IU women’s basketball team went 11-19, up from 6-24 in 2011-2012.
IU finished the year 4-8 last season, but should have finished 5-7 according to the Pythagorean Expectation Model.