Hoosiers split home opener with Aces
Mar 27, 2011 10:47 pmAmid frigid temperatures and sunny skies at Sembower Field, the IU (14-8) baseball team split two games Sunday with the Evansville Purple Aces (11-8).
Amid frigid temperatures and sunny skies at Sembower Field, the IU (14-8) baseball team split two games Sunday with the Evansville Purple Aces (11-8).
IU’s home opener is at 1:05 p.m. Sunday against Evansville, but only as the finale in a three-game series with the Purple Aces.
When the IU baseball team’s bus pulled into the Ball State’s Ball
Diamond parking lot 25 minutes prior to the first pitch Wednesday
afternoon, IU coach Tracy Smith made sure any excuse for a lack of
preparation would be left on the bus.
Unfortunately for Ball State (2-17), junior pitcher Drew Leininger did not stay on that bus.
IU (12-7) needs to carry its improved hitting back into the normal routine of the season, starting with a matchup against Ball State at 3 p.m. today in Muncie.
The IU baseball team couldn’t put the total package together in Florida for eight games in eight days and finished with a 5-3 record.
As many IU students head to Florida next week for no work and all play, the baseball team will be playing a rigourous schedule with eight games in eight days beginning Saturday.
TERRE HAUTE — The IU baseball team’s offense put it together Wednesday.
The Hoosiers followed up 10 hits with solid base running — including a
steal home in a two-run sixth inning — to earn a 6-4 victory against
Indiana State at Bob Warn Field.
One of the early bright spots for the Hoosiers’ offense has been senior outfielder Wes Wilson.
Two wins and a loss in the Tennessee Tournament in Knoxville, Tenn., saw the Hoosiers
(6-4) earn at least nine hits in each contest, but the run discrepancy in the differing outcomes was clear.
In a season that stretches 56 games over four months, IU baseball coach Tracy Smith said he knew he would be forced to change his weekend pitching rotation at some point during the year.
No Alex Dickerson? No problem for the IU baseball team. That seemed to be the case Wednesday for junior Josh Lyon.
The IU baseball team will take a Big Ten-leading 2.75 ERA into today’s matchup with Xavier (2-4) in Mason, Ohio. The Hoosiers (3-3) have leaned on their pitching staff during the early part of the 2011 season and have already reaped the benefits of two ranked victories.
This year, the IU Athletics Department could be facing one of those make-or-break years as it relates to its baseball program. New stadium or no new stadium, IU baseball fans have something to be excited about.
After an opening weekend where IU left 26 runners on base and scored a total of five runs in 34 innings, the IU baseball team wasted no time in using its bats against Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
IU coach Tracy Smith and his hitters said a second round of games at the Kleberg Bank College Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas, should see an improved effort at the plate.
The IU baseball team finished the Caravelle Resort Invitational with an upset win against No.18 Coastal Carolina
A solid batting effort wasn’t enough for the IU baseball team Friday in its season opener, losing 4-2 to Virginia Tech.
More sunny skies will greet the Hoosiers this weekend as they open their 2011 season in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and participate in the Caravelle Resort Invitational.
With a starter returning from an injury-shortened 2010 campaign and an influx of young, versatile talent, the squad is hoping the 2011 season can see significant improvement from a pitching staff that allowed the most earned runs in the Big Ten a year ago.
The junior from Poway, Calif., leads a potent Hoosier offense into the 2011 season beginning Feb. 18.
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