Golfweek Hoosier Amateur Men’s Tournament Kicks Off at the Pfau Course 102 Players will tee off beginning at 8 am this morning as the Golfweek Hoosier Amateur Men’s Tournament begins its three rounds 54-hole battle at the Pfau Course on the Indiana University Campus in Bloomington. After Indiana University Women’s Golfer Maddie May dominated the Women’s tournament last week several locals will look to keep the title close to home. Bloomington South Graduate and Ball State Sophomore Happy Gillmore will tee off at 8 am along with four-time defending Bloomington City Golf Champion Jason Bannister. Edgewood Graduate and a three-time Bloomington City Golf Champion will tee off at 11:30 am. Bloomington South’s Colton Waston will tee off at 1:40 pm this afternoon as he is in the second to last group to tee off with the final group teeing off 10 minutes later. The Indiana University Men’s Golf Team will be represented with Junior Alec Cesare of Westfield will start at 8:30 am. Junior Nick Peisen from Strongsville, Ohio will tee off at 8:40 am and Sophomore Taneesh Sirivolu of Orlando, Florida who beings his tournament at 9 am.
The Field is loaded with 19 states represented including Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, South Carolina, Arkansas, Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona and Pennsylvania along with 7 International players representing Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, Canada and Chile. The Pfau Course is 7,363 yards and Par 71. It was re-done after from an outdated golf course in the 1950’s into a topflight golf course that has become one of the best golf courses in the Midwest and has brought big names to Bloomington for the best Women’s and Men’s golf tournaments around. The Pfau Course open on May 1, 2020, as part of a $12 Millon dollar renovation that includes a new clubhouse and now a championship caliber golf course.
Mikail Kamara named to the Preseason Walter Camp Watch List The Walter Camp Foundation has announced its preseason watch list for the college football player of the year award with Indiana defensive lineman Mikail Kamara among the 45-player list to open the college football season. The award watch list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists in early November, and three finalists will be announced in early December. The 2025 Walter Camp Player of the Year will be announced on ESPN’s College Football Awards Show on December 12.
A 2024 finalist for the Lott IMPACT Trophy and semifinalist for the Bednarik Award, Kamara was a second-team All-America pick by The Athletic and first Indiana defensive lineman since Greg Middleton (first team) in 2007 to earn All-America status. The first-team All-Big Ten selection led the FBS in total pressures (73) and graded as the No. 4 edge rusher in the Big Ten and No. 15 in Power 4 (86.7) per Pro Football Focus a season ago. To date, Kamara has been a part of three preseason All-America teams (Athlon Sports, 2nd; Phil Steele, 2nd; Walter Camp, 2nd) and is a member of the preseason watch list for the Lott IMPACT Trophy and Bronko Nagurski Trophy.
Considered the “Father of American Football,” Walter Camp introduced the play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side in 1880. Nine years later, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, selected the first-ever college football All-America team. The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. The Walter Camp Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA), which encompasses college football’s most prestigious awards. The NCFAA’s 25 awards have honored more than 950 recipients since 1935. Visit NCFAA.org for more information.
Brownsburg Little League Eliminated from the Great Lakes Region Baseball Tournament The Brownsburg Little League from Brownsburg Indiana was eliminated from the Little League Baseball Great Lakes Regional Tournament Sunday Night in Whitestown, Indiana. Brownsburg lost both games by a score of 4-3 and were eliminated from the tournament with a 0-2 record. The Indiana State Champions were making their first appearance in the Great Lakes Regional since 2021 lost to the Clarendon Hills Illinois Little League on Saturday and the Lexington Eastern Little League from Kentucky on Sunday.
Brownsburg has won six state championships including four in a row from 1999-2002. The Bulldogs won the Region Tournament in 1999 when it was the Central Region and 2001 as the Great Lakes Region making the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 16 Teams from the State of Indiana have played at the Little League World Series since Lafayette was the first Hoosier Team to make it in 1949. Brownsburg was hoping to be the first team from the Hoosier State since Hagerstown in 2022 to make it to Williamsport, but they will have wait another year to get the opportunity to live baseball kids dream of playing at the Little League World Series.
Lilly King Concludes her Historic Swimming Career at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore The 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore closed Sunday signaling the end of IU alum Lilly King’s swimming career. King finishes a three-time Olympic Champion, 20-time World Champion and eight-time NCAA Champion, having won the 100-yard and 200-yard national titles all four seasons at IU. She also captured six Olympic medals and 28 World Championships medals. She remains the World Record holder in the 100-meter breaststroke and short course women’s 4×100-meter medley. IU head swimming coach Ray Looze trained King through each of those achievements. King helped the United States win the women’s 4×100-meter medley for the fourth time in her career on Sunday, swimming the preliminary heat before four new swimmers took over final duties. When asked about her legacy, King told NBC’s Nicole Auerbach: “Don’t be afraid to trust yourself, to be yourself, to sometimes say the wrong thing. Be the confident swimmer that you are.” In all, Indiana athletes returned from Singapore with five medals (one gold, one silver, three bronze) and 11 national records. IU athletics has provided results from every athlete below.
WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS
Caspar Corbeau (Netherlands)
3. 200 breaststroke – 2:07.73
4. 100 breaststroke – 59.06
4. Mixed 4×100 medley relay – 3:40.97 (National Record)
5. Men’s 4×100 medley relay – 3:31.07 (National Record)
12. 50 breaststroke – 26.95
Mariah Denigan (United States)
7. Mixed 4×1500 – 1:10:27.20
13. 5km – 1:04:08.60
14. 10km – 2:11:54.10
17. 3km Knockout Sprint – 12:21.90
Ching Hwee Gan (Singapore)
7. 1500 freestyle – 16:03.51 Set national record in prelim – 4:09.81 13. 400 freestyle – 4:09.81 (National Record)
13. 800 freestyle – 8:31.36 Set national record in prelim – 8:29.93 DNS. 200 freestyle
Miranda Grana (Mexico)
15. Mixed 4×100 medley – 3:49.34 (National Record)
16. Mixed 4×100 freestyle – 3:28.96
20. 100 backstroke – 1:01.10
26. 200 backstroke – 2:12.70
30. 100 butterfly – 59.86
Josh Hedberg (United States)
3. Men’s 10m Synchronized – 410.70
20. 10m platform – 371.00
Lilly King (United States)
1. Women’s 4×100 medley (prelim swimmer)
5. 50 breaststroke – 30.25
9. 100 breaststroke – 1:06.26
Miroslav Knedla (Czech Republic) 9. 50 backstroke – 24.61 Set national record in prelim – 24.52 12. 100 backstroke – 53.15 (National Record)
Mikkel Lee (Singapore)
18. Men’s 4×100 freestyle – 3:18.38
23. Men’s 4×100 medley – 3:41.17
29. 50 freestyle – 22.18
Josh Matheny (United States)
3. Men’s 4×100 medley – 3:28.62
7. 100 breaststroke – 59.26
DNS. 200 breaststroke
Rafael Miroslaw (Germany)
8. Mixed 4×100 freestyle – 3:25.29 Set national record in prelim – 3:24.87 9. Men’s 4×200 freestyle – 7:07.54
10 Men’s 4×100 freestyle – 3:12.89
Raekwon Noel (Guyana)
27. 200 butterfly – 1:59.89 (National Record)
45. 100 butterfly – 53.91 (National Record)
Anna Peplowski (United States)
2. Women’s 4×200 freestyle – 7:40.01 (American Record)
Ella Roselli (United States)
11. 10m platform – 290.20
Zalán Sárkány (Hungary)
7. 1500 freestyle – 14:55.17
13. 400 freestyle – 3:46.82
Carson Tyler (United States)
3. Men’s 10m Synchronized – 410.70
4. Mixed 3m & 10m team – 404.90
Kai van Westering (Netherlands)
4. Mixed 4×100 medley – 3:40.97 (National Record)
5. Men’s 4×100 medley – 3:31.07 (National Record)
7. 100 backstroke – 54.24
27. 50 backstroke – 25.09
28. 200 backstroke – 1:59.93
Lilly Witte (United States)
7. 3m springboard – 261.18
25. Women’s 3m springboard – 255.45
Indiana Fever Make it Five Wins a Row with another Road Victory against the Seattle Storm The Indiana Fever (17-12) secured a fifth-consecutive victory, tying the longest win record for the franchise in the last decade, with a tightly-contested 78-74 result at the Seattle Storm. A back-and-forth first quarter saw the Indiana Fever with a one-point advantage, taking a narrow 17-16 lead with six points from Natasha Howard and five from Sophie Cunningham. Another six points from Howard and five from Cunningham in the second quarter, along with six from Damiris Dantas, put the Fever ahead 42-34 heading into the halftime break. Indiana maintained their lead throughout the third quarter with Cunningham leading the Fever with seven points to put her team out in front 58-54 with one quarter remaining. Seattle pulled the game within one point with 10.7 seconds remaining, but a clutch layup from Kelsey Mitchell gave Indiana a three-point advantage, with Aliyah Boston making a late free throw with 2.3 seconds remaining to secure the win. Howard finished the night with a team-leading 21 points, while Cunningham recorded a season-high 17.
Aliyah Boston’s 12 rebounds brings her to 932 career rebounds, surpassing Tammy Sutton-Brown for the fourth most in Fever franchise history, doing so in just 109 games. Sophie Cunningham recorded a season-high 17 points, including a perfect 3/3 field goals, 2/2 three-point attempts and 2/2 free throws for 10 points in the first half. Aari McDonald recorded a season-high nine assists, just one shy of her career high of 10 assists set on June 28, 2024, with LA Sparks against the Phoenix Mercury. Boston recorded her 38th career double-double, ending the night with 16 points and 12 rebounds, her 14th of the season. Since joining the league in 2023 only four players have recorded more double doubles than Boston, including A’ja Wilson (56), Alyssa Thomas (55), Angel Reese (43) and Breanna Stewart (41). This season Boston’s 14 double-doubles are the second most in the entire WNBA only behind Reese (17). The Indiana Fever continue their four-game road trip tonight against the LA Sparks at Crypto.com Arena, broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network at 10 PM.
Indianapolis Indians dominate the Iowa Cubs in the Series Finale Alika Williams’ solo home run in the fourth inning was the deciding run in the Indianapolis Indians 12-4 win over the Iowa Cubs on Sunday afternoon at Principal Park in Des Moines. The Indians secured their second consecutive series win at Iowa since July 23, 2024. Nick Yorke kicked off the scoring for the Indians (23-10, 65-42) with a solo home run in the second inning. Following a pair of groundouts, Williams was hit by a pitch. Darick Hall then singled, with Tsung-Che Cheng bringing them both home via his third triple of the campaign. Ronny Simon smacked a double into the gap to plate Cheng, putting Indy up 4-0. Billy Cook was hit by a pitch before the inning concluded and was replaced by Cam Devanney.
Iowa’s (14-19, 53-54) Ben Cowles cut the deficit, 4-1, with a solo home run in the bottom half of the second frame. Williams answered back in the fourth inning with his solo home run, his third of the season. Following back-to-back singles from Hall and Cheng, and a strikeout by Simon, Devanney doubled home Hall for a 6-1 lead. Nick Solak reached on a fielder’s choice where Cheng was cut down at home, but Yorke singled after to score Devanney for a 7-1 advantage. Simon picked up another RBI knock in the fifth frame, plating Matt Fraizer to extend the lead, 8-1. Moises Ballesteros drove in the final three runs for the I-Cubs, with a solo homer in the eighth inning and a two-run single in the ninth.
Ronny Simon launched his eighth home run of the season, a three-run blast, in the top of the ninth inning. His five RBI were his most since May 12, 2022, with High-A Bowling Green vs. Jersey Shore. Rafael Flores drove in the 12th run of the game with an RBI single later in the frame. Nick Dombkowski tossed 4.2 innings of one-run ball, his longest professional outing since 6.0 innings on Sept. 7, 2024, with Double-A Altoona at Hartford. Blake Townsend (W, 1-0) earned his first Triple-A win with 2.1 scoreless frames following Dombkowski. I-Cubs major league rehabber Jameson Taillon (L, 0-1) allowed seven earned runs across 3.0 innings. Indy had the day off Monday before beginning a six-game series against the Omaha Storm Chasers this evening at Victory Field with first pitch set for 6:35 PM. Both teams are yet to name a starting pitcher.