IU Coach Tracy Smith said his team has been outside for a week holding
some intrasquad scrimmages, and Schwarber has been hitting the ball well
against good pitching. Smith also said the Hoosiers are more accustomed
to playing outside than in
years past.
IU will name its new baseball stadium after former IU baseball student-athlete Bart Kaufman, who made a generous gift to IU Athletics.
Now is the time of year in which both winter and spring sports are in
action. Wrestling and basketball are coming to an end while baseball and
softball are just starting up. Here’s a rundown of all sports currently
playing, sans men’s
basketball.
With IU Coach Tracy Smith and the IU men’s baseball team kicking off the season at Wednesday’s Media Day, here are three big questions the Hoosiers will have to answer this season.
It has been a long time coming. The sign has said “Coming Soon” for years now. People inside and outside of IU’s baseball and softball programs having been waiting for construction to start on their new facility.
The 2011 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team lost eight players from last season. Two were selected in June’s 2011 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.
Host Max McCombs is joined by basketball beat writer and former baseball beat reporter Kevin Bowen to discuss the IU baseball Fall series and offer an early preview of the 2012 IU baseball team.
With USA Today’s front page article this week, it is clear the habit doesn’t get MLB Commissioner Bud Selig too excited. He has taken up the battle to ban smokeless tobacco in clubhouses and dugouts for major league teams.
The Hoosiers’ 56-game schedule for what is expected to be the IU baseball team’s final season at Sembower Field was released Friday.
The new varsity baseball and softball stadiums will take the place of the intramural fields on the north edge of campus near 45/46 and Fee Lane and will leave the nearly 10,000 participants of intramural sports without a home field.
On Aug. 19, the IU Board of Trustees approved construction of a new
baseball and softball complex to be built north of the Indiana Tennis
Center and Mellencamp
Pavilion. Ground is scheduled to be broken in spring 2012. The stadiums should be ready for the 2013 season.
IU baseball and softball will have a new complex for the 2013 baseball and softball seasons. The Board of Trustees approved the construction on Thursday with the goal of starting construction in spring 2012 and completing it for the 2013 seasons.
Before former IU baseball standout and recent MLB draftee Alex Dickerson ever swung for the fences in a cream and crimson uniform, he was confronted with a decision that would determine his future both on and off the field.
Former Hoosier baseball stars Jerrud Sabourin and Alex Dickerson’s paths, as different as they are, intersected once again last week.
Outfielder Alex Dickerson, the former Big Ten Player of the Year for IU, signed a professional baseball contract July 15 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, officially foregoing his senior season with the Hoosiers.
One of life’s toughest challenges is coming to grips with the end of something special.
This past winter, when Derek Jeter was negotiating his new contract, the
Yankees were prepared for this sobering reality. Their hard-line
financial stance was a clear indication that they thought Jeter had
little left in the tank.
Dickerson, who is tied for the school's all-time home runs lead, was selected in the third round of the MLB First-Year Player Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a first baseman, and left-handed pitcher Monar was taken by the Washington Nationals in the draft's 12th round.
Junior Alex Dickerson and freshman Joey DeNato each were named First
Team All-Big Ten. Sophomore Micah Johnson earned Third Team honors, and
DeNato and fellow freshman Dustin DeMuth were selected to the
conference's All-Freshman squad.
Needing one win to advance to the Big Ten Tournament, IU lost on walkoff home runs twice in the three-game series and lost 13-12 in the other game.
The Hoosiers’ season-ending three losses last weekend at Illinois closed Jerrud Sabourin's record-breaking career. He leaves IU as the school’s all-time hits leader.
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