“THE SCOREBOARD”
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE WEEK 8
ALEXANDRIA (5-2) AT MADISON-GRANT (7-0)
ANDREAN (3-4) AT HANOVER CENTRAL (6-1)
ANGOLA (3-4) AT GARRETT (7-0)
ATTICA (0-7) AT COVINGTON (4-3)
BATESVILLE (5-2) AT FRANKLIN COUNTY (4-3)
BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE (1-6) AT MADISON (3-4)
BEECH GROVE (4-3) AT TRITON CENTRAL (5-2)
BELLMONT (0-7) AT DEKALB (3-4)
BLACKFORD (2-5) AT FRANKTON (0-7)
BLOOMINGTON NORTH (6-1) AT COLUMBUS NORTH (6-1)
BLUFFTON (6-1) AT ADAMS CENTRAL (6-1)
BOONE GROVE (4-3) AT LAKE STATION (2-5)
BOONVILLE (3-4) AT WASHINGTON (5-2)
BREBEUF JESUIT (5-2) AT BLOOMINGTON SOUTH (4-3)
BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL (7-0) AT SILVER CREEK (3-4)
CALUMET (4-3) AT GRIFFITH (7-0)
CARMEL (3-4) AT WARREN CENTRAL (6-1)
CASCADE (7-0) AT GREENCASTLE (2-5)
CASTON (2-5) AT NORTH JUDSON (7-0)
CENTER GROVE (5-2) AT LAWRENCE NORTH (7-0)
CENTERVILLE (6-1) AT UNION CITY (2-5)
CHARLESTOWN (1-6) AT SALEM (2-5)
CHESTERTON (5-2) AT CROWN POINT (7-0)
CHURUBUSCO (4-3) AT WEST NOBLE (6-1)
CLINTON CENTRAL (3-4) AT DELPHI (4-3)
CLINTON PRAIRIE (4-3) AT CARROLL (FLORA) (7-0)
CLOVERDALE (4-2) AT WEST VIGO (2-5)
CONCORD (7-0) AT WAWASEE (1-6)
CONNERSVILLE (2-5) AT LAWRENCEBURG (6-1)
CORYDON CENTRAL (3-4) AT PROVIDENCE (6-0)
COVENANT CHRISTIAN (0-7) AT MONROVIA (5-2)
CULVER ACADEMY (6-1) AT HERITAGE CHRISTIAN (6-1)
DANVILLE (6-1) AT WESTERN BOONE (7-0)
DECATUR CENTRAL (4-2) AT PERRY MERIDIAN (3-4)
EAST CENTRAL (5-2) AT GREENSBURG (0-7)
EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL (1-6) AT HAMMOND CENTRAL (2-5)
EAST NOBLE (6-1) AT NEW HAVEN (1-6)
EASTBROOK (4-3) AT MISSISSINEWA (7-0)
EASTERN (GREENTOWN) (3-4) AT SHERIDAN (4-3)
EASTERN (PEKIN) (1-6) AT SCOTTSBURG (5-2)
EASTERN GREENE (3-4) AT LINTON (5-2)
EASTSIDE (3-4) AT CENTRAL NOBLE (0-7)
EVANSVILLE CENTRAL (1-6) AT CASTLE (6-1)
EVANSVILLE HARRISON (1-6) AT EVANSVILLE MATER DEI (6-1)
EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL (7-0) AT VINCENNES LINCOLN (3-4)
EVANSVILLE REITZ (5-2) AT EVANSVILLE BOSSE (0-7)
FLOYD CENTRAL (4-2) AT JENNINGS COUNTY (0-7)
FOREST PARK (4-3) AT PIKE CENTRAL (3-4)
FORT WAYNE DWENGER (3-4) AT FORT WAYNE SNIDER (5-2)
FORT WAYNE LUERS (5-2) AT FORT WAYNE SOUTH (1-6)
FORT WAYNE NORTH (4-3) AT FORT WAYNE WAYNE (3-3)
FORT WAYNE NORTHROP (1-6) AT CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) (5-2)
FOUNTAIN CENTRAL (3-4) AT NORTH VERMILLION (6-1)
FRANKFORT (0-7) AT NORTH MONTGOMERY (2-5)
FRANKLIN (2-5) AT GREENWOOD (2-5)
FRONTIER (6-0) AT WEST CENTRAL (5-2)
GREENFIELD-CENTRAL (5-2) AT DELTA (4-3)
GUERIN CATHOLIC (3-4) AT TERRE HAUTE NORTH (2-5)
HAGERSTOWN (3-4) AT TRI (4-3)
HAMILTON HEIGHTS (2-5) AT TIPTON (4-3)
HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN (5-2) AT FRANKLIN CENTRAL (4-2)
HAMMOND NOLL (3-4) AT GARY WEST (4-3)
HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE) (5-2) AT LAFAYETTE JEFF (7-0)
HERITAGE HILLS (6-1) AT PRINCETON (1-6)
HIGHLAND (1-6) AT KANKAKEE VALLEY (2-5)
HOBART (4-3) AT HAMMOND MORTON (2-4)
HOMESTEAD (3-4) AT FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA (2-5)
INDIANAPOLIS ATTUCKS (4-1) AT INDIANAPOLIS WASHINGTON (3-3)
INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN (6-1) AT SPEEDWAY (4-3)
INDIANAPOLIS RONCALLI (3-3) AT INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL (4-2)
INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA (2-5) AT INDIANAPOLIS RITTER (1-5)
INDIANAPOLIS TECH (3-3) AT INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE (1-5)
IRVINGTON PREP (0-4) AT MONROE CENTRAL (5-2)
JASPER (3-4) AT EVANSVILLE NORTH (3-4)
JEFFERSONVILLE (5-2) AT COLUMBUS EAST (4-3)
JIMTOWN (4-3) AT LAVILLE (3-4)
JOHN GLENN (1-5) AT TIPPECANOE VALLEY (5-2)
KNIGHTSTOWN (5-2) AT NORTHEASTERN (7-0)
KNOX (5-2) AT BREMEN (3-4)
LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (6-0) AT BENTON CENTRAL (0-7)
LAKE CENTRAL (3-4) AT MERRILLVILLE (6-1)
LAKELAND (5-2) AT FAIRFIELD (2-5)
LAPEL (4-3) AT JAY COUNTY (2-5)
LAPORTE (0-7) AT MICHIGAN CITY (2-5)
LAWRENCE CENTRAL (3-4) AT BEN DAVIS (2-5)
LEBANON (5-2) AT SOUTHMONT (3-4)
LEO (6-1) AT COLUMBIA CITY (6-1)
LOWELL (3-4) AT MUNSTER (2-5)
MANCHESTER (4-3) AT LEWIS CASS (3-4)
MARION (3-4) AT MUNCIE CENTRAL (1-6)
MARTINSVILLE (7-0) AT MOORESVILLE (3-4)
MCCUTCHEON (4-3) AT KOKOMO (3-3)
MILAN (4-3) AT SOUTH DECATUR (3-3)
MISHAWAKA MARIAN (3-4) AT ELKHART (6-1)
MITCHELL (1-6) AT PAOLI (7-0)
MOUNT VERNON (POSEY) (4-3) AT GIBSON SOUTHERN (5-2)
NEW PALESTINE (6-0) AT NEW CASTLE (4-3)
NOBLESVILLE (2-5) AT BROWNSBURG (7-0)
NOBLESVILLE HOMESCHOOL AT FAITH CHRISTIAN (2-4)
NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG) (2-5) AT SOUTH SPENCER (3-4)
NORTH DECATUR (6-1) AT EDINBURGH (0-7)
NORTH HARRISON (5-2) AT CLARKSVILLE (0-7)
NORTH KNOX (2-5) AT NORTH DAVIESS (5-2)
NORTH MIAMI (5-2) AT CULVER (1-6)
NORTH POSEY (6-1) AT SOUTHRIDGE (5-2)
NORTH PUTNAM (6-1) AT BROWN COUNTY (4-3)
NORTH WHITE (3-4) AT NORTH NEWTON (2-5)
NORTHFIELD (2-5) AT WHITKO (0-7)
NORTHRIDGE (2-5) AT GOSHEN (0-7)
NORTHVIEW (6-1) AT EDGEWOOD (2-5)
NORTHWESTERN (6-1) AT PERU (3-4)
NORWELL (2-5) AT HUNTINGTON NORTH (4-3)
OAK HILL (4-3) AT ELWOOD (1-6)
PARKE HERITAGE (1-6) AT RIVERTON PARKE (4-3)
PENN (5-2) AT NEW PRAIRIE (5-2)
PHALEN ACADEMY AT INDIANAPOLIS TINDLEY (2-4)
PIKE (4-3) AT NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS) (0-7)
PIONEER (6-1) AT TRITON (5-2)
PLYMOUTH (5-2) AT MISHAWAKA (5-2)
PORTAGE (3-4) AT VALPARAISO (4-3)
PRAIRIE HEIGHTS (3-4) AT FREMONT (2-5)
RICHMOND (0-7) AT ANDERSON (0-7)
RIVER FOREST (4-3) AT RENSSELAER CENTRAL (2-5)
RUSHVILLE (4-3) AT SOUTH DEARBORN (4-3)
SEEGER (3-4) AT SOUTH VERMILLION (7-0)
SEYMOUR (3-4) AT NEW ALBANY (3-4)
SHELBYVILLE (1-6) AT MOUNT VERNON (FORTVILLE) (3-4)
SHENANDOAH (4-3) AT EASTERN HANCOCK (4-3)
SOUTH BEND RILEY (2-4) AT SOUTH BEND ADAMS (1-6)
SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON (0-7) AT SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (4-3)
SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS) (1-6) AT WINAMAC (2-4)
SOUTH NEWTON (3-4) AT PARK TUDOR (4-3)
SOUTH PUTNAM (5-2) AT OWEN VALLEY (0-7)
SOUTHERN WELLS (0-7) AT HERITAGE (6-1)
SOUTHSIDE HOMESCHOOL AT SWITZERLAND COUNTY (5-2)
SOUTHWOOD (0-7) AT ROCHESTER (6-1)
SPRINGS VALLEY (6-1) AT PERRY CENTRAL (4-3)
SULLIVAN (3-4) AT INDIAN CREEK (3-4)
TECUMSEH (0-7) AT TELL CITY (3-4)
TERRE HAUTE SOUTH (1-5) AT SOUTHPORT (0-7)
TRI-CENTRAL (1-6) AT TAYLOR (3-4)
TRI-COUNTY (4-3) AT BOWMAN ACADEMY (0-7)
TRI-WEST (3-4) AT CRAWFORDSVILLE (2-5)
WABASH (1-6) AT MACONAQUAH (7-0)
WARSAW (4-3) AT NORTHWOOD (3-4)
WES-DEL (3-4) AT UNION COUNTY (0-7)
WEST LAFAYETTE (4-3) AT TWIN LAKES (3-4)
WEST WASHINGTON (2-5) AT CRAWFORD COUNTY (0-7)
WESTERN (0-7) AT LOGANSPORT (6-1)
WESTFIELD (6-1) AT FISHERS (4-3)
WHITELAND (3-3) AT PLAINFIELD (6-1)
WHITING (2-5) AT WHEELER (5-2)
WINCHESTER (2-5) AT CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN (1-6)
WOODLAN (4-3) AT SOUTH ADAMS (3-4)
YORKTOWN (5-2) AT PENDLETON HEIGHTS (2-5)
ZIONSVILLE (3-4) AT AVON (1-6)
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL SCORES
https://www.maxpreps.com/in/volleyball/scores/?date=10/8/2024
INDIANA BOYS HIGH SCHOOL REGIONAL BRACKETS
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER SCORES
https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer/scores/?date=10/8/2024
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER SCORES
https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer/girls/scores/?date=10/8/2024
COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 7 SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, OCT. 8
LIBERTY 31 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 24 OT
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9
7:30 P.M. | NEW MEXICO STATE AT JACKSONVILLE STATE | ESPN2
THURSDAY, OCT. 10
7:30 P.M. | COSTAL CAROLINA AT JAMES MADISON | ESPN2
8 P.M. | MIDDLE TENNESSEE AT LOUISIANA TECH | CBSSN
8 P.M. | UTEP AT WESTERN KENTUCKY | ESPNU
FRIDAY, OCT. 11
6 P.M. | HARVARD AT CORNELL | ESPN2
7 P.M. | MEMPHIS AT SOUTH FLORIDA | ESPN
8 P.M. | UNLV AT UTAH STATE | CBSSN
8 P.M. | NORTHWESTERN AT MARYLAND | FOX
9:15 P.M. | PRAIRIE VIEW A&M AT ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF | ESPN2
10:30 P.M. | NO. 16 UTAH AT ARIZONA STATE | ESPN
SATURDAY, OCT. 12
12 P.M. | SOUTH CAROLINA AT NO. 7 ALABAMA | ABC/ESPN+
12 P.M. | NO. 21 MISSOURI AT UMASS | ESPN2
12 P.M. | NO. 10 CLEMSON AT WAKE FOREST | ESPN
12 P.M. | WASHINGTON AT IOWA | FOX
12 P.M. | WISCONSIN AT RUTGERS | BIG TEN NETWORK
12 P.M. | GEORGIA TECH AT NORTH CAROLINA | CW NETWORK
12 P.M. | BALL STATE AT KENT STATE | ESPN+
12 P.M. | TOLEDO AT BUFFALO | ESPNU
12 P.M. | UAB AT ARMY | CBSSN
12 P.M. | DAVIDSON AT DAYTON | FACEBOOK
12 P.M. | ST. THOMAS (MINN.) AT MARIST | ESPN+
12 P.M. | DARTMOUTH AT YALE | ESPN+
12 P.M. | DUQUESNE AT ST. FRANCIS (PA) | ESPN+
12:30 P.M. | GEORGETOWN AT LAFAYETTE | ESPN+
1 P.M. | UALBANY AT BRYANT | FLOSPORTS
1 P.M. | MAINE AT DELAWARE | FLOSPORTS
1 P.M. | BROWN AT RHODE ISLAND | FLOSPORTS
1 P.M. | MISSOURI STATE AT ILLINOIS STATE | ESPN+
1 P.M. | MURRAY STATE AT INDIANA STATE | ESPN+
1 P.M. | VALPARAISO AT STETSON | ESPN+
1 P.M. | FORDHAM AT HOLY CROSS | ESPN+
1 P.M. | BUCKNELL AT PENN | ESPN+
1 P.M. | SACRED HEART AT HOWARD | ESPN+
1:30 P.M. | VMI AT WOFFORD | ESPN+
2 P.M. | MIAMI (OHIO) AT EASTERN MICHIGAN | ESPN+
2 P.M. | NEW HAMPSHIRE AT ELON | FLOSPORTS
2 P.M. | TOWSON AT NORFOLK STATE | ESPN+
2 P.M. | CHATTANOOGA AT FURMAN | ESPN+
2 P.M. | CHARLESTON SOUTHERN AT LINDENWOOD | ESPN+
2 P.M. | BUTLER AT DRAKE | ESPN+
2 P.M. | PRESBYTERIAN AT MOREHEAD STATE | ESPN+
2 P.M. | VIRGINIA LYNCHBURG AT NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL | ESPN+
2:30 P.M. | THE CITADEL AT WESTERN CAROLINA | ESPN+
3 P.M. | TEXAS A&M-COMMERCE AT NORTHWESTERN STATE | ESPN+
3 P.M. | NORTH DAKOTA STATE AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | ESPN+
3 P.M. | YOUNGSTOWN STATE AT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE | ESPN+
3 P.M. | ALCORN STATE AT GRAMBLING | ESPN+
3 P.M. | MERRIMACK AT MORGAN STATE | ESPN+
3 P.M. | UNI AT SOUTH DAKOTA | ESPN+
3 P.M. | SE LOUISIANA AT HOUSTON CHRISTIAN | ESPN+
3:30 P.M. | NO. 1 TEXAS VS. NO. 18 OKLAHOMA (IN DALLAS, TEXAS) | ABC/ESPN+
3:30 P.M. | NO. 4 PENN STATE AT USC | CBS
3:30 P.M. | STANFORD AT NO. 11 NOTRE DAME | NBC
3:30 P.M. | LOUISVILLE AT VIRGINIA | ESPN OR ACCN
3:30 P.M. | PURDUE AT NO. 23 ILLINOIS | FS1
3:30 P.M. | CAL AT NO. 22 PITT | ESPN
3:30 P.M. | CINCINNATI AT UCF | ESPN2
3:30 P.M. | SAN DIEGO STATE AT WYOMING | CBSSN
3:30 P.M. | OLD DOMINION AT GEORGIA STATE | ESPN+
3:30 P.M. | AKRON AT WESTERN MICHIGAN | ESPN+
3:30 P.M. | NORTHERN ILLINOIS AT BOWLING GREEN | ESPN+
3:30 P.M. | SAMFORD AT EAST TENNESSEE STATE | ESPN+
3:30 P.M. | PRINCETON AT MERCER | ESPN+
4 P.M. | ARIZONA AT NO. 14 BYU | FOX
4 P.M. | OHIO AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN | ESPNU
4 P.M. | TENNESSEE TECH AT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE | ESPN+
4 P.M. | UT MARTIN AT WESTERN ILLINOIS | ESPN+
4 P.M. | NORTHERN ARIZONA AT MONTANA | ESPN+
4 P.M. | STEPHEN F. AUSTIN AT LAMAR | ESPN+
4 P.M. | EASTERN KENTUCKY AT SOUTHERN UTAH | ESPN+
4:15 P.M. | MISSISSIPPI STATE AT NO. 5 GEORGIA | SEC NETWORK
4:30 P.M. | SAN JOSE STATE AT COLORADO STATE | TRUTV/MAX
5 P.M. | SOUTHERN MISS AT UL MONROE | ESPN+
5 P.M. | WEST GEORGIA AT CENTRAL ARKANSAS | ESPN+
6 P.M. | EASTERN ILLINOIS AT TENNESSEE STATE | ESPN+
6 P.M. | PORTLAND STATE AT IDAHO STATE | ESPN+
7 P.M. | FLORIDA AT NO. 8 TENNESSEE | ESPN
7 P.M. | WASHINGTON STATE AT FRESNO STATE | FS1
7 P.M. | ARKANSAS STATE AT TEXAS STATE | ESPN+
7 P.M. | NORTH TEXAS AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC | ESPN2
7 P.M. | UTSA AT RICE | ESPN+
7 P.M. | ABILENE CHRISTIAN AT NORTH ALABAMA | ESPN+
7 P.M. | UTAH TECH AT TARLETON STATE | ESPN+
7 P.M. | NICHOLLS AT UIW | ESPN+
7 P.M. | CAL POLY AT UC DAVIS | ESPN+
7:30 P.M. | NO. 2 OHIO STATE AT NO. 3 OREGON | NBC
7:30 P.M. | NO. 9 OLE MISS AT NO. 13 LSU | ABC/ESPN+
7:30 P.M. | OREGON STATE AT NEVADA | CBSSN
7:30 P.M. | APPALACHIAN STATE AT LOUISIANA | ESPN+
7:45 P.M. | VANDERBILT AT KENTUCKY | SEC NETWORK
8 P.M. | NO. 11 IOWA STATE AT WEST VIRGINIA | FOX
8 P.M. | SYRACUSE AT NC STATE | ACC NETWORK
8 P.M. | AIR FORCE AT NEW MEXICO | TRUTV/MAX
8 P.M. | MARSHALL AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN | ESPNU
8 P.M. | NORTHERN COLORADO AT WEBER STATE | ESPN+
9 P.M. | MINNESOTA AT UCLA | BIG TEN NETWORK
9 P.M. | EASTERN WASHINGTON AT SACRAMENTO STATE | ESPN+
10:15 P.M. | NO. 18 KANSAS STATE AT COLORADO | ESPN
10:15 P.M. | IDAHO AT MONTANA STATE | ESPN2
11 P.M. | NO. 17 BOISE STATE AT HAWAI’I | CBSSN
INDIANA HOOSIERS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
INDIANA 31 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 7
INDIANA 77 WESTERN ILLINOIS 3
INDIANA 42 UCLA 13
INDIANA 52 CHARLOTTE 14
INDIANA 42 MARYLAND 28
INDIANA 41 NORTHWESTERN 24
OCTOBER 19 VS. NEBRASKA TBA
OCTOBER 26 VS. WASHINGTON TBA
NOVEMBER 2 AT MICHIGAN STATE TBA
NOVEMBER 9 VS. MICHIGAN TBA
NOVEMBER 23 AT OHIO STATE TBA
NOVEMBER 30 VS. PURDUE TBA
PURDUE BOILERMAKERS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
PURDUE 49 INDIANA STATE 0
NOTRE DAME 66 PURDUE 7
OREGON STATE 38 PURDUE 21
NEBRASKA 28 PURDUE 10
WISCONSIN 52 PURDUE 6
OCTOBER 12 AT ILLINOIS TBA
OCTOBER 18 VS. OREGON 8:00
NOVEMBER 2 VS. NORTHWESTERN TBA
NOVEMBER 9 AT OHIO STATE TBA
NOVEMBER 16 VS. PENN STATE TBA
NOVEMBER 22 AT MICHIGAN STATE 8:00
NOVEMBER 30 AT INDIANA TBA
NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
NOTRE DAME 23 TEXAS A&M 13
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 16 NOTRE DAME 14
NOTRE DAME 66 PURDUE 7
NOTRE DAME 28 MIAMI OH 3
NOTRE DAME 31 LOUISVILLE 24
OCTOBER 12 VS. STANFORD 3:30
OCTOBER 19 AT GEORGIA TECH TBA
OCTOBER 26 AT NAVY 12:00
NOVEMBER 9 VS. FLORIDA STATE 7:30
NOVEMBER 16 VS. VIRGINIA 3:30
NOVEMBER 23 AT ARMY 7:00 (YANKEE STADIUM)
NOVEMBER 30 AT USC TBA
BUTLER BULLDOGS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
BUTLER 40 UPPER IOWA 7
BUTLER 19 MURRAY STATE 17
BUTLER 53 HANOVER 0
BUTLER 63 VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY-LYNCHBURG 0
BUTLER 40 MOREHEAD STATE 6
OCTOBER 12 AT DRAKE 1:00 CT
OCTOBER 19 VS. DAYTON 1:00
OCTOBER 26 AT DAVIDSON 1:00
NOVEMBER 2 VS. STETSON 1:00
NOVEMBER 9 AT VALPO 1:00 CT
NOVEMBER 16 VS. ST. THOMAS 1:00
NOVEMBER 23 AT PRESBYTERIAN 1:00
BALL STATE CARDINALS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
BALL STATE 42 MISSOURI STATE 34
MIAMI FL 62 BALL STATE 0
CENTRAL MICHIGAN 37 BALL STATE 34
JAMES MADISON 63 BALL STATE 7
WESTERN MICHIGAN 45 BALL STATE 42
OCTOBER 12 AT KENT STATE TBA
OCTOBER 19 AT VANDERBILT TBA
OCTOBER 26 VS. NORTHERN ILLINOIS TBA
NOVEMBER 5 VS. MIAMI OH TBA
NOVEMBER 12 AT BUFFALO 7:00
NOVEMBER 23 VS. BOWLING GREEN TBA
NOVEMBER 29 AT OHIO TBA
INDIANA STATE SYCAMORES FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
PURDUE 49 INDIANA STATE 0
EASTERN ILLINOIS 27 INDIANA STATE 20
INDIANA STATE 24 DAYTON 13
HOUSTON CHRISTIAN 27 INDIANA STATE 24
YOUNGSTOWN STATE 21 INDIANA STATE 14
OCTOBER 12 VS. MURRAY STATE 1:00
OCTOBER 19 AT MISSOURI STATE 3:00
OCTOBER 26 VS. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 1:00
NOVEMBER 2 VS. NORTH DAKOTA 1:00
NOVEMBER 9 AT SOUTH DAKOTA 2:00
COLTS SCHEDULE
HOUSTON 29 INDIANAPOLIS 27
GREEN BAY 16 INDIANAPOLIS 10
INDIANAPOLIS 21 CHICAGO 16
INDIANAPOLIS 27 PITTSBURGH 24
JACKSONVILLE 37 INDIANAPOLIS 34
OCT. 13: AT TENNESSEE, 1 P.M., CBS
OCT. 20: VS. MIAMI, 1 P.M., FOX
OCT. 27: AT HOUSTON, 1 P.M., CBS
NOV. 3: AT MINNESOTA, 1 P.M., CBS
NOV. 10: VS. BUFFALO, 1 P.M., CBS
NOV. 17: AT N.Y. JETS, 8:20 P.M., NBC PEACOCK
NOV. 24: VS. DETROIT, 1 P.M., FOX
DEC. 1: AT NEW ENGLAND, 1 P.M., CBS
DEC. 15: AT DENVER, 4:25 P.M., CBS
DEC. 22: VS. TENNESSEE, 1 P.M., CBS
DEC. 29: AT N.Y. GIANTS, TBD
JAN. 5: VS. JACKSONVILLE, TBD
WEEK 6 SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, OCT. 10
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS (8:15P PRIME VIDEO)
SUNDAY, OCT. 13
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS VS CHICAGO BEARS (9:30A NFL NETWORK, TOTTENHAM)
WASHINGTON COMMANDERS AT BALTIMORE RAVENS (1:00P CBS)
ARIZONA CARDINALS AT GREEN BAY PACKERS (1:00P FOX)
HOUSTON TEXANS AT NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (1:00P CBS)
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS (1:00P FOX)
CLEVELAND BROWNS AT PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (1:00P FOX)
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS AT TENNESSEE TITANS (1:00P CBS)
LOS ANGELES CHARGERS AT DENVER BRONCOS (4:05P CBS)
PITTSBURGH STEELERS AT LAS VEGAS RAIDERS (4:05P CBS)
ATLANTA FALCONS AT CAROLINA PANTHERS (4:25P FOX)
DETROIT LIONS AT DALLAS COWBOYS (4:25P FOX)
CINCINNATI BENGALS AT NEW YORK GIANTS (8:20P NBC)
MONDAY, OCT. 14
BUFFALO BILLS AT NEW YORK JETS (8:15P ESPN)
WEEK 7 SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, OCT. 17
DENVER BRONCOS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS (8:15P PRIME VIDEO)
SUNDAY, OCT. 20
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS AT JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS (9:30A NFLN, WEMBLEY)
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS AT ATLANTA FALCONS (1:00P FOX)
TENNESSEE TITANS AT BUFFALO BILLS (1:00P CBS)
CINCINNATI BENGALS AT CLEVELAND BROWNS (1:00P CBS)
HOUSTON TEXANS AT GREEN BAY PACKERS (1:00P CBS)
MIAMI DOLPHINS AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS (1:00P FOX)
DETROIT LIONS AT MINNESOTA VIKINGS (1:00P FOX)
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES AT NEW YORK GIANTS (1:00P FOX)
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AT LOS ANGELES RAMS (4:05P CBS)
CAROLINA PANTHERS AT WASHINGTON COMMANDERS (4:05P CBS)
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS AT SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (4:25P FOX)
NEW YORK JETS AT PITTSBURGH STEELERS (8:20P NBC)
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LOS ANGELES CHARGERS AT ARIZONA CARDINALS (9:00P ESPN+)
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THURSDAY, OCT. 24
MINNESOTA VIKINGS AT LOS ANGELES RAMS (8:15P PRIME VIDEO)
SUNDAY, OCT. 27
BALTIMORE RAVENS AT CLEVELAND BROWNS (1:00P CBS)
TENNESSEE TITANS AT DETROIT LIONS (1:00P FOX)
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS AT HOUSTON TEXANS (1:00P CBS)
GREEN BAY PACKERS AT JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS (1:00P FOX)
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NEW YORK JETS AT NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (1:00P CBS)
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NEW ORLEANS SAINTS AT LOS ANGELES CHARGERS (4:05P FOX)
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KANSAS CITY CHIEFS AT LAS VEGAS RAIDERS (4:25P CBS)
DALLAS COWBOYS AT SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (8:20P NBC)
MONDAY, OCT. 28
NEW YORK GIANTS AT PITTSBURGH STEELERS (8:15P ESPN/ABC)
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THURSDAY, OCT. 31
HOUSTON TEXANS AT NEW YORK JETS (8:15P PRIME VIDEO)
SUNDAY, NOV. 3
DALLAS COWBOYS AT ATLANTA FALCONS (1:00P FOX)
DENVER BRONCOS AT BALTIMORE RAVENS (1:00P CBS)
MIAMI DOLPHINS AT BUFFALO BILLS (1:00P CBS)
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS AT CAROLINA PANTHERS (1:00P CBS)
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AT CINCINNATI BENGALS (1:00P FOX)
LOS ANGELES CHARGERS AT CLEVELAND BROWNS (1:00P CBS)
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS AT MINNESOTA VIKINGS (1:00P CBS)
WASHINGTON COMMANDERS AT NEW YORK GIANTS (1:00P FOX)
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS AT TENNESSEE TITANS (1:00P FOX)
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LOS ANGELES RAMS AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS (4:25P FOX)
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS AT PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (8:20P NBC)
MONDAY, NOV. 4
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (8:15P ESPN)
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NY METS 7 PHILADELPHIA 2
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JETS FIRE SALEH
Robert Saleh insisted no one was panicked about the New York Jets’ slow start. A day later, he was out of a job.
Owner Woody Johnson made the stunning decision Tuesday to fire Saleh five games into his fourth season after the team’s 2-3 start following a 23-17 loss to Minnesota in London on Sunday.
“This morning, I informed Robert Saleh that he will no longer serve as head coach of the Jets,” Johnson said in a statement issued by the team. “I thanked him for his hard work these past 3 1/2 years and wished him and his family well moving forward.
“This was not an easy decision, but we are not where we should be given our expectations. And I believe now is the best time for us to move in a different direction.”
Saleh was 20-36 as coach of the Jets, who are trying to snap the NFL’s longest active playoff drought at 13 seasons. The move marks the first time in Johnson’s 25-year tenure that a head coach has been fired during the season.
Defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will serve as interim coach for the rest of the season — with the Jets maintaining expectations to make the playoffs.
“He is a tough coach who has the respect of the coaches and players on this team,” Johnson said. “I believe he along with the coaches on this staff can get the most out of our talented team and attain the goals we established this offseason.”
The surprising move came a day after Saleh said he was confident Aaron Rodgers and the Jets would be able to turn things around after losing two straight, including falling to undefeated Minnesota. Rodgers had his worst game with New York, throwing three interceptions.
“There’s so much football to be played,” Saleh said Monday. “There’s so many things that we can get better at, and there’s so many things that we can continue to build on, the things that we are doing well.
“So, I’m not panicked. Nobody in the building is panicked.”
But apparently Johnson had seen enough from Saleh, who became the NFL’s first coach fired this season. Saleh, who had one year remaining on his contract, had the worst winning percentage — .357 — of any Jets coach with at least 40 games.
It’s the 12th time since 2000 that a team has changed coaches just five games or fewer into a season, with six coming in the last six seasons. Matt Rhule was the most recent, having been fired by Carolina after five games in 2022.
The Jets face the Buffalo Bills (3-2) on Monday night, when they have a chance to share the AFC East lead with a victory. But instead of Saleh, it will be the 47-year-old Ulbrich leading the team on the sideline.
Ulbrich, who played linebacker for 10 seasons with San Francisco, joined the Jets as part of Saleh’s initial staff in 2021. Ulbrich was an an assistant with Atlanta for six seasons before coming to New York.
Saleh replaced the fired Adam Gase in January 2021 after the Jets went 9-23 in his tenure. New York went after the energetic and well-regarded Saleh, who was the 49ers’ defensive coordinator for four seasons and oversaw a group that was ranked No. 2 overall and helped San Francisco reach the Super Bowl for the 2019 season.
Saleh, the son of Lebanese parents, was believed to be the first Muslim head coach in NFL history when the Jets hired him. Saleh wore a patch of Lebanon’s flag on his left arm during the game in London on Sunday, something he also did at times last season. The NFL encouraged players and coaches to represent their heritage.
Saleh’s tenure began with a major decision as he and general manager moved on from quarterback Sam Darnold — the No. 3 overall pick in 2018 — to draft Zach Wilson with the second overall pick in 2021.
While Saleh and Ulbrich’s defense was a strength for the Jets, Wilson and the offense struggled mightily. Quarterback instability was a theme that was consistent throughout Saleh’s tenure in New York.
The Jets traded for Rodgers in April 2023, adding the four-time NFL MVP to a franchise looking for a winner. But last season was short-circuited when Rodgers tore his left Achilles tendon four snaps into his debut.
New York limped to a 7-10 record and while Johnson wouldn’t specifically say there was a playoff mandate for this season, the owner made it clear he needed to see marked improvement from the team by saying “we have to do a lot better than seven games.”
Rodgers healed and was ready for the season opener, but he has been banged up the last two weeks and is dealing with a sprained ankle that hobbled him throughout the Jets’ loss to Darnold and the Vikings. Saleh said Monday that preliminary tests indicated Rodgers should be able to play against the Bills.
But now Saleh will be only a spectator.
There were questions about his relationship with the 40-year-old Rodgers, but both denied any friction as recently as last week in London when the quarterback said “there’s some driving force trying to put a wedge outside the facility” between the two.
“We’re really good friends,” Rodgers said. “We enjoy each other. We spend time almost every day in his office talking about things and talking about the energy of the team, focus of the team and what we need to get done, how I can help him out, how he can help me out. So we’ve got a great relationship.”
The Jets now will try to become the third team to make the playoffs with an interim coach leading the way, hoping to join the 2021 Raiders with Rich Bisaccia and the 1961 Oilers with Wally Lemm.
BROWNS QB DESHAUN WATSON SETTLES LATEST CIVIL LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY WOMAN CLAIMING SEXUAL ASSAULT
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has resolved the latest civil lawsuit filed against him by a woman claiming sexual assault and battery.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, said in a text message to The Associated Press on Monday night that his client’s claim against Watson has been settled confidentially.
Buzbee had threatened to have his client speak to the NFL, which had opened an investigation against Watson. It’s not yet known if Watson will face any further discipline from the league.
A league spokesman declined comment in an email to AP.
The QB was suspended for the first 11 games in 2022 for violating the league’s personal conduct policy after more than two dozen women accused him of sexual assault and inappropriate conduct during massage therapy sessions.
Watson was also fined $5 million and had to undergo mandatory evaluation before he was reinstated by the league.
The new lawsuit was filed on Sept. 9 in Harris County, Texas. The unidentified woman alleged Watson had sexually assaulted her in 2020 while on a dinner date in her apartment. She was seeking damages in excess of $1 million.
Watson, who in his third season with Cleveland after being acquired in a controversial trade from Houston, had strongly denied the allegations.
The 29-year-old has previously settled nearly two dozen civil lawsuits.
Watson’s career with Cleveland has not gone like he or the team had hoped after the Browns signed him to a $230 million contract. He made just six starts last season before fracturing a bone in his right shoulder during a game and undergoing surgery.
He’s struggled in the Browns’ new offense this season to the point that coach Kevin Stefanski was asked after a loss on Sunday against Washington if he will bench Watson, who has yet to throw for 200 yards in a game this season.
Stefanski said he’s sticking with the QB and reiterated that during a Zoom call on Monday.
REPORT: SEAHAWKS TO PUT LB UCHENNA NWOSU (THIGH) ON IR
The Seattle Seahawks will place outside linebacker Uchenna Nwosu on injured reserve due to an ailing thigh, NFL Network reported Tuesday.
He sustained the injury during the Seahawks’ 29-20 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday. The game was his first of the season after being sidelined by a preseason knee injury.
Nwosu, 27, signed with Seattle in March 2022 after spending his first four seasons with the Los Angeles Chargers, who selected him in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
He started all 17 games during his first season with the Seahawks and put up career highs of 9.5 sacks, 66 tackles, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. He missed 11 games in 2023 with a pectoral injury.
In 86 career games (48 starts) between the Chargers and Seahawks, Nwosu has recorded 26.5 sacks, 217 tackles, 77 QB hits, eight forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries and one interception.
An IR stint means Nwosu will miss at least four games. He would be eligible to return for the Nov. 17 game at San Francisco.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
SEC, BIG TEN LEADERS MULLING FUTURE OF FAST-CHANGING COLLEGE SPORTS
The Big Ten and SEC already have the upper hand in college football. At meetings this week, their leaders are setting the stage to exact even more control over the sport’s future.
Among the talking points when an advisory group made of members from the conferences meets in Nashville, Tennessee, are the future of the expanded college football playoff and a possible scheduling agreement between the two conferences that would indirectly make it harder for the rest of college football to compete for the 12 or possibly 14 spots available in the postseason.
No final decisions are expected this week, though the discussions are expected to be a jumping-off point for more definitive moves to come. Here’s a look at some of the topics:
Future of the College Football Playoff
The new 12-team playoff makes its debut this season. The top five conference winners, as ranked in the College Football Playoff committee’s selection poll on Dec. 8, will earn spots in the postseason, followed by the next seven highest-rated teams.
It’s likely that two teams will be added to the format beginning in 2026, which is also when ESPN’s six-year, $7.8 billion contract to televise the playoffs begin. Big Ten and SEC leaders have made proposals to get three or four automatic spots in the new playoff. Neither idea has been popular among the rest of the conferences, but the SEC and Big Ten have negotiated to have more control over what comes next.
In possibly the most simple-to-digest sign of the power these two conference wield — they have 15 teams in this week’s AP Top 25.
A new scheduling format
Connected to the playoff format is a possible change in scheduling that would add an interconference Big Ten-SEC game to each team’s schedule.
Part of what the conferences would like to achieve with the new postseason format and more automatic bids would be to eliminate the influence of the selection committee, whose poll doles out at-large berths.
To whatever extent the subjective poll remains part of the formula, a Big Ten-SEC matchup in the regular season would ostensibly help both conferences by improving their strength of schedule, which is a factor in the poll. It would also shrink the number of available opportunities schools from other conferences would have against these teams from the top two leagues.
Landmark lawsuit settlement
On Monday, a judge approved a plan that sets in motion the system for schools to eventually make direct payments to athletes. It will change the fundamental nature of college sports, and the two biggest conferences will feel as big an impact as anyone.
Specifically, the athletic departments will have to figure out how to replace up to $21.5 million they could be paying athletes as part of a first-of-its-kind revenue-sharing agreement. This is where payouts from the football playoff and even revenue from an extra marquee regular-season game could come into play, though that won’t fully solve the problem.
“There’s two ways to get there,” Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman said at the Big Ten’s recent basketball media days. “You can either make more money or you can spend your money differently, and we’re working very aggressively on both of those fronts to put ourselves in a position to fully participate in the revenue share when it opens up next year.”
The leaders also have to take educated guesses about how other legal and legislative action could impact them in the future. For instance, if players are deemed to be employees of the schools, it would add another layer of expense for the schools while potentially giving athletes access to school-funded health insurance and other benefits.
One news tidbit that could become a trend: Last month’s announcement that Tennessee was slapping a 10% “talent fee” onto the price of next year’s season tickets to help offset costs associated with the revenue-sharing plan.
Could the Super League be coming?
Though not on their agenda, the possibility of a super league hovers over everything in college sports these days.
Earlier this month, a group called “College Sports Tomorrow” unveiled its vision for a two-tiered, 136-team mega-league with divisions and a 24-team playoff.
“This is not trying to create minor league professional football,” one of the group’s leaders, former MLS deputy commissioner Mark Abbott, told the Wall Street Journal. “This is about the student athlete and actually trying to enhance the college experience for everybody.”
Then, this week, Yahoo Sports reported on a potential super league involving the top four conferences that would pump $9 billion in private equity money into the sport.
There’s not enough room to list all the roadblocks in the way of these sort of changes — tops on the list might be that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has indicated he has no interest — but at the rate college sports are changing these days, it’s hard to say never.
GEORGIA WR COLBIE YOUNG FACING BATTERY CHARGE
Georgia wideout Colbie Young was jailed Tuesday morning on misdemeanor charges of battery and assault of an unborn child.
The Binghamton, N.Y., native, who transferred to the Bulldogs in December following two seasons at Miami, was booked into the Athens-Clarke County Jail at 4:18 a.m. ET on a bond of $2,500, according to records obtained by ESPN.
A Georgia athletic department spokesman told ESPN that “this is a pending legal matter” and “we will have no further comment at this time.”
According to a police incident report, a 20-year-old woman, who identified herself as Young’s former girlfriend, told authorities that she visited his apartment around midnight to discuss their relationship.
The argument allegedly became heated and the woman claimed that Young got physical when she tried to leave. “She said that he picked her up and began to squeeze her torso and abdomen very hard. She said she felt like (Young) was trying to harm her,” read the police report.
Police observed bruising and discoloration on the woman’s chest and abdomen and transported her to an Athens hospital for treatment.
Young’s attorney, Kim Stephens, provided a statement to ESPN.
“Colbie Young was arrested last night after he asked his ex-girlfriend to leave his apartment,” Stephens said. “He did not make physical contact with her in any way that could ever be considered a crime. I expect Mr. Young to be fully exonerated once our investigation is complete and the truth revealed.”
Young has 11 catches for 149 yards and two touchdowns through five games for the No. 5 Bulldogs (4-1, 2-1 SEC). He caught 79 passes for 939 yards and 10 TDs in 22 games with the Hurricanes from 2022-23.
QB INTRIGUE IN PLAY AS NO. 18 OKLAHOMA, NO. 1 TEXAS RENEW RIVALRY
The annual showdown between Oklahoma and Texas doesn’t need much in the way of extra juice.
“I think it’s just in the dirt,” Oklahoma linebacker Kobie McKinzie said of why point spreads don’t matter in the Red River Rivalry. “Whatever happened there over these hundreds of years is just there. Like, you just hit the field, it feels like it’s hard to breathe. There’s nowhere to go.”
There will be plenty on the line Saturday when the top-ranked Longhorns take on the No. 18 Sooners in Dallas in one of the most unique rivalry games in the sport.
The game is played in the middle of the State Fair of Texas with the crowd split 50-50 down the 50-yard line.
It hasn’t quite been played for “hundreds” of years, like McKinzie said, but it has been held for nearly a century at its current home.
The Longhorns (5-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) come into the game as heavy favorites, though even wide point spreads haven’t kept the contest from being competitive.
In the past 10 regular-season meetings, only one — Texas’ 49-0 win in 2022 — was decided by more than eight points.
“It’s a rivalry game,” Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said. “We’re favored or we’re not, it doesn’t matter. Records and things don’t matter in games like this.”
The Longhorns expect to have starting quarterback Quinn Ewers back for the first time since he sustained an abdominal injury against UTSA on Sept. 14.
Arch Manning started the past two games for Texas.
“We’re going to monitor (Ewers) daily just to kind of see how he continues to progress, but I feel good about how he was (Monday),” Sarkisian said. “I feel good about him going into Saturday, but that remains to be seen.”
Ewers is 1-1 against the Sooners, throwing for 289 yards and four touchdowns with one interception in the Longhorns’ 2022 rout, and then passing for 346 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions in Oklahoma’s 34-30 win last season.
The Sooners (4-1, 1-1) come into the game as one of the top teams in the nation in forcing turnovers with 13 — eight fumble recoveries and five interceptions. Texas turned the ball over seven times (three lost fumbles, four interceptions).
While the Longhorns are looking to get their quarterback back against the Sooners, Oklahoma is hoping their freshman starter can get more settled in after taking over in the SEC opener for a struggling Jackson Arnold.
Michael Hawkins Jr. is in line to become the first true freshman quarterback to start for the Sooners against the Longhorns.
Hawkins was 10 of 15 for 161 yards and no interceptions and he rushed for 69 yards and a score in his first career start, Sept. 28 at Auburn in Oklahoma’s 27-21 win.
McKinzie was impressed with how Hawkins has handled the challenge, adding that the quarterback’s demeanor figures to serve him well in the showdown with Texas.
“If you see any other quarterback on Sundays and Saturdays, if they make a mistake, it literally looks like their world just ended,” McKinzie said. “And like, he just, ‘OK, next play. OK, I messed up, next play.’ That’s serious. He literally looks the same every series.”
BASEBALL NEWS
SIX-RUN INNING LIFTS PADRES, SENDS DODGERS TO BRINK
SAN DIEGO — David Peralta hit a two-run double and Fernando Tatis Jr. added a two-run home run in a six-run second inning as the San Diego Padres held on for a 6-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 3 of the National League Division Series.
Four relievers combined to throw four scoreless innings, with Robert Suarez picking up a four-out save, as the Padres took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series. San Diego moved one victory away from its second visit to the National League Championship Series in three seasons.
Game 4 is set for Wednesday at San Diego.
The Padres sent 10 batters to the plate in the second inning to overcome an early Dodgers lead and set up a similar scenario to the 2022 NLDS, when they lost the opening game at Los Angeles then won the next three.
Teoscar Hernandez hit a grand slam for the Dodgers, and Mookie Betts homered to end an 0-for-22 stretch in the postseason. Los Angeles starter Walker Buehler (0-1) gave up six runs on seven hits over five innings without a strikeout. Shohei Ohtani went 1-for-4.
After Padres starter Michael King (2-0) gave up five runs on five hits over five innings, Jeremiah Estrada and Jason Adam each pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Tanner Scott recorded two outs in the eighth before Suarez earned his second save of the postseason.
Betts nearly had a home run taken away in the first inning for the second consecutive game by Jurickson Profar, but this time the ball clipped the glove of the Padres left fielder and cleared the wall as Los Angeles took a 1-0 lead.
In the Padres’ six-run second inning, Dodgers infielders Freddie Freeman and Miguel Rojas were unable to turn potential double plays off ground balls.
Manny Machado scored to tie the game 1-1 on the botched double-play attempt by shortstop Rojas. Peralta’s two-run double down the right field line gave San Diego a 3-1 lead before Kyle Higashioka brought home a run on a sacrifice fly.
With two outs, Tatis socked a two-run home run to left-center for a 6-1 lead. It was Tatis’ fourth of the postseason and third in two games.
The Dodgers got back in the game after opening the third inning with three consecutive singles to load the bases, the first from Rojas, who left the game with a groin injury after reaching third base. Hernandez delivered his grand slam to center field, pulling the Dodgers within 6-5.
TAKE 5: KEYS IN DODGERS-PADRES NLDS GAME 4
SAN DIEGO — Forever in the shadow of their neighbors to the north, the San Diego Padres are all grown up and can make it two National League Division Series victories over the Los Angeles Dodgers in three seasons when the teams play Game 4 on Wednesday.
The Dodgers had won the regular-season series against the Padres 13 years in a row until this season, when San Diego had an 8-5 advantage. San Diego now leads the best-of-five NLDS 2-1 entering Game 4 at San Diego on Wednesday.
Here are five keys to victory for the first elimination game of the series, with Game 5 set for Friday in Los Angeles, if necessary.
LEAN INTO PITCHING STRENGTHS
Replacing a reigning Cy Young Award winner is a no-win situation, but the Padres made it happen when Blake Snell departed and Dylan Cease arrived. Cease won’t win the award, but he might have done one better by guiding the Padres back into the playoffs. He went 14-11 with a 3.47 ERA, threw a no-hitter in July and made consecutive scoreless starts in September. However, when he gets the ball in Game 4, he will be out to rectify a clunker in Game 1, when he gave up five runs in just 3 1/3 innings. In the regular season, he held Los Angeles to a 3.38 ERA in two starts.
The pitching-rich Dodgers have dealt with so many injuries to their starters that the best member of their rotation when the season ended was Jack Flaherty, who didn’t make his debut with the club until early August after a trade-deadline deal. The Dodgers will try to cover Game 4 with a clear pitching strength: the bullpen. Rookie right-hander Landon Knack is available to pick up multiple innings. The Los Angeles relief corps was crucial to the team’s Game 1 win, yielding just two hits over six scoreless innings.
TOP GUNS
There are stars aplenty at the top of each lineup, although it is the Padres who are extracting the most out of their higher-profile players of late. Dodgers pitchers figure to be careful with Fernando Tatis Jr., as he hit three home runs in the past two games and is 10-for-18 with four total homers in the playoffs. Manny Machado likes being a Dodgers foil, and he has hit safely in each game of the series, but he tweaked a calf in his last at-bat of Game 3. Jurickson Profar had his best season in his 11th year and at age 31. He has just four singles through five games this postseason, but he could be poised for a breakthrough.
DEFENSE CAN’T REST
The Padres turned highlight defensive plays from Tatis, Profar and Luis Arraez into the inspiration that launched their 10-2 victory in Game 2. The Dodgers crumbled on defense in the second inning of Game 3, when first baseman Freddie Freeman hit Machado with a throw that opened the door for a six-run rally. Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas tried to eliminate the middleman on a double-play attempt in the same inning and didn’t get either runner. Adding to the issue, Rojas aggravated a nagging groin injury on the play and left the game an inning later.
A 50-50 PROPOSITION
With Freeman struggling at the top of the order while Max Muncy and Will Smith have been unable to deliver toward the bottom, production will have to be carried by superstar Shohei Ohtani, who is in his first career playoff series. The Dodgers got a three-run home run from Ohtani in Game 1 and earned a 7-5 victory. He has gone 1-for-8 over the next two games with four strikeouts. The Dodgers are struggling to produce sustained rallies, and they need Ohtani’s power to make runs happen.
HOME COOKING
A handful of Dodgers fans tried to enter the proceedings in Game 2 by throwing baseballs and trash on the field. The ploy backfired when the Padres gathered in the dugout to refocus during a 12-minute delay, then reeled off six runs and four homers over the final two innings of their Sunday victory. Padres fans pulled no such antics in Game 3 when a Petco Park record crowd of 47,744 was in attendance. “It was a great atmosphere in Petco tonight,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said after Game 3. “The crowd was phenomenal. Clearly I thought it was a difference-maker in part of what we were doing tonight. And we felt them, so that was great.”
SEAN MANAEA SUBDUES PHILLIES AS METS TAKE 2-1 SERIES LEAD
NEW YORK — Sean Manaea carried a shutout into the eighth inning and benefited from strong defense behind him Tuesday by the host New York Mets, who beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-2 in Game 3 of a National League Division Series.
Pete Alonso and Jesse Winker homered, Starling Marte and Jose Iglesias each had two-run singles and Francisco Lindor added an RBI double for the Mets, who lead the best-of-five series two games to one. Game 4 is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, when host New York will aim to reach the NL Championship Series for the first time since 2015.
The Phillies, who reached the World Series in 2022 and the NLCS in 2023, haven’t won a game when facing elimination since defeating the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 5 of the 1993 World Series.
Manaea (1-0), who entered Tuesday with a 10.66 ERA in four career playoff appearances, gave up one run on three hits while striking out six, walking two and plunking two over seven-plus innings.
The most well-struck hit off Manaea was Alec Bohm’s one-out single off the right-center field wall in the fourth, but center fielder Tyrone Taylor barehanded the carom and fired to shortstop Francisco Lindor, who made a swipe tag at the sliding Bohm.
Manaea got out of a jam in the sixth, when he walked Kyle Schwarber and Trea Turner to open the inning. The 32-year-old southpaw then struck out Bryce Harper on three pitches and got Nick Castellanos to line to second, where Iglesias tossed to Lindor to double up Schwarber.
Manaea exited to a standing ovation after giving up Edmundo Sosa’s infield single leading off the eighth. Harper and Castellanos had back-to-back two-out RBI singles against Phil Maton and Ryne Stanek before Bohm flew out to strand two.
Alonso continued his run of dramatic moments by homering on the first pitch he saw from Aaron Nola (0-1) in the second inning. It was the third homer in the last four games for Alonso, an impending free agent who extended the Mets’ season by hitting a three-run ninth-inning homer last Thursday in New York’s 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 3 of an NL wild card series.
Winker homered deep into the second deck in right in the fourth. Marte and Iglesias added their insurance hits in the sixth and seventh before Lindor delivered his hit with two outs in the eighth.
Nola (0-1) gave up four runs on five hits and two walks while striking out eight over five-plus innings.
LUIS TIANT, THE CHARISMATIC CUBAN WHO PITCHED THE RED SOX TO THE BRINK OF A CHAMPIONSHIP, DIES AT 83
BOSTON (AP) — Luis Tiant, the charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and pitched himself to the doorstep of the baseball Hall of Fame, has died. He was 83.
Major League Baseball announced his death in a post on X on Tuesday, and the Red Sox confirmed that he died at his home in Maine.
“Today is a very sad day,” Fred Lynn, a teammate in both Boston and California, posted on X. “A Big game pitcher, a funny genuine guy who loved his family and baseball. I miss him already.”
With a swaggering style and an iconic wiggling windup that froze batters in the box, “El Tiante” was a three-time All-Star and four-time 20-game winner whose greatest individual season came with Cleveland in 1968, when he went 21-9 with 19 complete games and nine shutouts — four of them in a row. His 1.60 ERA was the best in the AL in half a century and he finished fifth in AL Most Valuable Player voting; 31-game winner Denny McLain won it, as well as the league’s Cy Young Award.
Those performances, along with Bob Gibson’s 1.12 ERA in the NL, earned 1968 the nickname “Year of the Pitcher” and helped persuade baseball to lower the pitching mound to give batters more of a chance. No matter, Tiant again won the AL ERA title with a 1.91 mark in 1972, for the Red Sox (and lost the Cy Young to Gaylord Perry’s 1.92 ERA and 24 wins).
“Luis embodied everything we love about this game: resilience, passion, and an undeniable sense of belonging to something greater than himself,” Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner said. “But what made Luis unforgettable was his vibrant personality. He was a gifted storyteller, always sharing tales filled with humor, honesty, and an enduring loyalty to his teammates. All of us are deeply saddened by his passing. We lost one of the great ones today.”
The son of a Negro Leagues star, the younger Tiant was 229-172 in all with a 3.30 ERA and 2,416 strikeouts. He had 187 complete games and 47 shutouts in a 19-year career spent mostly with Cleveland and the Red Sox.
His death comes one week after that of all-time baseball hits leader Pete Rose, whose Cincinnati Reds faced Tiant’s Red Sox in the 1975 World Series — still considered one of the greatest matchups in baseball postseason history.
Tiant shut out the Reds in Game 1, threw 155 pitches in another complete game victory in Game 4 and was back on the mound for eight innings in Game 6, which Boston won on Carlton Fisk’s home run in the bottom of the 12th. The ’75 Series, which Cincinnati won in seven games, is often cited as the greatest of all time.
It was also a national coming-out party for Tiant’s distinctive delivery, in which he would wiggle his hands as he came to the set position, then turn his back to the batter before throwing. The motion would be imitated by generations of children in New England and across the country, but Tiant himself was unmatched.
“Luis had the kind of unforgettable presence that made you feel like you were part of his world,” Red Sox owner John Henry said. “He channeled everything into his love for the game and the people around him. He was magnetic and had a smile that could light up Fenway Park.”
After he retired in 1982, Tiant worked as a minor league coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox and was the pitching coach for Nicaragua at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He remained active with the Red Sox in spring training and was visible around Fenway Park, often signing autographs before the game at the ballpark’s El Tiante Cuban sandwich stand.
Tiant was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame but never made the national shrine in Cooperstown, New York, receiving a high of 30.9% of the votes in 1988, his first year on the ballot. He was also considered and rejected by veterans committees three times.
“Tough day to hear of Luis Tiant passing away. A former player we loved coming into the clubhouse,” former Red Sox infielder Kevin Youkilis tweeted. “Always joking around with that infectious laugh and saying ‘Man you a sick puppy!’ Forever grateful for the time shared with a legend. May his memory be a blessing!”
MUGGERS RIPPED WATCH OFF DODGERS PITCHER BUEHLER’S ARM, POLICE SAY
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Thieves surrounded Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler last month and ripped pricey watch off his arm, police said Tuesday.
Buehler was not threatened during the incident, which happened Sept. 28 at the Santa Anita Park horse racing track in the Los Angeles surburb of Arcadia, police there said.
Police investigated two more incidents of watch theft on the same day. The victims were all targets of organized groups who steal high end watches in large crowds during events, police said.
It was the second time this year professional athletes in California have been mugged.
On Aug. 31 in San Francisco, San Francisco 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall was walking alone to his car after shopping at luxury stores in Union Square when the NFL player was robbed at gunpoint by a teen suspect who took his Rolex watch and other expensive jewelry.
NHL NEWS
NHL ROUNDUP: UTAH HOCKEY CLUB TOP ‘HAWKS IN INAUGURAL GAME
Dylan Guenther scored two goals to help the Utah Hockey Club win their inaugural game 5-2 against the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night in Salt Lake City.
Barrett Hayton had a goal and an assist, Clayton Keller and Lawson Crouse also scored and Nick Schmaltz and Logan Cooley had two assists each for Utah, which was relocated from Tempe, Ariz., earlier this year after a Salt Lake City-based ownership group purchased the Arizona Coyotes.
Connor Ingram made 24 saves for the win.
Teuvo Teravainen and Nick Foligno scored, Connor Bedard had two assists and Petr Mrazek made 20 saves for Chicago, which went 0-for-3 on the power play.
Panthers 6, Bruins 4
Sam Bennett scored two goals as Florida opened the defense of its first Stanley Cup title with a win over Boston in Sunrise, Fla.
The Panthers also got goals from Eetu Luostarinen, Sam Reinhart (short-handed), Jonah Gadjovich and Evan Rodrigues. Reinhart and Rodrigues each added an assist. Last season, Reinhart finished second in the NHL with 57 goals.
The Bruins got goals from Pavel Zacha (short-handed), Charlie McAvoy, Trent Frederic and David Pastrnak (power play).
Blues 3, Kraken 2
Jordan Kyrou scored twice as St. Louis rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat host Seattle in the season opener for both teams.
Philip Broberg also scored for the Blues, Justin Faulk added two assists and goaltender Jordan Binnington made 30 saves.
Vince Dunn and Eeli Tolvanen scored for the Kraken, who were playing their first game under new coach Dan Bylsma. Goalie Philipp Grubauer stopped 22 of 25 shots.
WNBA NEWS
NAPHEESA COLLIER, LYNX TOP SUN, ADVANCE TO WNBA FINALS
Napheesa Collier recorded 27 points, 11 rebounds and four blocked shots and the Minnesota Lynx clinched a spot in the WNBA Finals with a solid 88-77 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday night at Minneapolis.
Courtney Williams added 24 points, seven assists and five rebounds for the second-seeded Lynx, who led for most of the victory that wrapped up a best-of-five series. Kayla McBride had 19 points for Minnesota.
DiJonai Carrington scored all 17 of her points in the second half and grabbed 12 rebounds for the third-seeded Sun. Brionna Jones added 16 points and 10 rebounds, DeWanna Bonner had 14 points and eight boards and Tyasha Harris scored 12 points for Connecticut.
Minnesota will visit the top-seeded New York Liberty in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday.
Collier, the runner-up for regular-season MVP honors, is the first player in WNBA history to have at least 25 points and 10 rebounds in three straight playoff games.
Minnesota shot 49.3 percent from the field, including a 10-of-26 showing from 3-point range.
The Sun connected on 38.5 percent of their shots overall and were 8-for-23 from behind the arc.
Connecticut made a late charge on two 3-pointers by Bonner to cut its deficit to 78-65 with 3:40 remaining. McBride responded with a key trey one minute later to help hold off the comeback bid.
Connecticut trailed by 21 late in the first half before scoring the final two points of the second quarter and the first seven of the third to move within 53-41 with 7:37 left.
Minnesota answered with a 12-0 burst. Alanna Smith connected on a 3-pointer and Williams followed with a runner. Collier then scored seven straight points on two conventional baskets and a trey to push the lead to 65-41 with 2:21 left in the third quarter.
The Sun scored the next seven points to trail 65-48 entering the final stanza.
Collier’s three-point play pushed the Lynx lead back to 20 with 8:13 left in the contest.
Williams scored 15 points on 6-of-6 shooting, McBride added 14 points and Collier had 13 points and seven rebounds as Minnesota held a 53-34 halftime lead.
McBride drained two treys in 24 seconds to cap a 23-7 run and give the Lynx an 11-point lead with 2:42 left in the first quarter. Minnesota took a 31-18 advantage into the second.
TOP INDIANA SPORTS HEADLINES/NEWS RELEASES
COLTS NEWS
COLTS RELEASE UNOFFICIAL DEPTH CHART FOR WEEK 6 GAME VS. TENNESSEE TITANS
OFFENSE
- WR: Michael Pittman Jr., Ashton Dulin
- LT: Bernhard Raimann, Blake Freeland
- LG: Quenton Nelson, Danny Pinter OR Tanor Bortolini
- C: Ryan Kelly, Danny Pinter OR Tanor Bortolini
- RG: Dalton Tucker
- RT: Braden Smith, Matt Goncalves
- TE: Mo Alie-Cox, Drew Ogletree
- TE: Kylen Granson, Will Mallory
- WR: Josh Downs, Anthony Gould
- WR: Alec Pierce OR Adonai Mitchell
- QB: Anthony Richardson, Joe Flacco, Sam Ehlinger
- RB: Jonathan Taylor, Trey Sermon, Tyler Goodson
- Alec Pierce had three receptions for 134 yards and a touchdown in the Colts’ loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, marking the wide receiver’s third career game with over 100 receiving yards. Pierce also leads the NFL with an average of 28.3 yards per catch.
- Joe Flacco was completed 33 passes for 359 yards and three touchdowns against the Jaguars; Anthony Richardson (oblique) did not play.
- Trey Sermon and Tyler Goodson split running back duties on Sunday with Jonathan Taylor (ankle) sidelined. Sermon had 10 carries for 38 yards and a touchdown, and Goodson had five carries for 26 yards.
DEFENSE
- DE: Kwity Paye, Laiatu Latu, Genard Avery
- DT: Taven Bryan, Adetomiwa Adebawore
- NT: Grover Stewart, Raekwon Davis
- DE: Dayo Odeyingbo, Isaiah Land, Adam Gotsis
- WLB: E.J. Speed
- MLB: Zaire Franklin, Segun Olubi
- SAM: Jaylon Carlies, Grant Stuard
- CB: Samuel Womack III, David Long Jr.
- FS: Julian Blackmon, Rodney Thomas II
- SS: Nick Cross, Trevor Denbow
- N: Kenny Moore II, Chris Lammons
- CB: Jaylon Jones
- Zaire Franklin was the only Colts player to record double-digit tackles against the Jaguars with 10 (. Franklin is third on the team with 23 total tackles, behind E.J. Speed (40) and Nick Cross (33).
- Jaylon Jones tallied six tackles (five solo) and two passes defensed against the Jaguars. He also recorded his first career forced fumble.
SPECIALISTS
- P: Rigoberto Sanchez
- PK: Matt Gay
- H: Rigoberto Sanchez
- LS: Luke Rhodes
- KR: Tyler Goodson, Anthony Gould, Ashton Dulin
- PR: Josh Downs, Anthony Gould
COLTS SIGN CB DAVID LONG JR. TO 53-MAN ROSTER FROM PRACTICE SQUAD, SIGN RB TRENT PENNIX TO PRACTICE SQUAD
Indianapolis – The Indianapolis Colts today signed cornerback David Long Jr. to the 53-man roster from the practice squad. The team also signed running back Trent Pennix to the practice squad.
Long Jr., 5-11, 196 pounds, was elevated to the active roster in Week 4 vs. Pittsburgh and Week 5 at Jacksonville and played. He was originally signed to the team’s practice squad on September 2, 2024. Long Jr. has played in 68 career games (12 starts) in his time with the Colts (2024), New York Giants (2024), Green Bay Packers (2023), Carolina Panthers (2023), Las Vegas Raiders (2023) and Los Angeles Rams (2019-22). He has compiled 94 tackles (81 solo), eight passes defensed, one interception and two special teams stops. Long Jr. has also appeared in six postseason contests (one start) and has registered 12 tackles (11 solo), 1.0 tackle for loss, one pass defensed and one interception. He was originally selected by the Rams in the third round (79th overall) of the 2019 NFL Draft out of Michigan.
Pennix, 6-2, 234 pounds, spent Week 5 on the team’s practice squad after being signed by Indianapolis on October 1, 2024. He participated in the Colts’ 2024 offseason program and training camp. Pennix was originally signed by Indianapolis as an undrafted free agent on May 9, 2024. Collegiately, he played in 54 career games (15 starts) at North Carolina State (2018-23) at tight end and running back. Pennix compiled 55 receptions for 712 yards (12.9 avg.) and 11 touchdowns. He also registered 41 carries for 240 yards (5.9 avg.) and one touchdown. His last name is pronounced penn-ICKS.
INDIANA PACERS
GAME REWIND: PACERS 130, HAWKS 131 (PRESEASON)
Game Recap
The Pacers returned to the court for their first competitive game against another since last year’s playoff run on Tuesday, facing the Hawks in Atlanta in the preseason opener for both teams.
Indiana’s starters played one half in Tuesday’s exhibition and helped the Blue & Gold out to a five-point halftime lead. The Pacers ultimately fell, 131-130, after the Hawks scored four points on their final possession to steal the victory.
Six players finished in double figures for the Blue & Gold, with Pascal Siakam leading the way with 15 points in 16 first-half minutes, going 6-for-8 from the field and 3-for-4 from beyond the arc, while also tallying three rebounds and four assists. Fellow starter Andrew Nembhard added 10 points, three rebounds, and three assists.
Quenton Jackson led the reserves with 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting, four rebounds, and four assists. Cole Swider tallied 12 points and six boards, Obi Toppin had 11 points and four rebounds, and T.J. McConnell scored 10.
The first quarter of Friday’s preseason opener was a tale of two halves. The Pacers dominated the first six minutes, hitting nine of their first 13 shots and racing out to a 22-5 lead after the first six minutes. Siakam scored eight points over that stretch, knocking down a pair of 3-pointers, while Nembhard added seven.
The Hawks stormed back in the latter half of the opening frame, however. Atlanta outscored Indiana 30-9 over the final six minutes, scoring 19 points over the final 3:22 to take a 35-31 lead into the second quarter.
The Blue & Gold’s second unit sorted things out defensively at the start of the second quarter, forcing the Hawks into four turnovers and 10 missed shots to open the frame. The Pacers took advantage of Atlanta’s cold spell, reeling off 13 unanswered points over the first four minutes of the quarter.
The Hawks once again mounted a run late in the quarter, this time using an 11-0 spurt to tie the game at 58 with 1:34 remaining in the first half. Siakam ended the run with his third three of the half and James Wiseman added a hook shot in the final minute to put Indiana up five entering the intermission.
All-NBA point guard Tyrese Haliburton tallied eight points and four assists over the first two quarters. 7-foot center James Wiseman, starting in place of Myles Turner, registered eight points on 4-of-4 shooting and four boards.
Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle opted to rest his starters after halftime, opening the third quarter with his second unit and going deeper into his bench later in the frame.
“The starters did some good things,” Carlisle said of the first half. “When we got tired, we got a little loose with the ball and we had some defensive lapses. We’ve got to clean that up.”
The margin remained close throughout the third quarter, with a late three from rookie Zaccharie Risacher putting Atlanta up 99-98 entering the fourth quarter.
Neither team led by more than five for the entirety of the second half. Atlanta led 125-122 following David Roddy’s jumper with 2:38 to play, but rookie guard Tristen Newton answered on the other end with a three-point play to tie the game with 2:19 remaining.
Free throws by Kendall Brown and Jackson on the next two possessions gave Indiana a three-point lead. The Pacers appeared on their way to a victory up 130-127 in the closing seconds, but Atlanta ultimately prevailed in a stunning final sequence.
The Pacers fouled Roddy with 6.9 seconds remaining. The third-year forward hit the first free throw and missed the second. Atlanta corralled the rebound and got the ball to Seth Lundy on the right wing. The second-year guard hoisted a contested three over Jackson that fell through the net with 0.3 seconds left.
Indiana had a chance to win on the other end after advancing the ball on a timeout, but couldn’t connect on the inbound.
The Pacers were without Turner (day-to-day with a mild right knee contusion), backup big man Isaiah Jackson (right hamstring strain), and rookie wing Johnny Furphy (sprained left ankle) on Tuesday night.
Jalen Johnson led Atlanta in both scoring and rebounding, tallying 19 points and 10 boards on 8-of-12 shooting.
Risacher, the number-one pick in the 2024 NBA Draft, had a strong preseason debut, finishing with 18 points, three rebounds, and two assists in 23 minutes off the bench, going 7-for-9 from the field and 3-for-4 from 3-point range.
The Pacers will head to Cleveland on Thursday for their second preseason game. Indiana hosts two preseason games next week, welcoming Memphis to Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Monday and Charlotte on Thursday, Oct. 17.
The Blue & Gold will tip off the regular season in Detroit on Oct. 23. Their home opener will be against Philadelphia for Opening Night presented by Kroger on Sunday, Oct. 27.
Inside the Numbers
The Pacers shot 54.7 percent from the field and went 13-for-39 (33.3 percent) from 3-point range. Atlanta shot 52.8 percent and was 15-for-39 (38.5 percent) from beyond the arc.
Playing his first competitive game since undergoing shoulder surgery in March, third-year guard Bennedict Mathurin tallied eight points, two rebounds, and three assists in 20 minutes off the bench for Indiana.
Second-year forward Jarace Walker also logged 20 minutes. The eighth overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft finished with eight points, three boards, three assists, one block, and two steals.
Turnovers were an issue for both teams. Indiana scored 18 points of 20 Hawks turnovers, but surrendered 24 points off 21 giveaways.
The Pacers scored 64 points in the paint to Atlanta’s 60. The Hawks outscored the Pacers 24-17 in fastbreak points.
You Can Quote Me On That
“There were a lot of positives really with all the guys that played. I thought the second half in particular was played at a very high level of intensity.” -Carlisle
“One of the things about James Wiseman being here is the expectations aren’t crazy. He’s got an opportunity to settle in, learn the system without a lot of hype. He’s been doing his job. I thought he did his job well in this game. He was a rim presence, he rebounded, he had some good finishes, and his size around the basket’s a factor.” -Carlisle on Wiseman
“It felt good out there. Just really getting adjusted to everything, the offense and defense, just trying to find my spots. Really just trying to focus on the defensive end.” -Wiseman on his Pacers debut
“Just continuing to stay downhill, stay in attack mode, and just take open shots.” -Walker on his focus offensively in the preseason
“It’s big time. The starters, knowing they’re not playing but still keeping that high level of energy, supporting us, talking to us, telling us where to be, it’s big time.” -Walker on the starters staying engaged on the bench throughout the second half
Stat of the Night
The Pacers went 9-for-13 from the field while limiting Atlanta to 2-of-9 shooting over the first six minutes of Tuesday’s contest, racing out to a 22-5 lead.
Noteworthy
Onyeka Oknogwu (toe), Bogdan Bogdanovic (not injury related), and Cody Zeller (not injury related) did not play for Atlanta.
The Pacers and Hawks are slated to meet three times in the regular season. Their first meeting won’t come until Feb. 1 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Indiana will then visit Atlanta for a two-game set on March 6 and 8.
The Hawks held a moment of silence before the game for Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, who died of brain cancer last week at the age of 58. Mutombo spent five of his 18 NBA seasons with the Hawks, playing in Atlanta from 1996-2001.
Up Next
The Pacers travel to Cleveland to take on the Cavaliers in a preseason contest on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7:00 PM ET.
RICK CARLISLE POST GAME: https://www.nba.com/pacers/news/rewind-pacers-hawks-241008
GAME PREVIEW: PACERS AT CAVALIERS (PRESEASON)
Game Preview
Up next on the Pacers’ preseason slate is a Central Division clash in Cleveland.
Indiana will play its second tune-up game of 2024-2025 when the Pacers take on the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
Both teams hope to bounce back from close Tuesday night losses, as the Pacers dropped their first rehearsal game 131-130 to the Atlanta Hawks and the Cavs fell to the Chicago Bulls, 116-112.
The Pacers and Cavs battled for positioning in the Eastern Conference until the very end of last season, with one win separating the teams in the final standings. The teams went 2-2 against each other during the regular season, but a mid-April win over Indiana helped the Cavs clinch the fourth seed in the East while the Pacers finished sixth.
On Tuesday in Atlanta, it was a game of big runs between two high-scoring teams, with the Hawks’ Seth Lundy hitting a 3-pointer with less than a second left to steal the win. Indiana shot 54.7 percent in the game and Atlanta made 52.8 percent of its shots.
Against the Hawks, Indiana trotted out the same starting lineup from last year’s Eastern Conference Finals run minus veteran center Myles Turner, who sat out with a mild right knee contusion. Pacers rookie Johnny Furphy (left ankle sprain) and center Isaiah Jackson (right hamstring sprain) also missed Indiana’s preseason opener with minor injuries.
In Turner’s place, Indiana’s newest big man, 7-foot center James Wiseman, was inserted into the first five. Wiseman was a perfect 4-for-4 shooting for eight points and pulled down four rebounds in his Pacers debut.
Indiana’s starters played 16 minutes total against the Hawks, led by 15 points from forward Pascal Siakam, 10 points by starting guard Andrew Nembhard, and eight points from All-NBA point guard Tyrese Haliburton. Seventeen players took the floor for the Pacers in the game, with Quenton Jackson leading the bench unit with 13 points, Cole Swider adding 12, Obi Toppin chipping in 11 and T.J. McConnell logging 11.
Much like Indiana, Cleveland made no major acquisitions in the offseason, but extended their star players.
Coming off a season where they finished fourth in the East, the Cavs signed guard Donovan Mitchell and defensive stalwart Evan Mobley to extensions this summer. Speedy point guard Darius Garland and sharpshooter Max Strus join Mitchell in the backcourt, while Jarrett Allen works with Mobley to provide one of the toughest interior defenses in the league.
Mobley poured in 19 points on 9-for-14 shooting to lead the Cavs against the Bulls, while Garland scored 13, and Mitchell added 12, with each player logging 19 minutes each. Former Pacers Caris LeVert added 11 points off the bench, and 17 total players saw the floor for the Cavs.
After taking on Cleveland, the Pacers will host the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday before concluding their preseason schedule against the Charlotte Hornets on Oct. 17. Indiana’s 2024-2025 regular season will tip-off on Oct. 23 at the Detroit Pistons.
Projected Starters
Pacers: G – Tyrese Haliburton, G – Andrew Nembhard, F – Aaron Nesmith, F – Pascal Siakam, C – James Wiseman
Cavaliers: G – Darius Garland, G – Donovan Mitchell, F – Max Strus, F – Evan Mobley, C – Jarrett Allen
Injury Report
Pacers: TBA
Hawks: TBA
Last Meeting
With an Eastern Conference Playoffs spot up for grabs, the Cleveland Cavaliers held home court.
Anchored by a game-high 33 points by Donovan Mitchell and 29 points from center Jarrett Allen, the Cavs (48-33) topped the Pacers (46-35), 129-120, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. The win locked up a top-four seed in the East for the Cavs, while the Pacers’ fate was still to be determined.
The Blue & Gold fell behind by nine points by the end of the first quarter, but kept it close for the rest of the game. After narrowing the score to 120-118 with 2:04 left in regulation, a Darius Garland 3-pointer and Isaac Okoro three-point play sealed the win for the Cavs.
Eight Pacers players finished in double-digit scoring, led by 19 points each from Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam. Haliburton also dished out 12 assists, marking his 43rd double-double of the season.
Cleveland shot 52.6 percent in the game (40.6 percent from 3-point range) and Indiana finished 51.7 percent from the field (28.1 percent from three). The Cavs also won the rebounding margin 41-39 and outscored the Pacers 64-56 in the paint.
Indiana went on to beat Atlanta 157-115 on April 14, earning the sixth seed in the East.
Noteworthy
Cleveland earned the four seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs in 2024 while Indiana was sixth. The Pacers went on to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, eliminated by the eventual-NBA champion Boston Celtics, while the Orlando Magic ended the Cavs’ season in seven games in the first round.
When Indiana traded Caris LeVert to Cleveland in 2022, part of the package included a 2022 second round pick and 2023 first round pick. Those draft picks turned into current Pacers players Andrew Nembhard and Ben Sheppard.
Cavaliers guard Craig Porter Jr. is a Terre Haute native. After playing two seasons at Vincennes University, helping the Trailblazers to an NJCAA National Championship in 2019, he finished his college career at Wichita State. Porter signed a two-way contract with the Cavs in 2023 before inking a standard contract last February with Cleveland.
Broadcast Information (TV and Radio Listings >>)
TV: None
Radio: 93.5/107.5 The Fan – Mark Boyle (play-by-play), Eddie Gill (analyst), Pat Boylan (sideline reporter/host)
Tickets
The Pacers host the Memphis Grizzlies at Gainbridge Fieldhouse for a preseason game on Monday, Oct. 14 at 7:00 PM ET.
INDIANA MEN’S SOCCER
INDIANA OVERCOMES CATS WITH SECOND HALF COMEBACK
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — In ordinary early-season fashion, Indiana couldn’t catch a break. The Hoosiers went into the locker room after 45 minutes with a 14-3 shots advantage but a 2-0 deficit to Kentucky.
But in ordinary October fashion, the Hoosiers didn’t need a break. Indiana (4-3-5, 2-1-2 B1G) seized a 3-2 comeback victory against Kentucky (2-2-4 Sun Belt) Tuesday (Oct. 8) night on Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium thanks to senior Tommy Mihalic’s second half brace and freshman Michael Nesci’s 85th-minute winner.
The Hoosiers crushed the Cats with a 22-4 shot advantage, the two concessions coming against the run of play. IU trusted its performance, allowed one shot in the final 45 minutes, kept putting together chances and got the goals it needed.
KEY MOMENTS
• 23′ – Kentucky senior forward Logan Dorsey, brother of Indiana alum Griffin Dorsey (2017-18), opened the scoring with a goal from outside the box on a counterattack.
• 36′ – The Wildcats doubled their lead 13 minutes later from a corner kick, as the ball leaked to freshman midfielder Bertil Alban at the edge of the box. Alban’s shot deflected off freshman defender Mateo Franzotti into goal.
• 52′ – Sophomore forward Collins Oduro stole possession at the edge of IU’s attacking third, junior midfielder captured the loose ball and slipped a through ball to Mihalic, whose left-footed finish perfectly ran past the keeper’s outstretched leg, found the bar and angled into goal.
• 57′ – Senior defender Jansen Miller found senior forward down the right wing. Sarver flashed a pass across the six-yard box, where Mihalic was waiting to punch it in.
• 85′ – Oduro held up play at the edge of the box as Nesci overlapped. Nesci took the pass and finished with his left foot as his shot deflected off a Kentucky defender and past the keeper.
NOTABLES
• Indiana is undefeated in its last four, scoring 10 goals (2.5 goals per game). Mihalic has scored four of those goals, Oduro has 5 G/A and Sarver has 4 G/A in that stretch.
• Tuesday’s comeback marks IU’s best since its 2019 season opener against Pittsburgh (Aug. 30, 2019), also a 3-2 victory with goals from Josh Penn, Ian Black and Herbert Endeley.
• In its last four seasons, Indiana is 19-4-6 (.759) in the month of October.
• IU earned its first win over Kentucky since 2019 and improved to 27-3-5 against the Wildcats all-time.
• With Mihalic’s two-goal performance, an Indiana player has bagged a brace in three consecutive matches (Oduro, Elliot). The Hoosiers have not done this since at least 2015.
• Mihalic leads Indiana with career-highs in goals (8) and points (17). Among Big Ten players, only Wisconsin freshman Dean Boltz (9) has more goals than Mihalic this season. In conference matches alone, Mihalic is the league’s leading scorer (5).
• Mihalic’s second of the night was also No. 22 of his career, making him IU’s active career leader in goals – passing Sarver’s 21. With 48 career points, Mihalic is a goal (or two assists, etc.) away from joining Sarver as Indiana’s active 50-point scorers.
UP NEXT
Indiana three-match homestand wraps with a rematch of the 2023 Big Ten Tournament final as the Hoosiers host Penn State Friday (Oct. 11) night. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
INDIANA WRESTLING
INDIANA WRESTLING ANNOUNCES 2024-25 SCHEDULE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. –––– The Indiana Wrestling program has announced the team’s schedule for the 2024-25 season.
The Hoosiers will compete in 13 dual matches and seven invitationals or tournament events. For Indiana’s duals, there will be eight Big Ten matches and five in the non-conference.
The season will start with a trip out west for two duals in California as the Hoosiers open on Friday, Nov. 1 at Cal Baptist and then on Sunday will face Cal Poly.
The following two weekends will include trips to Michigan as the team will compete in the Michigan State Open (Nov. 9) and in a dual at Central Michigan (Nov. 15).
The rest of the pre-Big Ten slate includes a dual at Columbia (Nov. 21), the Navy Classic (Nov. 23), the Sheridan Invitational (Dec. 20) and the Ken Kraft Midlands Championships (Dec. 29-30).
Indiana will open the Big Ten season with a home dual versus Rutgers (Jan. 10) before three road duals at Purdue (Jan. 17), Michigan State (Jan. 24) and Michigan (Jan. 26).
The latter half of Indiana’s Big Ten duals include three-straight home matches against Northwestern (Feb. 1), Illinois (Feb. 7) and Ohio State (Feb. 9) and then closes at Nebraska (Feb. 16).
The last regular season competition for Indiana is a dual at Chattanooga (Feb. 21).
The Big Ten Championships will take place from March 8-9 in Evanston, Ill. and the 2025 NCAA Championships will be held from March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa.
INDIANA WOMEN’S SOCCER
INDIANA SHOOTS 4-UNDER AT ILLINI WOMEN’S INVITATIONAL
MEDINAH, Ill. – The Indiana Hoosiers women’s golf team finished ninth among a highly-competitive field at the Illini Women’s Invitational held at the Medinah Country Club from Oct. 7-8. The Hoosiers shot an 860 (293-276-291; -4), tied for the fourth lowest 54-hole score in program history.
The second-round 276 (-12) marked the team record for both single-round score and single round to-par score.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Illini Women’s Invitational • Medinah, Ill.
Medinah Country Club
Par 72 • 6166 yards
Live Results: Scoreboard
Team Standings: 9th/15 – 860 (293-276-291; -4)
Top Indiana Player: Caroline Smith – 212 (75-68-69; -4)
CHIP-INS
• Redshirt senior Caroline Smith fired a 212 (75-68-69; -4), her lowest score since shooting a 211 (73-71-67; -5) at the 2024 Big Ten Championships, to finish tied for 17th overall. She converted a team-high 14 birdie tries, tied for the eighth most in the field.
• Junior Madison Dabagia also signed for an under-par scorecard of 215 (73-67-75; -1). She played 10 birdies, including five in a bogey-free second round.
• Junior Faith Johnson shot a 217 (73-71-73; +1) with seven total birdies.
• Redshirt junior Maddie May played a 220 (7376-70-74; +4) with eight birdies. Her score marked the second lowest of her career (214 (-2) at the Chevron Collegiate in the spring of 2024).
• Freshman Cara Heisterkamp compiled a three-round scorecard of 222 (72-73-77; +6) in her collegiate debut. She played 12 birdies, good for second most on the team.
HOOSIERS IN THE STANDINGS
t-17. Caroline Smith – 212 (75-68-69; -4)
t-34. Madison Dabagia – 215 (73-67-75; -1)
t-42. Faith Johnson – 217 (73-71-73; +1)
t-52. Maddie May – 220 (7376-70-74; +4)
t-64. Cara Heisterkamp – 222 (72-73-77; +6)
UP NEXT
Indiana will close the fall slate at the Ally Invitational in Starkville, Miss. The three-day event will be played at the Old Waverly Golf Club beginning on Oct. 21.
NOTRE DAME MEN’S GOLF
MEN’S GOLF VICTORIOUS AT FIGHTING IRISH CLASSIC
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – The University of Notre Dame men’s golf team wrapped up the annual Fighting Irish Classic with their first tournament win at home since 2019. The Irish finished strong in Round 3 with a tournament low team score of 273 (-7) to clinch the victory. With a three-round score of 835 (-5), the Irish were the only team, in a field of 15, to finish under par at the 2024 edition of the Fighting Irish Classic.
Rocco Salvitti led the Irish field individually, finishing third overall with an overall score of 207(-3). The sophomore hit par in the opening round before finishing off day one of competition at 69 (-1) in Round 2. The final day saw him climb two spots in the individual ranks to finish with a 68 (-2) in Round 3 and 207 (-3) overall.
Junior Nate Stevens took fifth overall after a +2 finish through the first two rounds Sunday. Hitting a 72 (+2) in Round 1, Stevens came back in Round 2 to record a score of 70 (E) heading into the last round. On Monday, Stevens recorded the lowest score of any Irish golfer at the tournament, shooting a 66 (-4) on the final 18, including six birdies, to close out the tournament with a score of 208 (-2).
Jacob Modleski also finished among the top-15 as his 210 (E) was good for 11th overall. The sophomore finished day one even after a 71 (+1) finish in Round 1 and 69 (-1) in Round 2. Modleski shot five birdies on the front-9 Monday to set himself up for the 210 (E) finish.
A 69 (-1) finish in Round 3 for Chris Bagnall earned him 43rd overall with a final score of 219 (+9) while Mike Qiu’s score of 67 (-3) in Round 2 earned him a 64th-place finish and 225 (+15) overall score.
The Irish will have a short break before closing out the fall slate later this month at the Williams Cup in Wilmington, North Carolina, Oct. 20-22.
NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL
AFTER BYE WEEK, PREPARATION CRUCIAL FOR NO. 11 NOTRE DAME VS. STANFORD
A bye week allowed Notre Dame extra time to refresh and refocus on its game against Stanford on Saturday afternoon in South Bend, Ind.
However, the No. 11 Fighting Irish (4-1) know that being rested is not as important as being prepared for their non-conference game against the Cardinal (2-3).
“There is no magic formula,” Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said. “I think every bye week is different, right? Where it occurs in your season, what injuries you have going on, your upcoming opponent. There’s a lot of different things that you have to focus on during that specific bye week.”
This time, Freeman is focused on keeping his players sharp against an opponent that knocked off the Fighting Irish in its most recent visit to Notre Dame Stadium. Stanford held on for a 16-14 win on the road against Notre Dame in 2022, and last season the Fighting Irish won 56-23 in Stanford, Calif.
Both teams feature plenty of new players from the last time the teams met in South Bend. Among them is Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard, who has passed for 750 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions and has rushed for 374 yards and seven touchdowns in his first five games with the program.
Freeman studied Leonard during the bye week, saying he thought the quarterback “did a really good job of decision-making.”
“Two weeks ago, I said we have to continue to focus on our move-to-pocket throws, which I thought he did a better job at,” Freeman said. “I have a lot of confidence in Riley. Nobody plays perfect, but I thought he did a really good job in terms of his preparation, in terms of his execution, and we’re going to continue to build on that.”
Notre Dame will seek its fourth win in a row after knocking off Purdue, Miami (Ohio) and then-No. 15 Louisville in its past three contests.
Meanwhile, Stanford is coming off back-to-back losses against then-No. 17 Clemson and Virginia Tech. The Cardinal have two wins this season after winning three games during all of 2023.
“It’s a growth process,” Stanford coach Troy Taylor said. “… We’re improving, and we’re much closer than we were last year. You talk about mental toughness, that’s what mental toughness is — being able to be the same person each day. As a leader, I’ve got to be consistent in everything I do and my mentality and my emotions and my preparation.
“Our players are so resilient. I think (each loss) hurts pretty badly for everybody for about a 24-hour period of time, and then once you get your eyes on the next opponent and start preparing, it starts to wane a little bit, and then, hopefully, you get a victory in the next week.”
Quarterback Ashton Daniels leads the Stanford offense with 633 passing yards and five touchdowns, with six interceptions, for the season. He also has a team-high 250 rushing yards.
Taylor said Daniels and the rest of the offense will face a stiff challenge against Notre Dame’s defense.
“They’re good in all areas,” Taylor said. “… They play a lot of man coverage. They’ve got a lot of confidence.”
The Cardinal defense will try to stop Leonard as a dual-threat quarterback, and they also must focus on the Fighting Irish’s one-two punch at running back: Jeremiyah Love has 373 rushing yards and five touchdowns, and Jadarian Price has 211 yards and two scores.
NOTRE DAME MEN’S SOCCER
#13 IRISH SUFFER SETBACK AGAINST MICHIGAN, 1-0
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The No. 13 Notre Dame men’s soccer suffered a 1-0 defeat against Michigan on Tuesday evening at Alumni Stadium.
The Wolverine goal came off a deflection in the 48th minute.
The Fighting Irish outshot Michigan by a total of 16-10 over the 90 minutes of play, including an advantage of 8-3 for shots on goal.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Irish controlled the majority of the first half against the Wolverines, creating a number of chances but were unable to find the breakthrough over the opening 45 minutes of play, as the match was scoreless at the break.
Notre Dame’s best opportunity came in the 37th minute, as a Michigan failed clearance was intercepted by KK Baffour in the area. The junior’s shot was right at the Wolverine keeper.
The Irish held a 7-4 advantage in shots at the halftime intermission.
Less than three minutes into the second half, the visitors struck for the opening goal. A shot from Michigan’s Bryce Blevins took a major deflection off a Notre Dame defender and looped into the goal to make it 1-0 in the 48th minute.
The Irish nearly tied it up immediately, as Jack Flanagan was played through on goal but his shot was saved by the Michigan keeper to keep the Wolverine lead intact.
Notre Dame then started coming in waves, attacking the Michigan goal for the majority of the second half. In the 60th minute Will Schroeder put his foot through a half volley that the Michigan keeper made an acrobatic save on to push over the bar.
Five minutes later the Wolverine goalie was called into action again, making a sprawling stop on a header attempt from Roou.
With the clock ticking away, the Irish made one more chance, as Jack Flanagan cut in to his favored left foot and unleashed a shot from the top of the box but it was kept out by a diving save, allowing Michigan to hold on to the victory.
McFARLAND FAMILY MEN’S HEAD SOCCER COACH CHAD RILEY’S TAKE
On the match…
“We are obviously disappointed with the result. The performance was very good for the most part. We know Michigan is a good team so they are going to test us but I thought over the last few years it was one of our best performances against Michigan and we didn’t get the result.
“The deflected goal is always tough to swallow. We have had a couple of those in the last couple of games but we have to look at the performance and I don’t think we can hang our heads after that performance. Their keeper made eight saves so we were getting quality chances and now we just need to keep improving and keep working and be better tomorrow.”
UP NEXT
The Irish are back in action at Alumni Stadium at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 11, as they take on No. 3 UNC in a pivotal ACC clash. Admission to the contest is free and the game will be streamed on ACCNX.
BUTLER SWIMMING
BUTLER SWIMMING IN ACTION THIS WEEKEND AT PURDUE
The Butler swim team will compete in the Annual Dan Ross Indiana Intercollegiate Meet this Saturday at Noon. The Bulldogs will travel to the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center in West Lafayette. They are one of eight teams competing on Oct. 12.
All events will be timed finals and NCAA Championship scoring to 16 places will be used. Each athlete is allowed three swims with a maximum of two individual events.
Field of Teams (10 Schools, 8 Co-Ed)
Butler (Women)
Franklin
Indiana Wesleyan (Divers Only)
IU Indy
UIndy
Purdue
Rose-Hulman
Southern Indiana
Valparaiso
Wabash (Men)
Order of Events
200 Medley Relay
200 Free
50 Free
100 IM
100 Fly
100 Free
100 Back
500 Free *Limited to 3 entries per team*
100 Breast
200 Free Relay
BUTLER MEN’S SOCCER
BUTLER AND IU INDY BATTLE TO DRAW
INDIANAPOLIS – The Butler men’s soccer team controlled the offensive attack in a non-conference contest with IU Indy at Michael A. Carroll Stadium, outshooting the Jaguars 22-8, including 10-3 on goal. The match, however, ended in a 0-0 draw, as the Bulldogs offense was unable to finish. Butler, now 3-6-3 overall, produced 12 corner kicks compared to four for IU Indy (4-4-3).
Bulldog Bits
· Caleb Norris made three saves in the match to earn his first shutout of the season. It was the third solo shutout of his career.
· Josemir Gomez and Palmer Ault led Butler’s offense. Each had four shots with two on frame.
Up Next
Butler travels to Seton Hall for a BIG EAST contest on Saturday, Oct. 12.
IU-INDY MEN’S SOCCER
JAGUARS’ DEFENSE STANDS TALL IN SCORELESS DRAW AGAINST BULLDOGS
INDIANAPOLIS – For the first time since 2013, the IU Indianapolis men’s soccer team earned a result against crosstown rival Butler, with the contest ending in a scoreless draw Tuesday (Oct. 8) night. Despite being outshot 22-8, the Jaguars and Declan Finnegan kept the Bulldogs off the scoresheet, as the redshirt freshman made a career high 10 saves on the way to his first career clean sheet.
“I’m buzzin’,” exclaimed Finnegan following the match. “I’m really proud of our guys and how hard they played tonight against a really tough Butler team. The guys in front of me did a really good job of defending and staying tough.”
The first half was controlled by the visitors, with Butler (3-6-3, 0-3 Big East) having 61 percent of the possession and most of it coming in the attacking half. The Bulldogs also fired 14 shots in the opening stanza, with six coming on goal—all turned away by Finnegan, who made some incredible stops. Former Jaguar, Josemir Gomez, had the best chance for the visitors, firing a shot off the crossbar from inside the box.
IU Indy (4-4-3, 1-2-1 HL), who only managed one shot in the opening 45 minutes, got off to a much better start in the second half.
“The boys weren’t happy (at the break) and the second half they played like it,” stated head coach Sid van Druenen. “We kept battling and dealt with their threats really well.”
The Jaguars were still outshot in the second stanza (8-7) but were able to push numbers forward and get the ball into dangerous positions. Freshman Kyle Denn was especially threatening in his second career appearance, playing a career high 55 minutes while leading the side with five shots. Bulldog goalkeeper, Caleb Norris, made all three of his saves in the second half—all coming from Denn—for his first shutout of the year.
Despite being under pressure for much of the contest, the Jaguars’ defense stood tall, led by center back pairing Brady Horn and Jago Thompson-Roberts who both played the full 90 minutes. Horn made some crucial tackles and blocks inside the box, while Thompson-Roberts was outstanding in the air on the many corner and free kicks awarded to the Bulldogs.
“We like to press high, but we are also comfortable in a low block,” added van Druenen. “That can make it look like we are under pressure or weathering the storm, but it’s fine because we are still under control. Since we’ve been doing that, we’re not conceding a whole lot of goals, so I’m happy about that.”
IU Indy now returns to Horizon League play, traveling to Cleveland State for a Saturday (Oct. 12) night clash.
IU-INDY WOMEN’S GOLF
ROLSTON COLLECTS THIRD-PLACE FINISH AT WMU BRONCO FALL CLASSIC
PORTAGE, Mich. – Junior Yanah Rolston finished off a third-place finish at this week’s WMU Bronco Fall Classic at The Moors Golf Club, carding a final round, 3-over 75 on Tuesday (Oct. 8). In doing so, Rolston finished off the event at 228 (79-74-75), placing third among the 62-player field. Collectively, the Jaguars placed fifth overall at 960 (319-316-325).
Rolston, who earned her fourth career top-10 finish, opened and closed her round with a birdie as part of her 10 birdies for the week. She was at 2-under midway through her round after making birdies on holes 11 and 13 before making double bogey on 14. The final birdie of her tournament came on the par-4, No. 4 after having made double bogey on that hole in each of the first two rounds.
Freshman Cassidy Ayres carded a final round 81 to finish the tournament at 236 (79-76-81) to tie for 17th and sophomore Sydni Zebrauskas climbed three spots to a 33rd-place finish at 247 (79-86-82).
“It was a beautiful, but very difficult course that really tested our patience and games,” Zebrauskas said. “We didn’t play our best, but definitely took a lot away from these three rounds. We now know what we need to work on so we can show up with our best games at our next tournament.”
The Jaguars played 4-count-4 on Tuesday as Nina Wojtczak missed the event’s final round. Junior Reagan Sohn posted a round of 87 and ended the tournament at 251 (82-82-87).
Senior Nerea Lancho ended her tournament at 248 (83-81-84) and freshman Alexandra Chiew shot 281 (96-91-94) for the week.
Rolston led the field in par-3 scoring, playing them to 3-under for the week. Her 10 birdies finished second among the field while Ayres had a team-high 32 pars for the week. As a team, the Jaguars finished tied for second with 24 birdies as a team.
CSU Northridge own the team title at 924, fending off second-place Ohio by five shots. CSUN’s Gracie Piar collected medalist honors at 5-over 221, winning by six shots.
The Jaguars will return to action on Oct. 21 when they compete at the Terrier Intercollegiate at Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg, S.C.
BALL STATE VOLLEYBALL
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL PULLS OFF THE 3-1 ROAD WIN AT MIAMI IN MIDWEEK #MACTION
OXFORD, Ohio – The Ball State women’s volleyball team dropped its first set to rival Miami but regrouped to take the next three frames earning the Cardinals the 3-1 victory tonight over the RedHawks.
Tonight’s mid-week Mid-American Conference victory improved Ball State’s overall record to 9-7 and 2-3 in league action while the RedHawks dropped to 6-10 on the year and 0-5 in conference play.
“I’m proud of our team for fighting tonight,” Ball State head women’s volleyball coach Kelli Miller said. “We started out slow but were able to stay tough and bounce back strong. Katie Egenolf came in and was a huge spark for us in all facets as well which was huge for our turn around. We have more work to do but it’s always great to get a win.”
Ball State’s defense played a big role in pulling off the 3-1 (25-21, 25-12, 25-15) victory at Millett Hall.
As a team the Cardinals registered 56 digs with Megan Wielonski leading the way with 17. Sophie Ledbetter would also reach double figure digs finishing the night with 10.
Along with the solid dig performance BSU also shined at the net in the block assist category with the Cardinals leading the RedHawks, 26-12. Both Aayinde Smith and Gwen Crull each had six block assists apiece for the Cardinals.
It wasn’t a typical night offensively for BSU with only one Cardinal reaching double digit kills which was Aniya Kennedy as she wrapped up the night with 12.
The slow start didn’t seem to faze the Cardinals after falling 25-21 to the RedHawks in the opening set. Ball State was able to quickly turn the page in the second stanza to take the set by the same score after a string of Miami hitting errors.
In set three, Ball State jumped out to a 10-4 advantage and never looked back. The Cardinals continued their hot streak while having its best offensive showing of the night as the Cardinals hit .414 as a team to take the frame, 25-12.
BSU came out of the gates strong in the final set by taking a quick 7-3 advantage which came off a kill from Katie Egenolf. Shortly thereafter, back-to-back kills from Kennedy put the Cardinals in position for match point and BSU would take the final set, 25-15.
The Ball State volleyball team continues Mid-American Conference action when it hosts Akron on Friday, October 11 for Raising Cane’s Cancer Awareness Night. First serve is at 6 pm ET in Worthen Arena.
BALL STATE WOMEN’S GOLF
GREGSTON AND DRISCOLL SPARK BALL STATE TO THIRD-BEST ROUND OF THE DAY
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — The Cardinals saved their best for last on Tuesday, firing an 8-over par team score in the final round of the Loyola Parkinson Family Invitational, conducted at the par-72 Merit Club. JJ Gregston carried over her hot play from Monday’s second round, and Jasmine Driscoll contributed her best round of the 54-hole tournament – both firing a 1-over par 73 in the event’s final 18 holes.
Gregston and Driscoll arrived at the same score, but with different efficiency. Gregston (80-74-73–227) shot Ball State’s lowest round on Monday, then proceeded to shoot par on all nine holes of Merit Club’s front nine on Tuesday. She used four birdies on the back nine to counter a pair of par-5 double-bogeys on #12 and #18. Driscoll (80-76-73–229), meanwhile, produced her lowest score of the tournament while staying steady on nearly every hole. Starting on the sixth hole in a shotgun start, Driscoll was within one stroke of par on all 18 holes, firing birdies on #16 and #18 after a pair of early bogeys. Her card didn’t go over par again until she posted six shots on the par-5 third hole.
Finishing at +1 for the day, Gregston and Driscoll each finished among the tournament’s top 15 in the final round. Madelin Boyd (76-78-75–229) and Sarah Gallagher (81-78-75–234) both posted their lowest score of the tournament, also, each carding a +3 on Tuesday. Gregston finiished in 20th place while Boyd and Driscoll tied in 26th.
“I was pleased with the way we responded today after a frustrating day yesterday,” said Ball State coach Cam Andry, whose Cardinals fired an 8-over 296 on Tuesday that was bettered only by top team finishers Illinois State (292) and Butler (295). “We made some solid adjustments and competed with a much better mentality. We still gave away too many shots on the par 5s so there are plenty of things we can improve upon before we head to Arkansas.”
Freshman Sophie Korthuijs (75-79-77–231), who led the Cardinals in the opening round with a 3-over par 75, was the only Ball State player that didn’t save her best round for the final round. She was +5 on Tuesday, finishing in 32nd place just three strokes ahead of Gallagher in 44th.
“As always, I love the way this team competes so it’s never a question of desire or effort,” added Andry. “I know they will each analyze this event and we’ll get back to work.”
The Cardinals are idle next week, prior to visiting Hot Spring, Arkansas, Oct. 20-22.
Ball State Individual Results, through 54 holes (Final)
JJ Gregston (227): 42-38—80 | 37-37—74 | 36-37—73 (+11, 20th)
Madelin Boyd (229): 40-36—76 | 40-38—78 | 37-38—75 (+13, 26th)
Jasmine Driscoll (229): 38-42—80 | 38-38—76 | 37-36—73 (+13, 26th)
Sophie Korthuijs (231): 36-39—75 | 41-38—79 | 41-36—77 (+15, 32nd)
Sarah Gallagher (234): 38-43—81 | 39-39—78 | 38-37—75 (+18, 44th)
(Ind) Jenna Estravillo (241): 41-40—81 | 39-36—75 | 37-48—85 (+25, 63rd)
INDIANA STATE FOOTBALL
SYCAMORES WELCOME MURRAY STATE FOR 2024 MVFC HOME OPENER
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State is back at home for their 2024 Missouri Valley Football Conference home opener as the Sycamores welcome Murray State to Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff between the Sycamores and the Racers is set for 1 p.m. ET and will carried live on ESPN+ and 105.5 The Legend.
Quick Notes
Murray State at a Glance
Murray State enters the weekend’s matchup with a 1-4 overall record, 0-2 in MVFC play. The Racers have fallen in their two conference games to date with defeats to North Dakota (72-35) and South Dakota (59-0). The Racers’ lone win of the 2024 season to date has come courtesy of a 59-8 win at home against Mississippi Valley State.
Murray State was selected 11th overall in the MVFC’s preseason poll. The Penguins received 67 total points after a 2-9 overall record, 1-7 in MVFC play last season. Ashton Flynn (OL) and Kanyon Walker (DB) were both named to the MVFC Preseason All-Conference Honorable Mention team.
Murray State boasts one of the top punt coverage units in the country with the Racers sitting 11th in the NCAA FCS at 41.54 yards per kick. Murray State is one of the top red zone offenses in the country sitting third in the MVFC and 22nd in FCS at a 90.0% conversion rate. The Racers do not hurt themselves on the field. Murray State is 22nd overall in the FCS allowing just 26 penalties on the season.
On This Date
Indiana State has posted a 6-3 overall record on October 12 according to current records on hand. The Sycamores have hosted and won five times at Memorial Stadium including a 20-10 victory over Western Illinois back in 2019. The Sycamores have won four of their last five played on the date.
1957 – at Butler – L, 27-0
1963 – vs. Evansville – W, 29-7 (HC)
1968 – vs. St. Joseph’s – W, 48-6 (HC)
1974 – at Central Michigan – L, 49-0
1985 – at Northern Iowa – L, 24-7
1991 – vs. Eastern Illinois – W, 16-15
1996 – at Southern Illinois – W, 24-13
2002 – vs. Missouri State – W, 23-21
2013 – at South Dakota – L, 17-14
2019 – vs. Western Illinois – W, 20-10
Running Against the Racers
Indiana State has put together a strong history of running backs going off against Murray State over program history. Five different athletes have posted 170+ running yards against the Racers’ defense including Plez Lawrence setting a new career mark with 203 yards last season, the most by a back since Dominique Dafney ran for 244 yards and four touchdowns against Missouri State on November 23, 2019.
Sycamores Running Back Top Performances Against Murray State
253 yards – Derrick Franklin (1990)
217 yards – Tony West (2006)
203 yards – Plez Lawrence (2023)
196 yards – Jake Shields (2003)
170 yards – Sheraton Fox (1998)
Breaking the Century Mark
Indiana State quarterback Elijah Owens continues to set new marks every time he steps out on the field as the Jacksonville, Ill. native eclipsed the 100-yard rushing mark for the first time in his collegiate career this past Saturday against Youngstown State.
Owens posted a career-high 26 carries for 114 rushing yards and added a four-yard touchdown run in the 21-14 loss to the Penguins. The redshirt freshman highlighted his day with a 54-yard run down the left sideline in the third quarter as a part of Indiana State’s second touchdown drive of the third quarter and capped off the run with his four-yard touchdown carry.
He became the first Indiana State quarterback to eclipse 100 rushing yards in a single game since Ryan Boyle achieved the feat with 187 yards back on November 3, 2018, in the triple overtime 54-48 loss to South Dakota.
INDIANA STATE WOMEN’S SOCCER
SYCAMORES UNABLE TO OFFSET FLAMES OFFENSE ON TUESDAY EVENING
CHICAGO, Ill.- Indiana State women’s soccer (7-4-4, 2-2-2) fell to UIC (4-7-2, 3-0-2) in a Tuesday evening road matchup, as the Flames netted three goals to secure a 3-0 victory over ISU.
How it happened:
The Sycamores outshot the Flames 8-7, while UIC maintained a 10-5 edge in corner kicks during the matchup. Both teams had five shots on target, with Alexander making two saves for Indiana State and UIC goalkeeper recording five.
The first 45 minutes of play at Flames Field saw a low number of shot attempts from both teams, with the Sycamores recording four and the Flames three, while UIC held a 5-2 advantage in corner kicks.
Lina Fasquelle attacked early for Indiana State when she took the first shot of the match in the 3rd minute. Mackenzie Kent followed in the 7th minute with Indiana State’s first shot on target, which was saved by keeper Francesca Faraci.
Grace Quinn and Brooklyn Woods also challenged Faraci with shots on goal in the first half, but both attempts were turned away.
Alexander made her first save of the match in the 15th minute when Hannah Gryzik delivered the Flames’ first shot on target.
The Flames opened the scoring and took the first lead of the game in the 24th minute as Madison Ferris found the net, giving UIC a 1-0 lead.
For just the third time in the 2024 season, the Sycamores entered the second half trailing their opponent.
UIC extended their lead to 2-0 over Indiana State early in the second half, scoring in the 53rd minute when Hannah Gryzik collected a pass from Castro and slid the ball past Alexander.
The Sycamores added four more shot attempts in the final 45 minutes, with Wimberley Wright and Alex Lehnert each having their shots blocked by the Flames defense.
Brooklyn Woods and Eve Frousiakis had the best scoring opportunities for the Sycamores in the second half, but both of their attempts were picked up by Faraci.
Amina Marin scored the Flames’ third and final goal in the 65th minute, assisted by Collett, handing the Sycamores their second MVC loss of the season.
Up Next:
The Sycamores will continue its three-game road trip on Sunday, October 13, as they head to Illinois State for a 2 p.m. ET kickoff.
PURDUE FT. WAYNE WOMEN’S SOCCER
PURDUE FORT WAYNE WOMEN’S SOCCER TRAVELS TO NORTHERN KENTUCKY
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Mastodon women’s soccer team (7-5-1, 2-2-0 Horizon League) will travel to Northern Kentucky on Thursday (Oct. 10).
Game Day Information
Who: Northern Kentucky Norse (5-6-1, 2-1-1 Horizon League)
When: Thursday, October 10 | 7 PM
Where: Highland Heights, Ky.
Watch: Link (ESPN+)
Live Stats: Link
Know Your Foe
Northern Kentucky is 5-6-1 and 2-1-1 in Horizon League play. The Norse have picked up wins against Green Bay and Cleveland State, but have their lone league loss to Milwaukee. The team’s last outing resulted in a draw with Robert Morris. Senior Lilly Yordy is leading Northern kentucky in points with three assists, fourth in the Horizon League, and two goals on the season. Tristen Cross has been the Norse’s main goal keeper this season, starting in six of the eight games that she’s played.
Series History
The Norse lead the series history 6-2-1. Last year’s game ended in a scoreless draw.
The Mastodons Are The Most
The Mastodons’ seven overall wins are the most in the Horizon League. The ‘Dons lead the HL with a .577 winning percentage.
There’s No I In Team
Ten Mastodons have scored this season: Gigi Ricciardi, Scarlett Webster, Morgan Gallagher, Hailey Hoskins, Malia Velker, Maci Toporcer, Amanda Leonard, Audriana Rhyner, Chloe Mariotti and Emersyn Geik.
Home Sweet Hefner
The Mastodons have a .730 winning percentage at home since joining the Horizon League in 2020 (22-5-10). Purdue Fort Wayne is 6-1-1 this season at home.
Mastodon Starters
Four Mastodons have started every game this season: Chloe Mariotti, Allison Adams, Lizzie Haub and Bella Reitano.
Freshman Starters
Purdue Fort Wayne freshmen Maci Toporcer, Sam Christle, Maddy Kopala and Hailey Hoskins have recorded starts for the Mastodons this season.
Take Your Shot
The Mastodons are second in the league in shots this season with 170.
Last Time Out
Purdue Fort Wayne won a high-scoring 3-2 contest in a Pink Out game against Oakland.
Coming Up
The Mastodons will have their senior day on Sunday (Oct. 13) against Milwaukee.
PURDUE FT. WAYNE WOMEN’S GOLF
MASTODON WOMEN’S GOLF COMPLETES FLASHY FINISH, WINS RED FLASH INVITATIONAL
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – The Purdue Fort Wayne women’s golf team had 13 birdies in the last nine holes to storm back to win the Red Flash Invitational by four strokes on Tuesday (Oct. 8).
This is the third tournament victory for Purdue Fort Wayne in the 2024 calendar year, and the fourth in program history. The Mastodons won The Julie on March 26 and the Indiana State Invitational on April 8.
The Mastodons shot 317-306-623, topping Stonehill and Bucknell which tied for second with scores of 627.
All four of the Mastodons that had their score taken made birdies down the stretch. Hunar Mittal (5), Lillian Gottman (3), Lara Dommach (3) and Olivia Jang (2) each contributed to the furious comeback.
Jang finished in third place at the Red Flash Invitational. She had three pars on the back nine and five more on the front, adding birdies on holes two and six. She finished the tournament with a score of 75-78-153. This is Jang’s third top-five finish and fourth top-10 in her career.
Mittal’s finish was special. She recorded five birdies in her last eight holes, including four in the last five. The sophomore had three pars on the back and three on the front and birdied holes two, five, six, eight and nine. Mittal turned in a scorecard of 80-74-154 to finish in fifth. It is the second top-five finish and seventh top-10 of her career.
Gottman was the biggest Mastodon mover on Tuesday, moving up 11 spots with her 82-74-156. She finished in 10th, her first top-10 as a Division I student-athlete. Gottman rattled off seven pars on the back nine before making the turn and making four more pars and three birdies. Her birdies came in sequence on five, six and seven.
Lara Dommach finished in 13th place with her 80-80-160. After an opening nine with six bogeys and three pars, she rattled off three birdies in a five-hole stretch on the front. She birdied holes two, three and six. Her 13th place finish is the best of her freshman season.
Natalie Papa shot 85-81-166 and finished 29th. She had 13 pars in round two.
The Mastodons will visit Evansville on October 21-22 for the Braun Intercollegiate next to wrap up the fall season.
EVANSVILLE MEN’S GOLF
MEN’S GOLF COMPLETES CULLAN BROWN COLLEGIATE
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tuesday’s final round of the Cullan Brown Collegiate saw the University of Evansville men’s golf team take 15th place at Lexington Country Club.
Pacing the team in the final standings was the duo of Andres Rodriguez and Daniil Romashkin. Both completed the three rounds of play with a 229, tying for 37th. Rodriguez carded a 78 in the final 18 holes while Romashkin finished with an 81.
Evansville’s low score on Tuesday came from Omar Khalid. Posting a 76, the freshman wrapped up the tournament with a 239 on his way to a tie for 71st. He was followed by Luke Price. His low round of the weekend came on Tuesday as he registered an 82. He completed the event with a 253.
The Purple Aces finished in 15th place with a score of 950. Kennesaw State took the team championship, besting North Alabama by 14 strokes. Claes Borregaard of KSU and Andrew Ferworn from UNA tied for the individual victory. Both came in with scores of 218.
In its final fall event, the Aces travel to The Buddy on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Murray State is the host for the tournament.
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SOUTHERN INDIANA MEN’S SOCCER
EAGLES HOST OVC MATCHES THIS WEEK
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Men’s Soccer is back home at Strassweg Field this week for a pair of Ohio Valley Conference matches. USI is slated to host Houston Christian University Thursday at 7 p.m. and conclude the homestand Sunday by hosting the University of Incarnate Word at 11 a.m.
The USI-HCU match Thursday is USI Faculty/Staff Appreciation Night, while the USI-UIW showdown Sunday is Senior Day for the Screaming Eagles. USI will honor six seniors – midfielder/defender Garland Hall; defender Brock Martindale; midfielder Wesley Rhodes; midfielder Elmer Garcia; defender Devin Reiminger; and midfielder Fabrice Remy – before the match Sunday at 10:25 a.m.
USI fans can attend all Men’s Soccer 2024 home matches for free, courtesy of a sponsorship from ProRehab. Game coverage for 2024, including links to live stats and video streams, can be found on USIScreamingEagles.com.
USI Men’s Soccer Week 7 Notes:
USI falls to SIUE: In a quick road trip to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, the USI Screaming Eagles lost a 2-0 decision. The Eagles gave up a goal in each half to the OVC front-running Cougars.
Klott posts career-high at SIUE: Sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Klott posted a career-high with 12 saves in the loss to SIUE.
Eagles fall in homestand finale: The Eagles stumbled to Lindenwood University in their homestand finale, 2-0. USI, which was 2-3-0 during the homestand, was outshot 17-9 in the loss.
USI opened OVC with 2-1 win: The Eagles opened Ohio Valley Conference play with a 2-1 victory over Eastern Illinois University. Sophomore forward Jackson Mitchell gave USI a 1-0 lead in the opening half, while senior defender Brock Martindale scored the game-winner in the second half. Sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Klott got his second win of the season by making four saves and allowing one goal.
USI won back-to-back matches: USI won back-to-back matches for the first time since October of the 2021 season during the homestand, posting wins over Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1-0) and EIU (2-1).
Leading the offense: The Eagles are led offensively by freshman midfielder Ahiro Nakamae, who has seven points on three goals and one assist. Sophomore forward Jackson Mitchell follows with six points on two goals and two assists.
In the OVC: Freshman midfielder Ahiro Nakamae is tied for sixth in the OVC overall with three goals scored and tied for ninth in total points with seven. Senior defender Brock Martindale and sophomore forward Jackson Mitchell are tied for sixth in goals with one each in OVC games only.
HCU in 2024: The Huskies of Houston Christian University are 4-5-2 and 2-1-0 in the OVC after falling, 1-0, to Liberty University October 6. The loss snapped HCU’s three-match winning streak and five-match unbeaten streak. HCU was 3-1 in its last homestand before coming to USI this week.
USI vs. HCU: USI and HCU split their first and only meeting last year, 1-1, in Houston, Texas.
UIW in 2024: The University of Incarnate Word Cardinals are 3-5-1 and 1-2-0 in the OVC after posting a 2-1 win over Western Illinois University October 6. UIW opened OVC play with a 2-1 loss to HCU and a 2-0 loss to Liberty University.
USI vs. UIW: UIW leads the all-time series with USI, 1-0, after posting a 4-0 win in San Antonio, Texas, last fall. Sunday is UIW’s first visit to Strassweg Field in the history of the programs.
SOUTHERN INDIANA MEN’S GOLF
BANNISTER AND VERTANEN SHINE AT THE GRIER JONES INVITATIONAL
NEWTON, Kan.- University of Southern Indiana Men’s Golf finished 12th place at the Grier Jones Shocker Invitational hosted by Wichita State University at Sand Creek Station Golf Course.
Senior Jason Bannister placed third overall in the tournament, shooting a 212 (68-71-73). Despite the impressive performance, Bannister missed the invite to next year’s Korn Ferry Tour by four strokes.
Senior Sam Vertanen recorded a top-20 finish by posting a 217 (76-69-72), finishing five strokes back of Bannister and tying for 16th.
Round 1
USI finished the first day of competition in 12th place, shooting 305 (+17) as a team. Bannister led the Eagles shooting 68 for the round, a tournament-best 18 holes for the team.
Round 2
Senior Sam Vertanen had his best tournament round on day two, shooting a 69 (-3). Freshman Tye Boone improved massively in the second 18, cutting ten strokes off his first-round score, posting a 72.
Round two saw USI shoot 287 (+5), their best round of the invitational. This performance moved them up to 11th place after two rounds.
Round 3
Vertanen once again led the Eagles in round three, shooting 72, one stroke better than Bannister (73) for the final 18. USI closed out the tournament by shooting 299 and cemented their 12th-place finish.
What’s next for the Eagles:
USI will be back in action on October 17 in a dual match against the University of Evansville at Cambridge Golf Course. The two teams met last spring with USI taking the victory 6.5-4.5.
VALPO FOOTBALL
VALPO FOOTBALL GAME AT STETSON POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE MILTON
The Valparaiso University football program in conjunction with Stetson University has announced that Saturday’s Pioneer Football League game between the two programs scheduled to take place in DeLand, Fla. has been postponed due to the anticipated impact of Hurricane Milton.
Discussions about a possible makeup date are ongoing, and if the game is rescheduled, details will be announced at a later date.
The Beacons will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 19 vs. St. Thomas at 1 p.m. at Brown Field. For ticket information, visit tickets.valpoathletics.com.
VALPO VOLLEYBALL
VOLLEYBALL FALLS AT UIC TUESDAY EVENING
The Valpo volleyball team took to the court Tuesday evening in midweek action in Chicago, but despite being right in the first two sets, the Beacons dropped a 3-0 (25-23, 25-23, 25-20) decision to UIC.
How It Happened
Valpo led through the early stages of the first set, extending its edge to as many as three points. The Flames rallied to take their first lead at 11-10 and held a 15-13 lead at the media timeout.
The Beacons scored consecutive points out of the stoppage to even the set at 15-all before UIC came back with a 5-1 spurt to earn a 20-16 advantage.
Freshman Lilly Merk (Terre Haute, Ind./Terre Haute South Vigo) had a kill and a block in a three-point spurt which brought Valpo to within 20-19, but UIC responded with four of the next five points to earn set point at 24-20.
The Beacons kept holding off set points, as a kill from junior Sam Warren (Kentland, Ind./South Newton), a UIC error and a kill by freshman Kadence Brumitt (Niles, Mich./Brandywine) extended the set three times. But at 24-23, Valpo was unable to force extra points, as the Flames claimed the opener.
Valpo jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead to open the second frame, in part thanks to a pair of rejections by Warren and freshman Jessica Pickett (Carmel, Ind./Carmel). But it took UIC only until 9-8 to gain its first lead of the set.
That set up a second set which eventually featured nine ties and three lead changes. UIC held a slim 15-14 edge at the media timeout, but a 4-1 spurt for the Beacons — which included three kills by senior Elise Swistek (LaPorte, Ind./New Prairie) — put Valpo in front, 19-18.
The teams traded sideouts as the Beacons were the first to reach the 20-point mark. UIC scored three in a row to go up 22-20, but Valpo came back with kills from Warren and Pickett to tie the set at 22-22.
The Flames answered with two straight points of their own to earn set point at 24-22, and while Warren came up with a kill to make it 24-23, UIC converted on its second chance to go up 2-0 in the match.
Valpo held a narrow lead for the first half of the third set before the Flames went on a 5-1 run around the media timeout to take the lead, 16-14.
The Beacons were still down just one at 18-17, but UIC put together four points in a row to gain separation. While Valpo eventually held off two match point chances, the Flames closed things out on their third attempt.
Inside the Match
Tuesday’s result marked the first time this season Valpo has lost a three-set match. The Beacons had previously been 7-0 in matches which went the minimum three frames.
Brumitt led the Beacons in the kills department for the first time this season, finishing with 11 kills — her fourth double-digit effort of the year.
Warren joined Brumitt in double figures, racking up 10 kills — her sixth time this season with at least 10 terminations.
Junior Addy Kois (Osceola, Ind./Penn) led all players with 22 assists, while classmate Emma Hickey (Granger, Ind./Penn) tallied a match-best 18 digs.
Swistek totaled 10 digs to finish in double figures as well. In the process, the senior moved past Brittany Anderson for 16th in program history, as Swistek closed the night with 1,290 career digs.
Pickett paced the Beacons with four blocks.
Next Up
Valpo (9-8, 1-4 MVC) returns to the ARC this weekend, starting by hosting Southern Illinois on Friday at 6 p.m. The match can be seen live on ESPN+.
VALPO WOMEN’S GOLF
FAY LEADS WAY IN ROUND 3; CAMPOS PACES TEAM FOR TOURNAMENT
Valparaiso University women’s golf senior Anna Fay (Ada, Mich. / Forest Hills) posted the team’s top Round-3 score, pacing the Beacons over the final 18 holes of the WMU Bronco Classic, which concluded on Tuesday at the par-72, 6085-yard Moors Golf Club in Portage, Mich. Sophomore Bella Campos (Honolulu, Hawaii, IMG Academy) turned in the team’s top 54-hole score this week. Cool temperatures and foggy conditions early in the day gave way to bright sunshine by the middle of the round.
How It Happened
Fay rose eight spots on the player leaderboard by shooting a team-best score of 78 (+6) in the final round of the 54-hole, two-day tournament. She enjoyed by far her best round of the tournament, improving by five strokes each round and golfing 10 strokes better than her Round-1 score in Round 3.
Fay started the round on the par-3 eighth hole and drilled a birdie putt, and also birdied the par-3 13th hole. She hit even par on five straight holes from Hole 15 to Hole 1 and was one over for the day through 12 holes. The senior finished the tournament in 37th of 62 with a 249 (+33).
Valpo’s other sub-80 score in Round 3 came courtesy of Campos, who elevated 10 spots on the player leaderboard with a 79 (+7), finishing 26th overall at 244 (+28), the team’s top score in the tournament. Campos started on Hole 8 and shot even on each of her first five holes. She was at two over for the day through her first 10 holes.
Senior Madison Keil (LaGrange, Ind. / Lakeland) finished second on the team for the tournament behind Campos with a 246 (+30), tied for 30th on the player leaderboard.
As a team, Valpo shot 328 (+40) on Tuesday and 977 (+113) for the tournament. The Beacons defeated Cleveland State, Northern Kentucky and Eastern Illinois in the nine-team field, placing sixth.
CSU Northridge beat Ohio by five strokes for the team title with a 924, while Grace Piar of CSU Northridge shot a 221 (+5) to take medalist honors.
Inside the Rounds
Valpo’s best scores overall came on Par 5s at 5.55 (fifth of nine teams), while the Beacons averaged 3.48 (eighth of nine) on Par 3s for the tournament.
Campos tied for the most holes of exactly even par of any golfer in the tournament with 34.
As a team, the Beacons birdied eight holes, led by Keil and fellow senior Katie Schreiner (Fenton, Mo. / Summit) with three apiece.
Campos became the third different Valpo player to lead the team in a tournament this season, joining Keil (twice) and Fay. The Beacons have had a different team leader in each of the last three tournaments.
Up Next
The Beacons will close out the fall season at the Braun Intercollegiate hosted by Evansville which begins on Monday, Oct. 21 at Oak Meadow Country Club. A link to live scoring will be available on ValpoAthletics.com.
UINDY WOMEN’S GOLF
RAY TAKES FIRST AS GREYHOUNDS WIN FLYERS FALL INTERCOLLEGIATE
LEMONT, Ill. – The No. 25 UIndy women’s golf team won the Flyers Fall Intercollegiate by 15 strokes as the competition wrapped up on Tuesday. Hosted by Lewis University the Greyhounds beat out the 10-team poll to take the top spot at +37 (307-306).
Junior Ava Ray tabbed first place in the individual competition, finishing +3 (71-76). Ray grabbed six birdies on day one and shot her lowest round this season at -1.
INS & OUTS
The competition featured 10 teams all from the East Region and four other GLVC schools besides the hounds – Illinois-Springfield, Lewis, Lincoln (Mo.), and McKendree.
Sophomore Caroline Whallon also had a top-five finish, grabbing a share of third place. Whallon finished +7 (76-75), which included three birdies over the two days.
Junior Macey Brown finished T-11th, after shooting +13 (79-78). Rounding out the lineup was senior Ellen Caton who placed T-14th at +17 (81-80) and freshman Abby Stone who shot +19 (86-77) placing T-24th.
Freshman Lexi Stuart competed as an individual at the tournament. Stuart also got a share of 14th after finishing at 17 over par.
UP NEXT
The Greyhounds will wrap up their fall slate at the Nemacolin Intercollegiate starting Monday, Oct. 21, and lasting through Tuesday, Oct. 22. The University of Findlay is hosting the tournament at Mystic Rock Golf Club in Farmington, PA.
MARIAN MEN’S GOLF
OGDEN LANDS FIRST COLLEGIATE VICTORY IN MEMPHIS SHOOTOUT
Memphis, Tenn. – The Marian men’s golf team closed their fall season on Tuesday afternoon, competing at the annual Memphis Shootout at TPC Southwind, hosted by Sterling College. Marian finished as the runner-up in their final outing of the fall, while earning another individual tournament champion as Weston Ogden claimed his first collegiate win.
On Monday’s first and second rounds, the Knights claimed second place on the leaderboard, firing a 299 through 18 and a 291 in the second round. Marian trailed Oklahoma City University by five strokes after day one, but were unable to make up the distance over the final round, as the Stars hung on to a four-shot win. Marian fired a 302 in the final round while Oklahoma City carded a 303. Overall for the tournament, the Knights scored 892 team score, four behind Oklahoma City’s 888.
Joining the Stars and Knights in the top-five were No. 23 Lawrence Tech, No. 8 MidAmerica Nazarene, and Sterling. The finish for Marian gives them their fourth top-two win of the fall, all first or second place finishes.
Marian’s top individual in the tournament was Weston Ogden, with the junior winning his first career tournament. Ogden won the tournament by three shots, shooting a 73+66+75=214. The junior fired the second-most birdies (12) and pars (33) in the tournament, while leading the field in scoring on par-four holes with a three-under performance. Ogden came within one putt of tying his own school record for lowest round score with his 66 in the second round.
The junior was joined in the top-10 by teammates Augie Mann and Nolan Potter, who both tied for ninth place with a 225 total. Mann shot a 77, 71, and 77 for his three rounds, while Potter too fired a palindrome of scores with a 74, 77, and 74 over the 54-holes. Brandon Heffner finished four strokes behind his teammates, placing 12th with a 229 score (76+77+76). Rounding out the lineup was Luke Beetz, who shot a 233 score for the tournament, taking round scores of 76, 79, and 78.
The Knights will return to action in late February and early March, as they look to keep stacking their fall performances into another strong spring.
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NUMBERS IN SPORTS
42 – 12 – 19 – 16 – 20 – 11 – 43
October 9, 1909 – The World Series featured probably the two biggest players in the game at the time When Ty Cobb and his Detroit Tigers teammates faced the Pittsbuurgh Pirates and their star 3 baseman Honus Wagner. Cobb took center stage in this game when the speedster stole home in the World Series game knotting the Series at a game apiece as Detroit won 7-2 in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field. The Pirates eventually took the Series in 7 games.
October 9, 1910 – Nap Lajoie puts on a serious challenge to Ty Cobb’s batting average title when the with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown’s 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep. Nap ended with a .383 BA while Cobb’s .382 was overtaken.
October 9, 1921 – Babe Ruth’s first World Series home run, only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
October 9, 1928 – World Series: NY Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-3 at Sportsman’s Park to become first to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth smashed 3 home runs for the Yanks
October 9, 1950 – World Series: New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to sweep series, 4-0 for 13th WS title in team history. New York’s second baseman Number 42, Jerry Coleman won the MVP honors. The second year player made a difference for New York as the Yankees scored only 11 runs in the Series, but Coleman knocked in three of them, including two game-winners.
October 9, 1951 – Number 12, Gil McDougald’s World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1. The young infielder added this to his first season in the MLB along with Rookie of the Year honors.
October 9, 1958 – MLB World Series once again it was the NY Yankees winning it all with victory over the Braves, 6-2 at County Stadium in Milwaukee. This win clinched the Series at 4 games to 3. Yankees pitcher Bob Turley, Number 19 won the Most Valuable Player honors for his great play. The veteran hurler also was awarded the Cy Young honor that season too.
October 9, 1961 – In the 1961 World Series, the New York Yankees clinched their 19th championship in 5 games over the Cincinnati Reds. The game 5, 13-5 blowout at Crosley Field sealed the deal. The MVP: Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, Number 16
October 9, 1966 – At the Baseball World Series, the Baltimore Orioles claimed their first MLB title in franchise history when they edged out the LA Dodgers, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium for 4-0 Series sweep. The MVP was Orioles outfielder Number 20, Frank Robinson
October 9, 1983 – NFL Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson, Number 12 passes for 419 yards with 5 TDs, winning 38-35, in overtime, over Dolphins, in Miami
October 9, 1986 – Number 11, Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, becomes the 12th NHL skater to score 500 goals
October 9, 1988 – Dennis Eckersley, Number 43 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
FOOTBALL HISTORY
October 9, 1886 – In New York City a rules convention was held and it voted to have a championship game on Thanksgiving day (1st game ever scheduled on the Holiday) and the use of only one type of ball, the Lilly White Number J.
October 9, 1905 – President Theodore Roosevelt meets college officials in an attempt to curb unsportsmanlike conduct in college football per the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Roosevlt a proponent of the game wants rules revised to help tame the game to lessen the injuries and deaths that have been occurring to participants of the gridiron game. Six guests attended the lunch meeting held by the President and included Walter Camp of Yale, Harvard’s Dr. Nichols and W.T. Reid, Arthur Hillebrand and John Fine of Princeton as well as Mr. Owsley of Yale. These men were felt to be the movers and shakers of the game at the time as they were the original key schools of football since its inception in the early 1880s. The President made his wishes known for reform in sports, especially football at this extrememly pivotal meeting for the future of football. This meeting sparked reform in the game, how the rules were made and governed and eventually influenced the addition of the forward pass, revisions to downs and distance and more.
October 9, 1938 – The Cleveland Rams and the Chicago Bears played in only one of four NFL games that did not have a penalty called in it. The Game at Cleveland stadium according to profootballhof.com had the Rams upset the previously unbeaten Bears 14-7 as the winning touchdown came on a fumble recovery on a punt returned by the Rams Carl Littlefield 23 yards. The referee was Ed Cochrane.
October 9, 2010 – The unranked University of South Carolina knocks off number one ranked Alabama University by the score 35-21.
Hall of Fame Birthday for October 9
October 9, 1886 – Walter Steffen A halfback/quarterback from the University of Chicago. The footballfoundation.org website bio on Walter tells us that he was one of the favorite players of head Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg while with the University of Chicago Maroons. Stagg loved the shiftyness of the youngster so much, that after his sophomore season, Steffen was moved to the quarterback position. Walter Steffen was an All -American each of his 3 seasons with the Maroons and he accounted for a whopping 156 points himself during the period he played from 1906 through 1908. After his eligibility was exhausted Walter joined Stagg’s coaching staff, and went to graduate school eventually getting his law degree and was soon after named a judge in the Chicago court system. He couldn’t get the gridiron out his blood though as he soon took over the head coaching duties at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh in 1914 and held the position off and on through the 1932 season. His final coaching record stood at a respectable 88-53-6 especially when you consider the competition the team faced held the likes of Notre Dame, USC, Yale Army, Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech. The College Football Hall of Fame inducted Walter Steffen into their museum in 1969.
October 9, 1930 – Hank Lauricella was a halfback from the University of Tennessee during the seasons of 1949 through 1951. The football foundation.org website states that Lauricella was nicknamed “Mr. Everything” as the two way player was the key man in the Vol’s single-wing offense using his legs and arm to move the ball as well as being the starting safety on defense and the main return man for both punts and kicks. In 1950 the Volunteers sported a record of 10-1 and were crowned as the National Champions by the Dunkel Index. Lauricella was pivotal in the teams scoring as he rushed for 573 yards that season with a 4.7 yard average while carrying the ball over the goal line 4 times and tossed it for 5 more scores. The team was invited to the Cotton Bowl in 1951 to cap off the brilliant season and they faced the Texas Longhorns. Hank started the offense early in the game with a very memorable run that started on the Vol’s 20 yard line, had him weave through a Texas defense and reverse direction 3 times before being taken down at the Longhorn 5 yard line. The 75 yard scamper set up the first score of the day and led to a Tennessee 20-14 victory. In the game Lauricella had 131 yards on the ground and was inducted into the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame. How do you follow up a junior season such as that? Well in 1951, Hank Lauricella won the Heisman Trophy, averaging over 7 yards per carry for the entire season and the Associated Press this time voted them as the National Champs. The National Football Foundation voted Hank Lauricella into their College Football Hall of Fame in 1981.
October 9, 1958 – Mike Singletary was a linebacker that played for Baylor University from 1977 through 1980. The National Football Foundation’s website points out that Mike was a four Year letterman and set a school record for tackles in a season 232 as a sophomore and career tackles with 662. In 1978 in the game against Arkansas he registered an astounding 35 tackles in one game! Needless to say Baylor named an award for the standout aptly called the Mike Singletary Ward for the Senior that brings honor to the school by contributing to Baylor football. The website britannica.com records that the Chicago Bears drafted Mike Singletary in the 2nd round of the 1981 NFL Draft. Despite not starting until the 8th game of his first season he received all-rookie team accolades. He went on to have a brilliant 12 year career with the Bears, and was one of the top two tacklers on the team his last 10 seasons played as well as making it to the Pro Bowl in each of those ten seasons as well. He was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1985 and again in 1988. The 1985 season was one that the Bears were arguably the best defense ever in the NFL as they allowed a mere 12.4 points per regular season game and on their way to the Super Bowl victory outscored their playoff opponents 91-10 and Mike Singletary was the anchor of that great defense. The College Football Hall of Fame inducted Mike into their group in 1995. The Pro Football Hall of Fame followed that up with an invite to Mike Singletary of their own in 1998, his first year of eligibility. After playing Mike went into coaching even being an NFL head coach for the San Francisco 49ers for a few seasons.
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
1894 At Chicago’s Lake Front Park, Quaker (Phillies) fly chaser Jack Manning hits three home runs in an 11-7 loss to the White Stockings. The Philadelphia outfielder is the first player in franchise history to accomplish the feat.
1905 Christy Mathewson throws a shutout against Philadelphia in Game 1 of the World Series, 3-0. The Giants hurler will blank the A’s twice more during the Fall Classic.
1906 In a snowy West Side Park, the first one-city World Series opens in Chicago. Nick Altrock outduels Three-Finger Brown, giving the White Sox a 2-1 victory over the heavily favored Cubs.
1907 In Game 2 of the World Series played at Chicago’s West Side Grounds, Tigers third baseman Bill Coughlin tags out Jimmy Slagle, leading off the base, using the hidden ball trick. The Cubs center fielder is the first victim deceived about a ball’s location during the Fall Classic.
1909 Ty Cobb’s steal of home highlights the Tigers’ 7-2 victory over the Pirates, tying the World Series at one game apiece. The ‘Georgia Peach’ swipes home plate 54 times during his career, a major league record.
1910 Sitting out the last two games of the season, Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb wins the third of his nine consecutive batting titles by edging Nap Lajoie by less than a percentage point. The player-manager of the Cleveland Naps, who had six bogus hits on the last day thanks to the Browns’ attempt to dethrone the Georgia Peach with their defensive indifference, still loses the race .3849 to .3840.
1913 In Game 3 of the World Series, rookie right-hander Joe Bush throws a complete game, limiting the Giants to five hits in the A’s 8-2 victory at the Polo Grounds. At 20 years and 316 days, ‘Bullet Joe’ is the youngest pitcher to start a game in the Fall Classic, 40 days sooner than Fernando Valenzuela (1981) and Jim Palmer (1966), tied for second on the list.
1915 Woodrow Wilson became the first president to watch a World Series game when he attended Game 2 of the Fall Classic at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia. In addition to hitting the go-ahead single in the ninth inning, Red Sox right-hander Rube Foster limits the Phillies to just three hits en route to a 2-1 victory, evening the series at one game apiece.
1919 With rumors spreading about a fix, the White Sox, after an ineffective start by Lefty Williams, are defeated 10-5 at Comiskey Park and drop the World Series to the underdog Reds, five games to 3. Before next season begins, eight Chicago players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, will be accused of purposely accepting bribes to throw the games.
1928 At Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, the Yankees beat the Cardinals, 7-3, completing their second consecutive sweep of the World Series. The Bronx Bombers, winning their third World Championship in franchise history, live up to their name when they slugged five homers in the game, three by Babe Ruth, a feat not equaled until 1989 when Oakland did it against San Francisco.
1934 At Detroit’s Navin Field, Commissioner Landis makes Joe Medwick leave Game 7 of the World Series for ‘his own safety.’ The Tiger fans, upset with his aggressive slide into third baseman Marv Owen, respond by hurling fruit at the outfielder during the Cardinals’ 11-0 series-clinching victory.
1938 Sweeping the Cubs in four games, the Bronx Bombers become the first team in major league history to win three consecutive World Series. Red Ruffing goes the distance, beating Chicago, 8-3, at Yankee Stadium.
1948 At Cleveland Stadium in front of 81,897 fans, the solid pitching of Steve Gromek helps the Indians win pivotal Game 4 of the Fall Classic, edging the Braves, 2-1, to take a 3-1 series lead. Larry Doby’s third-inning solo home run, the first by a black player in World Series history, proves to be the difference in the Tribe’s victory.
1949 During the ninth inning of the Dodgers’ 10-8 loss to the Yankees in Game 5, officials turned on the Ebbets Field lights, making it the first time a World Series game occurs under artificial lights. The first scheduled Fall Classic night game happens when the Pirates host Baltimore for Game 4 at Three Rivers Stadium in 1971.
1951 In the Yankees’ 13-1 rout of the Giants in Game 5 of the Fall Classic victory at the Polo Grounds, Gil McDougald, joining Elmer Smith (1920) and Tony Lazzeri (1936), becomes the third player in World Series history to hit a grand slam. The 23-year-old Yankees infielder is the first rookie to accomplish the feat.
1958 In Game 7, the Yankees beat the defending World champion Braves in Milwaukee’s County Stadium, 6-2, for their eighteenth title, the club’s seventh in the past decade. The Bronx Bombers become only the second team, the first being the 1925 Pirates, to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-seven Fall Classic.
1961 With the help of a pair of five-run innings at Crosley Field, the Yankees win the World Series, beating the Reds in Game 5, 13-5. Johnny Blanchard, a reserve player who will collect ten hits in 29 at-bats in five Fall Classics, hits two home runs and bats .400 en route to the Bronx Bombers’ 19th World Championship.
1966 For the second consecutive day, the Orioles win a World Series game, 1-0, in a contest decided by a home run when Frank Robinson takes a Don Drysdale pitch deep over the left-field fence in the fourth inning. With the lone run scored on a homer, for only the fifth time in the history of the Fall Classic, and the complete-game shutout thrown by Dave McNally, Baltimore completes a four-game sweep over the Dodgers.
1968 The Tigers score ten runs in the third inning en route to a 13-1 victory over the Cardinals in Game 6 of the Fall Classic. Detroit’s big frame, which equals the World Series mark set by the 1929 A’s, sees 15 batters come to the plate, who collect seven hits, one hit-by-pitch, and four walks against four Redbird hurlers in the Busch Stadium contest.
1969 A few days after agreeing to be on the Angels’ coaching staff, Sparky Anderson accepts an offer to replace Dave Bristol as the Reds’ manager. During his nine-year tenure, in which Cincinnati averaged 96 victories a season, the club won five divisional titles, four National League pennants, and consecutive World Series in 1975 and 1976.
1976 En route to a party at a golf course owned by former teammate Bill Mazeroski, 29-year-old Pirates reliever Bob Moose dies in a two-car crash on Route 7 in Martin’s Ferry (OH) on his birthday. The right-hander spent his nine-year career with Pittsburgh, compiling a 76-71 record with an ERA of 3.50 and no-hit the Mets in 1969.
1980 In Game 2 of the ALCS, with the Yankees trailing 3-2 with two outs in the top of the eighth, George Steinbrenner is caught on live national television shouting what appears to be profanities when Willie Randolph is tagged out at home on a relay throw by George Brett. The Yankees’ owner wants manager Dick Howser to fire third base coach Mike Ferraro on the spot, who refuses and will lose his job when the team is swept in three games by the Royals, despite a first-place finish in the American League East, compiling a 103-59 record.
1989 Televising the deciding Game 5 of the NLCS, a 3-2 Giants victory over the Cubs from Candlestick Park, NBC broadcasts its final edition of the network’s Game of the Week. Next season, CBS’s sporadic and less frequent coverage of a regular-season weekly game led many to believe the organization was only interested in airing the All-Star Game and postseason contests.
1996 Derek Jeter, with the Yankees down 4-3 in the eighth inning, ties the game with a fly ball to right field ruled a home run by umpire Rich Garcia, despite the protest of spectator interference that prevented the ball from being caught by outfielder Tony Tarasco and the Orioles manager Davey Johnson. Video replay clearly shows 12-year-old Jeffrey Maier reaching over the fence and bringing the catchable live ball into the stands, forever changing the outcome of Game 1 of the ALCS and, many believe, of the series.
2005 At Minute Maid Park, Chris Burke’s 18th-inning homer ends the longest postseason game in baseball history as the Astros defeat the Braves, 7-6, to advance into the National League Championship Series. Atlanta’s five-run late lead in the contest vanishes with an eighth-inning grand slam by Lance Berkman and a two-out ninth-inning solo shot by Brad Ausmus, which barely clears Gold Glove center fielder Andruw Jones’ outstretched hand.
2010 At Yankee Stadium, the Twins drop Game 3 of the ALCS, 6-2, giving New York a series sweep. After being the first team to clinch a playoff berth, Minnesota exits the postseason without winning a game in the first round for the second straight year.
2019 After posting a historic opening frame, the Cardinals cruise to a 13-1 victory over the Braves in the decisive Game 5 of the NLDS at SunTrust Park. St. Louis tallies ten times before Atlanta bats, scoring the most runs in the first inning of a postseason game.
TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
Oct. 9
1928 — Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-3 at Sportsman’s Park to become first to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth hits smashes 3 HRs for Yanks.
1934 — Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals rout Detroit Tigers, 11-0 at Navin Field to clinch 4 games to 3 series victory and 3rd championship.
1943 — Bob Hoernschemeyer throws six touchdown passes, an NCAA record for a freshman, to lead Indiana past Nebraska 54-13.
1965 — The United States wins the Ryder Cup 19½-12½ at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Arnold Palmer clinches the title, beating Peter Butler 2 up. It’s the 13th victory for the Americans in this event, which began in 1927. Britain, a three-time winner, last won in 1957.
1966 — Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles claim first championship in franchise history; edge LA Dodgers, 1-0 at Memorial Stadium for 4-0 sweep; MVP: Orioles outfielder Frank Robinson.
1974 — The Washington Capitals lose their first NHL game, 6-3 to the Rangers at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
1982 — Al Del Greco kicks six field goals for all of Auburn’s points in an 18-3 triumph over Kentucky.
1983 — Buffalo’s Joe Ferguson passes for 419 yards and five touchdowns in an 38-35 overtime win against Miami. Uwe Von Schamann of the Dolphins misses two field goals in the overtime and Joe Danelo ends the game with a 36-yard field goal.
1988 — Dennis Eckersley saves all four games in a championship series.
1991 — The San Jose Sharks gain their first NHL victory, defeating the Calgary Flames 4-3.
1993 — Minnesota’s Scott Eckers passes for 402 yards and a school-record six touchdowns in his first college start, sending the Gophers past Purdue 59-56.
1993 — Carey Bender rushes 33 times for 417 yards, setting an NCAA all-division single-game rushing record, in Coe’s 69-7 Division III victory over Grinnell.
2004 — Texas Tech beats Nebraska 70-10, the worst lost in the Cornhuskers’ storied 114-year history.
2004 — Texas loses to Oklahoma 12-0, getting shut out for the first time in 282 games and ending the longest streak in the country.
2005 — Chris Burke hits a home run in the bottom of the 18th inning and Roger Clemens pitches three scoreless innings of relief in Houston’s 7-6, series-ending victory over Atlanta in the NLDS. The longest postseason game in history takes 5 hours, 50 minutes.
2010 — Mike Brinkley passes for six touchdowns and Armond Smith runs for five scores to lead Union (Ky.) to an 84-55 victory over Bethel (Tenn.) in an NAIA game.
2010 — Derek Stepan becomes the fourth player to score three times in his NHL debut to lead the New York Rangers to a season-opening 6-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres.
2011 — Sebastian Janikowski kicks four field goals, including three from at least 50 yards (54, 55, 50), in Oakland’s 25-20 win over Houston. Houston’s Matt Schaub throws for 416 yards and two touchdowns.
2011 — The NHL returns to Winnipeg, but Carey Price stops 30 shots and the Montreal Canadiens dampen a city celebration with a 5-1 victory over the Jets.
2012 — Jerry Sandusky is sentenced to at least 30 years in prison in the child sexual abuse scandal that shamed Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno’s downfall.
2015 — Sepp Blatter, hoping to return to power as FIFA president, is banned for 90 days, essentially ending his 17-year reign as the leader of soccer’s governing body. UEFA President Michel Platini also gets a 90-day ban following an investigation of financial misconduct at FIFA in a Swiss criminal case.
2016 — Tom Brady returns from his four-game “Deflategate” suspension, passing for 406 yards and three touchdowns to Martellus Bennett in the New England Patriots’ 33-13 victory over the Cleveland Browns.
2022 — Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen secures his second consecutive World F1 Drivers C’ship after finishing in front of Sergio Pérez and Charles Leclerc in the Japanese GP at Suzuka.
TV SPORTS WEDNESDAY
| MLB PLAYOFFS | TIME ET | TV |
| ALDS Game 3: Cleveland at Detroit | 3:08pm | TBS turTV MAX |
| NLDS Game 4: Philadelphia at NY Mets | 5:08pm | FS1 |
| ALDS Game 3: NY Yankees at Kansas City | 7:08pm | TBS turTV MAX |
| NLDS Game 4: LA Dodgers at San Diego | 9:08pm | FS1 |
| NHL REGULAR SEASON | TIME ET | TV |
| Toronto at Montreal | 7:00pm | Sportsnet |
| NY Rangers at Pittsburgh | 7:30pm | TNT MAX |
| Colorado at Vegas | 10:00pm | TNT MAX |
| Calgary at Vancouver | 10:00pm | Sportsnet |
| Winnipeg at Edmonton | 10:00pm | Sportsnet |
| COLLEGE FOOTBALL | TIME ET | TV |
| New Mexico State at Jacksonville State | 7:30pm | ESPN2 |
| NBA PRESEASON | TIME ET | TV |
| Golden State vs. Sacramento | 10:30pm | ESPN |
| SOCCER | TIME ET | TV |
| Copa del Rey: San Tirso vs Selaya | 11:30am | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Sonseca vs Parla Escuela | 12:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Baztán vs Ontiñena | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Ud San Pedro vs Ceuta 6 De Junio | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Astur vs PromesAS Edf | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Villamuriel vs Aurrerá Vitoria | 1:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Dolorense vs Manises | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Vic vs Sporting Mahón | 2:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Gévora vs PlayAS Sotavento | 2:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Copa del Rey: Chiclana vs Melilla Cd | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| CONCACAF Nations League: British Virgin Islands vs St. Kitts and Nevis | 3:30pm | Paramount+ |
| CONCACAF Nations League: U.S. Virgin Islands vs Barbados | 8:00pm | Paramount+ |
| CONCACAF Nations League: Anguilla vs Belize | 10:00pm | Paramount+ |