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Freshman pitcher Casey Smith delivers a ball to the plate in the first inning of Tuesday's game at Louisville. Smith allowed just two runs and two hits in five innings during his first start in collegiate baseball.

Louisville powers past IU, 9-7

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.


IU junior Jerrud Sabourin tries to pick off a Vanderbilt baserunner during the team's 6-5 loss Sunday.

Sabourin emerges as double threat

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.


IU up to bat in Music City

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.


The IU baseball team readies for another inning during the first game of the Cream and Crimson World Series October 8, 2008 at Sembower Field.

Big Ten/Big East Challenge awaits Hoosiers

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.



Hoosiers send out first pitch in 2010 against No. 23 San Diego

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.


The IU baseball team readies for another inning during the first game of the Cream and Crimson World Series October 8, 2008 at Sembower Field.

IU moving past magical Big Ten Championship ’09 season

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.


Shortstop Jake Dunning fields a ground ball at practice March 26 at Sembower Field. The baseball team will play Louisville at 4 p.m. today on the road.

IU moving past magical Big Ten Championship '09 season

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.



Smith waits on pitching decisions

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.


The IU baseball team readies for another inning during the first game of the Cream and Crimson World Series October 8, 2008 at Sembower Field.

Ernest goes from gridiron to mound for Hoosiers

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.


Smith waits on pitching decisions

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.


IU head baseball coach Tracy Smith watches the Hoosiers 8-2 loss to Louisville unfold Friday evening at Patterson Stadium. Hoosier pitchers gave up only seven hits but three errors leading to four unearned runs for the Cardinals.

Hoosiers ready to defend title

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 sophomore Kipp Schutz slides into home during a game against Louisville on April 21st at Sembower Field.

Crawford, Schutz sign contracts

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.



Junior Eric Arnett delivers a pitch during the Hoosiers 8-2 loss against Louisville Friday evening at Patterson Field. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper announced its All-American list Friday naming Arnett as a second-team All-American.

Arnett agrees to contract terms

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.


IU sophomore pitcher Joey O'Gara throws to a Eastern Michigan batter during a game on March 4th at Sembower Field. O'Gara was chosen by the Florida Marlins Wednesday in the 31st round (938th overall) of the MLB draft.

O'Gara weighs options for future

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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