Belcher, Nochta leading as team's base players
When IU coach Clint Wallman took over for 23-year veteran coach Sam Carmichael in 2004, he knew his 2006 recruiting class would set the foundation for the future of women’s golf at his school.
When IU coach Clint Wallman took over for 23-year veteran coach Sam Carmichael in 2004, he knew his 2006 recruiting class would set the foundation for the future of women’s golf at his school.
After making a run to nationals in 2007, the Hoosiermamas ultimate frisbee team begins the road to a return trip this year when it opens sectional play Saturday in Naperville, Ill.
If you are looking for attendance numbers from previous IU spring games, don’t bother — they aren’t there. But Athletics Director Fred Glass can give you a pretty good idea of the scene.
IU returns home for a three-game, in-conference series Friday afternoon at Sembower Field with a new face in the bullpen. Alex Zerman, an IU junior who began the 2010 season playing for the University’s club baseball team, joined the Hoosiers officially Monday before making his first appearance on the mound in Tuesday’s contest at Valparaiso.
Throughout spring practice, IU coach Bill Lynch has been looking for his top 50 players. He’ll get a more finalized list after the Hoosiers’ annual Cream and Crimson Spring Game at 6 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Five Club Table Tennis players qualified for the 2010 College Table Tennis National Championship that took place last weekend after building off their success in the Association of College Unions International Regional Tournament in February.
For the second consecutive match, the Hoosiers played exceptionally well against a top-40 team. But for the second consecutive match, the IU men’s tennis team walked away with a 4-3 loss.
IU coach Tracy Smith typically has a few more important things to think about during a game than what his players have chosen as their at-bat or pitching introduction music. But in between decisions about pitching changes, double switches or pinch hitters, Smith admits a select few of those songs booming through the Sembower Field public address system still manage to grab his attention.
The IU men’s soccer team remained undefeated for the spring Wednesday, though not in the manner it would have liked. Twenty-two shots converted to just one goal for the Hoosiers, who went to 1-0-2 during the spring season with a 1-1 tie in two overtime periods against IU-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Despite a key victory over Evansville on Tuesday, IU’s momentum did not continue in its two losses against Ball State.
In between Big Ten series, the Hoosiers easily beat the Valparaiso Crusaders on the road.
The men’s soccer team has started slow in the first halves and ended strong in the second in each game this spring.
The Hoosiers have yet to play a team currently ranked in the top 15 this season. The team will play against two this week alone.
Regardless of being on a Little 500 Schwinn bike for just his second year, Cutters’ rider Zach Lusk is not too worried about how his team will compete.
Last week, I wrote that if Tiger Woods miraculously pulled off a win in his return to golf at the Masters, which turned out to only add to this hoax, there would be no closure to go along with his tainted green jacket.
Just when the IU softball team started winning in the Big Ten, it goes back to non-conference action. IU (8-24, 1-5) plays Evansville (11-21) in a home doubleheader today and travels to Ball State (24-9) on Wednesday.
The IU baseball team faces an early mid-week non conference test as it travels to Gary to face Valparaiso (11-18). The Hoosiers (15-15) were only able to take one of three from Ohio State, the preseason Big Ten favorites, last weekend. Valparaiso is coming off a weekend in which it took two out of three on the road against Youngstown State.
At this point in the 2010 season, the IU baseball team hoped to have its anticipated preseason pitching ace on the mound, winning games and leading an undermanned pitching staff. Instead, sophomore Blake Monar hasn’t started on the rubber since the season’s first game in February at San Diego due to a strained rotator cuff. He’s played sparingly since as a pinch hitter for the Hoosiers.
Teter junior rider Caitlin Van Kooten did not wake up Saturday morning with only the Little 500’s spring series event Miss ’N Out on her mind. First, she had to conquer her E370 exam. But not even expending brain power for Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics could stop Van Kooten’s back tire from crossing the finish line first, marking the second Spring Series Event in a row the Teter junior rider has won.
The IU men’s tennis team came ever so close to sweeping weekend matches against Iowa and Minnesota.