Indiana University Softball headed to the NCAA Tournament
Indiana Softball punched their ticket to the NCAA regionals earning the No. 2 seed in the Knoxville Regional from This Friday through Sunday May 19-21. The Hoosiers will face No. 3 seed Louisville on Friday at 3pm at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium with the game televised on ESPN2. Northern Kentucky and Tennessee will face off in the second game at 5:30pm Friday on ESPN+. There are three games scheduled for Saturday and two for Sunday should the team with one loss wins the first game to force the second game in this double elimination format.
Indiana finished runner-up in the Big Ten Championships last weekend before falling to top-seed Northwestern, 2-1. IU will appear in the NCAA Regional with a 42-16 overall record and an 18-5 conference record. Details regarding tickets, game schedules and live broadcast can be found on our NCAA Tournament page.
Indiana University Baseball’s Josh Pyne named Big Ten Player of the Week
With an extra base hit and multiple RBIs in each game last week, Indiana baseball sophomore Josh Pyne was named Big Ten Player of the Week on Monday as announced by the conference office. Pyne helped Indiana a perfect 4-0 week, its first sweep of Purdue since 2016 and a series-record 51 runs scored over three games. He finished the week with a .588/1.235/.667 slash line, 10 hits, nine runs scored and 14 RBIs over four starts at third base. With three multi-hit games and three multi-run games to go along with his four multi-RBI contests, Pyne had at least one hit, one RBI and one runs scored in all four games. He also collected an extra base hit in each game as he played an errorless third base on 10 chances.
He drove in a career-high five RBIs and scored twice in a 3-for-4 day at the plate with a home run to help IU secure the sweep of Purdue. He scored a career-high four runs and tied a career-high four hits in the series opener with four RBIs in that contest and one home run. In the middle game of the series, Pyne plated three RBIs on a pair of hits, which included a triple, and added two runs scored. The Bloomfield, Indiana native and Linton HS Graduate opened the week with a home run and sacrifice fly at Xavier. It is the second career weekly award for Pyne, who was the Big Ten Freshman of the Week in 2022. Indiana sits tied atop the Big Ten with a 15-6 record and is 38-14 overall entering the week. A home game against Evansville at 6 p.m. this evening will wrap up the regular season home schedule, before a three-game series at Michigan State from Thursday-Saturday. All four games will be televised on the Big Ten Network and carried on the Indiana Hoosiers Sports Network.
Indiana University Men’s Golf tied for seventh place at NCAA Auburn Regional
The Indiana Men’s Golf team shot a 297 (+9) during the first round of the NCAA Regional. The Hoosiers are tied for seventh place at the Auburn University Club after 18 holes of play on Monday. Junior Drew Salyers tied for 11th among the field, recording three birdies and shot for par on 12 holes in the process. Fifth-year senior Mitch Davis secured a top-30 finish after day one, checking in tied for 26th. He birdied on hole No. 1 and 4. Senior Noah Gillard shot for par in seven of the back-nine holes. Fifth-year senior Thomas Hursey birdied on hole No. 3. Fifth-year senior Harry Reynolds shot for birdie on hole No. 8, recording two strikes on a par 3. Indiana is back in action for day two competition this morning, the five Hoosiers will tee off from the times of 8:55 to 9:39. Indiana is paired with Tennessee and Washington for tee times.
Indiana University Rowing Finishes Third at the Big Ten Championships
No. 15-ranked Indiana needed a big result in the final race of the day, down 86-74 to No. 16 Rutgers in the battle for third place on the team leaderboard at the 2023 Big Ten Rowing Championships. With 500 meters to go in the Varsity Eight race, Indiana was a second out of third place and 1.5 seconds behind the Scarlet Knights in the runner-up position. But in the last 500, a fast final charge allowed the Hoosiers to swap spots, and, in a photo finish, IU took silver with an advantage of two tenths of a second over Ohio State and seven tenths better than Rutgers. Indiana’s Varsity Eight earned a program-record conference finish for its boat to give Indiana a program-record team finish with 137 points and 3rd Place overall at the Big Ten Championships on Sunday at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis.
Three IU boats medaled on Sunday, tying the program record. Indiana’s Second Varsity Four and Second Novice Eight boats each earned bronze medals. IU’s Novice Eight and Second Varsity Eight crews each placed fourth, both within eight tenths away from medaling position. The Hoosiers did not finish lower than fifth in any race. In the first race of the day, Indiana’s 2N8 came back from a deficit of three tenths to take third over Wisconsin in a photo finish. IU took bronze in 7:11.931, two tenths faster than the Badgers in 7:12.193. In the 2V4, Indiana finished less than three seconds behind runner-up Rutgers but managed a 5.5-second cushion over Iowa in fourth.
For the first time in program history, four Hoosiers earned All-Big Ten honors. Laura Feinson, the reigning Big Ten Rowing Athlete of the Year, repeated as a first-team honoree. Fellow senior Piper Maaka a second-team selection a year ago, progressed to the first team, joining Feinson. Ruby Leverington and freshman Emily Bowden each earned second-team laurels. Junior Abbey Armstrong was named IU’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner. The NCAA will announce its 22-team field for the 2023 NCAA Rowing Championships Today on its website. The three-day championship event is scheduled for May 26-28 at Camden County Boathouse in Pennsauken, New Jersey.
Indiana University Track and Field takes home two Indvidual Titles at the Big Ten Championships
Camden Marshall claimed his second Big Ten title, his first outdoors, with a NCAA top-five mark of 1:46.57 in the 800 meters on Sunday. Penn State’s Handal Roban took the race out at an honest pace, clocking a 51.31 through the opening 400 meters. Marshall stayed patiently on his heels before opening his patented kick with about 200 meters left to go. Wisconsin’s Adam Spencer made a last-ditch effort to catch Marshall but the Corydon, Ind. native held on to claim IU’s first Big Ten title outdoors in the 800 meters since Cooper Williams in 2019. Marshall’s 1:46.57 is fourth in school history and fourth in the NCAA this outdoor season. He has now scored at every Big Ten meet, indoors and outdoors, in the 800 meters during his two years in Bloomington. He will take the third-fastest seed to the NCAA East Preliminary round in attempt to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the first time as an individual. His win marks the first individual running title for the Hoosiers since Ben Veatch win in 2021 across 10,000 meters.
For the first time since 2007, Indiana has the Big Ten Outdoor Champion in the women’s long jump. Paola Fernandez-Sola, twice an All-American, topped the podium at the 2023 Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a season’s best mark of 6.52m/21-4.75. The San Juan, Puerto Rico native put together an outstanding long jump series, recording clean marks on all six attempts. She would’ve also won the meet with her second-best mark at 6.40m/21-0. She grabs IU’s ninth title in the event outdoors in program history. The title was last claimed by an IU athlete 16 years ago when IU’s current Senior Associate Athletic Director for Academic Services, Lorian Price, posted a winning mark of 6.46m/21-6.75. With Fernandez-Sola’s win in the long jump, the IU women have now claimed at least one field event title at 10 of the last 13 Big Ten Outdoor Championships.
Robert Blue continued his outstanding weekend with a fifth-place finish in the triple jump. He bounded out to a mark of 15.52m/50-11w (+2.9). Combined with a sixth-place finish in the long jump, Blue provided seven points to the team tally this weekend. Noah Koch threw a season’s best 56.26m/184-7 in the discus, improving on his No. 5 mark in school history and scoring three points for the team tally. He had three throws in his series that soared past 180 feet, using his fifth attempt of the afternoon to move into sixth place in the competition. The Hoosiers earned four points from the men’s 4×100 relay with Trelee Banks, Antonio Laidler, John Colquitt and Christopher Grant carrying the baton in 40.36. Laidler came back to the track and ran the finals of both the 100 meters (8th) and 200 meters (7th). He scored in all four individual events, indoors and outdoors, he contested at Big Ten meets this year.
Jessica Mercier vaulted a season’s best 4.16m/13-7.75 for fourth place in the Big Ten. She betters her No. 7 mark in school history and contributed five points to the team tally. After finishing third in the 3000-meter steeplechase a night ago, Jake Gebhardt returned to the track and picked up a fifth-place finish in the 5000 meters. He went with the lead pack but spent the back half of the race running solo, crossing the line in 14:09.45. Gebhardt’s 10 points on the weekend matched the team lead with Paola Fernandez-Sola and Marshall. Sarah Schmitt scored her first-career point at a Big Ten Outdoor meet with an eighth-place finish in the 5000 meters.
Gebhardt’s 10 points on the weekend matched the team lead with Paola Fernandez-Sola and Marshall. Sarah Schmitt scored her first-career point at a Big Ten Outdoor meet with an eighth-place finish in the 5000 meters. The Hoosiers finished 7th as a team on the men’s side (52 points) and 9th in the women’s team race (38.5). Top-scoring events included the women’s long jump (16) and the men’s pole vault (15). Camden Marshall and Paola Fernandez Sola earned First Team All-Big Ten honors while Nathan Stone took home Second Team All-Big Ten laurels. Declarations for IU’s entries to the NCAA East Preliminary round will become official this week with the competition set for May 24-27 in Jacksonville. The top-12 athletes in each region will qualify to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin (June 7-10).
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