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Usual suspects lead pack in final lap

By Brian Janosch · Monday, April 18,2005 2:42 a.m.

After losing by literal inches last year, Teter got a taste of revenge Friday winning the 18th women's Little 500. After two long years of training and one gut-wrenching loss, the euphoria could finally set in. "I can't believe it," said Teter Katie Douglas. "I mean, I did it. Everyone was just like 'Forget about the pace, forget about the pace,' and I did it. I don't know how I did it, I really don't know how."

Dodds' only senior finally enjoys moment in spotlight

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Monday, April 18,2005 2:16 a.m.

Third place in Individual Time Trials. Second place in Miss-N-Out. Third place in Team Pursuit. Senior Craig Luekens' 2005 Little 500 Spring Series Events résumé is full of second- and third-place finishes, but when it really counted the senior finished first. After a sprint for the finish against Fiji rider senior Matt Davis, Luekens took this year's Little 500 checkered flag along with his Dodds House teammates, a first for Dodds since 1998.

After difficult week, Kappas tested again

By Brian Janosch · Monday, April 18,2005 2:14 a.m.

After a week that challenged the hearts of the Kappa Kappa Gamma squad, race day brought more of the same. Earlier in the week, tragedy struck the sorority with the passing of Kappa junior Ashley Crouse. The event changed the team's entire approach, preventing them from preparing in their typical fashion. The past week left the team with little sleep, hindering their ability to focus on the race until late Thursday. In the end, it would be that lack of sleep and nourishment that would seal the team's fate.

Hoosiers go 0-4 against ranked Big Ten teams

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Monday, April 18,2005 2:09 a.m.

With almost a week off since its last game, the IU softball team played four games this weekend against Northwestern and Michigan, the two top teams in the Big Ten. Playing two top teams like Northwestern and Michigan did not alter IU's game plan.

IU's quarterback position unresolved after Spring game

By Eamonn Brennan · Monday, April 18,2005 1:38 a.m.

After 12 practices, two scrimmages and Friday's spring game, the IU quarterback situation is still, as coach Terry Hoeppner says, "in pencil." "We've got a long way to go (with the quarterbacks) yet," Hoeppner said. "At times they've all made plays, but we're not passing the football as well as I would like."

Crimson creams Cream 34-6

By Dan Click · Monday, April 18,2005 1:36 a.m.

The first Cream and Crimson game under new football coach Terry Hoeppner wasn't supposed to be a close match-up -- but it was. The Crimson, filled with mostly first teamers, struggled to put away the second-string Cream team. After three-quarters of play, the Crimson only led 13-3 in front of more than 6,500 at Memorial Stadium Friday night.

IU wins series finale against Hawkeyes

By Matt Mattucci · Monday, April 18,2005 1:35 a.m.

While the Bloomington campus was buzzing for the Little 500, the IU baseball team played a four-game series in Iowa City against the Hawkeyes. After dropping the first three games of the series to Iowa, the Hoosiers rebounded Sunday and picked up a victory. IU coach Bob Morgan said he was pleased to get the win Sunday but is disappointed in his team's overall play.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 18,2005 1:34 a.m.

Women's tennis splits weekend IU's No. 37-ranked women's tennis team split the weekend with Friday's 6-1 win against No. 75 Minnesota and Sunday's 7-0 loss to No. 49 Iowa. The weekend started with IU winning all of the doubles matches against the Golden Gophers, garnering the all-important doubles point.

Team loses close battle in Big Ten preparation

By Bill Meehan · Monday, April 18,2005 1:31 a.m.

While most of the campus was joining together for Little 500 revelry, Hoosier rowers entered battle to the slow beat of a Viking march, undaunted and without faltering. IU's second Varsity 8 overpowered No. 19 Minnesota 7:30.5-7:33.9 for the first Big Ten win in their category. The Varsity 8 gave No. 4 Ohio State, the regatta host, a respectable fight. IU assistant coach Carmen Mirochna said the second Varsity 8 crew looked strong the entire course.

IU defeats Dayton 2-1 in final minute

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 18,2005 1:29 a.m.

It took 78 minutes for the Hoosier offense to get started, but once it did, the offense lead the two-time defending national champions men's soccer team to a 2-1 victory over the University of Dayton. A free kick by the Hoosiers with 12 minutes left in the game found sophomore Brian Plotkin on a breakaway. Plotkin's shot found the top corner of the goal and gave the Hoosiers a 1-0 lead.

A lot of hype, no thrills

By Matt Glenesk · Monday, April 18,2005 1:29 a.m.

So who's excited about IU football? Yeah, I didn't think so. While most of the students on campus were either getting drunk, already drunk or passed out from being drunk, Friday afforded die-hard Hoosier football fans with a glimpse of what the 2005 season and new coach Terry Hoeppner may have in store.

Dormitories earn race-day glory

By Steve Slivka · Monday, April 18,2005 1:28 a.m.

For the first time ever, the men's and women's Little 500 trophies will be in display cases on Tenth Street. Only Campbell Street separates Dodds House, which is in Wright Quad, and Teter. But the two teams, along with many of the other dorms, train together in each team's effort to win the Little 500. That effort between Dodds House and Briscoe was evident as both teams were together on the lead lap at the end of Saturday's race.

3 Bella Veloce riders earn 4th place

By Andy Romey · Monday, April 18,2005 1:23 a.m.

There were almost too many stories from Friday's Little 500 about Bella Veloce -- a team that had little money and no coaching. But a good start might actually be at the finish, where only three riders captured fourth place. Junior Nicole Williamson was sidelined with a broken collarbone, leaving three riders to do the work of four. Each individual needed to write her own heroic tale to make the fourth place story possible.

After a near-fatal accident, freshman Daniel Houchens is riding on

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Friday, April 15,2005 2:20 p.m.

His first memory emerges 10 days after he was involved in the accident.

It's Little 500 time

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Friday, April 15,2005 2:32 a.m.

As students slowed down their schoolwork and began to prepare for the "World's Greatest College Weekend," Little 500 riders began to slow down too. But their adjustment was different, as they prepare for Saturday's 55th running of the men's Little 500 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The men cut back their training to be at full strength for the race and prepared to get in the mindset to be in front on the 199th lap.

The field is determined. The riders are ready. The track is set.

By Andy Romey · Friday, April 15,2005 2:32 a.m.

Like a fine wine, the quality of the women's Little 500 race improves each year, and this year, the race's value skyrocketed. Today's Little 500, scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. at Bill Armstrong Stadium, will bring 32 teams together all with the same dream of celebrating after lap 100. But unlike years past, there are more than just a couple of teams threatening to win it all.

Kappa Kappa Gamma rides to remember Crouse

By Brian Janosch · Friday, April 15,2005 2:32 a.m.

Some things are bigger than sport. For an entire year, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority's primary focus rested on winning its second consecutive Little 500. That was until a gray Honda station wagon collided with a red Jeep Cherokee right outside the Kappa house late Monday evening. Kappa sorority member and former Little 500 teammate Ashley Crouse was in the backseat of the Jeep. She was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning.

Big Ten battle on Banks Field crucial for Hoosier revival

By Andrew Shaffer · Friday, April 15,2005 2:27 a.m.

In the fifth inning of the first game against Minnesota last week, junior second baseman Jay Brant received a ground ball hop straight to his jaw. Brant left the game and consequently lost his 19-game hitting streak, the longest such streak by a Hoosier this season.

Chicago's Curry to miss rest of season

By Alyson Brodsy and Nancy Armour · Friday, April 15,2005 1:51 a.m.

DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Eddy Curry and the Chicago Bulls are optimistic he'll play again, but the center will miss the rest of this season and the playoffs while more tests are done to determine the cause of an irregular heartbeat.

Boston takes game while NY takes hits

By Alyson Brodsy and Howard Ulman · Friday, April 15,2005 1:50 a.m.

BOSTON -- The New York Yankees got into another scuffle with fans on a testy night at Fenway Park. This time, Gary Sheffield was in the middle of it. Sheffield was fielding Jason Varitek's two-run triple along the right-field fence in the eighth inning of Boston's 8-5 victory Thursday night when a fan swung a short uppercut in his direction, appearing to graze the side of the slugger's face with his right arm.

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