{"id":13420,"date":"2026-10-18T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=13420"},"modified":"2026-10-18T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:50:36","slug":"local-sports-news-october-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=13420","title":{"rendered":"Local Sports News: October 18, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the courtroom: NCAA\u2019s stay attempt fails as Stephen Daley Kellan Wyatt and Sam Alexis remain eligible<\/strong> The NCAA\u2019s attempt to obtain an Indiana Appeals Court emergency stay of the preliminary injunction against the organization granted to IU football\u2019s Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt, and IU basketball\u2019s Sam Alexis, has been denied. That means all three players and a total of 97 student athletes in the case remain eligible to compete. The NCAA is appealing Monroe County Circuit Court judge Kara Krothe\u2019s preliminary injunction against it, and in so doing had attempted to stay the injunction until the appeal could be heard and ruled upon. On Friday, the Indiana Court of Appeals ordered the NCAA\u2019s emergency motion for the stay \u201cis denied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By deciding to not stay the lower court ruling, the Appeals Court is signaling, among other things, that it does not believe the NCAA will suffer irreparable harm by allowing the athletes to compete before it rules, and also that the NCAA is not likely to succeed on appeal. Daley, Wyatt and Alexis are all class of 2022 athletes who exhausted their college eligibility during the 2025-26 athletic year.  The 2022 class was not included in the NCAA\u2019s new five-year eligibility rule passed this summer.  Their exclusion from the rule triggered a wave of lawsuits across the nation, including the Indiana case. The NCAA has argued in multiple cases it will suffer irreparable harm by allowing class of 2022 athletes to compete because their participation would take roster spots away from other eligible athletes. But Daley, Wyatt and Alexis have not replaced anyone on their respective teams.  No IU football or basketball players have been removed to make space for them. This latest court ruling is likely to keep Daley, Wyatt and Alexis eligible for a while.  It is unclear when the Appeals Court will hear and rule on the case.  But until such time, all three remain eligible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 2\/5 Indiana\u2019s Stars Shine at College Swimming League Match 5<\/strong>  <\/strong> No. 2\/5 Indiana won 11 events, scored 469.83 points and placed second in College Swimming League Match 5, its second meet of the brand-new fall tournament, on Friday night inside the Mt. SAC Aquatic Center in Walnut, California. With a win, in its first match, and Friday’s second place finish, Indiana is almost certainly assured a spot in CSL’s postseason. Following results of six matches between 12 teams, three teams will automatically qualify for the Championship Match, and four more for the Wild Card Match. The winner of the Wild Card match advances to the championship. The IU Natatorium in Indianapolis will host both meets, November 5-6. The Hoosiers finished behind No. 7\/9 NC State (469.83) and in front of No. 4\/7 Cal (394.33) and No. 8\/2 Stanford (311).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberty Clark earned MVP honors for the meet after repeating her wins from round one. The second-year Hoosier won all three of her events \u2013 the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle. Classmate Alex Shackell won the honor for Match 1, and she was nearly equally impressive in Match 5. Shackell swept the butterfly events and then contributed to Indiana’s Super Skins win at the end of the meet. The Indiana women have won the Super Skins 200-yard medley relay now at both CSL meets. The quartet of Miranda Grana, Anita Bottazzo, Shackell and Grace Hoeper<\/a> was again the last relay standing through four reps of the medley relay. Bottazzo and NC State’s Eneli Jefimova had great battles in the breaststroke events. NC State elected to swim breaststroke in the 50-yard skins event and nearly regretted it, as Bottazzo took the Wolfpack swimmer to the end \u2013 within three tenths in each race leading up to the final, where Jefimova took a half-second win. But Bottazzo got her revenge in the 100-yard breaststroke individual event, touching in 58.25 to beat the reigning NCAA Champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Bey also took down a reigning NCAA Champion in the men’s 200-yard breaststroke. He had a great battle with Cal’s Yamato Okadome, taking the lead in the back half of the race before stopping the clock in 1:51.36 to Okadome’s 1:51.82. On the men’s side, Raekwon Noel won the 200-yard butterfly to complete IU’s sweep of the event with Shackell. Miroslav Knedla touched first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 45.35. Freshman Lylah Theriac announced herself to the college swimming world with her win in the 200 IM. Her 1:55.74 shows a near four-second drop from her pre-college best, 1:59.66. She notably beat NC State’s Caroline Bricker, a two-time All-American in the 200 IM and an NCAA Champion in the 400 IM. Indiana will host USC and Kentucky next Friday, October 23, in dual meet action.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 2 Indiana University Men’s Soccer Suffers First Defeat<\/strong> of the Season at Rutgers<\/strong>   No. 2-ranked Indiana men’s soccer (11-1-2, 4-1-1 B1G) suffered its first defeat of the season Friday (Oct. 16) night, a 1-0 result at Rutgers on a rain-soaked Yurcak Field. Francesco Di Ponzio’s 73rd-minute goal gave the hosts their fourth ranked victory of the season. Despite the defeat, Indiana’s 4-1-1 mark (13 points) in Big Ten play is tied for the best through six matches played. In the 32nd minute from a free kick in its own half, Indiana quickly moved through the Rutgers defense with one-touch passing, and the ball found its way to Oliver Moller-Jensen on the right wing. Moller-Jensen took a shot first time but couldn’t curve it around the on-rushing keeper. In the 40th minute with missed chances on both sides Michael Mroz kept it level with a save in a one-on-one situation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 59th Minute a Nolan Kinsella service from the right side just missed a crashing Stephane Njike, crashing at the back post. In the 73rd Minute Di Ponzio needed a pair of shots to score his winner. His first took a lucky deflection off IU defender Josh Maher, right to the right foot of Di Ponzio, who had a clear shot at the back post and took it to give Rutgers the 1-0 lead and the win. Friday’s result snapped Indiana’s 13-match unbeaten streak, the program’s longest unbeaten streak since 2017. Those Hoosiers went 23 matches undefeated (18-0-5) into the NCAA Championship match, where they suffered their lone loss of the year. The result also marked the first time an opponent has shut out Indiana this season. The Hoosiers had scored eight goals in their last three Big Ten matches coming into Friday’s match. Mroz made seven saves, his second-highest tally of the season. Indiana will play a second consecutive Big Ten road match when it visits Ohio State on Tuesday (Oct. 20). Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indiana University Women’s Soccer Falls to #5 Michigan State 2-0 <\/strong> Indiana women’s soccer fell to No. 5 Michigan State 2-0 on Friday night. The Hoosiers gave the fifth-ranked Spartans a fight, but the Spartans held on for the victory. With the loss, the Hoosiers hold a 4-9-2 record overall and 1-7-1 in conference play. In the 33rd minute off assists from Kayla Briggs and Kennedy Bell, Michigan State’s Emerson Sargeant scored her second goal of the season. Sargeant hit it over the goalkeeper and off the crossbar to give the Spartans a 1-0 lead. After the goal the Hoosiers looked for a quick response, and a Grace Hamm long ball found Emma Ehret in the middle of the box. Ehret’s volley then went over the crossbar for a goal kick. In the 42nd minute Kennedy Neighbors dribbled past a defender, but her right-footed shot from the left side drifted wide of the right post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n