Columbus Gladiators beat Indiana Cutters 40-19
The Columbus Gladiators beat the Indiana Cutters Semi-Pro Football Team 40-19 Saturday night at Fulton Field at Lancaster HS in Lancaster, Ohio. The Gladiators are 5-0 on the season and sweep the regular season series with Cutters after 38-36 win on June 4, at Martinsville HS. The Cutters are 2-3 on the season and have a big five-game stretch of division matchups ahead to close out the regular season before heading into the playoffs.
The Gladiators scored 1:55 into the game with a 13-yard touchdown run which was the first rushing touchdown the Cutters have given up all season making it 6-0. Kenny Martin who threw an interception on the first series redeemed himself with a 48-yard touchdown pass to Isaiah Moore to make 6-6 with 11:15 left in the first quarter. Bloomington North grad Noah Ponce scored on a 2-yard run with 2:33 left in the first quarter to make 13-6 after Edgewood Grad Dre Adkins hit the extra point. The Gladiators scored when Kenny Martin threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown and added the two-point conversion to make it 14-13. Columbus would add a 5-yard touchdown run to make it 20-13 with 5:05 left before the half. Dre Adkins kicked a big field goal to send the game to halftime 20-16.
In the Second Half the Gladiators opened with a 12-play drive that resulted a 6-yard touchdown pass to make it 26-16. Adkins would cap off a 10-play drive with his second field goal of the night to make it 26-19 with 46 seconds left in the third quarter. The Gladiators scored on a 50-yard touchdown pass to make it 32-19 with 12:38 left and capped it off with a 65-yard touchdown pass and two-point conversion with 1:44 left. The Cutters are back in action this Saturday Night when they host the Southern Ohio Blaze at Martinsville HS at 6pm.
Three Indiana University Women’s Basketball players representing their countries in European Championships
Three Indiana University Women’s Basketball Players are competing in the FIBA European Under 20 Championships. Mona Zaric of Serbia and Henna Sandvik of Finland are in Sopron Hungary while Yarden Garzon competes for Israel in the Division B Championships in Skopje, North Macedonia.
Sophomore Mona Zaric has scored 33 points in 50 minutes for Serbia including a 20-point performance against Ireland. Zaric is 15-29 from the field, 3-11 from three-point range, and has not attempted a free throw. Zaric has pulled down 9 rebounds, 4 steals, and 1 assist. Zaric is 6-1 and played sparingly her freshman season at IU. Serbia finished 2-1 in Goup D play beating Ireland 81-76 and Portugal 55-50, but they lost to Latvia 65-64.
Incoming Freshman Henna Sandvik has scored 40 points in 95 minutes for Finland going 15-30 from the field, 5-14 from beyond the arc 5-8 from the free throw line. Sandvik has pulled down 23 rebounds, dished out 3 assists and had 1 steal. Sandvik is 5-11 and started all three games for her country in Group B play and Finland finished 1-2 in group play beating Belgium 67-60 but falling to Italy 67-38 and Sweden 67-31.
Garzon who is an incoming Freshman scored 17 points in 39 minutes as Israel beat Germany 65-63 in opening game of Group B play on Saturday. Garzon who started the game was 7-13 from the field, 2-3 from three-point range and 1-2 from the free throw line. The six-foot Garzon pulled down 8 rebounds, dished out 2 assists, had 2 steals and 1 block. Israel will play Armenia at 12:45pm Bloomington time this afternoon which is 6:45pm local time.
Indy Eleven split Women’s and Men’s Soccer doubleheader with Detroit City FC
The Indy Eleven Women’s Team beat Detroit City FC 3-0 in front of 3,092 fans at IUPUI Michael A. Carroll Stadium on Saturday afternoon in historic Women’s and Men’s Soccer Doubleheader. The Indy Eleven Men’s Team lost 1-0 in the nightcap the boys from the Motor City. The Indy Eleven Women’s Team finishes the Regular Season unbeaten in its first season of existence with a 10-0-2 record along with the Great Lakes Division Championship. The team will play this Wednesday in Quarterfinal Match, time and location of the match has not been announced. The Men lost 1-0 in front of a season high 9,642 fans. The Boys in Blue are 6-9-3 with 18 points on the season and have lost three in a row.
Forward Maddy Williams came into the match with a team-high 10 goals, and she had an early chance for an eleventh but had her line drive ricochet off of a Detroit defender in the second minute. Chester’s sliding shot in the fourth minute almost put Indy on the scoreboard, but Detroit City goalkeeper Deighton Wamer had the diving save, her first of four in the opening seven minutes. However, she could only stop the Girls in Blue for so long, as Soderstrom matched Williams with her tenth goal of the year in the 25th minute after collecting a pass from defender Jenna Chatterton that she was able to carry inside area and finish through the legs of Wamer. The Girls in Blue had additional opportunities in the final 10 minutes of the half through Williams and Chatterton, but Wamer was on the spot again to ensure the half ended with Detroit down just 1-0. Halftime substitute forward Milica Bulatovic had two scoring opportunities inside the area for Indy in the 60th minute, but just after her second effort was blocked Chester collected and slipped a shot through three Detroit City defenders inside the six to score the Eleven’s second. The celebration carried on two minutes later as Soderstrom’s penalty shot, created when Karsyn Cherry was tackled down inside the area, went inside the right post, giving her a brace and the team’s solo scoring lead on 11 tallies – and Indiana’s Team a three-nil lead. Indiana’s Team saw out the rest of the game to earn the joint clean sheet between starter Mackenzie Wood substitute Kate Phillips, capping off their inaugural regular season in the W League with an undefeated record, a season-high five-game winning streak and a dominant +24 goal differential in their 12 contests.
In the Men’s Game Detroit had its foot on the gas from the onset, and it paid off just five minutes in through Connor Rutz, whose header of Deklan Wynne’s cross to the six nestled into the upper right corner to move the scoreboard for the visitors. Rutz went searching for a second in the 11th minute on a volley that just missed the crossbar, and Eleven goalkeeper Tim Trilk did well to adjust to Rhys Williams’ deflected shot from the top of the area in the 24th, going low to steer around his right post. Indy started to find more of the ball as the half progressed, although its looks were limited to Ayoze’s blocked shot in the 39th minute and a pair of Nicky Law shots that were sent into Detroit’s wall from 25 yards out in the 43rd minute. The lack of shots was clearly an emphasis coming out of the locker room for Indy Eleven, as Solomon Asante and Neveal Hackshaw both uncorked efforts from distance within the opening 30 seconds of the stanza, but neither challenged DCFC ‘keeper Nathan Steinwascher. Another wide effort by Asante and another blocked shot from Law around the hour mark kept Indy threatening. Rutz hunted his brace again with a turn-and-fire from the penalty spot in the 64th minute, but Trilk was on the spot and did well not to spill, and the Eleven ‘keeper guarded his near post well in the 76th minute when Pato Botello Faz fired on frame. Detroit did well to clog its defensive third across the final half hour, with substitute forward Aris Briggs’ 89th minute header the only shot the Boys in Blue could muster down the stretch. The result pushed Indy’s losing streak to four games, and its goalless streak to 360 minutes. Indy Eleven will take to the road in search of success next Friday, July 15, when it travels east to take on New York Red Bulls II one final time in USL Championship play at 7:00 pm live on ESPN+. Then the Boys in Blue return home on Saturday, July 23, for the first of three straight home Saturday affairs against Memphis 901 FC.
Indiana Pacers split first two games in Las Vegas Summer League
The Indiana Pacers lost to the Sacramento Kings 103-96 on Sunday Afternoon in the Las Vegas Summer League at Cox Pavillion on the UNLV Campus. The Pacers were led Terry Taylor with 16 Points, Bennedict Mathurin scored 15 points and Andew Nembhard who was the first pick of this year’s NBA Draft of the Pacers added 13 points. Keegan Murray the Iowa product who was 4th pick of the NBA Draft led the Kings with 23 Points. Bulter Grad Sean McDermott added 18 points for the Kings. Indiana is 1-1 in summer league after the Pacers beat the Charlotte Hornets 93-84 in the Opener on Friday. The Pacers were led by Bennedict Mathurin who was 6th overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft from the University of Arizona scoring 23 points, 2nd year player Chris Durate added 16 points, Terry Taylor added 11 points, and Duane Washington Jr added 10 points. Charlotte was led by Bryce McGowens who played at Nebraska with 17 points.
Indiana has two more games the first will come tomorrow night at 9 pm against the Detroit Pistons and the Washington Wizards Friday 9pm. The Pacers will have one more game Saturday or Sunday after all 30 teams complete pool play on Friday.
Indianapolis Indians Coverage
Indians Shutout Iowa in Series Finale
The Indianapolis Indians pitching staff faced just one batter over the minimum after the first inning and held the Iowa Cubs to five total baserunners in a series-tying shutout on Sunday afternoon, 2-0. After Zach Matson stranded a pair of runners on with two outs in the first inning and a caught stealing erased a leadoff walk in the top of the second, the Indians (40-42) mowed down opposing batters with just one additional hit allowed in the sixth. Noe Toribio (W, 1-0) fanned two over 4.0 scoreless innings in relief of Matson, and Cam Alldred and Cam Vieaux (S, 1) combined for 3.0 perfect innings to shut down the game. Carter Bins began the scoring with his second home run of the series and fifth this season, a solo shot for Indy’s only hit off I-Cubs (37-46) starter Javier Assad (L, 0-1). A passed ball in the bottom of the fourth then tacked on an insurance run for the Indians. Indianapolis and Iowa tied with three hits apiece in the contest.
The game went final in 1:53, marking Indy’s first sub-2:00 game since Nick Kingham tossed a complete game vs. Syracuse in 1:58 on Aug. 10, 2017. Indy’s shortest game at Victory Field since the ballpark opened in 1996 came on May 13, 1998, vs. Pawtucket (1:49). The Indians will start a six-game series in Columbus Tomorrow night against the Columbus Clippers with first pitch starting at 7:05pm.
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