Indiana University Women’s Soccer Hosts #6 Ohio State Indiana women’s soccer returns home to face their first ranked opponent of the season. The Hoosiers will play host to No. 6 Ohio State in their second conference matchup this afternoon at 1 pm. Ohio State come to Bloomington with a 5-0-1 record, sitting as a top-10 team in the country. They are lead by Amanda Schlueter and Elle Britt with four and three goals scored, respectively. The Buckeyes hold wins over No. 12 Kansas, Kentucky, Princeton No. 23 Memphis, and Penn State.
The Hoosiers return home after defeating Nebraska in their conference opener this past Thursday. The two teams played a back and forth match through the first half with Nebraska leading in shot attempts 7-6. The Hoosier defense held strong with goalkeeper Dani Jacobson recording three saves to keep the game tied at zero heading into the break. Midfielder Maggie Ledwith had an early shot attempt in the second half took a bad bounce off the crossbar to keep the match tied at zero in the 47th minute. The game continued back and forth before the Hoosiers saw a run-out opportunity by defender Haden Vlcek. She played the ball to defender Grace Hamm who found Ledwith for the games lone goal score in the 89th minute of play. The Cornhuskers had no answer late to give Indiana their first ever win at Hibner Field.
Bella Haggerty and Maggie Ledwith lead all Hoosiers with three goals scored apiece this season. Kennedy Neighbors and Piper Coffield tie with two goals apiece, followed by Aleyna Quinn and Jenna Chatterton with one goal each. 10 Hoosiers have recorded an assist this season, led by Ledwith and Grace Hamm with two. Haggerty and Droner recorded assists in the previous match for the Hoosiers. Neighbors, Chatterton, Ehret, Falzarano, Stanley, and Vlcek also have assists recorded this season.
Ledwith and Haggerty lead the Hoosiers in total points with eight and seven, respectively. Neighbors follows behind with five along with Coffield and Chatterton with four and three, respectively. Aleyna Quinn and Grace Hamm each have two points while Paige Droner, Emma Ehret, Amaya Falzarano, Ella Stanley, and Haden Vlcek also have one point apiece for the Hoosiers. 18 Hoosiers have recorded a shot this season. Ledwith leads the way with 18 shot attempts, followed by Neighbors and Hamm with 11 each. Coffield, Chatterton, Droner, and Graham have added six apiece along with Haggerty who has five.
Former Indiana University Rower Clare Hunsberger Joins Coaching Staff A former four-year athlete at Indiana, Clare Hunsberger has joined the IU rowing coaching staff, head coach Steve Peterson announced on Thursday. “We are very excited to welcome Clare back to IU rowing as a part of our coaching staff,” Peterson said. “Clare herself was a great rower who came up through our novice program and knows what it takes to be successful in this sport. I look forward to watching her recruit and develop the next generation of Indiana rowers.”
Hunsberger will coach novice rowers and will help lead the program’s recruiting efforts alongside other day-to-day coaching responsibilities. After graduating from IU in the spring of 2025, Hunsberger served on the Oregon State coaching staff and was part of the CRCA Region 5 Staff of the Year. In Corvallis, Hunsberger helped lead the Beavers back to the NCAA Championships, where the team finished 17th overall. A team captain from 2023-25, Hunsberger was part of three NCAA Championship teams during her rowing career at IU, earning two 16th-place finishes (2023, 24) and one 17th-place finish (2025), all in the Second Varsity Eight. As a junior, Hunsberger helped the Hoosiers earn a program-record second-place team finish at the 2024 Big Ten Championships, as her 2V8 crew took the bronze medal.
Hunsberger joined the IU program as a novice and by the start of her sophomore season elevated to the Second Varsity Eight and even rowed with the V8 at multiple regattas. Her success on the water included an invitation to the US Rowing U23 Selection Development Camp in 2023 before placing third in the age division at Summer Nationals. Academically, Hunsberger was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honor at Indiana University and earned the IU Athletics Academic Achievement Award. She graduated in May 2025 with a bachelor’s in public health and. A minor in coaching.
Former Indiana University Football Offensive Tackle Kahlil Benson goes foom rookie mini-camp invite to week one NFL starter If you followed Indiana’s 2025 football season closely — and we know you did — you know it was hard to see this coming. When the Kansas City Chiefs open their season on Monday night, former IU offensive lineman Kahlil Benson is likely to be the starting left tackle. The moment is magnified by the fact that Benson will be protecting the blind side of star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who is returning in just nine months from a major knee injury. “He’s done a nice job for us,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said to the media about Benson before Thursday practice. “He’s obviously shown us that he has the ability to play, and we wouldn’t put him in there if we didn’t think that.” Benson didn’t even play left tackle throughout most of Kansas City’s training camp and exhibition slate. He focused primarily on right tackle and right guard. He played on the right side in college as well.
But multiple injuries now have him protecting the back side of one of the NFL’s most iconic stars. Benson was not drafted by the Chiefs. He was not even signed to an undrafted free agent deal. The Mississippi native was merely one of around 100 players invited to the Chiefs rookie mini-camp in the spring. His performance at that camp led to free agent deal, and his momentum just kept rolling from there, all the way to a probable week one start on Monday Night Football. Benson won the starting right tackle job ahead of Indiana’s 2025 season, but that was the result of a fall camp competition. And at least in part due to a wave of nagging injuries, Benson’s performance was uneven throughout Indiana’s national championship campaign.
The 6-foot-6 and 319-pound Benson played 835 snaps at right tackle for Indiana in 2025, while ceding 149 to Zen Michalski and 112 to Adedamola Ajani at the position. There was a suspension for a half against Indiana State, and Benson was in and out of multiple games as he dealt with various minor injuries and performance issues. Despite playing nearly 200 fewer snaps than the other starters, Benson allowed the most total quarterback pressures (24) of any IU offensive lineman in 2025, the most hurries (19) and the most sacks (4). At Penn State Benson allowed six pressures, he then struggled again vs. Wisconsin, and in the games that followed his snap count was reduced against Purdue, Ohio State and Alabama.
Things have never come easy for Benson, who missed his 2020 true freshman season after suffering a knee injury during fall camp. After not playing at all in 2021, he started five games for IU in 2022 and all 12 games in 2023. When Tom Allen was fired after the 2023 season, Benson transferred to Colorado, where he played for Deion Sanders for a year. There were more injuries that season that caused Benson to miss multiple games. Bob Bostad arrived as offensive line coach at IU in 2023 and would be influential in bringing Benson back to Bloomington in 2025. Obviously, there was something Bostad saw in Benson, and now the Chiefs see it too. And now Benson has the opportunity of a lifetime.
Four Former Indiana University Football Players Make the NFL Practice Squad Rosters Of the nine former IU football players who were in training camps but didn’t make NFL teams, four have remained with those same franchises as members of the practice squad. Here are the four former Hoosiers with NFL teams in that capacity: Roman Hemby – Las Vegas Raiders, Nick Westbrook-Ikhine – Indianapolis Colts, Raheem Layne – New York Giants and Cam Jones – Kansas City Chiefs. It’s common for practice squad players to be called up during the season, so we’ll keep an eye on this group. These practice squad players are in addition to the below 18 former IU players on 53-man rosters at the start of the season. (Note: Mikail Kamara is also with the San Francisco 49ers. He’s on injured reserve.)
ON 53-MAN ROSTERS Fernando Mendoza – Las Vegas Raiders Ian Thomas – Las Vegas Raiders Micah McFadden – New York Giants Riley Nowakowski – Pittsburgh Steelers Ke’Shawn Williams – Cincinnati Bengals Kurtis Rourke – San Francisco 49ers Kaelon Black – San Francisco 49ers C.J. West – San Francisco 49ers Myles Price – Minnesota Vikings Pat Coogan – Tennessee Titans Aiden Fisher – Houston Texans Kahlil Benson – Kansas City Chiefs Omar Cooper, Jr. – New York Jets D’Angelo Ponds – New York Jets Marcelino McCrary Ball – New York Jets Luke Haggard – Tampa Bay Buccaneers Dan Feeney – Tampa Bay Buccaneers Elijah Sarratt – Baltimore Ravens
Indianapolis Colts do not rule out any players for Today’s game against the Baltimore Ravens The Indianapolis Colts on Saturday downgraded linebacker Austin Ajiake (hamstring) to out. The Colts on Friday did not rule out any players for their Week 1 season opener against the Baltimore Ravens, head coach Shane Steichen said. Wide receiver Alec Pierce (heel) was listed as a limited participant in practice Wednesday and Thursday, and participated in practice Friday. “He’s looking fresh, he’s looking good,” Steichen said. Safety AJ Haulcy (ankle) was a limited participant Wednesday and a full participant in Thursday’s practice. The Baltimore Ravens, meanwhile, ruled out defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike for Sunday’s game.
Ball State University Football Beats Stony Brook 41-17 in the Home Opener The Ball State football team opened its 2026 home slate Saturday afternoon, topping Stony Brook in the programs’ first-ever meeting, 41-17, in front of a Family Weekend crowd of 10,390. After a late Stony Brook touchdown, TJ Horton ran a career-long 54-yard rush to award the Cardinals (1-1, 0-0 MAC) their final score of the game, stamping an exclamation point on the program’s first win of the year. Horton’s first rushing touchdown of the season capped a late back and forth between Ball State and the Seawolves (1-2, 0-0 CAA) which also saw Jalen Bonds run the ball 49 yards down the field for a touchdown, earning the longest rush of his career. Horton had a career-day on the ground inside Scheumann Stadium, starting with a 37-yard rush in the opening quarter which set up Tate Hoover’s first touchdown reception at Ball State and Keldric Luster’s first career passing touchdown.
Luster and his corps of backs and receivers totaled 486 yards in total offense, the most by a Ball State team since recording 520 yards at Buffalo in 2024. Luster’s offensive efficiency was marked by throwing for 256 yards on 27-of-32 passing. In just the first half alone, Luster’s 18 completions eclipsed last year’s Ball State season-best total of 17 through an entire game (three times by Kiael Kelly). With an .843 completion percentage, Luster broke the program record by a quarterback with at least 30 attempts. Along with the three-yard connection with Hoover, the fourth-year quarterback had a pair of 23-yard TD passes to Jabari Smith and Bonds in the second quarter. Luster’s success in the aerial game included a career-long pass of 28 yards to Jamarion McDougle.
Ball State’s receiving unit was led by Smith, who grabbed six catches for 72 yards, followed by Isaiah Thacker who totaled 31 yards on five catches. Ten different Cardinals were successful targets and four tallied four or more receptions – the first time since 2024 versus Central Michigan. Kamron Chamble recorded the first two interceptions of his collegiate career Saturday, with the first creating the opportunity for Bonds’ receiving touchdown, following Chamble’s 33-yard return. It was Bonds’ first career receiving touchdown. Kaleb Stewart led Ball State’s tackling effort, totaling seven. He also shared a sack with Ben Marsh in the fourth quarter. Layton Starks and Ka’Shawn Thomas also had half a sack a piece while four different Cardinals tallied four tackles. Starks led the unit in tackles for loss, finishing with 2.5.
The defensive pressure brought on by the Cardinals limited the Seawolves to 183 rushing yards, with 69 of those yards stemming from two rushing touchdowns in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. Ball State’s defense also held Stony Brook’s Quinn Boyd to 147 passing yards, the first time he’s thrown under 300 passing yards this season. On special teams, Brody Boehm went 2-of-2 with field goals from 38 and 30 yards in the fourth quarter, giving Ball State six points and extending the lead to 27-11, prior to final touchdowns from Bonds and Horton. The Cardinals are on the road next week as they travel to Lynchburg, Virginia. to battle Conference USA foe Liberty. Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET, with broadcast available on ESPN+.
Taylor University Football Handles Saint Francis Saints for 28-10 Road Win RV Taylor moved to 2-1 on the season and came away with a win for the fourth time in its last five outings dating back to last season with a 28-10 victory at RV Saint Francis (IL) on Saturday afternoon. TU erupted for all four of its touchdowns in the second quarter to flip a 3-0 deficit into a commanding 28-3 lead it would preserve over the final 30 minutes of action. The win marked the Trojans’ second-straight victory over the Saints and the fifth time TU had topped USF in the past six meetings.
A pair of extended first quarter drives by Saint Francis (0-3) limited Taylor to just one full possession in the opening 15 minutes of action, but the Purple and Gray broke loose in the second with four-straight second-quarter drives that ended with seven points. Alex Amburgy was on target all through the opening half, completing 10-of-11 attempts, including each of his first six passes of the game. The sophomore then ignited the four scoring drives with five completions in six tries for 157 yards and two scores. Amburgy closed the day 16-of-19 from the pocket for 268 passing yards and the two touchdowns. Aidan Zimmer was the primary target with seven catches for 158 yards. The two both set new career-highs with those totals, with Amburgy topping 250 passing yards for the third time in his young career and Zimmer reaching the century mark for the second time.
John Irwin and Tyler Faust each caught their first touchdown passes of the season, with Irwin’s coming via a 72-yard connection with Amburgy for his first collegiate score. Jedidiah Galvin had another solid showing out of the backfield, leading the Trojans in rushing for the third-straight time to open his sophomore season. Galvin carried the ball a team-leading 16 times for 68 yards and notched his fifth touchdown of the season. In total, Taylor piled up 460 total yards of offense with 308 coming through the air and averaged 7.2 yards per play. TU complimented the offense with its best defensive showing of the season, holding USF to 237 total yards and just 126 passing yards.
Owen Folta and Grady Stanley were credited with a team-leading eight tackles, with Stanley earning one of TU’s season-high three sacks. Justin Schroeder finished with 1.5 sacks, including a strip-sack that led to a Taylor score and Tray Ross also had a part in one sack and recovered one fumble. Reid Messer continued his strong play with six tackles and two more pass breakups to increase his season total to five through three contests. RV Taylor (2-1) will aim for a third-straight win when it plays at Union (0-2) on Saturday, September 19 in a noon start.