Indiana Fever waive Three Players to get Opening Day roster set
The Indiana Fever waivedguard Lindsay Allen, forward Ameshya Williams-Holliday and forward Erin Whalen on Wednesday. The Team is now at 12 players after 22 arrived for Training Camp on April 17th. The team open the regular season tomorrow night at Washington at 7 pm and return to Indianapolis for the home opener on Sunday at 3 pm against the Los Angeles Sparks. Allen a 5-8 guard was in her 4th season from Notre Dame. Whalen is a 6-1 guard/forward who is an undrafted rookie from Dayton. Williams-Holliday is a 6-2 forward was drafted by the team in the 3rd round in the 2022 WNBA Draft out of Jackson State. The 12 Player Roster Includes:
Forwards– Alanna Smith 6-4 3rd Year-Stanford, Emily Engstler 6-1 Rookie-Louisville, NaLyssa Smith 6-4 Rookie-Baylor
Forward/Center-Queen Egbo 6-4 Rookie-Baylor
Center-Alania Coates 3rd Year-South Carolina
Guards- Danielle Robinson 5-9 10th year-Oklahoma, Bria Harltey 5-9 8th year-Connecticut, Tiffany Mitchell 5-10 6th year-South Carolina, Kelsey Mitchell 5-8 4th year-Ohio State, Victoria Vivians 6-1 4th year-Mississippi State, Destanni Henderson 5-7 Rookie-South Carolina, Lexie Hull 6-1 Rookie-Stanford
The Team Waived Rookie Guard Micaela Kelly 5-7 from Central Michigan April 20. Former IU 5-11 Guard Ali Patberg on April 21 Guard Haley Gorecki 6-0 first year player from Duke on April 26. Guard Jasmine Jones 6-0 2nd year player from Louisville on April 30 and Jaime Nared 6-2 Guard/ Forward who was in her second year from Tennessee.
The Fever announced April 20, that 6-2 Forward Chelsey Perry a first-year player form Tennessee Martin would miss the season due to personal reason and is on the suspended list. Bernadett Hatar 6-10 from Hungary will miss the season after an injury while playing overseas and it was announced on April 21, her contract has been suspended
Ball State Men’s Volleyball set to take on Hawai’i in Final Four
The Ball State Men’s Volleyball Team takes on the University of Hawai’i in the second Men’s Volleyball National Semifinal this evening at 10:30 pm in Los Angeles California. The Cardinals are the number 2 seed and got a bye into the semifinals. Hawai’i beat North Greenville Tuesday night 3-0 to advance to the semifinals. North Greenville beat Princeton 3-0 to open the tournament Sunday evening. UCLA beat Pepperdine 3-1 in the first game Tuesday evening and will play top seed Long Beach State at 8 pm this evening with both games streamed live on ncaa.com.
The Cardinals are 23-3 on the season and won the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Championship on April 23, with 3-0 home win over Purdue Fort Wayne. The Cardinals are in the NCAA Tournament for the 16th time and the first since 2002. Hawaii is 25-5 overall and made the trip to Muncie in January losing a pair of games 3-0 on January 29, and 3-2 on January 31st when they were ranked number 1 in the country. The winner of the semifinals will advance to the National Championship Saturday night at 8 pm and will be broadcast on ESPN2.
Former IU Men’s Basketball Player Jordan Hulls leads German team to Final Four
Former Indiana University Men’s Basketball Player and Bloomington South Graduate Jordan Hulls will lead his German Team MHP Reisen Ludwigsburg in the European Champions League Final Four in Bilbao Spain tomorrow evening at 9 pm local time which is 3 pm Bloomington time against Baxi Manresa from Manresa Spain. The other semifinal will be Hapoel Holon from Holon Israel taking on Lenovo Tenerife from Tenerife Spain at 6 pm local time which is Noon Bloomington time. The 3rd place and championship games are scheduled for Sunday for 5 and 8 pm local time which 11 am and 2 pm Bloomington time.
Hulls has played overseas since graduated from Indiana University in 2013 and was went undrafted in the NBA Draft. He played in Poland in 2013-14, Kosovo in 2014-15 winning the countries Super League and Balkan League Championships, Belgium in 2015-16 and has played for three German clubs since 2016 and has been with his current team since 2020. Hulls was 2009 Class 4A State Champion and Mr. Basketball Award for Bloomington South. He played at IU from 2009-13 scoring 1,318 Points.
Hulls is averaging 10.6 points, 2.3 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game this season. His team is 22-11 and finished 4th in the German League and advance to the Playoffs which start the same day as the semifinal game and go through June 19. His Team has a 10-5 record in the Champions League, and he has averaged 28.6 minutes per game. His Team is in the Final Four for the second time in team history with the first in 2018.
Indianapolis Colts adds Germany’s Marcel Dabo to roster
The Indianapolis Colts added German defensive back Marcel Dabo to their roster as part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program. Dabo played cornerback and kick returner for the Stuttgart Surge in the European League of Football in 2021, earning a spot on the ELF All-Star team and the league’s rookie of the year award. Dabo had 28 tackles and one interception last season, his first with the Surge after playing for the Stuttgart Scorpions youth football program. At the NFL’s International Combine in London last year, Dabo recorded a 4.52-second 40-yard dash, 39-inch vertical leap and 11-foot broad jump.
Dabo won’t be the only European on the Colts’ roster this year, too – he’ll be joined by Austrian tackle Bernhard Raimann, who the Colts selected in the third round (No. 77 overall) in the 2022 NFL Draft. Raimann began playing football as a youth member of the Vienna Vikings, who compete in the European League of Football as well. As part of the International Player Pathway Program, Dabo will be carried on the Colts’ roster through the end of training camp. After camp, Dabo will be eligible for an international player practice squad exemption, which would allow the Colts to him as an extra player on their practice squad. Dabo could be elevated to the active roster during the season as well.
The AFC South was randomly selected to have its four teams each receive a player from the International Player Pathway Program in 2022. More than 50 players from 18 countries have participated in the International Player Pathway Program since its inception in 2017. A number of players from the program have earned spots on NFL rosters, including Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata, Las Vegas Raiders fullback Jakob Johnson, Commanders tight end Sammis Reyes and Washington Commanders defensive end Efe Obada.
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Indians Lose to Louisville 1-0
A two-out solo home run in the first inning and a strong start from major league rehabber Luis Castillo was all the Louisville Bats needed to defeat the Indianapolis Indians on Wednesday afternoon 1-0 at Victory Field. The Bats had seven hits while the Indians had 6 and neither team committed an error. The Indians are without Outfielder Travis Swaggerty who was placed on 7-day injured list with concussion prior to the game Wednesday afternoon. The Teams play at 11:05 am this morning for game three of the six game series
Indians Record:13-12 LP: Jerad Eickhoff (1-2) / Louisville Record: 10-16 WP: Pedro Payano (1-1) SV: Joel Kuhnel (3)
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