Louisville powers past IU, 9-7
Mar 9, 2010 10:17 pm
For the second-straight game, the IU baseball team had a ranked foe on
the ropes, only to watch a late surge slap a tally in the loss column.
For the second-straight game, the IU baseball team had a ranked foe on
the ropes, only to watch a late surge slap a tally in the loss column.
Another game, another ranked opponent and another day where pitching by committee will be the name of the game for IU baseball.
Despite IU junior Jerrud Sabourin making the biggest impact in the 2010 season for the Hoosiers with his bat, the innings he pitched Sunday against Vanderbilt were a big reason the Hoosiers took the ranked Commodores to extra innings.
Injuries and a lack of depth in pitching left both teams playing in the finale of this weekend’s Music City Classic a bit out of tune — but that didn’t stop them from going to extra innings.
The Hoosiers will travel to Nashville, Tenn., this weekend for the
Music City Classic after taking one out of three games at the Big
Ten/Big East Challenge.
IU (2-5) will face Illinois State (4-3) and Kent State (4-2) before rounding out the weekend with Vanderbilt (7-1) on Sunday.
During the 2010 season’s first four games, the IU baseball team’s
starting pitching staff averaged less than three innings of work per
game.
That number has to change, IU head coach Tracy Smith said, in time for
the Hoosiers’ three-game trip this weekend for the Big Ten/Big East
Challenge.
The Hoosiers’ baseball season is under way, with the team losing three of the four road games against No. 23 San Diego during the weekend.
The Hoosiers’ baseball season is under way, with the team losing three of the four road games against No. 23 San Diego during the weekend.
The IU baseball team will be tested quickly on how well it has restocked and reloaded for the 2010 season Friday.
The Hoosiers open play a long way from home with a four-game series at
the University of San Diego. The schedule has the Hoosiers playing one
game Friday, a doubleheader Saturday and closing out the series with a
single game on Sunday, all at USD’s Cunningham Stadium.
Most collegiate coaches would consider themselves in a rebuilding stage
after losing 11 letterwinners from the previous year, but not IU coach
Tracy Smith.
As the Hoosiers get ready to fly west to battle No. 23 San Diego for
its opening weekend matchup, Smith must decide between now and
conference play who’s going to fill the void left by six starting
position players and two of his three starting pitchers from 2009.
As the Hoosiers get ready to fly west to battle No. 23 San Diego for its opening weekend matchup, Smith must decide between now and conference play who’s going to fill the void left by six starting position players and two of his three starting pitchers from 2009.
The IU baseball team will be tested quickly on how well it has restocked and reloaded for the 2010 season Friday.
With the 2010 season just two weeks away, the team has been in full practice mode, taking batting practice and running situational drills inside Mellencamp Pavilion every afternoon since Monday.
Losing seven players from last year’s squad, the IU baseball team
certainly needed to reload in a quick fashion if it wanted to improve
on last year’s Big Ten Tournament championship.
Fortunately, it didn’t have to look too far to find a talented new pitcher for the 2010 campaign.
With the 2010 season just two weeks away, the team has been in full practice mode, taking batting practice and running situational drills inside Mellencamp Pavilion every afternoon since Monday.
Coming off a 2009 season with arguably IU’s most talented baseball team in its century-old history, the Hoosiers are going to have to get creative. IU coach Tracy Smith enters 2010 trying to fill a void left from losing three first-round picks and seven total players in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.
IU baseball coach Tracy Smith announced Monday two right-handed pitchers will join the team.
Two more members of the IU baseball team have begun professional sports careers.
Junior outfielders Evan Crawford and Kipp Schutz elected to sign last
week with the San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles, respectively,
ending on their IU careers and heading to the Minor Leagues.
Former IU pitcher Eric Arnett has agreed to contractual terms with the
Milwaukee Brewers, the team that took him in the first round of the
Major League Baseball Draft on June 9.
O’Gara said a regional scout for the Marlins had been in touch with him the day before regarding where Florida might take him. So he wasn’t all that surprised when the call came in, making him the sixth of seven IU Hoosiers picked in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.
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