INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
SECTIONAL SCHEDULE
CLASS 4A
1. MUNSTER (8) | BRACKET
EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL, GARY WEST SIDE, HAMMOND CENTRAL, HAMMOND MORTON, HOBART, LAKE CENTRAL, MERRILLVILLE, MUNSTER
2. CROWN POINT (6) | BRACKET
CHESTERTON, CROWN POINT, KANKAKEE VALLEY, LOWELL, PORTAGE, VALPARAISO
3. PLYMOUTH (5) | BRACKET
LAPORTE, MICHIGAN CITY, MISHAWAKA, PLYMOUTH, SOUTH BEND ADAMS
4. PENN (6) | BRACKET
CONCORD, ELKHART, GOSHEN, NORTHRIDGE, PENN, WARSAW COMMUNITY
5. DEKALB (5) | BRACKET
CARROLL (FORT WAYNE), DEKALB, FORT WAYNE NORTH SIDE, FORT WAYNE NORTHROP, FORT WAYNE SNIDER
6. COLUMBIA CITY (6) | BRACKET
COLUMBIA CITY, FORT WAYNE SOUTH SIDE, FORT WAYNE WAYNE, HOMESTEAD, HUNTINGTON NORTH, NEW HAVEN
7. LAFAYETTE JEFF (6) | BRACKET
HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE), KOKOMO, LAFAYETTE JEFFERSON, LOGANSPORT, MARION, MCCUTCHEON
8. NOBLESVILLE (6) | BRACKET
CARMEL, FISHERS, HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN, NOBLESVILLE, WESTFIELD, ZIONSVILLE
9. NEW PALESTINE (7) | BRACKET
ANDERSON, GREENFIELD-CENTRAL, MT. VERNON (FORTVILLE), MUNCIE CENTRAL, NEW PALESTINE, PENDLETON HEIGHTS, RICHMOND
10. LAWRENCE NORTH (7) | BRACKET
BEN DAVIS, INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL, INDIANAPOLIS CRISPUS ATTUCKS, LAWRENCE CENTRAL, LAWRENCE NORTH, NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS), PIKE
11. RONCALLI (6) | BRACKET
FRANKLIN CENTRAL, INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECHNICAL, PERRY MERIDIAN, RONCALLI, SOUTHPORT, WARREN CENTRAL
12. DECATUR CENTRAL (6) | BRACKET
AVON, BROWNSBURG, DECATUR CENTRAL, PLAINFIELD, TERRE HAUTE NORTH VIGO, TERRE HAUTE SOUTH VIGO
13. BLOOMINGTON NORTH (6) | BRACKET
BLOOMINGTON NORTH, BLOOMINGTON SOUTH, CENTER GROVE, GREENWOOD COMMUNITY, MARTINSVILLE, MOORESVILLE,
14. SHELBYVILLE (6) | BRACKET
COLUMBUS EAST, COLUMBUS NORTH, EAST CENTRAL, FRANKLIN COMMUNITY, SHELBYVILLE, WHITELAND COMMUNITY
15. SEYMOUR (6) | BRACKET
BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE, FLOYD CENTRAL, JEFFERSONVILLE, JENNINGS COUNTY, NEW ALBANY, SEYMOUR
16. EVANSVILLE F.J. REITZ (5) | BRACKET
CASTLE, EVANSVILLE CENTRAL, EVANSVILLE F.J. REITZ, EVANSVILLE HARRISON, EVANSVILLE NORTH
CLASS 3A
17. HIGHLAND (8) | BRACKET
ANDREAN, BOONE GROVE, CALUMET, GRIFFITH, HANOVER CENTRAL, HIGHLAND, RENSSELAER CENTRAL, RIVER FOREST
18. GLENN @ NEWTON PARK (5) | BRACKET
CULVER ACADEMIES, GLENN, KNOX, NEW PRAIRIE, TIPPECANOE VALLEY
19. MISHAWAKA MARIAN (6) | BRACKET
JIMTOWN, MISHAWAKA MARIAN, SOUTH BEND CLAY, SOUTH BEND RILEY, SOUTH BEND SAINT JOSEPH, SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON
20. NORTHWESTERN (6) | BRACKET
FRANKFORT, NORTH MONTGOMERY, NORTHWESTERN, TWIN LAKES, WEST LAFAYETTE, WESTERN
21. ANGOLA (7) | BRACKET
ANGOLA, FORT WAYNE BISHOP DWENGER, FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA LUTHERAN, GARRETT, HERITAGE, LEO, WOODLAN
22. FAIRFIELD (6) | BRACKET
EAST NOBLE, FAIRFIELD, LAKELAND, NORTHWOOD, WAWASEE, WEST NOBLE
23. NORWELL (6) | BRACKET
BELLMONT, MACONAQUAH, MISSISSINEWA, NORWELL, OAK HILL, PERU
24. YORKTOWN (5) | BRACKET
CENTERVILLE, DELTA, JAY COUNTY, NEW CASTLE, YORKTOWN
25. DANVILLE (6) | BRACKET
CRAWFORDSVILLE, DANVILLE COMMUNITY, LEBANON, MONROVIA, TRI-WEST HENDRICKS, WESTERN BOONE
26. EDGEWOOD (6) | BRACKET
EDGEWOOD, INDIAN CREEK, NORTHVIEW, OWEN VALLEY, SOUTH VERMILLION, WEST VIGO
27. BREBEUF JESUIT (5) | BRACKET
BREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY, GUERIN CATHOLIC, HAMILTON HEIGHTS, INDIANAPOLIS BISHOP CHATARD, INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE
28. BEECH GROVE (6) | BRACKET
BEECH GROVE, CHRISTEL HOUSE, HERRON, INDIANAPOLIS GEORGE WASHINGTON, PURDUE POLYTECHNIC – DOWNTOWN, SPEEDWAY
29. LAWRENCEBURG (7) | BRACKET
BATESVILLE, CONNERSVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, GREENSBURG, LAWRENCEBURG, RUSHVILLE CONSOLIDATED, SOUTH DEARBORN
30. NORTH HARRISON (7) | BRACKET
CHARLESTOWN, CORYDON CENTRAL, MADISON CONSOLIDATED, NORTH HARRISON, SALEM, SCOTTSBURG, SILVER CREEK
31. JASPER (6) | BRACKET
HERITAGE HILLS, JASPER, PIKE CENTRAL, SOUTHRIDGE, VINCENNES LINCOLN, WASHINGTON
32. PRINCETON COMMUNITY (6) | BRACKET
BOONVILLE, EVANSVILLE BOSSE, EVANSVILLE REITZ MEMORIAL, GIBSON SOUTHERN, MT. VERNON, PRINCETON COMMUNITY,
CLASS 2A
33. WHITING (6) | BRACKET
21ST CENTURY CHARTER-GARY, HAMMOND BISHOP NOLL, ILLIANA CHRISTIAN, LAKE STATION EDISON, NORTH NEWTON, WHITING
34. NORTH JUDSON-SAN PIERRE (6) | BRACKET
HEBRON, NORTH JUDSON-SAN PIERRE, SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS), SOUTH BEND CAREER ACADEMY, WHEELER, WINAMAC COMMUNITY
35. DELPHI (6) | BRACKET
BENTON CENTRAL, CARROLL (FLORA), CLINTON PRAIRIE, DELPHI COMMUNITY, LEWIS CASS, SEEGER
36. WABASH (6) | BRACKET
BREMEN, LAVILLE, MANCHESTER, PIONEER, ROCHESTER COMMUNITY, WABASH
37. SOUTH ADAMS (6) | BRACKET
ADAMS CENTRAL, BLACKFORD, BLUFFTON, EASTBROOK, FORT WAYNE BISHOP LUERS, SOUTH ADAMS
38. EASTSIDE (6) | BRACKET
CENTRAL NOBLE, CHURUBUSCO, EASTSIDE, PRAIRIE HEIGHTS, WESTVIEW, WHITKO,
39. EASTERN (GREENTOWN) (6) | BRACKET
ALEXANDRIA MONROE, EASTERN (GREENTOWN), ELWOOD COMMUNITY, MADISON-GRANT, TAYLOR, TIPTON
40. FRANKTON (6) | BRACKET
FRANKTON, LAPEL, MONROE CENTRAL, MUNCIE BURRIS, WAPAHANI, WINCHESTER COMMUNITY
41. SHENANDOAH (6) | BRACKET
EASTERN HANCOCK, HAGERSTOWN, KNIGHTSTOWN, NORTHEASTERN, SHENANDOAH, UNION COUNTY
42. PARK TUDOR (5) | BRACKET
HERITAGE CHRISTIAN, INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA MEMORIAL, IRVINGTON PREPARATORY ACADEMY, PARK TUDOR, TRITON CENTRAL
43. SHERIDAN (6) | BRACKET
CASCADE, COVENANT CHRISTIAN (INDPLS), INDIANAPOLIS CARDINAL RITTER, RIVERSIDE, SHERIDAN, UNIVERSITY
44. GREENCASTLE (6) | BRACKET
CLOVERDALE, GREENCASTLE, NORTH PUTNAM, PARKE HERITAGE, SOUTH PUTNAM, SOUTHMONT
45. SOUTH RIPLEY (8) | BRACKET
AUSTIN, BROWN COUNTY, BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL, HAUSER, MILAN, SOUTH RIPLEY, SOUTHWESTERN (HANOVER), SWITZERLAND COUNTY
46. CLARKSVILLE (5) | BRACKET
CLARKSVILLE, CRAWFORD COUNTY, EASTERN (PEKIN), PAOLI, PROVIDENCE
47. SULLIVAN (6) | BRACKET
EASTERN GREENE, LINTON-STOCKTON, MITCHELL, NORTH KNOX, SOUTH KNOX, SULLIVAN
48. SOUTH SPENCER (6) | BRACKET
EVANSVILLE MATER DEI, FOREST PARK, NORTH POSEY, PERRY CENTRAL, SOUTH SPENCER, TELL CITY
CLASS 1A
49. MORGAN TOWNSHIP (6) | BRACKET
BOWMAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, DEMOTTE CHRISTIAN, HAMMOND ACADEMY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, KOUTS, MORGAN TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP
50. TRI-TOWNSHIP (7) | BRACKET
ARGOS, CULVER COMMUNITY, MARQUETTE CATHOLIC, OREGON-DAVIS, TRITON, TRI-TOWNSHIP, WESTVILLE
51. FREMONT (7) | BRACKET
BETHANY CHRISTIAN, ELKHART CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK CHRISTIAN, FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY, FREMONT, HAMILTON, LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN
52. NORTH WHITE (6) | BRACKET
CASTON, NORTH MIAMI, NORTH WHITE, NORTHFIELD, SOUTHWOOD, WEST CENTRAL
53. FRONTIER (6) | BRACKET
CLINTON CENTRAL, FAITH CHRISTIAN, FRONTIER, ROSSVILLE, SOUTH NEWTON, TRI-COUNTY
54. LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (6) | BRACKET
ATTICA, COVINGTON, FOUNTAIN CENTRAL, LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC, NORTH VERMILLION, RIVERTON PARKE
55. WES-DEL (7) | BRACKET
ANDERSON PREPARATORY ACADEMY, COWAN, DALEVILLE, LIBERTY CHRISTIAN, SOUTHERN WELLS, TRI-CENTRAL, WES-DEL
56. SETON CATHOLIC (6) | BRACKET
BLUE RIVER VALLEY, CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN, RANDOLPH SOUTHERN, SETON CATHOLIC, TRI, UNION CITY
57. SHAKAMAK (6) | BRACKET
BLOOMFIELD, CLAY CITY, DUGGER UNION, NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG), SHAKAMAK, WHITE RIVER VALLEY
58. BETHESDA CHRISTIAN (5) | BRACKET
BETHESDA CHRISTIAN, INDIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, PURDUE POLYTECHNIC – BROAD RIPPLE, PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY, TINDLEY
59. MORRISTOWN (5) | BRACKET
EDINBURGH, GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN, INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN, MORRISTOWN
60. JAC-CEN-DEL (6) | BRACKET
JAC-CEN-DEL, NORTH DECATUR, OLDENBURG ACADEMY, SOUTH DECATUR, SOUTHWESTERN (SHELBYVILLE), WALDRON
61. SOUTH CENTRAL (ELIZABETH) (6) | BRACKET
BORDEN, CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF INDIANA, LANESVILLE, ROCK CREEK ACADEMY, SOUTH CENTRAL (ELIZABETH), WEST WASHINGTON
62. SHAWE MEMORIAL (6) | BRACKET
CROTHERSVILLE, HENRYVILLE, NEW WASHINGTON, RISING SUN, SHAWE MEMORIAL, TRINITY LUTHERAN
63. LOOGOOTEE (6) | BRACKET
BARR-REEVE, LOOGOOTEE, NORTH DAVIESS, ORLEANS, SHOALS, VINCENNES RIVET
64. NORTHEAST DUBOIS (6) | BRACKET
CANNELTON, EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN, NORTHEAST DUBOIS, SPRINGS VALLEY, TECUMSEH, WOOD MEMORIAL
CENTRAL INDIANA BASEBALL SCORES
DALEVILLE 2 COWAN 0
KNIGHTSTOWN 7 CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN 4
SHENANDOAH 8 WES DEL 2
MONROE CENTRAL 3 RANDOLPH SOUTHERN 0
WAPAHANI 6 BLUE RIVER 3
ZIONSVILLE 4 NOBLESVILLE 2
PARK TUDOR 11 GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN 2
MADISON GRANT 6 ALEXANDRIA MONROE 1
TRITON CENTRAL 11 INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN 3
MONROVIA 4 BEECH GROVE 0
BATESVILLE 2 S. DEARBORN 0
WESTFIELD 3 AVON 2
TERRE HAUTE SOUTH 8 CLAY CITY 6
GREENFIELD CENTRAL 4 WARREN CENTRAL 3
LAPEL 4 HAGERSTOWN 1
SCECINA 1 SPEEDWAY 0
FRANKLIN COUNTY 10 RUSHVILLE 0
COVENANT CHRISTIAN 6 GUERIN CATHOLIC 5
PERRY MERIDIAN 1 MARTINSVILLE 0
GREENSBURG 3 CONNERSVILLE 2
EASTERN HANCOCK 11 MUNCIE BURRIS 3
FRANKLIN 4 DECATUR CENTRAL 0
FISHERS 8 BROWNSBURG 2
CARMEL 4 KOKOMO 1
CENTER GROVE 9 UNIVERSITY 2
MOORESVILLE 11 WHITELAND 0
NORTH MONTGOMERY 5 TRI-WEST 4
GREENCASTLE 9 BROWN COUNTY 3
GREENWOOD 5 PLAINFIELD 4
TERRE HAUTE NORTH 7 COVINGTON 2
DELTA 4 PENDLETON HEIGHTS 0
MOUNT VERNON 7 YORKTOWN 4
NORTH-CENTRAL 16 SOUTHPORT 6
CENTERVILLE 5 RICHMOND 1
HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN 1 FRANKLIN CENTRAL 0
ZIONSVILLE 9 NOBLESVILLE 1
STATE SCOREBOARD: HTTPS://WWW.MAXPREPS.COM/IN/BASEBALL/SCORES/?DATE=5/16/2024
CENTRAL INDIANA SOFTBALL SCORES
DALEVILLE 7 COWAN 6
ELWOOD 11 DELTA 3
CENTERVILLE 14 WINCHESTER 4
ALEXANDRIA MONROE 10 TIPTON 0
BETHESDA CHRISTIAN 4 TRITON CENTRAL 3
MONROE CENTRAL 13 RANDOLPH SOUTHERN 2
CENTER GROVE 2 MOUNT VERNON 1
MONROVIA 18 SCECINA 2
DANVILLE 10 FRANKFORT 1
CARMEL 11 GREENFIELD CENTRAL 10
SHENANDOAH 12 WES–DEL 0
INDIAN CREEK 5 BEECH GROVE 3
MISSISSINEWA 14 WAPAHANI 2
TERRE HAUTE NORTH 8 RIVERTON PARKE 4
CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 8 NEW WASHINGTON 1
LEBANON 7 CRAWFORDSVILLE 6
SPEEDWAY 7 HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 2
LAPEL 22 SHERIDAN 0
REEDSBURG 5 FRANKLIN COUNTY 1
INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN 5 COVENANT CHRISTIAN 3
HAGERSTOWN 11 KNIGHTSTOWN 1
RONCALLI 12 LIVING WATER HOMESCHOOL 4
EASTERN HANCOCK 13 LAWRENCE NORTH 1
SOUTH PUTNAM 6 GREENCASTLE 0
CATHEDRAL 3 SHELBYVILLE 0
WARREN CENTRAL 9 HERRON 4
TRI-COUNTY 5 S. NEWTON 0
CONNERSVILLE 12 RUSHVILLE 1
FRANKTON 9 MADISON GRANT 7
MORRISTOWN 13 JAC CEN DEL 6
LAWRENCEBURG 19 BATESVILLE 2
PERRY MERIDIAN 11 MARTINSVILLE 2
NOBLESVILLE 4 ZIONSVILLE 1
PLAINFIELD 4 GREENWOOD 1
MOORESVILLE 13 WHITELAND 3
YORKTOWN 6 PENDLETON HEIGHTS 4
AVON 6 WESTFIELD 5
COLUMBUS NORTH 16 HAUSER 1
HAMILTON HEIGHTS 8 ANDERSON 0
BROWNSBURG 7 FISHERS 4
FRANKLIN 4 DECATUR CENTRAL 2
EAST CENTRAL 10 FRANKLIN COUNTY 3
BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE 6 SEYMOUR 1
STATE SCOREBOARD: HTTPS://WWW.MAXPREPS.COM/IN/SOFTBALL/SCORES/?DATE=5/16/2024
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT
SECTIONAL SCHEDULE
CLASS 4A
1. LAKE CENTRAL (7) | BRACKET
EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL, GARY WEST SIDE, HAMMOND CENTRAL, HAMMOND MORTON, LAKE CENTRAL, MERRILLVILLE, MUNSTER.
2. CHESTERSON (6) | BRACKET
CHESTERTON, CROWN POINT, HOBART, LOWELL, PORTAGE, VALPARAISO.
3. SOUTH BEND ADAMS (6) | BRACKET
LAPORTE, MICHIGAN CITY, MISHAWAKA, PLYMOUTH, SOUTH BEND ADAMS, SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH.
4. NORTHRIDGE (6) | BRACKET
CONCORD, ELKHART, GOSHEN, NORTHRIDGE, PENN, WARSAW COMMUNITY.
5. CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) (5) | BRACKET
CARROLL (FORT WAYNE), DEKALB, FORT WAYNE NORTH SIDE, FORT WAYNE NORTHROP, FORT WAYNE SNIDER.
6. COLUMBIA CITY (6) | BRACKET
COLUMBIA CITY, FORT WAYNE SOUTH SIDE, FORT WAYNE WAYNE, HOMESTEAD, HUNTINGTON NORTH, NEW HAVEN.
7. KOKOMO (5) | BRACKET
HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE), KOKOMO, LAFAYETTE JEFFERSON, LOGANSPORT, MCCUTCHEON.
8. CARMEL (6) | BRACKET
CARMEL, FISHERS, HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN, NOBLESVILLE, WESTFIELD, ZIONSVILLE.
9. PENDLETON HEIGHTS (7) | BRACKET
ANDERSON, GREENFIELD-CENTRAL, MT. VERNON (FORTVILLE), MUNCIE CENTRAL, NEW PALESTINE, PENDLETON HEIGHTS, RICHMOND.
10. LAWRENCE CENTRAL (7) | BRACKET
BEN DAVIS, INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL, INDIANAPOLIS CRISPUS ATTUCKS, LAWRENCE CENTRAL, LAWRENCE NORTH, NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS), PIKE.
11. FRANKLIN CENTRAL (6) | BRACKET
FRANKLIN CENTRAL, INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECHNICAL, PERRY MERIDIAN, RONCALLI, SOUTHPORT, WARREN CENTRAL.
12. TERRE HAUTE NORTH (6) | BRACKET
AVON, BROWNSBURG, DECATUR CENTRAL, PLAINFIELD, TERRE HAUTE NORTH VIGO, TERRE HAUTE SOUTH VIGO.
13. CENTER GROVE (6) | BRACKET
BLOOMINGTON NORTH, BLOOMINGTON SOUTH, CENTER GROVE, GREENWOOD COMMUNITY, MARTINSVILLE, MOORESVILLE.
14. COLUMBUS EAST (6) | BRACKET
COLUMBUS EAST, COLUMBUS NORTH, EAST CENTRAL, FRANKLIN COMMUNITY, SHELBYVILLE, WHITELAND COMMUNITY.
15. NEW ALBANY (6) | BRACKET
BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE, FLOYD CENTRAL, JEFFERSONVILLE, JENNINGS COUNTY, NEW ALBANY, SEYMOUR.
16. EVANSVILLE NORTH (5) | BRACKET
CASTLE, EVANSVILLE CENTRAL, EVANSVILLE F.J. REITZ, EVANSVILLE HARRISON, EVANSVILLE NORTH.
CLASS 3A
17. GRIFFITH (6) | BRACKET
BOONE GROVE, CALUMET, GRIFFITH, HANOVER CENTRAL, HIGHLAND, RIVER FOREST.
18. TWIN LAKES (6) | BRACKET
FRANKFORT, NORTH MONTGOMERY, NORTHWESTERN, TWIN LAKES, WEST LAFAYETTE, WESTERN.
19. MISHAWAKA MARIAN (6) | BRACKET
JIMTOWN, MISHAWAKA MARIAN, NEW PRAIRIE, SOUTH BEND CLAY, SOUTH BEND RILEY, SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON.
20. KANKAKEE VALLEY (6) | BRACKET
CULVER ACADEMIES, GLENN, KANKAKEE VALLEY, KNOX, RENSSELAER CENTRAL, TIPPECANOE VALLEY.
21. FAIRFIELD (6) | BRACKET
EAST NOBLE, FAIRFIELD, LAKELAND, NORTHWOOD, WAWASEE, WEST NOBLE.
22. LEO (7) | BRACKET
ANGOLA, FORT WAYNE BISHOP DWENGER, FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA LUTHERAN, GARRETT, HERITAGE, LEO, WOODLAN.
23. OAK HILL (6) | BRACKET
BELLMONT, MACONAQUAH, MARION, NORWELL, OAK HILL, PERU.
24. DELTA (6) | BRACKET
CENTERVILLE, DELTA, JAY COUNTY, MISSISSINEWA, NEW CASTLE, YORKTOWN.
25. LEBANON (6) | BRACKET
CRAWFORDSVILLE, DANVILLE, LEBANON, MONROVIA, TRI-WEST HENDRICKS, WESTERN BOONE.
26. OWEN VALLEY (5) | BRACKET
EDGEWOOD, INDIAN CREEK, NORTHVIEW, OWEN VALLEY, WEST VIGO.
27. INDPLS. BISHOP CHATARD (5) | BRACKET
BREBEUF JESUIT, GUERIN CATHOLIC, HAMILTON HEIGHTS, INDIANAPOLIS BISHOP CHATARD, INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE.
28. BEECH GROVE (5) | BRACKET
BEECH GROVE, HERRON, PURDUE POLYTECHNIC, SPEEDWAY.
29. RUSHVILLE (7) | BRACKET
BATESVILLE, CONNERSVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, GREENSBURG, LAWRENCEBURG, RUSHVILLE CONSOLIDATED, SOUTH DEARBORN.
30. SILVER CREEK (7) | BRACKET
CHARLESTOWN, CORYDON CENTRAL, MADISON CONSOLIDATED, NORTH HARRISON, SALEM, SCOTTSBURG, SILVER CREEK.
31. SOUTHRIDGE (6) | BRACKET
HERITAGE HILLS, JASPER, PIKE CENTRAL, SOUTHRIDGE, VINCENNES LINCOLN, WASHINGTON.
32. BOONVILLE (6) | BRACKET
BOONVILLE, EVANSVILLE BOSSE, EVANSVILLE REITZ MEMORIAL, GIBSON SOUTHERN, MT. VERNON, PRINCETON.
CLASS 2A
33. ANDREAN (6) | BRACKET
ANDREAN, HAMMOND BISHOP NOLL, ILLIANA CHRISTIAN, LAKE STATION EDISON, NORTH NEWTON, WHITING.
34. SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS) (5) | BRACKET
BREMEN, HEBRON, LAVILLE, SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS), WHEELER.
35. CENTRAL NOBLE (5) | BRACKET
CENTRAL NOBLE, CHURUBUSCO, EASTSIDE, PRAIRIE HEIGHTS, WESTVIEW.
36. SOUTH ADAMS (6) | BRACKET
ADAMS CENTRAL, BLUFFTON, FORT WAYNE BISHOP LUERS, MANCHESTER, SOUTH ADAMS, WHITKO.
37. ROCHESTER (6) | BRACKET
LEWIS CASS, NORTH JUDSON-SAN PIERRE, PIONEER, ROCHESTER COMMUNITY, WABASH, WINAMAC COMMUNITY.
38. DELPHI (6) | BRACKET
BENTON CENTRAL, CARROLL (FLORA), CLINTON PRAIRIE, DELPHI COMMUNITY, SEEGER, TIPTON.
39. MADISON-GRANT (6) | BRACKET
BLACKFORD, EASTBROOK, EASTERN (GREENTOWN), ELWOOD COMMUNITY, MADISON-GRANT, TAYLOR.
40. LAPEL (6) | BRACKET
ALEXANDRIA MONROE, FRANKTON, LAPEL, MONROE CENTRAL, WAPAHANI, WINCHESTER COMMUNITY.
41. KNIGHTSTOWN (6) | BRACKET
EASTERN HANCOCK, HAGERSTOWN, KNIGHTSTOWN, NORTHEASTERN, SHENANDOAH, UNION COUNTY.
42. HERITAGE CHRISTIAN (6) | BRACKET
CHRISTEL HOUSE, HERITAGE CHRISTIAN, INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA, IRVINGTON PREPARATORY, PARK TUDOR, TRITON CENTRAL.
43. CASCADE (5) | BRACKET
CASCADE, COVENANT CHRISTIAN, INDIANAPOLIS CARDINAL RITTER, RIVERSIDE, SHERIDAN.
44. SOUTHMONT (6) | BRACKET
GREENCASTLE, NORTH PUTNAM, PARKE HERITAGE, SOUTH PUTNAM, SOUTH VERMILLION, SOUTHMONT.
45. MILAN (7) | BRACKET
BROWN COUNTY, BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL, HAUSER, MILAN, SOUTH RIPLEY, SOUTHWESTERN (HANOVER), SWITZERLAND COUNTY.
46. PROVIDENCE (6) | BRACKET
AUSTIN, CLARKSVILLE, CRAWFORD COUNTY, EASTERN (PEKIN), PAOLI, PROVIDENCE.
47. SOUTH KNOX (6) | BRACKET
EASTERN GREENE, LINTON-STOCKTON, MITCHELL, NORTH KNOX, SOUTH KNOX, SULLIVAN.
48. FOREST PARK (6) | BRACKET
EVANSVILLE MATER DEI, FOREST PARK, NORTH POSEY, PERRY CENTRAL, SOUTH SPENCER, TELL CITY.
CLASS 1A
49. TRI-TOWNSHIP (6) | BRACKET
DEMOTTE CHRISTIAN, HAMMOND ACADEMY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, KOUTS, MORGAN TOWNSHIP, TRI-TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
50. WESTVILLE (6) | BRACKET
ARGOS, CULVER COMMUNITY, MARQUETTE CATHOLIC, OREGON-DAVIS, TRITON, WESTVILLE.
51. FREMONT (4) | BRACKET
ELKHART CHRISTIAN, FREMONT, HAMILTON, LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN.
52. NORTH MIAMI (6) | BRACKET
CASTON, NORTH MIAMI, NORTH WHITE, NORTHFIELD, SOUTHWOOD, WEST CENTRAL.
53. ROSSVILLE (6) | BRACKET
CLINTON CENTRAL, FAITH CHRISTIAN, FRONTIER, ROSSVILLE, SOUTH NEWTON, TRI-COUNTY.
54. RIVERTON PARKE (6) | BRACKET
ATTICA, COVINGTON, FOUNTAIN CENTRAL, LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC, NORTH VERMILLION, RIVERTON PARKE.
55. SOUTHERN WELLS (6) | BRACKET
ANDERSON PREPARATORY, COWAN, DALEVILLE, LIBERTY CHRISTIAN, SOUTHERN WELLS, TRI-CENTRAL, WES-DEL.
56. TRI (4) | BRACKET
CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN, RANDOLPH SOUTHERN, TRI, UNION CITY.
57. WHITE RIVER VALLEY (7) | BRACKET
BLOOMFIELD, CLAY CITY, CLOVERDALE, DUGGER UNION, NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG), SHAKAMAK, WHITE RIVER VALLEY.
58. INDIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (4) | BRACKET
BETHESDA CHRISTIAN, EMINENCE, INDIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, PROVIDENCE CRISTO REY.
59. INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN (4) | BRACKET
EDINBURGH, GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN, INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN, MORRISTOWN.
60. NORTH DECATUR (5) | BRACKET
JAC-CEN-DEL, NORTH DECATUR, OLDENBURG, SOUTH DECATUR, WALDRON.
61. LANESVILLE (6) | BRACKET
BORDEN, CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF INDIANA, LANESVILLE, ROCK CREEK, SOUTH CENTRAL (ELIZABETH), WEST WASHINGTON.
62. NEW WASHINGTON (5) | BRACKET
CROTHERSVILLE, HENRYVILLE, NEW WASHINGTON, RISING SUN, TRINITY LUTHERAN.
63. NORTH DAVIESS (5) | BRACKET
BARR-REEVE, LOOGOOTEE, NORTH DAVIESS, ORLEANS, SHOALS.
64. NORTHEAST DUBOIS (5) | BRACKET
CANNELTON, NORTHEAST DUBOIS, SPRINGS VALLEY, TECUMSEH, WOOD MEMORIAL.
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COLLEGE BASEBALL SCORES
INDIANA STATE 13 VALPARAISO 4
LOUISVILLE 5 NOTRE DAME 1
LOUISVILLE 5 NOTRE DAME 3
CONNECTICUT 10 BUTLER 9
MICHIGAN 3 INDIANA 2
INDIANA 11 MICHIGAN 2
ILLINOIS 5 PURDUE 4
NORTHWESTERN 7 MINNESOTA 6
NEBRASKA 2 MICHIGAN STATE 1
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 2 IOWA 1
PENN STATE 8 MARYLAND 4
OHIO STATE 6 RUTGERS 3 (10)
BOWLING GREEN 3 TOLEDO 1
EAST TENNESSEE STATE 9 MIAMI OHIO 3
WESTERN MICHIGAN 3 CENTRAL MICHIGAN 2
OHIO 7 AKRON 3
AKRON 12 OHIO 3
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 5 EASTERN MICHIGAN 4
BALL STATE 11 KENT STATE 9
ILLINOIS CHICAGO 5 EVANSVILLE 4 (10)
SOUTHERN INDIANA 8 WESTERN ILLINOIS 1
COLLEGE SOFTBALL SCORES
NO GAMES SCHEDULED
NBA PLAYOFFS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ALL TIMES EASTERN STANDARD TIME
• GAME 1: CELTICS 120, CAVALIERS 95
• GAME 2: CAVALIERS 118, CELTICS 94
• GAME 3: CELTICS 106, CAVALIERS 93
• GAME 4: CELTICS 109, CAVALIERS 102
• GAME 5: CELTICS 113, CAVALIERS 98
BOSTON WINS SERIES 4-1
• GAME 1: KNICKS 121, PACERS 117
• GAME 2: KNICKS 130, PACERS 121
• GAME 3: PACERS 111, KNICKS 106
• GAME 4: PACERS 121, KNICKS 89
• GAME 5: KNICKS 121, PACERS 91
• GAME 6: KNICKS VS. PACERS, FRIDAY, MAY 17 (8:30 ET, ESPN)
• GAME 7: PACERS VS. KNICKS, SUNDAY, MAY 19 (3:30 ET, ABC) *
NEW YORK LEADS SERIES 3-2
* = IF NECESSARY
WESTERN CONFERENCE
ALL TIMES EASTERN STANDARD TIME
(1) OKLAHOMA CITY VS. (5) DALLAS
• GAME 1: THUNDER 117, MAVERICKS 95
• GAME 2: MAVERICKS 119, THUNDER 110
• GAME 3: MAVERICKS 105, THUNDER 101
• GAME 4: THUNDER 100, MAVERICKS 96
• GAME 5: MAVERICKS 104, THUNDER 92
• GAME 6: THUNDER VS. MAVERICKS, SATURDAY, MAY 18 (8 ET, ESPN)
• GAME 7: MAVERICKS VS. THUNDER, MONDAY, MAY 20 (8:30 ET, TNT) *
DALLAS LEADS SERIES 3-2
* = IF NECESSARY
• GAME 1: TIMBERWOLVES 106, NUGGETS 99
• GAME 2: TIMBERWOLVES 106, NUGGETS 80
• GAME 3: NUGGETS 117, TIMBERWOLVES 90
• GAME 4: NUGGETS 115, TIMBERWOLVES 107
• GAME 5: NUGGETS 112, TIMBERWOLVES 97
• GAME 6: TIMBERWOLVES 115, NUGGETS 70
• GAME 7: TIMBERWOLVES VS. NUGGETS, SUNDAY, MAY 19 (TBD, TBD)
SERIES TIED 3-3
WNBA SCORES
NEW YORK 102 INDIANA 66
NHL PLAYOFFS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
FLORIDA PANTHERS (1A) VS. BOSTON BRUINS (2A)
FLORIDA LEADS SERIES 3-2
GAME 1: BRUINS 5, PANTHERS 1
GAME 2: PANTHERS 6, BRUINS 1
GAME 3: PANTHERS 6, BRUINS 2
GAME 4: PANTHERS 3, BRUINS 2
GAME 5: BRUINS 2, PANTHERS 1
GAME 6: PANTHERS AT BRUINS — MAY 17, 7 P.M. ET (TNT, TRUTV, MAX, SN, CBC, TVAS)
+ GAME 7: BRUINS AT PANTHERS — MAY 19, TBD
COMPLETE PANTHERS-BRUINS SERIES COVERAGE
NEW YORK RANGERS (1M) VS. CAROLINA HURRICANES (2M)
NEW YORK WINS SERIES 4-2
GAME 1: RANGERS 4, HURRICANES 3
GAME 2: RANGERS 4, HURRICANES 3 (2OT)
GAME 3: RANGERS 3, HURRICANES 2 (OT)
GAME 4: HURRICANES 4, RANGERS 3
GAME 5: HURRICANES 4, RANGERS 1
GAME 6: RANGERS 5, HURRICANES 3
COMPLETE RANGERS-HURRICANES SERIES COVERAGE
WESTERN CONFERENCE
DALLAS STARS (1C) VS. COLORADO AVALANCHE (3C)
DALLAS LEADS SERIES 3-2
GAME 1: AVALANCHE 4, STARS 3 (OT)
GAME 2: STARS 5, AVALANCHE 3
GAME 3: STARS 4, AVALANCHE 1
GAME 4: STARS 5, AVALANCHE 1
GAME 5: AVALANCHE 5, STARS 3
GAME 6: STARS AT AVALANCHE — MAY 17, 10 P.M. ET (TNT, TRUTV, MAX, SN, SN1, TVAS)
+ GAME 7: AVALANCHE AT STARS — MAY 19, TBD (TBD)
COMPLETE STARS-AVALANCHE SERIES COVERAGE
VANCOUVER CANUCKS (1P) VS. EDMONTON OILERS (2P)
VANCOUVER LEADS SERIES 3-2
GAME 1: CANUCKS 5, OILERS 4
GAME 2: OILERS 4, CANUCKS 3 (OT)
GAME 3: CANUCKS 4, OILERS 3
GAME 4: OILERS 3, CANUCKS 2
GAME 5: CANUCKS 3, OILERS 2
GAME 6: CANUCKS AT OILERS — MAY 18, 8 P.M. ET (ESPN, SN, CBC, TVAS)
+ GAME 7: OILERS AT CANUCKS — MAY 20, TBD (TBD)
COMPLETE CANUCKS-OILERS SERIES COVERAGE
+ = IF NECESSARY
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NY YANKEES 5 MINNESOTA 0
NY METS 6 PHILADELPHIA 5 (11)
TAMPA BAY 7 BOSTON 5
PITTSBURGH 5 CHICAGO CUBS 4
HOUSTON 8 OAKLAND 1
CINCINNATI 7 LA DODGERS 2
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INDIANAPOLIS 5 TOLEDO 3
TOLEDO 8 INDIANAPOLIS 6
FORT WAYNE 5 SOUTH BEND 1
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
NO GAME SCHEDULED
UFL
NO GAMES SCHEDULED
TOP NATIONAL HEADLINES/RELEASES
NBA NEWS
TIMBERWOLVES FORCE GAME 7 BY BLOWING OUT NUGGETS 115-70 BEHIND 27 POINTS FROM ANTHONY EDWARDS
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Anthony Edwards scored 27 points to pull the Minnesota Timberwolves out of their mid-series slump and deliver a flawless 115-70 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night to force a Game 7 in this roller-coaster playoff matchup.
Jaden McDaniels pitched in 21 points and lockdown defense, and Mike Conley had 13 points in his return from injury. Big men Rudy Gobert, Karl-Anthony Towns and Naz Reid combined for 38 rebounds and a relentless effort to keep NBA MVP Nikola Jokic to a relatively quiet 22 points.
The decisive game for a spot in the Western Conference finals is in Denver on Sunday night.
Jamal Murray struggled again with just 10 points on 4-for-18 shooting for the Nuggets, whose bench was outscored 36-9 — and seven of those points came in the final five minutes. The Wolves reserves led a 24-0 run in the fourth quarter to take a staggering 49-point lead, a fitting follow-up to the 20-0 surge the starters led in the opening frame.
Aaron Gordon had 12 points and eight rebounds for the Nuggets, who finished just 7 for 36 from 3-point range and trailed by at least 17 points for the last 31 minutes of the game.
THE CELTICS ARE IN A GOOD HEADSPACE AS THEY HEAD TO A 3RD CONSECUTIVE EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS
BOSTON (AP) — Opposing fans have been begging for matchups with the Celtics this postseason.
And they are all now wishing that they hadn’t.
Miami Heat fans chanted, “We Want Boston!” after earning a first-round matchup with the Celtics last month. Boston beat them in five games.
Cleveland Cavaliers fans got into the act following their first-round win over the Orlando Magic. After they, too, walked off the court following a 4-1 series loss to the Celtics on Wednesday, Boston fans near the Cavs’ bench held up signs spelling out a question.
“Who wants Boston next?”
For now the Celtics will have to wait for that answer after wrapping up their third consecutive trip to the Eastern Conference finals with a 113-98 win over the the Cavaliers. Boston will face the winner of the matchup between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers. New York leads that series 3-2.
While Boston won the final two games of its series over a depleted Cavs’ team that was missing injured Donovan Mitchell, Jarrett Allen and Caris LeVert, the East’s’ top seed did have to overcome its first dose of adversity this postseason.
The Celtics played the entire series without starting center Kristaps Porzingis, who continues to recover from the calf strain he sustained late last round against the Heat. They also had to bounce back after losing Game 2 and home-court advantage against the Cavs. Three consecutive wins later, Boston likes the trajectory it’s on just four victories shy of returning to the NBA Finals
“People might think that it’s a given that we’re supposed to be here,” said All-Star Jayson Tatum, who will be making his fifth trip to the conference finals. “I give a lot of credit to everybody in the front office, the coaching staff, the trainers, the guys that hand out the equipment, the ball boys, the cooks, the chefs, security team. We’re all in this together.”
After enduring much criticism for some lackluster performances last postseason, Tatum has been one of his team’s most consistent players, averaging 24.2 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. His rebounding numbers are up from 8.1 per game during the regular season.
Fellow All-Star Jaylen Brown is following suit averaging a career playoff-high 24.4 points to along with 6.9 rebounds.
It’s a recognition that this team will only go as far as they take it.
”We understand what we can do individually,” Tatum said. “Each night just kind of presents different challenges and being ready and up for the task to do whatever is needed because both of us are capable on the basketball court to do literally everything.”
They are also getting big performances from their teammates.
One of those came Wednesday from veteran center Al Horford, who connected on six 3-pointers and finished with 22 points and 15 rebounds.
Tatum said Horford’s energy chasing down loose balls and pumping up the crowd at age 37 is infectious.
Horford said he’s just responding to the energy the Boston fans are giving him.
“It’s special when you’re here at the Garden. It’s something that I don’t take for granted,” Horford said. “I just felt very connected with them tonight. … There were just a few times I wanted to be embraced by that moment.”
As much as Tatum said he appreciated Horford’s play this series stepping in for Porzingis, Horford said there’s no doubt that Tatum and Brown are the engines for this team.
“No matter what gets thrown at them, things that people want to talk about, criticize, our guys continue to work. They continue to think of what’s best for our group,” Horford said. “This year that’s been very obvious.”
Horford said he also gives a lot of the credit to their second-year coach Joe Mazzulla, who he believes has found his voice this season.
“Just as a leader of our group. We follow him,” Horford said. “He demands a lot from us. And we’re right there. We’re plugging away. And we know we still have a ways to go.”
WNBA NEWS
LIBERTY PUMMEL FEVER, SPOIL CAITLIN CLARK’S HOME DEBUT
Breanna Stewart scored 20 of her 31 points in the first half, helping the New York Liberty spoil Caitlin Clark’s home debut with a 102-66 rout of the Indiana Fever on Thursday in Indianapolis.
Stewart added 10 rebounds, four assists, three steals and two blocks to avenge her lackluster performance in the season opener. The two-time WNBA MVP scored just eight points on 3-of-9 shooting from the floor in New York’s 85-80 victory over the host Washington Mystics on Tuesday.
Jonquel Jones recorded 14 points and 10 rebounds on Thursday, and Sabrina Ionescu had 14 and seven, respectively. Betnijah Laney-Hamilton contributed 12 points for the Liberty (2-0), who outscored the Fever 35-10 in the fourth quarter and held a 40-26 advantage in rebounds for the game.
Clark, the No. 1 overall draft pick after a record-breaking college career, scored nine points on 2-of-8 shooting from the floor — including 1-of-7 from 3-point range. She contributed seven rebounds and six assists to go along with just three turnovers, as opposed to the 10 she committed in Indiana’s 92-71 loss to the host Connecticut Sun on Tuesday.
Aliyah Boston recorded 12 points and seven rebounds and Katie Lou Samuelson added 10 points for the Fever (0-2).
Lexie Hull drained a 3-pointer to trim New York’s lead to 29-25 midway into the second quarter, before Stewart ignited the Liberty’s 19-6 run to end the half. She totaled nine points during that sequence, while Laney-Hamilton added six.
New York extended its lead to 23 points at 67-44 on Nyara Sabally’s basket with 4:06 remaining in the third quarter. Indiana answered with a 12-0 run to end the quarter, highlighted by four free throws and a 3-pointer by Clark.
Jones made a pair of baskets, Stewart converted a three-point play and Ionescu made a 3-pointer and a layup as the Liberty rode a 12-0 start to the fourth quarter. The outcome was not in doubt the rest of the way.
Tempers flared late in the first quarter after a foul by Jones on Boston underneath the basket. Boston responded with a shove and words were exchanged before the players were separated.
NHL NEWS
KREIDER’S 3RD-PERIOD HAT TRICK LIFTS RANGERS INTO EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL WITH WIN OVER HURRICANES
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Chris Kreider had a third-period hat trick to help the New York Rangers erase a two-goal deficit and beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-3 in Game 6 on Thursday night to advance to the Eastern Conference Final.
Kreider single-handedly erased the Hurricanes’ 3-1 lead entering the final period. The go-ahead score came when he got position on Jalen Chatfield at the top of the crease and tipped in Ryan Lindgren’s wraparound attempt to make it 4-3 with at the 15:41 mark.
That finally allowed the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Rangers to put away the Hurricanes, who had won two straight after falling into a 3-0 hole in the best-of-7 series. The Hurricanes appeared on the verge of forcing a Game 7 for a pressure-packed finale, but couldn’t contain Kreider and the Rangers’ surge in the final 14 minutes.
Barclay Goodrow finished this one off by getting to a loose puck near the boards and scoring a long empty-net goal in the final minute, sending Goodrow to the nearby Rangers bench to be mobbed by teammates.
That sent the Rangers on to the Eastern Conference Final to face the Boston-Florida winner, with the Panthers leading that series 3-2.
Kreider’s first goal came when he cleaned up a stop by Frederik Andersen on Mika Zibanejad at the 6:43 mark to make it 3-2. He followed by tipping in a shot by Artemi Panarin to tie it at the 11:54 mark.
Igor Shesterkin hung in after a pressured first two periods, finishing with 33 saves and coming up with a big stop on Jordan Staal near the crease and another tying chance from Andrei Svechnikov off a faceoff win in the third period.
Martin Necas, Seth Jarvis and Sebastian Aho scored for Carolina, while Andersen finished with 19 saves.
The Hurricanes also missed on multiple late chances to increase their lead, with Jordan Martinook — who had a highlight-reel sliding effort to knock away a loose puck from the goal line — and Jake Guentzel each pinging the metal past Shesterkin to come up empty.
J.T. MILLER’S LATE GOAL LIFTS CANUCKS PAST OILERS TO TAKE A 3-2 SERIES LEAD
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — J.T. Miller scored with 31.9 seconds remaining to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night that put them a win away from the Western Conference Final.
Carson Soucy and Phillip Di Giuseppe both scored in their returns to the lineup for Vancouver, which will try to wrap up the series in Game 6 on Saturday in Edmonton. Rookie Arturs Silovs made 21 saves for the Canucks.
With the game tied at 2, Vancouver’s Pius Suter fired a shot from near the boards and it bounced off the skate of teammate Elias Pettersson in front of the net and hit the post. Miller picked it up and batted it in for the go-ahead goal, his third of the playoffs.
Evander Kane and Mattias Janmark scored for the Oilers, who got 32 saves from Calvin Pickard.
Leon Draisaitl set up the first goal of the game, digging out a puck behind Vancouver’s net and backhanding it to Kane at the bottom of the face off circle. Kane snapped a shot past Silovs for his third goal of the postseason 4:34 into the game.
Draisaitl’s assist gave him at least one point in each of Edmonton’s 10 playoff games. He has eight goals and 13 assists in the postseason.
Soucy, who sat out Game 5 while serving a suspension, tied it at 1 late in the first with a blast from the face off circle that pinged off the bar at the 17:27 mark. The defenseman was suspended by the NHL for cross-checking Edmonton’s Connor McDavid after the final horn in Game 3.
Edmonton regained the lead 33 seconds later off an odd-man rush after Soucy fell in the offensive zone. Connor Brown picked up the loose puck and streaked into Vancouver territory with Janmark. Brown passed to Janmark, who tapped it in to put the Oilers up 2-1.
The Canucks tied it at 2 in the second after Nils Aman disrupted Evan Bouchard’s clearing attempt behind Edmonton’s net. Di Giuseppe, who missed Game 5 because of a personal issue, picked off the puck, spun and wrapped a shot in past Pickard for his first career playoff goal.
McDavid came within inches of giving Edmonton the lead with about six minutes left in the game, but shot sailed just wide of the Canucks’ net.
The Oilers were 0 for 5 on the power play, while the Canucks went 0 for 4.
BASEBALL NEWS
MLB ROUNDUP: YANKEES FINISH SWEEP OF TWINS
Clarke Schmidt did not allow a run over a career-high eight innings and the New York Yankees scored three times in the first inning to complete a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 5-0 victory on Thursday in Minneapolis.
New York won for the fourth straight outing and the 10th time in 12 games while completing its first sweep at Minnesota since 2013.
Schmidt (5-1) allowed three hits, struck out eight and did not walk a batter. Anthony Volpe opened the game with a home run to left off Joe Ryan (2-3) on the game’s fifth pitch, Gleyber Torres added an RBI double and Anthony Rizzo capped the Yankees’ first inning with a run-scoring groundout.
The Twins had three hits, with Carlos Santana and Willi Castro managing singles while Carlos Correa doubled. Ryan allowed four runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Astros 8, Athletics 1
Cristian Javier twirled six shutout innings while Joey Loperfido clubbed his first career home run as Houston completed a four-game sweep of visiting Oakland.
Javier (3-1) allowed only three baserunners and struck out a season-high eight batters. Yainer Diaz doubled home three runs in the Astros’ six-run third inning.
Athletics rookie Joey Estes (1-1) surrendered eight runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings. Zack Gelof singled home Oakland’s run in the seventh inning. The A’s were held to four hits.
Mets 6, Phillies 5 (11 innings)
J.D. Martinez hit a go-ahead RBI single in the 11th inning then scored a key insurance run on a wild pitch as New York won at Philadelphia after taking three straight losses against the Phillies.
Pete Alonso ripped a solo home run for the Mets, who saw starter Jose Quintana give up two runs in 5 1/3 innings. Jorge Lopez (1-0) earned the win by pitching a scoreless 10th inning.
Phillies starter Taijuan Walker left after 3 1/3 innings after being hit in the left foot by a line drive off the bat of Starling Marte. After a few minutes, Walker limped off and was replaced by Matt Strahm. Walker allowed four hits and two runs.
Rays 7, Red Sox 5
Isaac Paredes knocked in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning as Tampa Bay claimed a four-game series victory over host Boston.
Paredes and Jonathan Aranda had two hits apiece to lead Tampa Bay. Josh Lowe homered and matched Palacios with two RBIs. Erasmo Ramirez came on to escape a ninth-inning jam, earning his first save and sealing the win for Manuel Rodriguez (1-1).
Jarren Duran went 3-for-5 with a homer and two doubles for the Red Sox. Kenley Jansen (1-1) took the loss.
Pirates 5, Cubs 4
Jared Jones tossed six effective innings and Pittsburgh held off host Chicago to claim the opener of a four-game series.
Jones (3-4) gave up three runs on seven hits with no walks and seven strikeouts. Edward Olivares went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer and two runs for the Pirates, who also got a long ball from Nick Gonzales.
Cubs starter Justin Steele (0-1) was tagged for five runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings. Ian Happ homered for Chicago.
OLYMPIC NEWS
SIMONE BILES IS STEPPING INTO THE OLYMPIC SPOTLIGHT AGAIN. SHE IS BETTER PREPARED FOR THE PRESSURE
SPRING, Texas (AP) — Simone Biles is not “cured.” Let’s start there.
A cure implies finality. An ultimate and decisive victory.
If the gymnastics superstar has learned anything in the three years since those strange, uncertain days in Tokyo when she put her mental health and personal safety ahead of her pursuit of more Olympic glory, it is that the battle to protect yourself is never really over. Never fully won.
It’s a lesson she learned in front of the entire world in Japan, where Biles arrived as the face of the Summer Games only to withdraw from multiple competitions, including the team final, when her body simply stopped doing what her brain was asking it to.
In the moment, Biles blamed it on “ the twisties.” On the surface, she was right. Yet they sprang from something deeper and harder to define.
“She can’t even explain it (and) the doctors she sees probably can’t even explain it to her,” said Laurent Landi, who along with his wife Cecile has coached Biles since 2017. “It’s a trauma that happened to her and that came at a bad time and she could not handle it. It’s as simple as this. She could not function. She could not be a gymnast at that time.”
She can now, though the road to this moment — Biles will compete for the first time in 2024 at this weekend’s U.S. Classic — has been difficult. It has required a new mindset, at times a literal mother’s touch and constant vigilance to work on herself, work she now understands has no expiration date.
NOWHERE TO RUN
Biles tried to take all the outsized attention before Tokyo in stride. She projected a sense of normalcy. It was a facade. At some point, the pent-up emotions and aggressions she felt caused her to “ crack.”
Biles was in therapy before Tokyo but had paused treatment before heading overseas. With millions watching, she walked off the floor at the Ariake Gymnastics Center after one wayward vault in the women’s team final and called her family, who had remained home in Texas because of COVID-19 restrictions put in place for the games.
Nellie Biles picked up the phone and heard her daughter on the other end saying over and over through tears “Mom, I really cannot do this. I’m lost, I cannot do this.”
And so she didn’t. Biles pulled out of a handful of finals before returning to earn a bronze on the balance beam, a medal the most decorated gymnast in the history of the sport has called one of the most important of her career. As painful and frightening as the experience was, it needed to happen because it made Biles realize mental health isn’t something she could ignore.
“I couldn’t run away from it, you know,” Biles told The Associated Press. “I just owned it and said ‘Hey, this is what I’m going through. This is the help that I’m going to get.’”
A NEW GAME PLAN
Help that has propelled Biles back to a familiar spot: atop her sport with another Olympics in the offing. Help that presents itself in different ways and sometimes comes from unexpected places.
Biles firmly believes she’s in a better place this time around, thanks in part to weekly Thursday meetings with her therapist that have become an intractable part of her schedule.
Last fall in Antwerp, Belgium, Biles walked into a nearly empty arena during podium training before the world championships, her first team competition since Tokyo. Something about the scene evoked, as Nellie Biles puts it, “a PTSD moment.” Biles ran off the floor to gather herself following a trigger she never saw coming.
There were more tears. More anxiety. More calls. More reassurance.
“She almost didn’t go back out there,” Nellie Biles said.
After being “a little bit hesitant,” Biles pushed through thanks in part to the decision to have a meeting with her therapist, something she rarely did close to competitions before beginning the practice ahead of the U.S. Classic in Chicago last summer.
The U.S. women were given the afternoon off and some of them headed off to a chocolate factory. Biles chose to stay behind to FaceTime her therapist instead.
“I know how important it is for me to stay present, mindful and not be too anxious,” she said. “So yes, we will keep that up.”
There were other comforts of home in Belgium. Namely, her family.
Every day, Nellie Biles made her way to Simone’s hotel room and spent 30-45 minutes braiding her daughter’s hair, a first.
“My daughter is (27) and I know (she) can braid her own hair,” Nellie Biles said. “But it’s just that touch, that togetherness. It’s that bonding. It’s what she needed and it worked.”
The meet ended the way so many have during Biles’ decade-long run at the top: with a fistful of medals stashed in her luggage for the return flight home and the stage set for a potentially historic Olympic year.
MOVING ON
Before Rio de Janeiro in 2016, before Tokyo in 2021, the prospect of Olympic history threatened to — and at times did — consume her.
It doesn’t anymore. Life has blessedly, mercifully, gotten in the way.
Biles married current Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens a year ago. The two are building a house in the Houston suburbs that will be finished (hopefully) in late summer or early fall.
In a way, she is like so many other 20-something newlyweds in Biles’ orbit. Former Olympic teammate MyKayla Skinner, for example, welcomed a daughter last fall. There is part of Biles that feels like “that’s what I should be doing.”
Instead, she’s “still flipping out here,” still finding her way to World Champions Centre — the spaceship of a gym the Biles family runs — and training alongside other Olympic hopefuls, many of whom are nearly a decade younger and grew up idolizing her.
Why is she still putting herself through this? Well, that’s the biggest question of them all.
“I think everything I’ve been through, I want to push the limits,” she said. “I want to see how far I can go. I want to see what I’m still capable of so once I step away from this sport, I can truly be happy with my career and say I gave it my all.”
She is well aware of what may await this summer. That the millions who were riveted by what happened in Tokyo — from the throngs who supported her to the critics on social media who branded her a quitter or worse — will tune in to see if she cracks again.
Those closest to Biles believe she is better prepared to handle whatever may come.
“She knows something like (Tokyo) can happen because it did happen,” Landi said. “So it’s just like, ‘OK, I’m going to be careful, I’m going to follow the same protocol every time and then I’m going to avoid (the pitfalls)’ and that’s all you can do.”
Is this the last time? She won’t say. That’s too far ahead. She doesn’t pepper her conversations with the words “Paris” or “Olympics.” It may seem intentional. It’s not. It’s just what she does.
“It’s not like I think that ‘Olympics’ is a plague and I’m trying to avoid it or trying not to say it,” she said. “I just think there are other things I have to get to before that.”
The U.S. Classic this weekend in Connecticut will include 2020 Olympic champion Sunisa Lee and 2012 Olympic champion Gabby Douglas. The U.S. Championships are later this month. The Olympic Trials loom in late June.
One turn, one routine, one rotation, one meet at a time. With all the tools — including her therapist — at the ready.
“I feel very confident with where I’m at mentally and physically, that (Tokyo) is not going to happen again just because we have put in the work,” she said.
A LARGER MESSAGE
There is something larger at stake here, too, a message Biles is sending to others. It’s OK not to be OK. It’s OK to make yourself vulnerable, to be open and transparent about the process no matter how messy it may get.
She says she has long lost count of the number of people who have told her “because of you, I’m getting the proper help that I deserve.”
It can be jarring in a way. She never set out to become a face of this movement. It happened anyway.
If Biles retreats in Tokyo instead of confronting her issues head-on, maybe those people don’t find the courage to ask for something they urgently need. That’s the blessing of the last Olympics that far outweighs a medal.
“As unfortunate as it (was) … it’s exciting because I know that by speaking out it’s helping other people,” Biles said. “And that’s what I’ve always wanted to do, inside this sport and outside this sport.”
So on Saturday she will salute the judges and thrust herself into the spotlight once more.
No, she is not cured. She is better, though, even as she remains a work in progress like so many others out there who found the courage to say “me too” after seeing the biggest star in the U.S. Olympic movement open up about her struggles with so much at stake.
That’s the true lesson of Tokyo. As challenging as it was in the moment, it was necessary.
“It’s good that it happened,” Biles said. “Because I don’t think I would have got the proper help that I need (without it).”
WOMEN’S GOLF NEWS
ROSE ZHANG WITHDRAWS FROM THIS WEEK’S LPGA TOURNAMENT BECAUSE OF ILLNESS AFTER PLAYING THREE HOLES
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Rose Zhang found an opponent she couldn’t beat in the Mizuho Americas Open — an upset stomach.
Zhang withdrew from the event in the the shadow of the New York City skyline on Thursday because of illness after completing only three holes of the opening round.
Zhang started on the back nine at Liberty National just before 8 a.m. She shot par on No. 10, double bogey on 11 and par on 12. She left playing partners Lydia Ko and Albane Valenzuela on the tee box of the par-5 No. 13 and was driven back to the clubhouse.
“I am really disappointed that I had to withdraw from the Mizuho Americas Open today,” Zhang said in a statement on social media. “This tournament holds a special place in my heart, having had such an amazing week last year when I captured my first LPGA Tour win here at Liberty National.
“I was really looking forward to trying to defend my title, but unfortunately spent the last 12 hours with really bad intestinal pain,” said Zhang, whose 12 career wins at Stanford broke the old school record previous held by a group that included Tiger Woods.
Kevin Hopkins, Zhang’s agent with Excel Sports Management, said the two-time NCAA champion was feeling fine all week but she had an upset stomach Thursday morning.
“I didn’t think she was going to make it out on the course,” Hopkins said. “She tried.”
The 20-year-old Zhang ended Nelly Korda’s record-tying run of winning five straight LPGA tournament starts by finishing first last week at the Cognizant Founders Cup. It was her first victory in almost a year.
“It’s unfortunate that she isn’t feeling well,” Ko said after shooting 72. “She tried to gut it out. She said she was in pain.”
Korda was playing on the group in front of Zhang. She didn’t notice until about the sixth or seventh hole that there was a twosome behind her. She said she stayed focused on her game in finishing with a 70, which has her in the hunt for a sixth win this season.
Zhang won this event last year in a playoff with Jennifer Kupcho, becoming the first player to win on the LPGA Tour in their professional debut since Beverly Hanson in 1951.
This was Zhang’s eighth event of the year. She birdied four of the final five holes to rally from a three-shot deficit and beat Madelene Sagstrom by two shots last weekend. Her best previous finish was a tie for fifth. She also missed two cuts.
ROOKIES SO MI LEE, GABRIELA RUFFELS FARING WELL AT MIZUHO AMERICAS OPEN
LPGA rookie So Mi Lee of South Korea piled up eight birdies to shoot a 6-under 66 and take the first-round lead at the Mizuho Americas Open on Thursday in Jersey City, N.J.
Lee has a two-shot lead over four players tied at 4-under 68, including Australian rookie Gabriela Ruffels.
Lee was the second alternate in the field and was not expecting to get the green light to compete this week.
“At first I was kind of depressed and I think I can’t play well today,” Lee said. “I also get caddie to go home and we have no caddie, so my father play with me and that made me comfortable playing. Yeah, he was very great.”
Lee, 25, started her day on the back nine at Liberty National Golf Club and opened with a birdie at the par-5 10th hole. She made her move with a stretch of four birdies and one bogey at Nos. 13-17 before adding a bogey and three birdies on the front nine.
“At first it was so windy when I was playing first, but second shot was very great,” she said. “My second shot was very great, and … the putting was getting along with my shot.”
Ruffels was the only player 4 under or better to go bogey-free on Thursday. She birdied three of her first eight holes before adding one on the back nine.
Ruffels, 24, said she feels she’s “definitely getting more comfortable” as her rookie season wears on.
“I feel like the confidence definitely goes up when you have a few good results and I’ve been fortunate to have a few good results this year, few top-fives and one last week,” Ruffels said.
“… But still kind of feel like a rookie. Kind of learning all the new courses. These girls have already seen they courses, but I’m lucky I have a pretty experienced caddie.”
Joining Ruffels at 4 under were Bianca Pagdanganan of the Philippines, Japan’s Mao Saigo and Andrea Lee.
Major winners Jennifer Kupcho, Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit, Celine Boutier of France, Minjee Lee of Australia and Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa are part of a large tie at 3-under 69.
Nelly Korda opened with a 2-under 70. She is coming off the end of a five-start winning streak on tour, having finished tied for seventh at last week’s Cognizant Founders Cup.
Rose Zhang — the 20-year-old phenom who won her professional debut at last year’s Mizuho Americas Open and also won last week — withdrew Thursday due to illness.
MEN’S GOLF NEWS
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: SCHAUFFELE STARTS STRONG, SCHEFFLER EAGLES OPENING HOLE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For the second consecutive year, Xander Schauffele shot a 62 in a major championship.
Schauffele had the latest record-setting round on Thursday at Valhalla Golf Club, firing a 9-under 62 to break the PGA Championship record and to set a new competitive round record at Valhalla.
On a rain-softened course, Schauffele started on the back nine and made five birdies en route to a 31 before making four more birdies on the front nine for another 31. The mark ties the major championship record for a low round, a list that he was already part of after his 62 at Los Angeles Country Club last year in the U.S. Open.
“Yeah, It’s a great start to a big tournament,” Schauffele said. “One I am obviously going to take. But it’s just Thursday.”
It took only two swings for Masters champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler to make noise at the start of the afternoon wave. Scheffler lofted a 9-iron from 102 yards into the cup on one hop to eagle the par-4 and announce his presence with a bang.
Scheffler leads all players in major tournaments since 2000 at a combined score to par of 73-under before the PGA Championship began Thursday. Only a second-place finish in Houston interfered with a string of four wins in five tournaments entering this week.
The 30-year-old Schauffele, who was two shots up last weekend at the Wells Fargo Championship but ended up losing that event to Rory McIlroy by five strokes, broke the old course mark of 63 set in the 2000 PGA by Jose Maria Olazabal.
Schauffele is the only player to have a 62 in a major twice. Branden Grace did it first in the 2017 British Open at Royal Birkdale and then Rickie Fowler did is just moments before Schauffele last year at the Open.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Schauffele came into the PGA Championship with the lowest all-time career first-round scoring average in major championship history for those who have appeared in at least 25 majors. He averaged 69.81.
And he bettered that mark by a lot.
Schauffele birdied three of the last four holes on the front nine, including a five-foot birdie putt at the par-5 18th hole.
“It wasn’t like a dream start,” he said. “Being 1-under through 3 probably would have been a good start for me anyways, and when you shoot something low, you kind of get lost in the process of what you’re doing versus thinking about how low you’re trying to shoot.”
Schauffele was 6-under when he reeled off three birdies in a four hole stretch on the front nine, including a long two-putt at the par-5 seventh hole. He saved par at the par-3 eighth hole with a chip from the back of the green and two-putted for par at No. 9.
“I felt like out here, you’re just eyeing the fairway most times,” he said. “It doesn’t really matter if you fly a ball 325 yards. If it’s in the rough, it doesn’t do you any good. You’d rather be 300 yards in the middle of the fairway. But I think overall, just knowing that I can kind of get the ball out there pretty far without having to go at it all the time is a pretty good feeling.”
In the morning wave of players with scoring conditions perfect, Tony Finau and Sahith Theegala both shot 6-under 65, while Rory McIlroy and Robert Macintyre but had 66s.
Ben Kohles shot 67 in his PGA debut. The last player to shoot 4-under or better in the first round of their PGA debut was Scheffler in 2020. He went on to finish tied for fourth.
HORSE RACING NEWS
CATCHING FREEDOM SHOWS WHY IT WAS AN ‘EASY DECISION’ TO ENTER HIM IN THE PREAKNESS
BALTIMORE (AP) — Catching Freedom got a few days off after finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby.
When he returned to the track, he looked like a fresh horse rather than one who had just run a race against elite competition.
After some consideration, trainer Brad Cox and his camp decided to send Catching Freedom to the Preakness, one of the final entrants in the field.
Catching Freedom has looked so strong in training at Pimlico Race Course, it was clear why they went in this direction.
“He acted like he could do it, so we thought about it and the more we did with him, the better he responded,” assistant trainer Blake Cox, Brad’s son, said Thursday. “It made it an easy decision.”
Catching Freedom has had some feisty moments this week, looking every bit like a colt who’s well-rested and eager to race again. He’s one of just three taking part in the second leg of the Triple Crown after being in the Derby, along with winner Mystik Dan and 17th-place finisher Just Steel.
Cox acknowledged the 14-day turnaround was “a big ask,” but Catching Freedom is catching attention for his easy stride and becoming a buzzy Preakness pick.
“Looking at the race now, it’s a great decision to come here,” Cox said. “To see him training the way he is, we’re ready for Saturday.”
FAVORED MYSTIK DAN
The revised morning line has, as expected, made Mystik Dan the favorite at 8-5 after the Bob Baffert-trained Muth was scratched Wednesday because of a fever.
Imagination, Baffert’s horse left in the field as he looks for a r ecord-extending ninth Preakness victory, is second at 3-1, followed by Catching Freedom at 7-2 and Chad Brown-trained Tuscan Gold at 9-2. D. Wayne Lukas’ Just Steel and Seize the Grey are each 12-1, and long shots Mugatu and Uncle Heavy are 20-1.
Especially with rain in the forecast, it has become Mystik Dan’s race to lose. The Derby winner by a nose got a glimpse of the Pimlico paddock on Thursday morning before getting in a light gallop overseen by trainer Kenny McPeek, who was out at the barn in Baltimore for the first time this week.
“He’s doing great,” McPeek said. “He’s a pretty easy-peasy colt. He eats well and he’s a real quiet horse. I’ve used the terminology that he’s an old soul. Nothing much fazes him at all, which makes our job really easy.”
UNCLE HEAVY’S RIDE
Uncle Heavy is trainer Butch Reid’s first horse in any of the Triple Crown races, and the big, beefy colt lives up to his name. He also has shown some nice potential, winning twice as a 2-year-old and then in a stakes race in New York in February before a disappointing finish in the Wood Memorial last month.
But Reid isn’t happy just to be at the Preakness.
“We only wanted to come if we thought we had a real chance, and we think we have a real chance in this one,” he said Thursday at the annual Alibi Breakfast, a tradition that dates to the 1930s.
One major reason to think Uncle Heavy stands a chance is his jockey: Irad Ortiz Jr., the reigning Eclipse Award winner as most outstanding jockey, an honor he has won five times. Ortiz replaces Mychel Sanchez, reuniting with Reid looking to rekindle some of the success they’ve had together in search of his first Preakness victory.
“Irad’s Irad, so he’s got the experience in these situations,” Reid said. “I think maybe the relationship that Irad and I have had in the past maybe helped him in making that decision.”
TENNIS NEWS
TOP TENNIS PLAYERS SAY THEY’RE PLAYING TOO MUCH BECAUSE THE TOURNAMENTS ARE TOO LONG
ROME (AP) — More competition days, more tickets sold, more TV time, more money.
For tennis organizers, the long-sought upgrade of tournaments in Madrid and Rome — expanding them from eight days to nearly two weeks — has been a bonanza.
For the players? Well, they haven’t been nearly as enthusiastic.
With Madrid and Rome following already established two-week events in Indian Wells and Miami, several of the highest-ranked players — the ones who consistently reach the final stages of these tournaments — are growing weary of spending so much more time on the road.
“You got to be some type of superhero to be consistent back-to-back 10 days in each event getting to the very end of it,” recent Monte Carlo champion Stefanos Tsitsipas said in Rome.
What bothers the top players is that these Masters-level tournaments are being modeled after Grand Slams but they’re still not as prestigious as the Grand Slams: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
In essence, the tournaments in Madrid and Rome are merely warmups for Roland Garros.
“We wanted more drama and then we stretched the drama a bit too much, where it kind of becomes like the ‘telenova’ that was too many seasons,” said Victoria Azarenka, who was formerly ranked No. 1. “Hopefully we make some adjustments, because it’s too long.”
Next year, the Cincinnati Open — a warmup for the U.S. Open — will also be expanded to the two-week format, which increases the draws from 64 to 96 players.
“People want to watch top players play against each other, week in and week out. … There is a market for that, but there has to be a thought to make sure we do take care of our players,” Azarenka said.
The top 32 seeds in the expanded events get byes to the second round, and all players get days off between matches — which is a change from the old format.
“The two-week Masters 1000 events is great for players that are ranked between 50 and 100 in the world because they get a chance to play a main-draw event at a Masters 1000 event. It’s not great for top-10 players,” fifth-ranked Alexander Zverev said.
“Yes, you do get told you have a day in between, you don’t have to play every day. At the end of the day that’s not resting. Resting is when you’re spending time at home, when you’re sleeping in your own bed, maybe with your family, maybe with your dogs, maybe with your kids if you have kids, right? … A day between matches, if you’re at a different place, that’s not resting. If you’re trying to make semifinals or finals of every event, you’re just away a lot longer, and you have to work a lot more.”
The schedule has been a hot topic lately because of injuries to the men’s tour’s two top young players, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, even if their injuries might not be a direct result of the longer tournaments.
Sinner (injured hip) and Alcaraz (right forearm) both withdrew from Rome.
But injuries to top players are nothing new.
“I like this two-week format,” fourth-ranked Daniil Medvedev said. “I like when there is a day off. … I don’t think injuries would come from this format.”
Added 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal, “At the end the players want to make money. The tournaments want to make money. Then it’s all (a) cycle that comes together. We accept that role.”
TOP INDIANA HEADLINES/RELEASES
INDY 500 NEWS
MARCUS ERICSSON HAS NO REGRETS HEADED INTO INDY 500, EVEN AS HE STRUGGLES WITH NEW ANDRETTI TEAM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Marcus Ericsson returned to the Indianapolis 500 with zero regrets.
He’s moved past the controversial ending to last year’s race that cost the Swede a second consecutive win in the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” Ericsson has made up with teammate Colton Herta following their spat last weekend.
And as for his move from powerhouse Chip Ganassi Racing to Andretti Global, where Ericsson’s results have shown a sharp drop-off?
Nope. Nothing to be concerned about there, either.
“Why would I have regrets?” Ericsson asked Thursday. “You should never have regrets.”
And yet the 2022 Indy 500 winner finds himself in a dramatically different situation than he was a year ago, when he waltzed around Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the hottest free agent in the series.
Rival teams found it inexplicable that Ganassi had not yet signed Ericsson to an extension, especially as he entered the biggest race of the year with a victory already on the year and the IndyCar points lead.
Ganassi was holding out for the sponsorship needed to offer Ericsson a lucrative new deal, but by the time he found the funding, Ericsson had already accepted an offer to move to Andretti.
It didn’t matter to Ericsson that Andretti had dropped a peg and was no longer at the same level as IndyCar powerhouses Ganassi and Team Penske. And when it came to the Indy 500, the former Formula 1 driver felt the Andretti cars have been as strong as any other team on the grid.
“Andretti over the years has been very strong around here,” Ericsson said. “When I came over (to IndyCar) five, six years ago, they were the team to beat around here. They were really strong and then it seems the last couple of years they’ve lost their edge, maybe. But I thought it was pretty promising.”
Ericsson opened the season at St. Pete, where he won last year, with a mechanical failure and 23rd-place finish. He bounced back with a fifth-place finish at Long Beach, but then was 18th at Barber and 16th last weekend on the speedway road course.
More troubling about last week’s race was the contact he had with Herta, who was the IndyCar points leader at the time. Herta was incensed on his radio when Ericsson made contact with him, and was still seething after the race.
“Your teammate’s leading the championship and you race him like an ass,” Herta said as he watched a replay after last week’s race. “I don’t know what you’re thinking. He probably braked deeper than he did in qualifying right there, and he runs me clean off the track. You’ve got to be smarter than that, man. So, so dumb.”
Ericsson was taken aback by Herta’s rage.
“It was some harsh words,” Ericsson acknowledged.
The two talked after the race and then proceeded to have conversations over the next few days as Herta admitted it typically takes him time to calm down. He made no apologies for his comments and or that they were directed at his first-year teammate.
“Typically, after a race, if I’m mad, that’s how I react,” Herta said.
Ericsson apologized, and Herta on Thursday became the first driver to step forward and say Josef Newgarden personally apologized to him for the Team Penske cheating scandal when the two spoke ahead of last weekend’s race at Indianapolis.
Other drivers have grumbled that Newgarden has not tried to repair his reputation with them, and Newgarden himself has been unclear on how many of his peers he’s reached out to in the three weeks since IndyCar stripped him of his season-opening victory for illegally using a software system.
Ericsson did not discuss any possible interactions, only his peacemaking session with Herta. But he did discuss how different a year it is for him as he tries for a second Indy win in three years. He finished second to Newgarden a year ago when a late caution led IndyCar race control to make an unprecedented rule change to allow one final green-flag lap to the finish.
Newgarden passed Ericsson for the win — and his block to hold off Ericsson has since been banned — but Ericsson was fuming because never had IndyCar even discussed with the drivers a rules option in which the cars would leave pit lane and immediately go to green for one final lap.
But he also acknowledged that the discussions about his contract extension at Ganassi made life a lot more hectic as he tried to become the first driver to win back-to-back 500s since Helio Castroneves in 2001 and 2002.
“I feel more calm in many ways because last year was quite a stressful year,” Ericsson said. “With the contract, it was not an easy year. But I feel this year has been good, it’s been good getting into a new team. It always takes a little bit of time to get used to things. But this week? The speedway car feels really good.
“I feel pretty confident and looking forward to race here.”
INDIANA FEVER BASKETBALL
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Fever lost its regular-season home-opener in front of a sellout crowd of 17,274 on Thursday night as Liberty forward Breanna Stewart’s team-high 31 points propelled New York to a 102-66 win against Indiana.
Fever (0-2) center Aliyah Boston and forward Katie Lou Samuelson led Indiana in scoring against the Liberty on Thursday night with 12 and 10 points respectively. Samuelson scored eight of her 10 points in the first quarter and went 3-of-3 on field goals and made both of her three-pointers in the opening quarter.
In her Gainbridge Fieldhouse regular season debut, Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark went 2-of-8 shooting and went 1-of-7 from beyond the arc to finish with nine points. Clark went 4-of-4 from the free throw line and finished with a team-high six assists to go along with seven rebounds.
After trailing by as much as 23 in the third quarter, Indiana closed the gap to finish the frame on a 12-0 run and shrink the deficit to 11 going into the fourth. New York opened the fourth quarter with a 12-0 run of its own and eventually solidified its second consecutive win to start the 2024 regular season.
Liberty guards Betnijah Laney-Hamilton, Sabrina Ionescu and forward Jonquel Jones followed behind Stewart ending the night scoring in double figures. Jones and Stewart both recorded double-doubles with Jones finishing the game with 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Stewart pulled down 10 rebounds as well. Ionescu tallied 14 points, seven rebounds and three assists.
New York outscored Indiana in paint points, 48-28, and shot 22-of-23 from the free throw line while Indiana shot 17-of-22.
UP NEXT
The Fever and Liberty meet again this Saturday at Barclays Center at 1 p.m. ET. The game will broadcast on ABC.
INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS BASEBALL NEWS
INDIANAPOLIS – Liover Peguero and Malcom Nuñez each homered as the Indianapolis Indians defeated Toledo in the nightcap of a doubleheader on Thursday afternoon at Victory Field, 5-3. The Mud Hens won Game 1 in nine innings, 8-6.
Seven of eight total runs in Game 2 came via the long ball. With a 1-0 lead, Peguero brought home three runs on his second homer of the season against Brant Hurter (L, 1-2) in the fourth inning. The Indians (18-20) then erased a solo home run by Parker Meadows in the bottom of the sixth on a homer by Malcom Nuñez. Former Indianapolis outfielder Bligh Madris then launched a two-run shot in the seventh inning to cap the scoring.
Indianapolis’ pitching staff held Toledo to just one hit through the first five innings, with starter Michael Plassmeyer and Brady Feigl (W, 5-1) logging five shutout innings with eight strikeouts.
After Toledo (23-18) plated four runs in the top of the ninth inning against Geronimo Franzua (L, 1-2) to break a 4-4 tie in Game 1, Matt Gorski launched a 451-foot home run out onto the concourse in left field – the second of two Indians homers in the game – to spark a comeback attempt that fell short. With two outs and runners at the corners, Jake Lamb then sent a long fly ball out to right-center field to end the game.
The contest began with Henry Davis’ first Triple-A homer of the year to put Indy up 1-0. Both teams traded two runs in the third inning before Gorski doubled home Gilberto Celestino from first base with a hard-hit liner into the left-field corner. The Mud Hens then scored one in the top of the fifth and one in the seventh to send the game to extra innings.
Devin Sweet (W, 1-3) got the win for Toledo in Game 1 after tossing 2.0 shutout innings with four strikeouts.
Following a 2-hour, 49-minute doubleheader opener, the Indians and Mud Hens finished Game 2 in 1-hour and 27 minutes to record the quickest 7.0-inning game, home or away, in Victory Field history.
Indianapolis and Toledo will face off in the third contest of the six-game series tomorrow afternoon at 7:05 PM ET. LHP Bryan Sammons (4-2, 3.74) will take the mound for the Mud Hens while the Indians have yet to name a starter.
INDIANA BASEBALL NEWS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The pitching has been a revelation for the Indiana Baseball team (29-22-1, 14-9 B1G) over the past month as it inches closer to the beginning of postseason play in late-May. That trend continued today as the Hoosiers held Michigan to just five runs across 18 innings of baseball, settling for a doubleheader split on Thursday (May 16) afternoon at Bart Kaufman Field.
IU had the game in reach in Thursday’s opener. Sophomore shortstop Tyler Cerny and junior outfielder Carter Mathison each hit balls to the warning track with two runners on but settled for no runs. Cerny smoked a ball in the eighth inning, that would’ve given IU the lead, but it tailed foul. Michigan went on to win the first game 3-2.
The Hoosiers wasted no time in the second game, jumping all over the Michigan starting pitcher, Chase Allen, for eight runs. Sophomore outfielder Devin Taylor hit his fourth home run in the last five games and finished a triple short of the cycle. Junior right-hander Julian Tonghini (W, 2-1) was fantastic across four innings in relief. IU coasted to a 11-2 win, punching a ticket to the Big Ten Tournament.
Saturday’s rubber match will be IU’s senior day, honoring six seniors, but will also serve as a massive seeding day across the Big Ten landscape. The Hoosiers are in the conference tournament but could position themselves to make a deep run in next week’s event in Omaha. First pitch is set for 2:00 PM ET.
Game 1: Michigan 3, Indiana 2
Recap – Game 1
For a seventh-consecutive game, the bats just couldn’t get it going. The Hoosiers scored just two runs on eight hits and left seven runners on base. Sophomore outfielder Devin Taylor hit a leadoff home run in his first at-bat but IU got just one run the rest of the way, an RBI-single from Taylor in the fifth inning.
The Hoosier pitching staff supplied nine outstanding innings, allowing just three runs and five hits but it was spoiled by a poor offensive performance at the plate. In his final appearance at Bart Kaufman Field, sixth-year senior pitcher Ty Bothwell threw six innings with seven strikeouts. He allowed just two runs on a double in the fourth inning.
IU got the game-tying run to second base in the bottom of the ninth inning after two Michigan defenders collided into each other allowing redshirt freshman designated hitter Joey Brenczewski to reach on a double. The ensuing batters struck out and grounded out. Redshirt junior catcher Jake Stadler was hit by a pitch but freshman second baseman Jasen Oliver lined out to end the game.
Game 2: Indiana 11, Michigan 2
Recap – Game 2
IU quickly broke out of an offensive slump in the second game, tacking on four runs in the first inning enroute to a 11-2 victory. The Hoosiers scored 10 in the first three innings and rode an outstanding day on the mound from junior reliever Julian Tonghini to the victory.
Sophomore outfielder Devin Taylor stayed hot at the plate as he continues to embrace the leadoff spot. He scored four runs in his first four at-bats and finished a triple short of the cycle. Junior infielders Josh Pyne and Brock Tibbitts and sophomore second baseman Jasen Oliver all had two-hit efforts.
Seven of IU’s nine starters recorded hits and six different Hoosiers came around to score. It was the 21st game this season that IU has scored 10+ runs in a contest.
Notes to Know – Both Games
• Julian Tonghini recorded a career-high eight strikeouts across four innings of relief in the second game of Thursday’s doubleheader. He was awarded the win for his efforts.
• In his last 10 games, Devin Taylor is hitting .432 (19-44). He has homered in four of his last five games and currently sits atop the Big Ten leaderboard with 16 long balls. The last Hoosiers to lead the conference in home runs were Matt Lloyd and Cole Barr in 2019 with 17 each.
• Brock Tibbitts had a pair of base knocks in the second game of today’s doubleheader. He’s got 190 for his career with three guaranteed games. The Hoosiers will likely need to go deep into next week if he’s to reach the 200-hit threshold at IU.
• Tyler Cerny (72) and Devin Taylor (75) are the only pair of Big Ten teammates each with 70+ hits this season. Taylor is top-five in hits in the conference this season.
• IU has now gone 12-straight games with allowing seven-or-fewer runs on the mound. The Hoosiers have held opponents to five-or-fewer in seven-straight contests. IU’s earned run average in the past 10 games is just 3.74.
Up Next
These two teams will meet in the regular season finale on Saturday afternoon. Both teams are currently projected to make the Big Ten Tournament next weekend. The game will be streamed on Big Ten Plus or can be heard on the Indiana Sports Radio Network via IUHoosiers.com/Audio.
PURDUE MEN’S BASKETBALL
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue and Marquette men’s basketball programs have announced the start of the two-game home-and home series, scheduled to begin in Milwaukee during the 2024-25 season.
The Boilermakers and Eagles will start the series in Milwaukee on Nov. 19, 2024, in Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, before retuning to Mackey Arena during the 2025-26 season on a date to be determined.
The Boilermakers and Eagles earned top-two seeds in last year’s NCAA Tournament and both teams are ranked among the top 15 in many of the “Way Too Early” top-25 polls for the 2024-25 season.
The two teams met a year ago in the title game of the Maui Invitational, and will meet for the fifth time in the last eight seasons. The No. 2-ranked Boilermakers defeated the fourth-ranked Eagles, 78-75, in a memorable contest the day before Thanksgiving. Purdue jumped out to a 12-point halftime lead, but needed a Zach Edey tip-in in the late moments to hold on for the championship.
The two teams met in the 2017, 2019 and 2022 Gavitt Games as well. Purdue leads the all-time series by an 11-1 margin, the lone setback being a 65-55 decision in Milwaukee in the 2019 Gavitt Games. The last two games have been determined by a total of eight points.
Marquette is coming off a 27-10 season and a two-seed in the NCAA Tournament, reaching the Sweet 16 before falling to North Carolina State in Dallas.
Meanwhile, the Boilermakers are coming off a spot in the National Championship game and a 34-5 record. Three starters are scheduled to return in addition to three other players that played at least 31 games this past season. Head coach Matt Painter also welcomes a six-member recruiting class that is ranked among the top 10 nationally.
The other piece of the schedule that has been announced is the Indy Classic contest against Texas A&M on Dec. 14, in Indianapolis.
***ALSO
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue men’s basketball incoming freshman Daniel Jacobsen is one of 30 players invited by USA Basketball for a spot on its U18 National Team, the organization announced yesterday.
The 30 athletes were invited as part of the U18 National Team training camp at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Training camp begins Thursday, May 23 with the 12-member team expected to be announced before the team departs for the 2024 FIBA U18 Men’s AmeriCup, scheduled for June 3-9 in Buenos Aires.
Jacobsen is one of five players from the Class of 2024 on the training camp roster.
Purdue has been well-represented on USA Basketball. A year ago, Myles Colvin played in the 2023 FIBA U19 World Cup in Hungary. Three years ago, both Jaden Ivey and Caleb Furst won gold medals for Team USA while Zach Edey won bronze with Team Canada. Both Ivey and Edey were named to the FIBA U19 World Cup 5 All-Star Team with Chet Holmgren, Victor Wenbanyama and Serbia’s Nikola Jovic.
In 2019, Trevion Williams won gold with Team USA. Carsen Edwards won bronze with Team USA in 2017. Lastly, Caleb Swanigan won gold in 2014 in the U17 World Cup before winning gold in the 2015 U19 World Cup.
Jacobsen, a 7-foot, 3-inch center from Chicago, prepped at Brewster Academy (N.H.), helping Brewster to a No. 9 national ranking in the SCNext Top 25 high school rankings via ESPN and playing with other players that will attend Stanford, Iowa State and Georgia Tech. Ranked in the top 100 by several recruiting services, Jacobsen reclassified from the Class of 2025 and signed with the Boilermakers in November and will arrive on campus in the next month.
One of the biggest risers in the rankings, Jacobsen is part of a recruiting class considered among the top-10 classes in the country.
PURDUE SWIMMING
WEST LAFAYETTE – In a move to focus on his health and family, Purdue Diving head coach Adam Soldati will pass the torch of leading the Boilermakers to protégé and Olympic champion David Boudia due to Soldati’s recent diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Soldati has been the leader of the Purdue Divers since being hired in 2005. Simultaneously, he has also enjoyed success when his divers compete as part of USA Diving. He plans to coach the Boilermakers through the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in June and will assist Boudia as needed through the Olympic Games in the late summer. Always a devoted family man and father of six, Soldati’s faith, perspective and perseverance will lay the foundation for the fight ahead.
“Since the spring of 2005, Adam Soldati has invested every bit of himself into Purdue University and our incredibly successful diving program,” said Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mike Bobinski. “He has impacted and provided counsel and leadership to countless people – student-athletes, families, fellow coaches and staff – in positive and extraordinary ways. And true to his persona, he has approached the unfathomable challenge of receiving life-altering news with dignity, faith, courage and optimism. A testament to Adam’s steadfast and unwavering leadership of our diving program is that he has mentored and prepared David Boudia, a former Purdue student-athlete, to carry forward our tradition of success. Adam’s positive imprint on this athletics department, this campus and this community is permanent. Our department will support Adam and his family throughout the journey ahead, and I know our Boilermaker community will do the same.”
As Boudia ascends to Purdue head coach, Soldati will move to the role of director of diving for the short term. Boudia officially came aboard as a full-time assistant coach in the summer of 2021, with the understanding he would one day succeed Soldati as the leader of the Boilermakers.
After more than a year of doctor visits and tests, Soldati was officially diagnosed with ALS in February. Due to the timing of the diagnosis coinciding with the start of swimming & diving’s NCAA championship season, Purdue’s student-athletes were later informed in early April.
“As I reflect on my past 19 years with our Boilermaker family, I am overcome with gratitude and thankfulness,” Soldati said. “I rejoice in the relationships that Kimiko, our children and I have built here at Purdue and in Greater Lafayette. We have nothing but the greatest love and respect for so many people who have been part of our lives.
“I have always said that it’s not my job to create a champion but create an environment where you can become one. Purdue has afforded me that opportunity each and every year that I have been privileged to lead this program. The level of commitment by the administration to pursue excellence, invest in innovation and believe in dreams has been the fuel that ignited this program to one of the best in the country – and I am so appreciative that they took the chance on a young, passionate coach in 2005. From the administration, coworkers, support staff, facility crews and to my student-athletes and their families, this beautiful and robust environment at Purdue is a rare find in collegiate sports. The familial love, care and support is truly second to none.
“It brings tears to my eyes as I think of all the athletes I have had the opportunity to coach, pour into, and Lord willing, help guide them along their path to adulthood. I will cherish so many memories and moments, and I am certain the character-building success will continue under David’s leadership, passion and love for this program. Thank you, Boilermakers, for allowing me to love, serve and lead this program for so many years. I love you all and will pray for your continued growth and success. Even as I face my next season, I am a blessed man and am excited to see how God will use this disease to bring glory to His name.”
Soldati and his wife, Kimiko Hirai Soldati, an Olympian for Team USA in 3-meter diving in 2004, are the parents of six children (ages 10-18). The family has begun the initial stages for the fight ahead, one that Adam will face gallantly with the same gratefulness, guts and grit that have made him one of Purdue Athletics’ most successful coaches over the last 20 years.
Boudia’s status as Purdue Athletics’ most-decorated athlete ever was made possible via a kinship with Soldati – a bond between an athlete and a coach that propelled Boudia to achieve overarching success collegiately, nationally and internationally all while training at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center. Their lives changed forever when Boudia won gold on 10-meter at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The three-time Olympian is a four-time medalist for Team USA. He also won five medals in his career at the World Aquatics Championships. For Purdue, Boudia was a six-time NCAA champion and eight-time Big Ten Conference champion, winning CSCAA Diver of the Year at all three NCAA Championships in which he competed.
“The legacy Adam Soldati has created with Purdue Diving is truly remarkable, and he will forever be the cornerstone on which our rich history and future is built,” Boudia said. “I have been fortunate to have been a part of his legacy, both as one of his athletes and as a coach alongside him for the past 16 years. It has truly been a unique opportunity. I am humbled to step into the role of head coach and continue Adam’s legacy as we strive for excellence both in and out of the pool. Adam’s impact is immeasurable, and I am committed to building and expanding upon the foundation he has established.”
With Soldati’s expertise, wisdom and perspective providing the bedrock of the program, the Purdue Divers have won 14 NCAA national championships since 2009. At USA Diving national championship meets, Soldati’s pupils have won 34 titles. Steele Johnson and Brandon Loschiavo have won national titles at both levels while also earning the right to call themselves Olympians. Maycey Vieta has already qualified for the Olympic Games this summer.
Over the last 19 NCAA seasons, the Boilermakers have produced a bevy of All-Americans (athletic and academic), Big Ten champions, Big Ten Divers of the Year, Purdue Athletes of the Year and University graduates. The Burke Aquatic Center bears the name of the man that hired Soldati, the late Morgan Burke, who served as Purdue’s athletics director from 1993-2016. It was Burke’s vision of developing champions, scholars and citizens that Soldati and the Purdue Divers always made a reality at an unprecedented level.
“As a coach, Adam has a unique gift for unlocking the potential in each of his athletes, nurturing their character and growth as both competitors and individuals,” said Kimiko Soldati. “Ask anyone who has encountered this winsome coach, and you will undoubtedly hear words like high integrity, humble, competitive, passionate, caring, safe, faith, hope and love. Adam’s robust faith is an inspiration to a multitude and his ability to mentor young athletes into adulthood has been a catalyst for many.
“Beyond the countless accolades, Adam is a beloved husband and father to our six children – Blake, Isaac, Maiya, Emiko, Noah and Rylie – and a cherished friend to all he encounters. He is a man who fiercely loves competition, sacrificially serves his family and community, and whose poise and affirmation always bring out the best in those around him. To know Adam is to like Adam. He is a man who loves life, embraces adversity, and has always found a way for obstacles and opposition to be the pathway to greater love, joy and personal growth.”
Kimiko continued: “Even as Adam shared this news with his athletes through tears, his undaunted spirit shone through. He encouraged them to let adversity make them beautiful, to have an unshakable foundation, and to live for something bigger than themselves. This is the essence of the man we love and admire.
“The road ahead for all eight of us is fraught with vast emotional and financial challenges. The staggering costs associated with ALS care and necessary home modifications for accessibility will create a burden, stretching our resources thin as we navigate this difficult journey. Amidst the grief and hardship, Adam and I take heart and are determined to embrace the life we have been given with gratefulness, guts and grit.”
A GoFundMe — https://gofund.me/5c5b9379 — has been established to help the Soldati Family cover the fees associated with the challenges that come with combating ALS and adapting to life with it. Purdue Athletics is also working on a tribute series to recognize Soldati’s impact on Purdue Swimming & Diving, as well as USA Diving. Alumni, friends, colleagues and Boilermakers of all ages are invited to submit their memories and well wishes to Soldati here at PurdueSports.com. Those submissions will be compiled for a tribute feature planned for a mid-June release.
Dan Ross – Purdue Men’s Swimming & Diving Head Coach, 1985-2023
“When Wenbo decided to take the USA Diving head coach position, I reached out to a handful of diving coaches I respected. To a tee, they all said it should be Soldati. When I picked Adam up at the old Indy airport, I was still skeptical of his ‘IU-ness.’ But by the time we got to 465 North – and back in those days it was less than two minutes – I knew he was the guy. In fact, we had to get this guy.
“One of my favorite passages of Scripture is from Hebrews 13:2 – ‘Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.’ It can be interpreted many ways: Adam was a stranger at first but an angel for me. I believe everyone who came in contact with him indeed was blessed to be visited by this angel. He changed me as a coach, but more importantly as a friend, brother in Christ and one who always gave me honest advice – not necessarily what I wanted to hear, but what I needed to hear.
“As a coach, Adam always said ‘you must know the science of your sport first, then it’s all about relationships with your athletes.’ He taught me you don’t always have to like every athlete every day, but you must love them all unconditionally – meaning you better know your sport better than anyone, but to win it’s all about relationships.
“Christian, Husband, Father, blessing to all whom he meets, then Coach – that’s how I see the man’s identity. Adam is blessed to know his finality, but in fact not one of us knows when our time on this Earth will be up. So live like Adam is doing – he is truly living now. He wants every one of us to live every day as it is our last and always love your teammates.
“I plan to wake up every day I have left and pray I can live like Adam.”
John Klinge – Purdue Women’s Swimming & Diving Head Coach, 2008-Present
“Adam has created such a tremendous legacy here at Purdue. I think most acknowledge he is one of the best, if not the best, diving coaches in the country. Everyone associated with our program has learned a tremendous amount by being around him. More importantly, Adam is a model father, husband and friend. I have no doubt he will continue to be a great example for all of us moving forward. All of us just want to play a huge part in supporting Adam and his awesome family.”
Darlene Renie – Purdue Swimming & Diving Supervisor of Operations and Purdue Athletics Hall of Famer
“When Adam rolled onto campus for an interview 19 years ago, I had a feeling this man could continue to take the Purdue Diving program places. It was easy to see he possessed so many traits of excellence. He is a family man full of wisdom, tenacity, vision, confidence, persistence and faith. His competitive spirit can be seen and felt on the side of the pool deck and in life itself. Purdue Diving is what it is because of Adam.”
Alex Jerden – Purdue Men’s Swimming & Diving Head Coach, 2023-Present (Assistant Coach from 2019-23)
“I first met Adam by chance sitting next to him on a flight back from the NCAA Championships in 2018 – myself an aspiring college coach and him having just coached Steele Johnson to a national title the day before. I’m not surprised now, but I was back then at the patience and time he gave me on that flight while I asked an endless list of questions. Hard to believe this many years later I’ve been able to work next to him and learn from him within this program. After learning of this news and watching the way Adam has been handing this challenge, my admiration for him is affirmed yet again. We are so fortunate as a program to have such a life, family, and career role model as Adam is to us all on a daily basis.
“For me, it’s been a daily joy to watch the atmosphere of growth and excitement and connection that he has fostered here at the pool. Adam would say that words are our most powerful tools and that rings true especially between him and I. He has inspired me to improve as a human and coach many times over – in times of great conversation or in something as simple as an enthusiastic greeting. To that point, the way he has decided to face this with resiliency, courage, and perseverance speaks to his constitution and strength of faith in a way we have all seen him before, but may have taken for granted or not seen as closely as we do now. How he has nurtured this program all while having a family of seven is a feat as admirable and as extraordinary as I can imagine. I am truly grateful for the example he has set for me and so many others.”
Wenbo Chen – Head Diving Coach at the University of Minnesota; Purdue Diving Coach from 1999-2005
“He always calls me a brother. Yes, Adam has been like a brother to me since we first met in 1998. I got a chance to know him better when he came to Purdue for his interview in 2005. He is eager to win and always stays positive. Even if he is facing tough situations, he sees the blessings in this challenge and stays positive.”
Leslie Hasselbach Adams – USA Diving High Performance Director
“Adam embodies everything I admire in a mentor and friend. He speaks with unwavering truth, intelligence, and care – always ready to offer support and empathy. His integrity shines through in every interaction, and I’m consistently inspired by his ability to get the job done with grace and authenticity. Every conversation with Adam leaves me with a valuable nugget of wisdom, a testament to his profound insight and impact on my life.
“Beyond the accolades of multiple Olympic coaching stints where he guided athletes to Olympic Glory, Adam’s legacy is etched in the lives he has touched and transformed. As a devoted follower of Christ, father, husband and mentor, his passion for nurturing growth, fostering love, and radiating joy has left an indelible mark on all fortunate enough to cross his path. Adam’s calling transcends the confines of the diving pool; it is a calling of the heart, a mission to uplift and empower those around him. As he embarks on the next phase of his remarkable journey, may his spirit continue to inspire others to reach for the stars and embrace the power of faith, love and perseverance.”
Drew Johansen – Head Diving Coach at Indiana University & USA Diving Coach
“The diving world is stunned by this news. Adam is a legendary coach and mentor. He has impacted so many through his leadership roles at Purdue University, the Big Ten Conference, the NCAA and USA Diving. I treasure his role with me as a friend, colleague, teammate and competitor, but his greatest role has always been as a husband and a father. I know we will all unite to help and pray for them as they go through this difficult time.
“When I finally got to talk with Adam a few weeks ago and hear his voice, his eternal optimism, his dogged determination to always live his best life and make everyone around him do the same, I felt joy and was happy to reconnect with an old friend. He told me he sees the blessings in this challenge he is facing, and I couldn’t understand how he could say that. He has been like a brother to me for the past 25 years, and, for no reason, we haven’t spoken on a personal level in years. Busy work lives, competitiveness, gamesmanship, rivalry, and our drive to win – we simply forgot to continue talking as friends. As the conversation continued, we realized for the first time in over a decade we were sharing on a personal level again, and that was our blessing that came from this difficult news. I couldn’t see it at first, but he certainly did.
“I look forward to supporting Adam and his family during this challenge – I know we all do. Let’s keep making today great!”
PURDUE WOMEN’S GOLF
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Following a runner-up finish at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional, Purdue Women’s Golf travels to Carlsbad, California to compete for a national championship at the 2024 NCAA Championships (May 17-22). The Boilermakers join 29 other teams at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa, looking to capture their second national title in program history.
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Friday, May 17: Round 1 of Stroke Play (Tee Times starting at 9:40 a.m. ET)
Saturday, May 18: Round 2 of Stroke Play (Tee Times starting at 9:40 a.m. ET)
Sunday, May 19: Round 3 of Stroke Play (Tee Times starting at 9:40 a.m. ET)
Field of 30 cut to 15 teams
Monday, May 20: Final Round of Stroke Play (Tee Times starting at 1:30 p.m. ET)
Individual national champion determined, field of 15 cut to 8 teams for Match Play
Tuesday, May 21: Quarterfinals (Tee Times starting at 9:50 a.m. ET)
Tuesday, May 21: Semifinals (Tee Times starting at 4:15 p.m. ET)
Wednesday, May 22: National Championship Match (Tee Times starting at 5:05 p.m. ET)
THE LINEUP
Ashley Kozlowski – Sr. (11:41 a.m. ET off No. 1)
Second Team All-Big Ten
Playing in her 41st tournament as a Boilermaker, totaling 115 rounds, more than anyone on the current team
Making her second NCAA Championships appearance, tying for 40th (78-74-74-71—297) in 2022 to help Purdue finish 12th as a team
Has carded six rounds in the 60s this season, tied with six other Boilermakers for the single-season school record: Momo Sugiyama (2022-23), Micaela Farah (2018-19), Ida Ayu Indira Melati Putri (2018-19), Paula Reto (2012-13), Maude-Aimee Leblanc (2009-10) and Maria Hernandez (2007-08)
Ranks second on the team with a 72.49 stroke average and is nationally ranked at No. 130
Has appeared in the lineup in all 12 tournaments this season and has led the Boilermakers in five different events, a team high
Has recorded a team-best 109 birdies
Tied for 13th at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional (71-69-78—218), her seventh Top 20 of the season
Paced the Boilermakers with a 208 (72-70-66) at the Schooner Fall Classic, the seventh-best 54-hole total in program history; her final round 66 was a new career low and the fifth-lowest for a Boilermaker
Led Purdue to a win in the Mary Fossum Invitational, finishing runner-up individually for the second time in her career with a 214 (73-71-70)
Tied for seventh to lead Purdue at The Show (73-70-71—214) at Spanish Trail earlier this year; led the field in par-4 scoring (-4) and ranked second in birdies (13)
Tied for seventh at the Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational (74-74-70—218) for her fourth Top 10 of the season
Finished fifth to pace the Boilermakers at the Briar’s Creek Invitational, which featured a final round 67 (-5) to end the tournament 4-under par (73-72-67—212)
Graduated as an aeronautical and astronautical engineering major, earning several academic honors: WGCAA All-American Scholar Team, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, Academic All-Big Ten
Momo Sugiyama – Jr. (11:30 a.m. ET off No. 1)
Second Team All-Big Team, earning the accolade for the second time
Making her 25th appearance as a Boilermaker after playing in all 12 tournaments a season ago and all 12 tournaments so far this season
Holds a team-best 72.29 stroke average and is No. 128 in the national rankings
Placed 11th at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional (71-69-77—217), her team-high ninth Top 20 of the season
Her 10th-place finish was the first Top 10 by a Boilermaker at the B1G Championships since 2019; also produced the lowest 54-hole score (71-73-71—215) by a Purdue golfer in the tournament since 2018
Has five Top 10 finishes, including a fourth-place performance at the Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational (72-75-70—217) for her best placing of the season
Has finished in the Top 20 in seven of the eight spring tournaments, including a tie for seventh at the Briar’s Creek Invitational (74-71-70—215)
Her two-round 145 (75-70) at the Spartan Sun Coast Invitational was the seventh-best 36-hole total in school history
Began the spring by leading the Boilermakers at the Purdue Puerto Rico Classic, placing eighth with a career-low 211 (67-73-71) that featured a personal-best round of 67 (-5)
Tied for ninth at the Boilermaker Classic with a 1-under 215 (73-69-73) to help Purdue claim the tournament title to start the season
Tied Purdue’s single-season record with six rounds in the 60s last year, while leading the team in stroke average (73.31), team-low round (14), rounds in the 60s (6) and pars (410)
Earned a 3.95 GPA over the past academic year; held a perfect 4.0 GPA throughout the 2022-23 school year, collecting several academic accolades: WGCAA All-American Scholar Team, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, Academic All-Big Ten
Jasmine Kahler – Fr. (11:19 a.m. ET off No. 1)
Making her 11th collegiate tournament appearance but cracking the Purdue lineup for the fourth time
Holds a 74.19 stroke average
Led the Boilermakers at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional, tying for eighth at even-par (71-70-75—216) for her second Top 10 of the season and her first Top 10 as part of the Purdue lineup
Collected a Top 20 finish in her Big Ten Championships debut, ending the tournament with a 1-under 71 to finish 2-over for the week (75-72-71—218); made 40 pars to rank third in the 84-player field
In her debut in the Boilermaker lineup, tied for 19th at the Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational (78-74-72—224)
Competing as an individual, tied for 6th at The Bruzzy, her best finish as a Boilermaker, with a career-low 213 (73-70-70); the 213 was the eighth-best 54-hole total be a freshman in program history
Tied for 25th at the Briar’s Creek Invitational (72-71-77—220)
In her Purdue debut, tied for 22nd as an individual in the Boilermaker Classic (73-72-76—221)
In high school, won the San Diego Section CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) at Torrey Pines and led her team to a fifth-place finish at the CIF State Championship to become the 2022 CIF San Diego Player of the Year
Jocelyn Bruch – Sr. (11:08 a.m. ET off No. 1)
Making her 33rd appearance as a Boilermaker, second most on the team
Holds a 74.20 stroke average
Has appeared in the lineup in all 12 tournaments this season
Making her second NCAA Championships appearance, coming off the bench to play the final two rounds of stroke play as a sub in 2022 (81-77) to help Purdue place 12th as a team
Made a hole-in-one in the final round of the NCAA Las Vegas Regional, leading the Boilermakers with a 74 in extremely windy conditions; tallied 41 pars throughout the week to lead the 69-player field and tied for 24th on the individual leaderboard (76-72-74—222)
Tied for 14th at the B1G Championships, securing her best placing and 54-hole total (73-71-72—216) of the spring and joining Sugiyama with Purdue’s only par-or-better three-round scores in the tournament since 2018
Fired a career-low 209 (69-70-70) at the Schooner Fall Classic for the 10th-best three-round total in school history
Eleven of her 35 rounds have been par-or-better, including three rounds in the 60s
Paced the field in par-4 scoring (-3) to help the Boilermakers win the Mary Fossum Invitational, tying for seventh on the individual leaderboard for her second career Top 10 (76-70-71—217)
Cracked the Top 10 for the first time in her career, tying for sixth with a 4-under 212 (69-69-74) to help Purdue win the Boilermaker Classic
Earned a 2024 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award
Two-time Academic All-Big Ten; graduated last week
Natasha Kiel – Jr. (10:57 a.m. ET off No. 1)
Making her 13th appearance as a Boilermaker, but playing in her 25th collegiate tournament
Has made four of Purdue’s 10 eagles this season
Holds a 74.09 stroke average to rank third on the team
Has appeared in the lineup in all 12 tournaments this season
Placed 36th at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional (71-75-80—226)
Tied for 19th at the Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational (75-74-75—224) for her third Top 20 of the season
Tied for 20th at the Spartan Sun Coast Invitational (76-70—146)
Tied for 29th at the Schooner Fall Classic with a 213 (71-72-70), her best 54-hole total as a Boilermaker
Ranked second in par-4 scoring (-1) and tied for ninth (73-72-73—218) to help the Boilermakers win the Mary Fossum Invitational
Transferred to Purdue after two seasons at Vanderbilt
Last season, played in eight tournaments and produced a 74.4 stroke average for the Commodores
THE FIELD (Ordered by Seed with National Ranking)
#1 Stanford
#2 Wake Forest
#3 South Carolina
#4 LSU
#5 UCLA
#6 Auburn
#7 USC
#8 Texas
#9 Duke
#10 Arkansas
#11 Northwestern
#12 Oregon
#13 Texas A&M
#14 Ole Miss
#15 Arizona State
#16 Clemson
#19 Florida State
#20 Vanderbilt
#21 Pepperdine
#22 Virginia
#23 Mississippi State
#25 SMU
San Jose State
North Carolina
Michigan State
Purdue
Baylor
Oklahoma State
Oregon State
Tulsa
THE COURSE
The 2024 NCAA Championships will take place on the North Course at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa for the first of three straight years.
The North Course, formerly known as the Champions Course, is a par 72 course that will measure 6,330 for the national championships.
Ahead of hosting the NCAA Championships for the first time, the North Course underwent a dramatic redesign by renowned golf course architect Gil Hanse.
RANKED BOILERMAKERS
Purdue enters the NCAA Championships ranked 31st in the national rankings thanks to a pair of tournament titles and six Top 3 finishes throughout this season, including the runner-up finish at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional.
Three Boilermakers, Momo Sugiyama (No. 128), Ashley Kozlowski (No. 130) and Jasmine Kahler (No. 248), are ranked in the Top 250 of the national rankings.
POSTSEASON SUCCESS
The Boilermakers earned a spot in the NCAA Championships for the 19th time in program history, all since 2000.
Purdue captured the 2010 national championship with the second-lowest four-round team score in NCAA Championships history, while Maria Hernandez won the individual crown in 2009.
The Boilermakers reached an NCAA Regional for the 26th time out of the 27 renditions of the NCAA Championships.
Purdue’s runner-up finish at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional was the team’s best finish in a regional since 2013.
VIVA LAS BOILERS
Purdue secured a berth to the NCAA Championships for the 19th time in program history, placing runner-up at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional at Spanish Trail Country Club (May 6-8).
The Boilermakers (+4) were second behind No. 9 Arkansas (E). Baylor (+8), No. 4 UCLA (+12) and No. 19 Florida State (+14) finished behind Purdue and claimed the final three spots to the national championship stage.
Freshman Jasmine Kahler led the Boilermakers throughout the week, tying for eighth at even-par (71-70-75—216) for her second Top 10 of the season and her first Top 10 as part of the Purdue lineup.
All-Big Ten golfers Momo Sugiyama (+1) and Ashley Kozlowski (+2) recorded Top 15 finishes on the individual leaderboard. Sugiyama placed 11th, while Kozlowski was 13th.
The Boilermakers’ runner-up performance was their best in an NCAA Regional since also finishing second in 2013.
Purdue fired an 8-under 280 during the second round, setting a new program best for the lowest round in an NCAA Regional and matching the 2010 Boilermakers at the NCAA Championships for Purdue’s best round in any NCAA tournament. Purdue’s previous low round at an NCAA Regional was 283 by the 2013 Boilermakers at the NCAA West Regional and the 2015 Boilermakers at the NCAA South Bend Regional. The 8-under 280 tied No. 9 Arkansas for the lowest round of the tournament.
REGULAR SEASON RECAP
The Boilermakers earned their ninth straight NCAA Regional berth in the second season under head coach Zack Byrd, producing two wins and four Top 3 finishes throughout the 2023-24 campaign.
Capturing the Boilermaker Classic and the Mary Fossum Invitational, Purdue won multiple tournaments in a season for the first time in seven years.
The Boilermakers also produced two of the lowest five team totals (54 holes) in school history, a program-best 837 at the Schooner Fall Classic and an 852 (fifth) at the season-opening Boilermaker Classic.
Purdue placed fourth at the Big Ten Championships with an even-par 864, the Boilermakers’ best score in the league tournament since 2016.
The quartet of Momo Sugiyama, Ashley Kozlowski, Natasha Kiel and Jocelyn Bruch has competed in all 12 tournaments for the Boilermakers.
ALL-B1G BOILERS
Purdue golfers Ashley Kozlowski and Momo Sugiyama earned Second Team All-Big Ten honors, following a vote from the league’s coaches. Sugiyama collected All-Big Ten accolades for the second straight season, matching her amount of years as a Boilermaker. Kozlowski, producing the best season of her career, earned all-conference honors for the first time.
Continuing with the successful tradition of Purdue Women’s Golf, at least two Boilermakers landed on the All-Big Ten list for the 16th time over the past 22 years. Since the conference went to two All-Big Ten teams in 2003, 61 Boilermakers have earned all-league distinction.
Sugiyama has led the team in stroke average (72.29), Top 10 finishes (5) and rounds of par-or-better (18).
A senior leader, Kozlowski has had her best season as a Boilermaker with a 72.49 stroke average. She has led Purdue in five tournaments, while her six rounds in the 60s and 109 birdies are also team highs.
KAHLER RETURNS HOME
While Purdue is making the 2,142-mile trip from West Lafayette, Indiana to Carlsbad, California, one Boilermaker is returning home.
Freshman Jasmine Kahler is a native of Carlsbad. She ranked as high as 29th on Junior Golf Scoreboard’s national rankings for the class of 2023 before taking her talents to Purdue.
As a junior golfer, she won the San Diego Section CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) at Torrey Pines and led her team to a fifth-place finish at the CIF State Championship to become the 2022 CIF San Diego Player of the Year.
Kahler has developed throughout the spring to become an important part of the Purdue lineup. In her
Leading the Boilermakers to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional, Kahler tied for eighth on the individual leaderboard to make sure Purdue would take a trip to her hometown to compete for a national championship.
100 ROUNDS AS A BOILERMAKER
Ashley Kozlowski reached a milestone at The Show in Las Vegas back in March. The senior played her 100th round as a Boilermaker, firing a 1-under par 71 to pace the Boilermakers and secure a Top 10 finish (T-7th) on the individual leaderboard.
Kozlowski’s 115 career rounds are a team high, with 38 of those rounds at par-or-better. This season, she has recorded six rounds in the 60s to tie a single-season school record.
Her lowest round was a 66 at this year’s Schooner Fall Classic, tied for the fifth-best round by a Boilermaker in program history.
Kozlowski has played in 40 tournaments throughout her Purdue career, producing 14 Top 20 finishes and nine Top 10 performances.
TOP 20 MOMO
Since the flip of the calendar to 2024, Momo Sugiyama has been a fixture in the Top 20 of tournaments.
The All-Big Ten golfer has cracked the Top 20 in nine of Purdue’s 12 tournaments this season, including five Top 10 performances, both team highs.
Last time out, she tied for 11th at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional (71-69-77—217) to help the Boilermakers advance to the NCAA Championships.
She paced Purdue at the Big Ten Championships, tying for 10th and becoming the first Boilermaker to finish under-par in the conference tournament since 2018.
Sugiyama finished 13th at The Show and tied for seventh at the Briar’s Creek Invitational for her fourth consecutive Top 20.
She led the Boilermakers at the Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational (72-75-70—217) for her best finish of the season, tying for fourth.
The junior placed eighth at the Purdue Puerto Rico Classic to begin the spring before tying for 16th at the Spartan Sun Coast Invitational. She led Purdue in both events.
FLYING HIGH WITH BYRD
Victorious in two of their four fall tournaments, the Boilermakers won multiple tournaments in a season for the first time in seven years.
Winning the Boilermaker Classic and the Mary Fossum Invitational, Purdue won back-to-back tournaments for the first time since the 2012-13 season. The last time Purdue won its first two tournaments of the season was the start of the 2005-06 campaign.
Purdue already has three tournament titles in just the second season under head coach Zack Byrd; the Boilermakers won three tournaments over the previous six seasons before Byrd’s arrival.
Seventeen of the 50 lowest team rounds in program history have occurred under Byrd, including the school record 270 (-18) at the season-opening Boilermaker Classic as well as the second-best round, a 274 at the Schooner Fall Classic.
This season, the Boilermakers have produced two of the lowest five team totals (54 holes) in school history, a program-best 837 at the Schooner Fall Classic and an 852 (fifth) at the season-opening Boilermaker Classic.
HE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES
While Purdue is no stranger to the national championship stage, neither is head coach Zack Byrd.
As an assistant at Ole Miss, Byrd helped guide the Rebels to the 2021 NCAA National Championship, the first ever by a women’s team in school history.
One year later, Byrd coached All-American Chiara Taburlini at the 2022 NCAA Championships. He walked alongside for all 72 holes of the national championship, helping her manage the difficult Golf Club’s Raptor Course. Tamburlini not only made the cut, but she secured a Top 10 finish by placing eighth.
SECOND WIN OF THE SEASON
Entering the final round eight shots back of host Michigan State, Purdue flipped the script and fired a final round 284 (-4) to win the Mary Fossum Invitational by 10 strokes.
Purdue was 6-under (290-284-284—858) on the par 72 West Course at Forest Akers GC, the only team to finish under par and just one shot off the tournament record. The Boilermakers defeated a field of 14 other teams that included five Big Ten programs. The three-round total also cracked the Top 10 for one of the lowest 54-hole scores in program history.
The Boilermakers played the par 4s a combined 5-over to lead all teams, including 16 shots better than Michigan State. Purdue also paced the field in par-3 scoring (-2) and birdies (47).
Four Boilermakers finished in the Top 10 of the individual leaderboard. Ashley Kozlowski led the way, ending the tournament at 2-under to place runner-up for the second time in her career. Jocelyn Bruch tied for seventh (+1) for her second Top 10 of the 2023-24 campaign.
HOME COURSE PROTECTED
Purdue protected its home course, starting the 2023-24 season by beating 14 other teams to win the Boilermaker Classic (Sept. 4-5).
The Boilermakers finished the 54-hole event 12-under par (296-270-286—852) on the Kampen-Cosler Course at the Birck Boilermaker Complex, six shots ahead of runner-up Alabama.
fired a 270 (-18) in the second round to break the program record for team-low round by five strokes, besting the previous record of 275 shot by the 2011 Boilermakers at the Administaff Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate.
Jocelyn Bruch cracked the Top 10 for the first time in her career. She placed sixth with a 212 (69-69-74).
Momo Sugiyama finished another tournament in red figures, firing a 215 (-1) with a 69 sandwiched in between rounds of 73. Starting her second season as a Boilermaker, she tied for ninth on the individual leaderboard.
NOTRE DAME BASEBALL
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Notre Dame (27-24, 9-20 ACC) fell short in the doubleheader at Louisville Thursday, losing 5-3 in Game One and 5-1 in Game Two.
The Irish turned two double plays in Game One, adding to their ACC-leading season total (now 46). Hincks also added to his personal total, as he entered the weekend with nine more fielding double plays than any other ACC player. He now has 44.
RHP Tobey McDonough (3-3) shouldered the loss in Game One, and RHP Jack Radel (4-3) took the loss in Game Two.
OF David Glancy led the Irish at the plate with two home runs on the day, one in each game.
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME ONE
The Irish got off to a quick start, as Glancy homered with one out in the first inning to put the Irish up 1-0. After a walk in the bottom of the inning, C Tony Lindwedel and INF Jack Penney caught the runner stealing. Starting RHP Matt Bedford dealt his first strikeout of the day, and a groundout ended the inning.
Gumpf followed Glancy’s lead in the second, delivering a one-out solo homer to give the Irish a two-run lead. Louisville responded in their half inning with a two-run homer to even the score at two apiece. Bedford added another strikeout to limit the damage.
Glancy doubled in the third, but a double play caught him and Penney out, ending the inning. Bedford added a third strikeout en route to retiring the side in the bottom of the third.
Notre Dame went three up, three down in the fourth. After two outs in the bottom of the inning, Louisville homered again to go up 3-2. Neither side scored in the fifth, as Lindwedel chased a dirt ball to catch a runner trying to advance, ending the inning.
Penney drew a HBP and INF Connor Hincks added a single in the sixth, but both were unable to get home. After a Louisville single in the bottom of the inning, Notre Dame turned its 45th double play of the season, as INF Estevan Moreno dished to Penney and second, who turned to Hincks at first. After a walk, McDonough took the mound, allowing a walk before a quick grab by Penney ended the inning.
The Irish sat down in order in the seventh, and after a single, McDonough struck out two and kept Louisville scoreless in the seventh.
OF TJ Williams led off the eighth with a bunt single, and stole second and third on two-consecutive pitches. Penney singled to bring Williams home and tie the game up at three runs apiece. In the bottom of the inning, Louisville led off with a single, but a McDonough strikeout, and another Penney-Moreno-Hincks double play ended the inning.
Notre Dame threatened in the ninth, hitting two-straight singles via Hincks and INF Simon Baumgardt. Gumpf laid down a bunt, as Baumgard took second and Hincks was tagged out at third. An OF Tito Flores single loaded the bases, but a double play ended the Irish hopes in the ninth. After a Louisville single in the bottom of the inning, the Cardinals homered to walk off with the 5-3 win.
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME TWO
Both sides were held scoreless in the first, as Radel and Penney combined to pick off a runner at second. The teams went without scoring in the second, as well, as Radel and the Irish sat Louisville down in order, with Radel posting a strikeout.
Williams added Notre Dame’s first hit of the game in the third inning, but the Irish were held off the board. After a flyout to lead off the bottom of the third, Louisville stacked a double, a walk and a sacrifice bunt to place two in scoring position. A double scored two for Louisville, and after the runner got to third on a wild pitch, an RBI single brought him home. The Irish were able to limit the Cardinals to three runs, closing the inning on a groundout.
Hincks drew a walk in the fourth, but was left on base. Radel and the Irish defense sat the Cardinals down in order in the bottom of the inning. In the fifth, C Joey Spence posted a two-out double, but was left on base. In the bottom of the inning after two outs, a HBP was followed by a home run, increasing Louisville’s lead to 5-0. RHP Ricky Reeth entered to pitch and closed the inning.
Glancy led off the sixth with a solo home run to get the Irish on the board. In the bottom of the inning, Reeth retired the Cardinals in order, starting with a strikeout.
Notre Dame went three up, three down in the seventh. In the bottom half of the inning, after a double, Reeth, Moreno and Baumgardt picked off the runner, and Louisville was held off the board.
Both sides went scoreless in the eighth, and the Irish were retired in order in the ninth to solidify Louisville’s 5-1 win.
UP NEXT
Notre Dame and Louisville return for the final game of the series, and final game of the regular season, Friday at 4 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast on ACCNX.
NOTRE DAME WOMEN’S LAX
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — With the 2024 season behind them, the University of Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team has six representatives on All-Region Teams as announced by the IWLCA Thursday. Part of the West/Midwest region, the First Team selections include the team’s three highest scorers on the season in Madison Ahern, Kasey Choma, and Jackie Wolak, as well as the program’s all-time leader at the draw, Kelly Denes as the region’s draw specialist. MK Doherty and Olivia Dooley represent the Irish as members of the Second Team.
Graduate attacker, Ahern finished second on the team in overall points (80) while boasting the most goals on the season with 60 in 20 games played. Averaging 3.00 goals per game in her final collegiate season, the team’s leader at the free position she ranked second in the ACC and 20th nationally with a .900/game. In 2024, Ahern had a minimum of one goal per game and started all 20 games for the team this season. She was previously recognized this season as a First Team All-ACC honoree and USA Lacrosse Honorable Mention All-American while being named to the Tewaaraton Watchlist at the start of the season.
Choma led the midfield position with 56 goals and 22 assists, ranking third on the team in both categories. With 56 goals on the season, Choma became just the second individual in program history to surpass 250 career goals when she scored her second of the day against Michigan to cap off her stories career. Previously this season, Choma was named a Tewaaraton nominee along with First Team All-ACC, USA Lacrosse First Team All-American and an ILWomen Midseason First Team honoree. Choma’s performance on the free position (.714) ranked fifth nationally at the end of the season and led all ACC opponents.
Wolak’s historic Irish career came to an end last weekend as the all-time leading scorer and holds the program record for most assists and points in NCAA postseason play. A 2024 Tewaaraton finalist and the ACC Attacker of the Year, Wolak finished second nationally in points with 110 and became the first individual in program history to boast triple-digit points in multiple seasons. Her 5.50 points per game average also ranked top-10 nationally while she was 11th overall in total assists (52). In her final weekend in an Irish uniform, the graduate attacker set a single-game record for assists (9), assists in a half (5) and points in a quarter (6). She closed out the weekend as the team’s all-time points leader (341) after adding seven points against Michigan for an 18-point NCAA Tournament stretch, which led all Division I players.
A senior draw specialist for the Irish, Denes capped off her Irish career as the program’s leader in draw controls and is the only individual to boast multiple 100+ draw control seasons in her Irish career (Denes had three). A 2024 Second Team All-ACC honoree and Tewaaraton Watchlist name, Denes tied a single-game draw controls record with 16 controls against Pitt on March 30. With 149 draw controls this season, the senior ranked 12th nationally in the category with an average of 7.45 draw controls per game while her total was good for ninth in the country.
Doherty earned numerous recognition throughout the 2024 season, picking up Second Team honors by the IWLCA in addition to her honors on the Tewaaraton Watchlist, Second Team All-ACC and USA Lacrosse Second Team All-American nod. With seven game-winners in her senior season, Doherty led the team in the category while appearing in 17 games for the Irish. In addition to her play on the offensive side of the ball, Doherty made a mark at the midfield with 77 draw controls on the year which ranked second on the team. She finished fourth on the team in points with 47 while adding 19 ground balls and nine caused turnovers to the mix.
An addition to the team in 2024, Dooley quickly made an impact on the Irish defense, leading the team in caused turnovers (37) while finishing second in ground balls with 37. The graduate set a career best five ground balls and six caused turnovers against Liberty on April 11. In the opening round of the ACC Tournament, Dooley tallied four caused turnovers and five ground balls for the Irish to lift them to a win over Clemson and fourth consecutive appearance in the ACC Semifinals. Earlier this season, Dooley was named to the All-ACC Tournament Team and was a Midseason All-American Honorable Mention by ILWomen.
NOTRE DAME MEN’S LAX
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – No. 1 Notre Dame looks to avenge its only loss of the season, as it takes on No. 8 Georgetown in the NCAA Championship quarterfinals at James M. Shuart Stadium on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York for a chance to go to Championship Weekend in Philadelphia. The game will be played on Saturday, May 18 and will air on ESPNU.
GAME DETAILS
Location: Hempstead, New York | James M. Shuart Stadium
Schedule: May 18 — Noon ET
TV: ESPNU
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POSTSEASON SUCCESS
• The Irish won their first NCAA title in 2023, defeating Duke in the title game by a final score of 13-9 in Philadelphia on Memorial Day.
• Notre Dame has now made the NCAA Championship field in 17 of the last 18 tournaments.
• Notre Dame has advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship in 12 of the last 14 NCAA Tournaments.
• Notre Dame is 21-11 over its last 12 NCAA Championship appearances.
• Notre Dame owns a 26-25 record in its 27 trips to the NCAA Championship.
• This is the 15th time overall and 14th time in the last 16 seasons that the Irish have earned one of the eight national seeds for the NCAA Championship.
• The Irish are 11-3 in games played at Arlotta Stadium in NCAA Championships play.
• Notre Dame advanced to the NCAA Championship final weekend in 2001, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2023 and played in the title game in 2010, 2014 and 2023.
THE GEORGETOWN SERIES
• Saturday will be the 20th meeting all time between Notre Dame and Georgetown. The Irish have a slight edge in the series with a record of 10-9.
• This weekend’s game will be the first between the Irish and Hoyas in the NCAA Tournament.
• Notre Dame enters the matchup winners of seven of the last nine meetings, dating back to the 2011 season.
• The Irish suffered their only defeat of the season to the Hoyas, falling by a score of 11-10 in overtime at Arlotta Stadium on Feb. 25.
VIDEO GAME NUMBERS
• The Irish enter Saturday’s game leading the country in scoring offense (15.86 goals per game), first in the country in points per game (25.5), first in the country in shooting percentage (37.5) and third in assists per game (9.64).
• Notre Dame has reached double-digit scoring in every game this season.
• Five of ND’s 12 opponents have allowed their most goals in a game this season to the Irish (Cleveland St., Marquette, Michigan, Duke and Virginia).
• The 10-goal win over Cleveland State, the 13-goal victory at Marquette, the five-goal win over Maryland and the 10-goal win over Duke represent the largest margin of victory for the Irish in the respective all-time series.
• The Irish have also played fairly clean games thus far, as they are averaging just 14.5 turnovers per game which leads the ACC and ranks 10th in the country.
PICK YOUR POISON
• The Irish starting attack has combined for 170 points this season.
• Pat Kavanagh (25G, 40A), Chris Kavanagh (31G, 33A) and Jake Taylor (38G, 3A) are each having great seasons.
• The three attackman have a combined 549 points in their career off 306 goals and 243 assists.
• The Irish starting midfield also presents headaches for the opposition with Eric Dobson, Jordan Faison and Devon McLane each presenting different challenges to try to stop.
• McLane leads the unit with 39 points (31G, 8A) while Faison has 27 (19G, 8A) and Dobson has added 26 (14G, 12A).
CASHING IN ON THE EMO
• For the third-straight season, Notre Dame’s man-up offense is among the nation’s best, scoring on 70.3 percent of its opportunities.
• Notre Dame comes into Sunday 26-of-37 on man-up situations.
• The mark of 70.3 percent is the second best mark in NCAA history..
• Jeffery Ricciardelli leads the unit with seven goals, ranking seventh in the country, while Devon McLane has scored six, Jake Taylor has recorded five and Chris Kavanagh has added four.
• The Irish finished the 2023 season going 22-for-41 (.537) on the EMO ranking fifth in the country.
• The Irish EMO unit cashed in on 21-of-31 chances (.677) during the 2022 season.
DOMINATING DEFENSE
• The Irish have allowed just 124 total goals over the course of the season, giving up 9.29 goals per game despite playing some of the top attacks in the country.
• The 9.29 goals per game is the best mark in the ACC and fourth best in the country.
• Dating back to last season, which includes an NCAA Championship run, the Irish have held 13 of their last 18 opponents to 10 or fewer goals, including each of their last five opponents.
• Notre Dame has allowed just nine goals in each of its wins over UVA, marking the first time that Virginia was held under 10 goals in back-to-back games since 2016, the first time in the shot clock era.
• The unit allowed just three goals in the win over Cleveland State, which is tied for the second fewest given up by ND in a season opener in program history.
• The Irish finished 2023 allowing just 9.69 goals per game, leading the ACC and ranking sixth in the country, despite playing nine games against opponents that ranked in the top 10 in goals scored per game.
• Notre Dame led the ACC and ranked ninth in the country in caused turnovers per game last season, averaging 9.69.
BEATING THE BEST
• Notre Dame has never shied away from putting together a challenging schedule and the 2024 slate is no different.
• Of Notre Dame’s 14 games during the 2024 season, nine feature opponents ranked in the current USILA or Inside Lacrosse Top 20 Polls.
• The Irish are now 7-0 against top-10 teams at the time of the matchup this season.
• The Irish have three wins against teams ranked No. 3 in the country at the time of the matchup (Maryland, Syracuse and Duke).
• Notre Dame is 8-1 against teams currently ranked.
THE CONDUCTOR
• Pat Kavanagh became the first Notre Dame player to be named a Tewaaraton Trophy finalist three times, earning the honor in 2024, 2023 and 2021.
• The graduate student was named the ACC Offensive Player of the Year this season after leading the Irish to an undefeated 4-0 regular-season record in league play.
• With four points in the regular-season win over Virginia, Kavanagh became the all-time career points record holder at Notre Dame, which was previously held by Randy Colley (273). Kavanagh has 286 career points (111G, 175A).
• The attackman is the current NCAA DI active career leader in assists per game (2.97) and is second for total career assists (175).
• Kavanagh has recorded three or more points in every game this season.
• The Rockville, New York, native broke the program record for points in a season in 2023 with 77 points off 25 goals and 52 assists.
• Kavanagh became the program record holder for career assists during the 2023 season and has 175 in his illustrious career.
• The attackman also shattered his own single-season program assists record in 2023, totaling 52 on the season. Kavanagh now holds the top four marks for assists in a season.
• Kavanagh is also the only player in program history to record 10 points in a single game, a feat which he has achieved three times in his career.
THE STOPPER
• Grad student Liam Entenmann was named a 2024 Tewaaraton Finalist, becoming the third men’s goalie in history to earn the distinction and first since 2011.
• Entenmann was named the 2024 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and ACC Goalie of the Year, claiming both awards for the second straight season.
• Entenmann joins former Irish great Matt Landis as the only two players in ACC history to garner ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors multiple times.
The goalie cemented his status as the top goalie in the country with his play in 2023, being named the Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Outstanding Goalie by the USILA, ACC Defensive Player of the Year, ACC Goalie of the Year and NCAA Championships Most Valuable Player.
• Entenmann became the all-time program saves leader in the win over Cornell, surpassing Joey Kemp (633 saves) for the top spot. The shot stopper enters the weekend with 708 saves.
• The goalie ranks first in the ACC in goals allowed per game (9.32) and save percentage (.555).
• The grad student turned in his best performance of the season in the ACC semifinal win over No. 5 Virginia, making a season-high 18 saves while allowing just six goals in a dominant performance against one of the best attacks in the country.
• The goalie followed up the performance with 12 saves while allowing just six goals in the ACC Tournament title, leading the Irish to the victory and was named the ACC Tournament MVP.
• Entenmann led the ACC and ranked sixth in the country in goals against average, allowing just 9.55 goals per game in 2023.
• Entenmann had a save percentage of .570 (196 saves, 148 goals allowed), ranking fourth in the country last season.
• Entenmann made double-digit saves in each of the final 13 games in 2023, including a season-high 18 in the win over No. 1 Duke to win the national title.
THE SCORER
• Chris Kavanagh had one of the most prolific goal scoring seasons in program history in 2023, recording a career-high 46 goals to lead the Irish attack.
• Kavanagh hasn’t missed a beat in 2024, as the junior is second on the team in points (64) with 31 goals and 33 assists.
• The junior is just the second player in program history to record 30 or more goals and assists in the same season, joining his brother Matt (42G, 33A – 2015).
• With four points (1G, 3A) in the ACC semifinal win over No. 5 UVA, Chris broke into the top 10 on Notre Dame’s career scoring list. The junior has 159 points off 99 goals and 60 assists and currently ranks ninth in program history.
•The junior not only paced Notre Dame’s offense in 2023 but his 46 goals ranked third all-time in program history for a single season, just three behind Randy Colley’s record of 49 goals set in 1995.
• The attackman also added 16 assists to total 62 points, which ranks 10th all-time in Notre Dame men’s lacrosse history.
• Chris finished with 10 hat tricks during the 2023 campaign and has 15 in his career.
• The Rockville Centre, New York, native has 99 career goals.
ACC HONORS
• The Irish cleaned up four of the five major awards handed out by the ACC following the regular season, as Pat Kavanagh was named Offensive Player of the Year, Liam Entenmann claimed Defensive Player of the Year and Goalie of the Year, and Kevin Corrigan was named the Coach of the Year.
• Entenmann became just the second player in ACC history to earn multiple ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors, joining former Notre Dame great Matt Landis.
• Entenmann picks up Notre Dame’s sixth ACC Defensive Player of the Year award, which marks the most for any program since it was created during the 2012 season.
• Pat Kavanagh is the second Fighting Irish player in program history to earn ACC Offensive Player of the Year, as former standout Bryan Costabile took home the award in 2019.
• Corrigan garners the honor for the first time in his career and has now has now earned seven conference coach of the year honors over his career, with the previous six coming from other leagues.
• Entenmann and Kavanagh were one of seven Irish players on the All-ACC team, being joined by Chris Kavanagh (A), Eric Dobson (M), Will Donovan (LSM), Ben Ramsey (SSDM) and Will Lynch (FO).
• The seven Irish honorees are tied for the most All-ACC selections of any team in conference history, as Notre Dame also had seven representatives last season. Of the 19 total All-ACC Team members, Donovan, Lynch and Ramsey are the only representatives at their positions.
KINGS OF THE QUEEN CITY
• Notre Dame won their third ACC Tournament title this season, defeating No. 5 UVA (18-9) and No. 6 Duke (16-6) in Charlotte to claim the championship.
• The Irish scored a combined 34 goals, which was tied for the all-time record for most goals scored in an ACC Tournament.
• Sixteen different Notre Dame players scored over the two games.
• Liam Entenmann was named the ACC Tournament MVP after posting 30 saves while allowing just 12 goals over the two games.
• The goalie was joined by Will Lynch, Shawn Lyght, Jake Taylor, Chris Kavanagh and Devon McLane on the ACC All-Tournament Team.
BUTLER TRACK
The Butler track and field team had a total of eight student-athletes — seven men and one woman — selected to the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field East Championships First Round. The five days of competition will kick off in Lexington, Ky., on Wednesday, May 22 and will last until Saturday, May 25.
The top 48 declared student-athletes were accepted into the first round competitions for each individual event.
On the men’s side, the Bulldogs will have representation in every middle and long distance event.
Jesse Hamlin leads the way with his pursuit for NCAA Championship glory in the 5,000 meters. He placed second in the 5,000 meters at the BIG EAST Championships last weekend and will look to carry the momentum into the race on Friday night at 8:10pm in Lexington.
Florian Le Pallec posted two top-3 times in the conference for each event this season. His mark of 28:25.89 led the conference for the 10K while his time of 13:29.78 was the third fastest. He will begin his first race in the 10K on Wednesday night at 9:10pm before then joining Hamlin in the 5K on Friday.
William Cuthbertson etched his name in the school history books in the 800 meters this season with a mark of 1:47.54 that ranked fifth in the conference. He is set to compete on Wednesday at 7:50pm.
After breaking the 36-year-old program record in the pole vault, Luke Walden will get a shot to improve on his mark of 5.13 meters that ranked second in the conference. Walden will be the first Bulldog to compete with his event scheduled to start on Wednesday at 6:30pm.
Wiktoria Klebowska is the lone Bulldog woman to receive a bid to the NCAA East First Round. She will toe the line in the 3,000-meter steeplechase after earning second at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships last weekend.
The additional NCAA East Regional qualifiers include Martin Kovacech (3,000M Steeplechase), David Slapak (1,500 meters), Will Minnette (10,000 meters).
Bulldog Men
10,000 Meters – Florian Le Pallec (28:25.89), Will Minnette (28:54.78)
5,000 Meters – Jesse Hamlin (13:27.26), Florian Le Pallec (13:29.78)
3,000 Meter Steeplechase – Martin Kovacech (8:53.65)
1,500 Meters – David Slapak (3:41.47)
800 Meters – William Cuthbertson (1:47.54)
Pole Vault – Luke Walden (5.13 meters)
Bulldog Women
3,000 Meter Steeplechase – Wiktoria Klebowska (10:19.19)
BUTLER MEN’S BASKETBALL
Butler will host Western Michigan on Veterans Day at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The game is the first home non-conference contest to be announced for the Bulldogs’ 2024-25 schedule.
The game will be played Monday, Nov. 11. The tip time and television assignment will be announced at a later date. Additional games on Butler’s non-conference schedule will be released soon.
Butler and Western Michigan last met in the 2020-21 season opener, which was a Bulldog win at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Prior to that match-up, the teams had not played since 1950.
Thad Matta and his Bulldogs will have 18 games on the Hinkle portion of the 2024-25 schedule. Coming off a postseason appearance and electric atmospheres on our home court, the upcoming home schedule includes all 10 BIG EAST opponents visiting Hinkle.
Ticket orders can be done online, in person at the Hinkle Fieldhouse ticket office, or over the phone. Our ticket staff is happy to work with you directly.
BUTLER MEN’S GOLF
The Bulldogs will open their 2024 postseason Friday with the first round of the GOLFWEEK National Golf Invitational Championship.
Butler is part of the 10-team field as the NGI gives teams on the outside of the NCAA postseason a chance to have a season-ending championship of their own.
The Bulldogs will compete against Belmont, Cal State Northridge, Long Island, Richmond, SIU Edwardsville, TCU, Valparaiso, Washington State, and Wyoming.
The NGI, in its second year, is a 54-hole tournament with single rounds Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa, Ariz. Players will go off the tees at No. 1 and No. 10 beginning at 7 a.m. local time each morning.
Coach Colby Huffman will utilize a line-up of Will Horne, Damon Dickey, Derek Tabor, Leo Zurovac, and Daniel Tanaka. Horne was recently named All-BIG EAST second team for the 2023-24 season.
The scoring format will be like a traditional college team event with each team starting five players and counting the four best scores.
The Bulldogs are coming off a runner-up finish at the 2024 BIG EAST Men’s Golf Championship presented by JEEP. The runner-up finish for the Bulldogs is the best result for Butler’s men’s golf program since joining the BIG EAST prior to the 2014 championship.
Live scoring will be available via GolfStat with a link available on the schedule page of ButlerSports.com.
BUTLER BASEBALL
INDIANAPOLIS – Butler and UConn combined for 27 hits and 19 runs in the first game of a three-game series on Thursday afternoon. The two clubs exploded to score five runs each in the first inning at Bulldog Park, although only one run would cross home plate over the final three. In the end, UConn improved to 30-21 on the season and BU moved to 20-33.
UConn hit two, two-run home runs in the top of the first to race out to a 5-0 lead. Butler countered with five runs of their own off three hits in the bottom half of the frame. RBIs went to Kade Lewis, Tommy Townsend and Drew Charney.
A wild pitch separated the two teams in the fourth and the Huskies would stay on top the rest of the way.
Studley homered in the firth to make it a three-run game and Padilla doubled down the line in the sixth to make the score 10-7.
Evan Parks had a big hit for BU in the fifth to score Townsend and Carter. Carter came back to the plate in the sixth to cap off a great day from the plate. His single to right center helped Lewis come around to score which made the game 10-8.
Butler’s final run crossed home plate in the bottom of the seventh. Jack Moroknek singled to left to score Urban.
Lewis and Carter highlighted the lineup for BU on Thursday. Carter went 3-for-3 from the dish with two walks, one run scored, and an RBI. Lewis matched Carter with three hits. He went 3-for-5 with a walk, an RBI and two runs scored.
In all, Butler collected 15 hits, but they were all singles. UConn had 12 hits including two doubles and three home runs.
Garrett Coe, Gabe Van Emon and Braden Quinn all touched the rubber for UConn. Coe got the start and was touched up with seven runs coming off seven hits. He walked six and struck out three. Van Emon threw three in relief before Quinn entered for the save (3).
The Bulldogs went with Gage Vota at the start of the game, Christian Finnigan out of the pen and Cade Vota to close. Finnigan was hit with the loss. Cade Vota kept UConn off the scoreboard over the final three frames.
Game two of the series will start at noon tomorrow in attempt to dodge the rain in the area. The BIG EAST Digital Network event will stream on FloSports.com.
BALL STATE BASEBALL
KENT, Ohio – The Ball State baseball bats were hot early and Merritt Beeker posted another quality start to lead the Cardinals to an 11-9 win over Kent State on Thursday night at Schoonover Stadium.
The Cardinals (31-20-1, 17-11 Mid-American Conference) clinched a top five seed in next week’s conference tournament with the triumph over the Golden Flashes (26-24, 16-12 MAC). The winner of the final regular season series will guarantee itself at least a No. 4 seed in the MAC Tourney beginning on Wednesday in Avon, Ohio.
Blake Bevis had a big day at the plate for the visitors, giving the Cardinals a 2-1 edge with a two-run home run in the second inning before pounding a two-run double in the third that paired with Hunter Dobbins’ RBI two-bagger to put Ball State ahead 5-1 going into the fourth. For the day, Bevis went 4-for-5 with five RBI and two runs scored.
Dylan Grego started a six-run fourth inning with a solo blast, while Bevis knocked an RBI single and Houston King launched a two-run safety in the big inning.
Merritt Beeker (8-3) worked 6.1 innings of two-run ball and struck out 11 to increase his season strikeout total to 116. Kent State starter Ciaran Caughey (1-2) suffered the loss after giving up 7 runs in 3.0 innings pitched.
The host Golden Flashes came alive late, scoring a combined eight runs in the final three innings, but Sam Klein struck out three in 1.1 innings to close out his sixth save of the year.
“Our boys came out swinging and then held on,” head coach Rich Maloney said. “Merritt Beeker was outstanding and Blake Bevis carried the offense. Good team victory.”
Ball State and Kent State are scheduled to play the middle game of the set at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
INDIANA STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Former Indiana State men’s basketball coach Taylor “Tates” Locke passed away earlier this week. He was 87 years old.
Coach Locke took over the basketball program in 1989, hailing from Indiana as an assistant coach for Bobby Knight. Locke doubled the win total in his first season following from the previous staff and won a pair of conference games after the team won zero in the previous season. Locke also led the Sycamores to a winning home record of 7-6, the first time over .500 in four seasons.
“Coach Locke was one of the great teachers of the game,” said head coach Matthew Graves. “I first met him as a high school basketball player when he was recruiting me to ISU. His ability to relate and teach from the grassroots fundamental level to the highest levels of the game was simply amazing. Sycamore Basketball extends our sincere condolences.”
Locke finished his tenure with 50 coaching wins, sitting with the 12th-most wins in the Sycamore Basketball program. Prior to Indiana State, he spent time at Army, Miami (OH), Clemson, and Jacksonville.
INDIANA STATE BASEBALL
VALPARAISO Ind. – Mike Sears homered twice to highlight a five-home run game for the Indiana State offense, while Jared Spencer struck out a career-high 10 batters as the Sycamores topped host Valparaiso in the first game of the weekend series on Thursday afternoon, 13-4.
Parker Stinson started the scoring for Indiana State (37-11, 20-5) with a solo home run to right field in the top of the second inning for ISU’s first blast of the day. Sears added a two-run shot in the fourth, while Josue Urdaneta (Solo, 6th), Luis Hernandez (Two-Run, 9th), and Sears again (Two-Run, 9th) also went deep in the contest as the Sycamore bats connected on eight extra-base hits in the contest against the Beacons (14-36, 6-19) in the win.
Spencer (6-0) cruised into the sixth inning surrendering just an Alex Ryan solo home run in the bottom of the second inning while striking out 10 Beacons in his final start of the regular season. The junior left-hander struck out two in the first, second, and third innings, while retiring three more on strikes in the fourth. He retired his final five batters of the contest picking up his final strikeout in the fifth to highlight his day on the mound.
Five Sycamores posted multi-hit games on Thursday afternoon with Stinson, Adam Pottinger, Sears, Grant Magill, and Urdaneta all pacing the way in ISU’s 14-hit performance at the plate. Urdaneta led the team with three hits, while Sears drove in four runs in the win.
Jacob Pruitt worked 2.2 innings in relief allowing five hits and three runs while striking out five. Max McEwen recorded the final three outs of the contest and added a strikeout to wrap up the game.
Ryan was Valparaiso’s leading hitter going 3-for-5 from the plate with a double and home run, while Kyle Schmack added a solo home run for the Beacons in the loss.
Connor Lockwood (2-4) took the loss allowing six hits and six runs (four earned) over 4.1 innings. Jake Jakubowski, Grant Jablonski, Lucas Foley, and Josh Spencer closed out the game on the mound for the Beacons.
How They Scored
Parker Stinson connected on a leadoff solo home run in the top of the second inning and Grant Magill singled home Adam Pottinger to put Indiana State ahead 2-0 early.
Alex Ryan’s solo home run to left field in the bottom of the second inning cut ISU’s lead down to 2-1.
Mike Sears drove a two-run home run to centerfield in the top of the fourth inning scoring Stinson to put the Sycamores ahead 4-1.
Josue Urdaneta scored on a dropped fly ball in the infield in the fifth inning, while Adam Pottinger singled home Dominic Listi to put Indiana State ahead 6-1.
Urdaneta connected on a solo home run to right field and Listi singled home Randal Diaz in the top of the sixth to extend the ISU lead to 8-1.
Kyle Schmack connected on a solo home run down the left field line and Kade Reinertson drove in Carson Husmann with an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning to cut the Sycamore lead down to 8-3.
Luis Hernandez and Sears both hit two-run home runs, while Urdaneta singled home Joe Kido in the top of the ninth inning to put Indiana State ahead 13-3.
Ryan Maka singled home Kaleb Hannahs in the bottom of the ninth to provide the final 13-4 margin.
News & Notes
Indiana State’s win on Thursday afternoon gave the Sycamores 20 conference wins for the second consecutive season marking the first time in program history ISU has hit the mark in back-to-back years.
Josue Urdaneta extended his on-base streak to 37 consecutive games after singling to lead off the top of the fifth inning. He finished the day 3-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored, and an RBI.
Urdaneta’s 37-game on-base streak is the longest on-base streak in the Mitch Hannahs coaching era surpassing the 36-game streak set by Adam Pottinger last season.
Mike Sears’ two-homer game marked No. 20 and No. 21 for the redshirt senior in the 2024 season and set a new Indiana State single-season mark. Sears surpassed the previous mark of 20 home runs set by Boi Rodriguez back in the 1985 season.
Sears’ two-homer game also marked the eighth time in his career that he has posted a multi-homer game and first since hitting two back on May 3 against Belmont.
It marked the ninth time an ISU player has connected on two or more home runs in the same game this season.
Adam Pottinger extended his on-base streak to 20 consecutive games on Thursday following his double in the bottom of the second inning. He finished the day 2-for-5 with a double, two runs scored, and an RBI.
Randal Diaz extended his hitting streak to 21 consecutive games and on-base streak to 27 games following his two-out double in the top of the sixth inning. He finished the day 1-for-6 with a run scored.
Thursday’s five-homer game was the fifth time in the 2024 season Indiana State has connected on five or more home runs this year and the first time ISU achieved the feat on the road. The previous four times came at Bob Warn Field against Indiana (Mar. 19), Bradley (Apr. 14), and Belmont (May 3 & May 4).
The Sycamores drew just one walk as a team on Thursday afternoon marking the lowest by ISU since Indiana State picked up just one walk back on March 23 against Missouri State.
The Indiana State pitching staff combined for 16 strikeouts in Thursday’s contest marking the fourth time ISU has posted 16 or more strikeouts in the same game this season. It marked the first time the Sycamores hit the mark in a nine-inning contest – the other three times came in extra innings against Marshall, Michigan State, and Murray State.
The Sycamores are 46-8-1 over their last 55 Missouri Valley conference games.
Up Next
Indiana State continues the weekend series against Valparaiso as the Sycamores and Beacons are back on the field tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. ET. The game is set to be carried live on ESPN+ and 105.5 The Legend.
PURDUE FT. WAYNE BASEBALL
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Nick Sutherlin had three hits and two runs in Purdue Fort Wayne’s 10-9 loss to Oakland on Thursday (May 16).
The Mastodons scored four runs in the ninth inning but saw their late-game rally came up short
Sean Kasper allowed one earned run in 4.1 innings. Mac Ayres (2-6) got the ball to start for Purdue Fort Wayne and took the loss. Josh Kuhns threw one scoreless inning, allowing no hits, with no walks and two strikeouts in the ninth.
The Mastodons were trailing 4-0 in the second inning Cade Fitzpatrick knocked in a run. The Golden Grizzlies expanded their lead to 5-1 before the Mastodons offense got back to work, cutting into that lead in the third. Senior Jacob Walker came across to score the lone run of the inning for Purdue Fort Wayne, which tightened the Golden Grizzlies lead to 5-2.
Oakland built their lead to 10-3.
The Mastodons picked up two runs in the seventh when a single from Jackson Micheels brought home Sutherlin and Ben Higgins, bringing the score to 10-5 in favor of Oakland. Patience at the plate in the ninth saw the ‘Dons use three walks, a hit by pitch and two hits for four total runs.
Brandon Heidal knocked in five with three hits including a home run for Oakland. Tanner Ware got the win in relief for Oakland. He is 4-0. Aaron Evers got the final two outs for his third save of the year.
Every Mastodons starter reached base safely in the loss.
Purdue Fort Wayne falls to 17-34 (10-18 Horizon). Oakland is now 30-24 (17-11 Horizon). The ‘Dons and Golden Grizzlies will play on Friday at 3 p.m.
PURDUE FT. WAYNE TRACK
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – For the first time since 2019, the Purdue Fort Wayne track and field team will be represented at the NCAA East First Round.
Aaron Martin and Viktor Ertelt will compete in the javelin at the East First Round hosted by the University of Kentucky. The javelin competition is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on June 22.
Martin, the 2024 Horizon League Alfreeda Goff Outdoor Track and Field Male Athlete of the Year, earned a spot thanks to a school-record mark of 66.03 meters at Indiana State. Ertelt, the 2024 Horizon League Javelin Champion, had a season-best toss of 63.39 meters at the Texas Relays.
Martin and Ertelt are the first Mastodon men to earn a spot in the NCAA meet since men’s track and field was brought back to Purdue Fort Wayne in 2019-20.
Previous Mastodons to compete at NCAA first round meets include Emma Rafuse (10,000 and 5,000) in 2019, Theresa McHugh (javelin) and Rachel Dincoff (shot put) in 2013, Crystal Martinez (3,000 steeple) in 2009 and 2008 and Crystina Martinez (3,000 steeple) in 2008.
EVANSVILLE BASEBALL
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – After being held in check nearly all game long on Thursday night, the visiting UIC Flames rallied for two runs in the top of the ninth inning and one in the tenth to grab a 5-4 victory over the host University of Evansville baseball team at German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium in Evansville.
UE freshman starter Kenton Deverman and sophomore reliever Max Hansmann combined to limit the Flames to just two runs on three hits, all in the fourth inning, before UIC rallied to tie the game in the ninth inning.
With UE leading 4-2 going to the ninth inning, back-to-back singles by catcher Jackson Bessette and Kendall Ewell opened the frame for UIC. Then, after a sacrifice bunt, a sacrifice fly brought UIC back within a run at 4-3. A walk put runners on the corners with two out, before outfielder Rayth Petersen tied the game at 4-4 with an RBI single to center field.
After UE was retired in order by reliever Zack Millsap (3-0) in the bottom of the ninth inning, UIC got an RBI double by Bessette off the wall in right field in the tenth inning to take a 5-4 lead. UIC closer Reece Lawler then worked around a one-out walk to post a scoreless tenth inning to record his 12th save of the season.
The loss spoiled a stellar outing by UE freshman pitcher Kenton Deverman. Deverman allowed only four base runners in 7.0 innings of work, with three of them coming in the fourth inning when the Flames strung together three two-out hits to score a pair of runs. Outside of that, Deverman retired 21 of the other 22 men he faced in order, with the lone other runner reaching base on a UE error. Deverman recorded nine strikeouts and did not walk a batter in the outing.
UE scored first in the third inning on a lead-off double by graduate catcher Brendan Hord, a single by junior designated hitter Evan Waggoner, and an RBI double by senior shortstop Simon Scherry.
After UIC took a brief 2-1 lead against Deverman in the fourth inning, Evansville answered back with two runs in the fifth inning on an RBI fielder’s choice by senior first baseman Kip Fougerousse and an RBI single by junior second baseman Cal McGinnis. UE would add a run on an RBI single by graduate third baseman Brent Widder in the seventh inning to take a 4-2 lead. The game would remain 4-2 until the ninth, when UIC rallied.
McGinnis and Scherry both had three-hit nights for UE, while Waggoner added a pair of hits as well. Evansville out-hit UIC, 12-8, but the Purple Aces also stranded 12 runners on base.
With the victory, UIC moves into sole possession of second place in the Missouri Valley Conference standings with a 33-16 overall record and 16-9 Valley mark. Evansville, meanwhile, falls into a tie with Murray State for third place with a 29-23 overall record and 15-10 MVC mark. The series will continue on Friday night at 6 p.m. with graduate LHP Donovan Schultz (3-2, 6.31 ERA) scheduled to get the start for UE. Friday’s game can be seen live on ESPN+ and heard live in the Tri-State area on 107.1 FM-WJPS.
SOUTHERN INDIANA BASEBALL
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Baseball opened Alumni Weekend with an 8-1 victory over Western Illinois University Thursday afternoon at the USI Baseball Field. The Screaming Eagles are 23-30 overall and 12-13 OVC, while Leathernecks go to 13-35, 8-17 OVC.
With the win, USI rises into a tie for fifth in the OVC standings at press time. The Eagles, 12-13 in the league, are tied in the standings with the University of Tennessee at Martin and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The Cougars could rise or fall out of the tie pending the conclusion of the doubleheader nightcap versus Morehead State University that started at 5 p.m.
The OVC Championship, presented by SERVPRO, is scheduled for May 22-25 at Mtn Dew Park in Marion, Illinois.
The Eagles used a two-run second inning to take command of the game, 2-0, early. USI junior catcher Logan Mock (Livermore, California) started the scoring by driving in junior leftfielder Thomas Emerich (Ava, Missouri), who had doubled to start the frame.
Mock would come around to score one batter later when junior second baseman Lane Crowden (Jackson, Missouri) tripled down the right field line for the 2-0.
USI expanded the lead to 6-0 with a 4-run fourth inning. Mock struck again for the first run of the inning with a sacrifice fly, while Crowden made the score 4-0 with a RBI-single to left. Junior third baseman Ricardo Van Grieken (Venezuela), after a single by senior rightfielder Ren Tachioka (Japan), capped off the four-run frame with a two-run double to right field for the 6-0 lead.
Following an Emerich single to start the seventh, junior centerfielder Terrick Thompson-Allen (Sioux City, Iowa) smacked a RBI-triple to left center and scored on a wild pitch to give USI an 8-0 advantage. The Leathernecks closed the gap in the ninth with a tally before the Eagles closed out the 8-1 victory.
USI junior right-hander Peyton Brown (Clemmons, North Carolina) was dominating through six innings and picked up the victory. Brown (2-2), who posted his longest outing of the season, blanked the Leathernecks on two hits and two walks, while striking out four.
USI senior right-hander Trent Robinson (Louisville, Kentucky) picked up the save after throwing the final three innings. Robins allowed one run on one hit and two walks, while striking out two.
Up Next for the Eagles:
The Eagles and the Leathernecks continue the series Friday at 6 p.m. before concluding the series with USI’s Senior Day at 1 p.m. In addition to Senior Day Saturday, USI will be recognizing the 2014 NCAA Division II National Championship team prior to the game.
VALPO ATHLETICS
The Valparaiso University Department of Athletics is saddened by the loss of legendary Post-Tribune newspaper reporter and editor John Mutka, who passed away peacefully on Tuesday in Lone Tree, Colo. at the age of 88.
Mutka spent over 50 years at the Post-Tribune and covered countless Valpo athletic events over the decades. After his retirement from the Post-Tribune, he continued to attend Valpo men’s basketball games through the end of the 2022-23 season, when he moved to Colorado. During his retirement, he would still take notes and attend press conferences, writing game stories that were posted to his Facebook page. The final Valpo event that he attended in person was the Roger Powell Jr. introductory press conference as head men’s basketball coach on April 12, 2023 at the Athletics-Recreation Center.
After his move to Colorado during the 2023 summer, Mutka continued to post Valpo Athletics recaps and news to his Facebook page. He shared news on the Valpo men’s basketball program signing players as recently as May 10, showing his lifelong commitment to reporting on Valpo Athletics. Decades worth of Valpo head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors, media members, fans and student-athletes cherished a special relationship with Mutka, whose eloquent prose was second only to his unwavering kindness.
John earned “Sportswriter of the Year” awards at the national and state levels. He was inducted into the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame and given a Lake County Sportsmanship Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also awarded the highest civilian honor in the state of Indiana, Sagamore of the Wabash, for his career achievements in sports journalism.
During his lengthy career, he covered sports at the professional, college and high school levels. Some of his most memorable moments included covering the Chicago Bears Super Bowl win in 1986, the White Sox World Series win in 2005, Notre Dame National Championship football win in 1988, Indiana University NCAA basketball championship wins in 1976, 1981 and 1987 and the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
A celebration of John’s life will be held this summer (exact date to be announced) at St. Paul’s Catholic Church at 1855 Harrison Blvd., Valparaiso, IN. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in John’s name to the St. Agnes Adult Day Service Center at 1859 Harrison Blvd, Valparaiso, IN 46385.
VALPO BASEBALL
Valparaiso University baseball seniors Kyle Schmack (Wanatah, Ind. / South Central) and Alex Ryan (Lake Mills, Wis. / Lakeside Lutheran) both launched home runs in the first game of their final collegiate series, but No. 20 Indiana State posted crooked numbers in five of the nine frames including a five-run ninth to prevail 13-4 on Thursday afternoon at Emory G. Bauer Field. Schmack is one home run away from tying the program’s career and single-season home run records. The game started with a 24-minute rain delay and it rained on and off throughout during parts of the contest including a steady rain for an inning or two early in the game.
How It Happened
Valpo starter Connor Lockwood (Libertyville, Ill. / Libertyville) retired the side in order in the first, but Indiana State got two in the second including a solo shot that started the inning.
The Beacons responded in the bottom of the frame when Ryan ripped a two-out homer down the left-field line to make it 2-1.
Lockwood worked a 1-2-3 third, but a two-run homer in the fourth helped the Sycamores expand the lead to 4-1.
Indiana State added two unearned runs in the fifth to make it 6-1. The Trees added two more in the sixth including another home run to push the lead to 8-1.
Lefty Lucas Foley (Deer Park, Ill. / Lake Zurich) entered the game for the seventh and worked a 1-2-3 inning with a pair of strikeouts. He put up another zero in the eighth, then Schmack led off the bottom of the eighth with a solo shot down the left-field line.
Later in the inning, Kade Reinertson (Huxley, Iowa / Ballard Community) ripped an RBI single up the middle to make it 8-3.
Indiana State poured on five more runs in the top of the ninth including a pair of two-run homers to make it 13-3. The Sycamores hit five home runs in the game.
An RBI single by Ryan Maka (Oak Forest, Ill. / Oak Forest) in the bottom of the ninth cut the lead to nine, but that would be all for the Beacons in the final frame.
Inside the Game
Schmack’s home run was his 17th of the season, one away from tying the program’s single-season home run record of 18 set by Brian Wolotka in 2001.
Schmack lifted his career home-run total to 35, one shy of tying J.J. Swiatkowski’s (1997-2000) career program record of 36.
Ryan’s home run was his ninth this season and the 12th of his career.
Valpo boosted its team season home run total to 68, the second most in a single season in program history.
The offense collected 10 hits, but the squad did commit three errors.
Valpo pitching issued one walk in the game and that one came with two outs in the top of the ninth.
Up Next
Valpo (14-36, 6-19 MVC) will continue the series against No. 20 Indiana State on Friday with a 1 p.m. start on ESPN+.
UINDY SOFTBALL
INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 2 UIndy softball team punched its ticket to the NCAA Division II Championship today, defeating 21st-ranked Trevecca Nazarene in game three of the Midwest Super Regional, 6-0. Set to start Sunday, May 19 in Orlando, Fla., the DII “World Series” will welcome the nation’s eight region champs, with the Greyhounds making their third-ever appearance and first since 2015.
UINDY BASEBALL
INDIANAPOLIS – The University of Indianapolis baseball team lost their first game of the NCAA DII Midwest Regional II, dropping a one-sided affair to the seven-seeded Trevecca Nazarene Trojans. The Trojans scratched across runs in every inning minus two, outpacing the No. 2-seed Greyhounds 16-4.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Hounds faced G-MAC Pitcher of the Year in Caleb Marks and he was everything the Hounds expected, shutting down the Hounds through the first three innings of action. His offense rewarded the excellence, battering Diego Cardenas with four runs in the first three frames. However, after his first zero, the Hounds bats got hot, with Will Spear’s RBI bunt starting what ended up being a four-run frame for the host school.
Despite the jolt of energy, the Hounds could not slow down the Trojans as they proceeded to tack on runs with big blows coming in the fifth and the eighth where a three-run homer and then a grand slam put the game out of reach.
UP NEXT
The season is on the line for the Hounds tomorrow in the first elimination game of the tournament. They will battle the six-seeded Grand Valley State Lakers at 11 a.m. at Greyhound Park.
UINDY WOMEN’S LAX
ST. LOUIS – The No. 10 UIndy women’s lacrosse team ended its season on Thursday afternoon in the NCAA DII Midwest Region semifinals, falling to host and top-seeded Maryville by a score of 16-9.
The Greyhounds finish their 2024 season with a 14-6 record, highlighted by their sixth consecutive conference title under first-year head coach Peyton Romig.
“We played our hearts out until the last minute,” said Romig. “We’ve had 18 players all year so the fact we got here, played how we did, and did not give up the entire 60 minutes is huge.”
Senior Megan Dunn finished the spring with 114 points, four shy of the single-season program record, after tallying a hat trick and one assist.
Trailing all afternoon, UIndy cut the deficit to four with under 10 minutes left on a free-position goal from Ella Fornek following Mackenzie Winn’s first score of the afternoon. The Maryville possession proved costly, however, scoring three of its fourth-quarter goals off UIndy turnovers to run away with it.
Senior Madison Phillips was proud of the team in the post-game press conference. “We’ve always worked hard. We’ve always strived to be the hardest working team out there. Every team has been completely different since I’ve gotten here and this year’s team has been my favorite.”
Both teams’ defensive rides were impressive on Thursday, holding their counterparts to a combined 22-for-35 on clear attempts.
In total, seven players scored, including sophomores Olivia Bladon and Sage Da Silva. Bladon was also credited with a pair of assists and caused turnovers.
Phillips recorded two ground balls and two draw controls in her final collegiate contest, while rookie goalkeeper Ava Gram made eight saves between the pipes. Her single-season total of 117 is good for second in program history.
The Hounds have won at least 14 games each of the last six seasons, not including the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign. In addition, UIndy advanced to each of those NCAA DII Midwest Regional tournaments, and won the 2022 national title with Romig named the Most Outstanding Player.
Phillips concluded with advice to the underclassmen. “Two of our freshmen starting on the field and they’ve learned how to lead by example and how we talk to each other every day. The captains have really ingrained in them that we don’t have to tear each other down to build each other up.
“We try to keep positive energy and we hope they continue that.”
MARIAN WOMEN’S GOLF
Silvis, Ill. – Sidney Parmer played lights out, and the Marian women’s golf team continued to climb the leaderboard as Marian gained ground on moving day in the third round of the NAIA National Championships. Parmer scored the best round of the day throughout the field as she finished her round two-under par, and helped Marian jump to sixth in the standings.
The Knights gained one spot in the leaderboard in the first round after the 15-team cut, jumping from seventh to sixth overall. Marian had their best round of the championship shooting a 305, dropping 10-strokes from their score on Wednesday. The Knights have a three-round total of 939, and trail a top-five position by four shots. Keiser holds the overall lead in the tournament with a 904 score, increasing their lead over Oklahoma City by 14 shots. British Columbia holds third place by four strokes over SCAD-Savannah, and Texas Wesleyan sits in fifth place, holding a 935 total score.
Sidney Parmer was the talk of the course on Thursday, as she gained 52 places on the leaderboard, carding an NAIA Third Round best score of 70. Parmer had the lowest round of the day, and totals a 236 after three rounds as she will enter the final round tied for 35th. The senior hit an eagle on the 17th hole and ended her round with a birdie to drop to the low score of 70. Keara Eder continues to lead the Knights individually, as she ended the day tied for 21st with a total score of 232 after carding a 78 in the third round.
MacKendzie Dresbaugh continued her steady play with a 79 in the third round, taking a total of 235 into the final round as she is tied for 28th. The Knights’ freshman Emma Weiler and Hailey Kirkland ended the day in the top-60, with Weiler sitting 52nd and Kirkland holding 58th. Weiler carded an 80 on the day and holds a total score of 241, while Kirkland shot a 78, her best round of the tournament, to total a 244 entering the final round.
Marian will tee off at 9:20 a.m. on Friday as they look to capture the best finish in program history at the NAIA Championships. Kirkland has the honors of leading off the round, followed by Weiler, Parmer, Dresbaugh, and Eder.
MARIAN SOFTBALL
INDIANAPOLIS – On the final day of the NAIA Softball Opening Round, the Marian softball team faced elimination twice, earning a game-one win over (RV) Aquinas before seeing their season come to an untimely end in the championship game against No. 17 Southern Oregon. The Crossroads League Champions ended their season with a 46-12 overall record.
Marian 1-0 Aquinas | 9 Innings
The opening game of the day that Marian played was a tightly-contested pitchers duel, as Olivia Stunkel and Grace Maguire battled head to head. Stunkel began the game with a perfect start, retiring the side in order after opening the contest with a 16-pitch strikeout against Courtney Hardin. Maguire sat Marian down in order after three batters walked to the plate, and in the second Stunkel faced her first taste of adversity by giving up a two-out single, but ended the frame strongly with a third fly ball out in the outfield.
Marian’s offense got active in the second inning as Grace Meyer and Abbey Hofmann roped base hits off the pitcher Maguire, but the Saints starter would end the inning with two fly outs after a wild pitch but both runners in scoring position. Stunkel was again tested in the third inning as she allowed two singles and an infield fielder’s choice that loaded the bases, but calmly got a pop up and strikeout to end the threat. Marian looked to retaliate in the home half as Anna Pritchett, Savannah Harweger, and Brooke Knox all reached base in the frame, but the bats were unable to dent the board.
Stunkel regained her first inning touch with a quick three-up, three-down fourth inning, while her counterpart faced the minimum in the bottom half inning. Walks harmed Stunkel for a matter of moments in the fifth inning before two strikeouts kept her scoreless bid going, and in the bottom half Maguire brushed off a single from Pritchett to keep the 0-0 game going.
As the game reached crunch time, Stunkel continued to throw strong as she needed just five pitches to retire the side in order in the sixth. Marian looked to score a run as Abby Madere roped a single and reached third on a sacrifice bunt and ground out, but would get stranded at third as a grounder from Abbey Hofmann failed to clear the infield. Both sides had a chance to score the first run of the game in the seventh inning as Aquinas had their lead-off batter reach on a hit by pitch, but the Saints were unable to get a hit off Stunkel. Marian loaded the bases with two outs as Pritchett singled and Harweger and Knox both walked, but a pop up would leave the bases loaded.
The game moved to extra innings after zero runs were shown through seven complete, and in the eighth Stunkel was strong with three infield pop ups that stranded a one-out single. Maguire matched with three outs surrounding a two-out hit from Abbey Hofmann, as the game stayed deadlocked at 0-0.
In the ninth inning Marian stuck with their ace, and Stunkel delivered with a three-up, three-down attack, getting a strikeout to bring Hayley Greene to the plate in the home half. Aquinas made a pitching change for Sophia Pavese to start the ninth, and Greene fought as she reached a nine-pitch at-bat. On the final pitch of the plate appearance, Greene squared up a ball she liked, hammering a pitch to deep center field for a walk-off solo home run, winning the game for the Knights by a 1-0 count.
Greene’s walk-off home run is the first of her career, and capped Marian’s longest game of the season as they won 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth. Greene finished the game 1-4, recording one of the team’s nine hits. Both Hofmann and Meyer had two hits in the game, and Pritchett finished with a 3-3 outing. In the circle, Stunkel tossed 127 pitches as she earned her 27th win of the season, going the complete nine innings with four hits allowed. The junior struck out five batters, and issued just two walks in the win.
Marian 2-9 Southern Oregon
After defeating Aquinas, Marian turned around to the championship game against Southern Oregon, needing a win to force the if-necessary championship contest. Marian was the visiting team in the contest, and quickly went down swinging as their lineup saw just four pitches from Katie Machado as the Raiders retired the side. Southern Oregon attacked Marian’s starter Macy Coan, as the freshman gave up a pair of RBI base hits, ending the opening inning trailing 2-0.
Abbey Hofmann would record Marian’s first hit of the game in the top of the second inning with two outs, but her single was unable to spark a rally, bringing the hot-hitting Raiders back to the plate, where they tagged the freshman pitcher for three hits and three runs, as their lead expanded to five runs. Marian chipped away at the hole in the third inning with Savannah Harweger scoring on a two-out double from Brooke Knox, as the junior drove in the first run of the day. Coan tossed a perfect third inning, and in the fourth looked primed to get more support to make the contest closer, but the base hits from Hofmann and Greene were left dry as Brenna Fink hit a hard line drive directly at the left fielder.
Coan would give up a single in the fourth inning before stranding the lead runner at third, and saw her team come closer to the comeback in the fifth inning as the Knights got a run on the board on an Abby Madere base hit. Anna Pritchett and Mackenzie Dalton reached base before Madere to set up the RBI hit, and before the inning ended Grace Meyer drew a walk to load the bases, however Machado was able to dig in for the Raiders and end the rally with a strikeout.
The game would get put out of reach in the bottom of the fifth inning, as Coan gave up two runs and a pair of hits that saw Southern Oregon expand their lead back to five, as the score stood at 7-2. Marian went down in order in the sixth inning, and in the bottom of the sixth the Raiders added to their lead with three hits and two runs off relief pitcher Katie Lackman. Trailing 9-2 in the seventh inning, Marian was unable to spark a rally, as a lone walk drawn by Raegan Hiatt was all that could be mustered, as the season came to an end in the championship game.
The Knights racked up seven hits in the season-ending game, getting two from the freshman Hofmann. Harweger, Knox, Dalton, Madere, and Greene each collected one hit in the final game. Coan ended her freshman season with an 11-5 overall record after recording the loss, giving up seven runs and nine hits. Lackman allowed three hits and two runs in her lone inning of work.
Marian’s season concludes with a 46-12 overall record, having won both the Crossroads League Regular Season and Tournament Championships. The Knights were selected as the NAIA Tournament Opening Round hosts for a second consecutive season, and led the Crossroads League in All-Crossroads League honors this year.
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NUMBERS IN SPORTS
44 – 36
May 17, 1925 – Cleveland Indians centerfielder Tris Speaker reached his 3,000th hit in his MLB career. In 1914 Speaker won the AL batting title with 193 hits and a .338 batting average.
May 17, 1970 – Braves legend Number 44, Hank Aaron reached the 3000 hit plateau for his MLB career. At the end of quite an beilliant career Hammerin’ Hank had amassed 3771 hits.
May 17, 1984 – It doesn’t occur very often but Cincinnati Reds ace pitcher Mario Soto, Number 36 threw 4 strikeouts in one inning.
FOOTBALL HISTORY
Three NFL Teams Join the AFL Squads
May 17, 1969 – The Newspapers.com Football History Headline of the Day comes from the December 10, 1969 Clarion-Ledger in Jacksonville, Mississippi which placed in boldface print: “NFL Gives ‘69-’70 Schedule” The article declares that the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns & Pittsburgh Steelers all agreed to go from NFL to join the 10 AFL franchises in the new American Football Conference in NFL as part of the merger of the two rival leagues. NFL President and owner of the Browns, Art Modell, declared that the transfer of the three longtime NFL teams was to balance out the teams in the two conferences. It is interesting in retrospect how much it also shifted the power of the conferences as in the decade following the transfer Baltimore and Pittsburgh accounted for 5 of the ten Super Bowl Titles.
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An Ace in Football
Here is the bio on a birthday boy that are either in the College Football Hall of Fame or the Pro Football Hall of Fame that were born on this day. There is plenty more about them to read by either clicking their high-lighted name or at the top of this page clicking the “On This Day in Football History” and going to May 17 Football History.
May 17, 1912 – Portsmouth, Virginia – Clarence “Ace” Parker, Duke University’s quarterback/halfback from 1934 through 1936 was born. The College Football Hall of Fame proudly placed a display in honor of Ace Parker into their legendary museum in 1955. Ace Parker’s brilliant pro career was memoralized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame when they enshrined him in 1972.
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
May 17
1925 — Cleveland’s Tris Speaker got his 3,000th career hit, off Tom Zachary, in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators.
1939 — The first baseball game on television was broadcast by W2XBS, an experimental station run by NBC in New York. Bill Stern handled the play-by-play as Princeton beat Columbia, 2-1, in 10 innings.
1945 — For the fourth time in four days, every American League game in the country was postponed by rain.
1961 — Roger Maris hit his first home run of the season at Yankee Stadium (fourth overall) on his way to a record 61.
1963 — Don Nottebart pitched Houston’s first no-hitter as the Colt .45s defeated the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 4-1.
1970 — Hank Aaron scratched out an infield single against Cincinnati’s Wayne Simpson to become the ninth player with 3,000 hits. The hit came in the nightcap of the Atlanta Braves’ doubleheader loss to the Reds in Cincinnati.
1977 — The Chicago Cubs hit seven home runs in beating the San Diego Padres 23-6 at Wrigley Field. Larry Biittner, Jerry Morales and Bobby Murcer hit consecutive home runs in the fifth for the Cubs.
1979 — Dave Kingman of the Cubs hit three home runs and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies hit two, and Philadelphia beat Chicago 23-22 in 10 innings at Wrigley Field. Bill Buckner had a grand slam and seven RBIs for Chicago. The game included 11 home runs and 50 hits.
1984 — Alan Wiggins of the San Diego Padres tied a National League record by stealing five bases in one game. He joined three others who have performed the feat — Dan McGann in 1904, Davey Lopes in 1974 and Lonnie Smith in 1982.
1992 — Toronto surpassed the 1 million mark in attendance earlier than any team in major league history. It took the Blue Jays 21 dates to draw 1,006,294. The previous record was shared by the 1991 Blue Jays and the 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers.
1992 — Catcher Gary Carter, back with the Montreal Expos, joins Bob Boone and Carlton Fisk in the exclusive 2,000 games caught club.
1998 — David Wells pitched the 13th perfect game in modern major league history as the New York Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins 4-0.
2002 — Arizona’s Erubiel Durazo hit three home runs, a double and drove in nine runs as the Diamondbacks defeated Philadelphia 12-9.
2008 — Barry Zito became the first Giants pitcher to open a season with eight straight losses since 1890 when San Francisco lost 3-1 to the White Sox. Zito (0-8) worked five innings and gave up only two runs in matching Jesse Burkett’s record.
2009 — A pregame lineup mistake cost Tampa Bay its designated hitter for the game. The Rays listed both Ben Zobrist and Evan Longoria as the third baseman. Longoria was supposed to be DH, but Tampa Bay lost that position because of the mistake and was forced to put pitcher Andy Sonnanstine in the third spot of the lineup. Sonnanstine hit an RBI double and gave up five runs and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings in a 7-5 victory over Cleveland.
2011 — Harmon Killebrew, one of the great sluggers of the 1960s with 573 career home runs, passes away from cancer at 74 in Scottsdale, AZ.
2012 — Yan Gomes becomes the first Brazilian player in Major League history when he is inserted in the Blue Jays’ starting line-up at 3B in today’s game against the Yankees, taking over for Brett Lawrie who is beginning a four-game suspension.
2016 — The Braves fire manager Fredi Gonzalez and replace him on an interim basis by Brian Snitker, manager of the AAA Gwinnett Braves. With a record of 9-28, the Braves are off to the worst start in team history. Snitker will stabilize the team to earn the job on a permanent basis.
2019 — Kris Bryant hits three homers in consecutive innings – the 7th, 8th and 9th – to lead the Cubs to a 14-6 win over the Nationals. He is just the 12th player to pull off the rare feat, and the second to do so in those particular innings. He goes 4 for 6 and drives in 5 runs in the game.
2022 — The Astros tie a major league record by homering five times in the 2nd inning of their 13-4 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. All five long balls are hit off Nathan Eovaldi.
TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
May 17
1875 — Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby by one-quarter length over Volcano. The day marks the opening of Churchill Downs with an estimated 10,000 spectators witnessing the first Derby. Aristides is ridden and trained by African Americans Oliver Lewis and Ansel Williamson, respectively.
1915 — Rhine Maiden wins the Preakness Stakes, to produce the only Kentucky Derby-Preakness wins by fillies in the same year. The 1915 Derby was won by Regret, who did not compete in the Preakness.
1925 — Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians collects his 3,000th career hit off Tom Zachry in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators.
1930 — Gallant Fox wins the Kentucky Derby by two lengths over Gallant Knight to give Earl Sande his third Derby win.
1959 — Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122.
1969 — Baltimore, Cleveland & Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL.
1970 — Hank Aaron gets an infield single off Cincinnati’s Wayne Simpson for his 3,000th hit.
1974 — 18th European Cup: Bayern Munich beats Atletico Madrid 4-0 at Brussels.
1975 — 23-1 long shot Master Derby, ridden by Darrel McHargue, beats favored Foolish Pleasure by a length in the Preakness Stakes.
1979 — Dave Kingman of the Cubs hits three home runs and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies hits two, as Philadelphia beats Chicago 23-22 in 10 innings at Wrigley Field. The game includes 11 home runs, 50 hits and 109 at-bats.
1983 — The New York Islanders beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 to win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.
1992 — Betsy King captures her first LPGA Championship by a record 11 strokes over JoAnne Carner, Liselotte Neumann and Karen Noble. King’s margin of victory breaks the LGPA championship mark of 10 set by Patty Sheehan in 1984.
1998 — David Wells pitches the 13th perfect game in modern major league history as the New York Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins 4-0.
1998 — LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, DuPont CC: 20-year-old rookie Se Ri Pak leads wire-to-wire to win the first of her 5 majors, 3 strokes ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Lisa Hackney.
2000 — Australia’s Susie O’Neill breaks the oldest record in international swimming, winning the 200-meter butterfly and beating the 1981 mark by Mary T. Meagher. O’Neill is timed in 2 minutes, 5.81 seconds, topping the record by 0.15 seconds. Meagher’s time of 2:05.96 was set in Brown Deer, Wis.
2003 — Funny Cide runs away from the field on the turn for home and finishes with a near-record 9¾-length victory in the Preakness. The gelding’s victory is second to Survivor’s 10-length victory in the first Preakness, in 1873.
2003 — English FA Cup Final, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (73,726): Arsenal beats Southampton, 1-0; Robert Pires scores 38′ winner for Gunners’ 9th title.
2008 — Big Brown, ridden by Kent Desormeaux, charges to the lead turning for home and then cruises down the stretch to win the Preakness Stakes. The colt, named for UPS, wins by 5 1/4 lengths over Macho Again.
2008 — English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (82,752): Portsmouth beats Cardiff City, 1-0; Nwankwo Kanu scores 37′ winner.
2012 — Hall of Famer Johnny Petraglia becomes the first player in Professional Bowlers Association history to win a national or senior tour title in six decades, beating Ron Mohr 220-204 in the PBA Senior Dayton Classic. The 65-year-old Petraglia won the first of his 14 PBA national tour titles in 1966 in Fort Smith, Ark., at the age of 19. Dick Weber also won PBA titles in six decades, but his mark includes a PBA regional title.
2014 — The Houston Rockets advance to the Western Conference finals for the first time in 18 years after overcoming a 3-1 series deficit to eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers with a 113-100 victory. It’s the ninth time in NBA history that a team has overcome a 3-1 series deficit to win a playoff series.
2014 — Bayern Munich defeats Borussia Dortmund to win the 2013–14 DFB-Pokal.
2014 — English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (89,345): Arsenal beats Hull City, 3–2 (a.e.t.); Aaron Ramsey scores 109′ winner.
2018 — Michigan State University will pay $500 million in claims to 300 survivors of sexual abuse involving Larry Nassar. Largest sexual abuse case in sports history.
2019 — Brooks Koepka fires a 65 (-5) to set new record for lowest 36-hole score in a golf major at the PGA Championship at Bethpage State Park; 7 stroke lead is a 36-hole tournament record.
2020 — Michael Jordan’s autographed Air Nike 1s trainers from 1985 sell for a record $560,000 in an online auction.
TV SPORTS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Friday, 5/17/2024
| MLB REGULAR SEASON | TIME ET | TV |
| Pittsburgh at Chi. Cubs | 2:20pm | MLBN ATTSN-Pittsburgh MARQ MLB.TV Fubo |
| Washington at Philadelphia | 6:40pm | MASN NBC Sports-Philadelphia MLB.TV Fubo |
| Seattle at Baltimore | 7:05pm | Root Sports MASN2 MLB.TV Fubo |
| Chi. White Sox at NY Yankees | 7:05pm | NBC Sports-Chicago YES MLB.TV Fubo |
| Tampa Bay at Toronto | 7:07pm | Bally Sports-Sun Sportsnet MLB.TV Fubo |
| NY Mets at Miami | 7:10pm | SNY Bally Sports-Florida MLB.TV Fubo |
| Minnesota at Cleveland | 7:10pm | Bally Sports-North Bally Sports-Great Lakes MLB.TV Fubo |
| San Diego at Atlanta | 7:20pm | Padres.TV Bally Sports South MLB.TV Fubo |
| Oakland at Kansas City | 7:40pm | NBC Sports-California Bally Sports-Kansas City MLB.TV Fubo |
| LA Angels at Texas | 8:05pm | Bally Sports-West Bally Sports-Southwest MLB.TV Fubo |
| Milwuakee at Houston | 8:10pm | Bally Sports-Wisconsin SCHN MLB.TV Fubo |
| Boston at St. Louis | 8:15pm | NESN Bally Sports-Midwest MLB.TV Fubo |
| Detroit at Arizona | 9:40pm | Bally Sports-Detroit YurView MLB.TV Fubo |
| Cincinnati at LA Dodgers | 10:10pm | MLBN Bally Sports-Ohio SNLA MLB.TV Fubo |
| Colorado at San Francisco | 10:15pm | MLBN Rockies.TV NBC Sports-Bay Area MLB.TV Fubo |
| NBA PLAYOFFS | TIME ET | TV |
| East Semifinals Game 6: New York at Indiana | 8:30pm | ESPN Fubo |
| NHL PLAYOFFS | TIME ET | TV |
| East Semifinals Game 6: Florida at Boston | 7:00pm | TNT |
| West Semifinals Game 6: Dallas at Colorado | 10:00pm | TNT |
| GOLF | TIME ET | TV |
| PGA Championship | 11:00am | ESPN2 |
| PGA Championship | 12:00pm | ESPN |
| SOCCER | TIME ET | TV |
| Saudi Arabia Pro League: Al Nassr vs Al Hilal | 2:00pm | FOX Sports Plus Fubo |
| Argentina Primera División: Barracas Central vs Sarmiento | 7:00pm | Paramount+ Fubo |
| NWSL: North Carolina Courage vs Utah Royals | 8:00pm | Prime Fubo |
| Canadian Premier League: Pacific vs Atlético Ottawa | 10:00pm | FS2 Fubo |
| WNBA | TIME ET | TV |
| Washington vs Connecticut | 7:30pm | ION |
| Seattle vs Minnesota | 9:30pm | ION |
| COLLEGE BASEBALL | TIME ET | TV |
| Murray State vs Bradley | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Niagara vs Canisius | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Southern Illinois vs Missouri State | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| SEC tbd vs SEC tbd | 12:15pm | SECN+ |
| Albany vs Maine | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Rhode Island vs Dayton | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Saint Louis vs UMass | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Davidson vs George Mason | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Florida vs Georgia | 2:00pm | SECN+ |
| Incarnate Word vs Houston Christian | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Indiana State vs Valparaiso | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Western Carolina vs VMI | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Youngstown State vs Milwaukee | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Florida Gulf Coast vs North Florida | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Georgetown vs St. John’s | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Lamar vs New Orleans | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| North Alabama vs Austin Peay | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Queens (NC) vs Bellarmine | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Akron vs Ohio | 4:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Belmont vs Illinois State | 4:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Minnesota vs Northwestern | 4:00pm | B1G+ |
| UNC Asheville vs Presbyterian | 4:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Charleston Southern vs Winthrop | 5:00pm | ESPN+ |
| New Mexico State vs Western Kentucky | 5:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Oklahoma vs Cincinnati | 5:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Boston College vs Clemson | 6:00pm | ACCNX |
| Coastal Carolina vs Marshall | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Georgia Southern vs Appalachian State | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Georgia Tech vs Florida State | 6:00pm | ACCNX |
| Illinois vs Purdue | 6:00pm | B1G+ |
| Lipscomb vs Kennesaw State | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Michigan vs Indiana | 6:00pm | B1G+ |
| Nebraska vs Michigan State | 6:00pm | B1G+ |
| North Carolina vs Duke | 6:00pm | ACCNX |
| Notre Dame vs Louisville | 6:00pm | ACCNX |
| Penn State vs Maryland | 6:00pm | B1G+ |
| Rice vs East Carolina | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Saint Mary’s vs Portland | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| South Carolina Upstate vs UNC Greensboro | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Tarleton vs UT Arlington | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| The Citadel vs Mercer | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Tulane vs Charlotte | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| UC Santa Barbara vs Cal State Northridge | 6:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Virginia Tech vs Virginia | 6:00pm | ACCNX |
| Wake Forest vs NC State | 6:00pm | ACCNX |
| Central Arkansas vs Stetson | 6:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Ohio State vs Rutgers | 6:30pm | B1G+ |
| South Carolina vs Tennessee | 6:30pm | SECN+ |
| UTSA vs Florida Atlantic | 6:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Vanderbilt vs Kentucky | 6:30pm | SECN+ |
| Alabama vs Auburn | 7:00pm | SECN+ |
| BYU vs Kansas State | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| FIU vs Iowa | 7:00pm | B1G+ |
| Little Rock vs Tennessee Tech | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Missouri vs Mississippi State | 7:00pm | SECN+ |
| Murray State vs Bradley | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Pittsburgh vs Miami | 7:00pm | ACCNX |
| South Alabama vs Louisiana | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Texas A&M-Corpus Christi vs SE Louisiana | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Texas State vs Southern Miss | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Toledo vs Bowling Green | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| UIC vs Evansville | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| UT Martin vs Southeast Missouri State | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Wake Forest vs NC State | 7:00pm | ACCN |
| Western Illinois vs Southern Indiana | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Wichita State vs Memphis | 7:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Kansas vs Texas | 7:30pm | LHN |
| McNeese vs Nicholls | 7:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Mississippi vs LSU | 7:30pm | SECN+ |
| Oklahoma State vs Houston | 7:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Sacramento State vs UT Rio Grande Valley | 7:30pm | ESPN+ |
| Stephen F. Austin vs Northwestern State | 7:30pm | ESPN+ |
| UCF vs Baylor | 7:30pm | ESPN+ |
| West Virginia vs TCU | 7:30pm | ESPN+ |
| SEC tbd vs SEC tbd | 8:00pm | SECN |
| Santa Clara vs Pacific | 8:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Grand Canyon vs Utah Valley | 8:05pm | ESPN+ |
| Hawai’i vs Long Beach State | 9:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Oregon State vs Arizona | 9:00pm | P12AZ |
| Pepperdine vs Gonzaga | 9:00pm | ESPN+ |
| San Francisco vs Loyola Marymount | 9:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Stanford vs UCLA | 9:00pm | PAC12N |
| Washington vs California | 9:00pm | PAC12N |
| Washington State vs Oregon | 9:00pm | PAC12N |
| UC Irvine vs Cal State Fullerton | 9:30pm | ESPN+ |
| TENNIS | TIME ET | TV |
| Internazionali BNL d’Italia Tennis: ATP Semifinals | 9:30am | TENNIS |
| Internazionali BNL d’Italia Tennis: ATP/WTA Semifinals | 2:30pm | TENNIS |
Saturday, 5/18/24
| MLB REGULAR SEASON | TIME ET | TV |
| Chi. White Sox at NY Yankees | 1:05pm | MLBN NBC Sports-Chicago YES MLB.TV Fubo |
| Pittsburgh at Chi. Cubs | 2:20pm | ATTSN-Pittsburgh MARQ MLB.TV Fubo |
| Tampa Bay at Toronto | 3:07pm | Bally Sports-Sun Sportsnet MLB.TV Fubo |
| Seattle at Baltimore | 4:05pm | FS1 Root Sports MASN2 MLB.TV Fubo |
| Colorado at San Francisco | 4:05pm | Rockies.TV NBC Sports-Bay Area MLB.TV Fubo |
| NY Mets at Miami | 4:10pm | SNY Bally Sports-Florida MLB.TV Fubo |
| Washington at Philadelphia | 6:05pm | MASN NBC Sports-Philadelphia MLB.TV Fubo |
| Minnesota at Cleveland | 6:10pm | Bally Sports-North Bally Sports-Great Lakes MLB.TV Fubo |
| Oakland at Kansas City | 7:10pm | NBC Sports-California Bally Sports-Kansas City MLB.TV Fubo |
| Milwuakee at Houston | 7:10pm | Bally Sports-Wisconsin SCHN MLB.TV Fubo |
| LA Angels at Texas | 7:15pm | FOX Bally Sports-West Bally Sports-Southwest MLB.TV Fubo |
| San Diego at Atlanta | 7:15pm | FOX Padres.TV Bally Sports-South MLB.TV Fubo |
| Boston at St. Louis | 7:15pm | NESN Bally Sports-Midwest MLB.TV Fubo |
| Detroit at Arizona | 8:10pm | MLBN Bally Sports-Detroit YurView MLB.TV Fubo |
| Cincinnati at LA Dodgers | 9:10pm | MLBN Bally Sports-Ohio SNLA MLB.TV Fubo |
| NBA PLAYOFFS | TIME ET | TV |
| West Semifinals Game 6: Oklahoma City at Dallas | 8:30pm | ESPN Fubo |
| NHL PLAYOFFS | TIME ET | TV |
| East Semifinals Game 7: Carolina at NY Rangers at Carolina | – | – |
| West Semifinals Game 6: Vancouver at Edmonton | – | – |
| UFL | TIME ET | TV |
| Memphis at Michigan | 4:00pm | FOX |
| St. Louis at Birmingham | 8:00pm | ESPN2 |
| MOTORSPORTS | TIME ET | TV |
| IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge | 10:30am | CNBC |
| NASCAR Truck: Wright Brand 250 | 1:30pm | FS1 |
| HORSE RACING | TIME ET | TV |
| Preakness Stakes | 6:30pm | NBC |
| GOLF | TIME ET | TV |
| PGA Championship | 10:00am | ESPN |
| PGA Championship | 1:00pm | CBS |
| Champions: Regions Tradition | 5:00pm | GOLF |
| SOCCER | TIME ET | TV |
| Bundesliga: Bayer Leverkusen vs Augsburg | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| Bundesliga: Borussia Dortmund vs Darmstadt 98 | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| Bundesliga: Eintracht Frankfurt vs RB Leipzig | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| Bundesliga: Heidenheim vs Köln | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| Bundesliga: Stuttgart vs Borussia M’gladbach | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| Bundesliga: Union Berlin vs Freiburg | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| Bundesliga: Werder Bremen vs Bochum | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| Bundesliga: Wolfsburg vs Mainz 05 | 9:30am | ESPN+ Fubo |
| MLS: Nashville SC vs Atlanta United | 1:45pm | FOX Fubo |
| Saudi Arabia Pro League: Al Ahli vs Abha | 2:00pm | FOX Soccer Plus Fubo |
| CAF Champions League: ES Tunis vs Al Ahly | 3:00pm | beIN Sports Fubo |
| Canadian Premier League: Forge vs Vancouver FC | 4:00pm | FOX Soccer Plus Fubo |
| MLS: Charlotte vs LA Galaxy | 7:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Cincinnati vs St. Louis City | 7:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Inter Miami vs DC United | 7:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: New England vs Philadelphia Union | 7:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: New York City vs New York RB | 7:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Toronto FC vs CF Montréal | 7:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| NWSL: Washington Spirit vs Angel City | 7:30pm | ION Fubo |
| MLS: Austin vs Sporting KC | 8:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Chicago Fire vs Columbus Crew | 8:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Houston Dynamo vs Dallas | 8:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Minnesota United vs Portland Timbers | 8:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Real Salt Lake vs Colorado Rapids | 9:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| NWSL: Kansas City Current vs Racing Louisville FC | 9:30pm | ION Fubo |
| MLS: SJ Earthquakes vs Orlando City SC | 10:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| MLS: Seattle Sounders FC vs Vancouver Whitecaps | 10:30pm | MLS Pass Fubo |
| WNBA | TIME ET | TV |
| Indiana vs New York | 1:00pm | ABC |
| Los Angeles vs Las Vegas | 3:00pm | ABC |
| Chicago vs Dallas | 8:00pm | NBATV |
| Atlanta vs Phoenix | 10:00pm | NBATV |
| COLLEGE BASEBALL | TIME ET | TV |
| Albany vs Maine | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Boston College vs Clemson | 12:00pm | ACCN |
| FIU vs Iowa | 12:00pm | B1G+ |
| Murray State vs Bradley | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Rhode Island vs Dayton | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| SEC tbd vs SEC tbd | 12:00pm | SECN |
| Saint Louis vs UMass | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Southern Illinois vs Missouri State | 12:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Boston College vs Clemson | 1:00pm | ACCNX |
| Central Arkansas vs Stetson | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Davidson vs George Mason | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Florida Gulf Coast vs North Florida | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Georgetown vs St. John’s | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Lipscomb vs Kennesaw State | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Louisiana Tech vs Liberty | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Nebraska vs Michigan State | 1:00pm | B1G+ |
| North Carolina vs Duke | 1:00pm | ACCNX |
| Notre Dame vs Louisville | 1:00pm | ACCNX |
| Ohio State vs Rutgers | 1:00pm | B1G+ |
| Oklahoma vs Cincinnati | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Pittsburgh vs Miami | 1:00pm | ACCNX |
| Rice vs East Carolina | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| SIU Edwardsville vs Morehead State | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| South Carolina vs Tennessee | 1:00pm | SECN+ |
| Tulane vs Charlotte | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| UAB vs South Florida | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| VCU vs Richmond | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Western Carolina vs VMI | 1:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Arkansas State vs UL Monroe | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Belmont vs Illinois State | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Dallas Baptist vs Middle Tennessee | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Illinois vs Purdue | 2:00pm | B1G+ |
| Indiana State vs Valparaiso | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Lamar vs New Orleans | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| McNeese vs Nicholls | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Michigan vs Indiana | 2:00pm | B1G+ |
| Minnesota vs Northwestern | 2:00pm | B1G+ |
| Mississippi vs LSU | 2:00pm | SECN+ |
| New Mexico State vs Western Kentucky | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| North Alabama vs Austin Peay | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Penn State vs Maryland | 2:00pm | B1G+ |
| Tarleton vs UT Arlington | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Texas State vs Southern Miss | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| The Citadel vs Mercer | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| UIC vs Evansville | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| UNC Asheville vs Presbyterian | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Western Illinois vs Southern Indiana | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Wofford vs Samford | 2:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Grand Canyon vs Utah Valley | 2:05pm | ESPN+ |
| Alabama vs Auburn | 3:00pm | SECN+ |
| Incarnate Word vs Houston Christian | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Little Rock vs Tennessee Tech | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Missouri vs Mississippi State | 3:00pm | SECN+ |
| Murray State vs Bradley | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| SEC tbd vs SEC tbd | 3:00pm | SECN |
| South Alabama vs Louisiana | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Stanford vs UCLA | 3:00pm | P12LA |
| Stephen F. Austin vs Northwestern State | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Texas A&M-Corpus Christi vs SE Louisiana | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Toledo vs Bowling Green | 3:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Virginia Tech vs Virginia | 3:00pm | ACCN |
| Wake Forest vs NC State | 3:00pm | ACCNX |
| Washington vs California | 3:00pm | P12BA |
| Washington State vs Oregon | 3:00pm | P12WA |
| Kansas vs Texas | 3:30pm | LHN |
| Pepperdine vs Gonzaga | 4:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Saint Mary’s vs Portland | 4:00pm | ESPN+ |
| San Francisco vs Loyola Marymount | 4:00pm | ESPN+ |
| BYU vs Kansas State | 5:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Cal Poly vs UC San Diego | 5:00pm | ESPN+ |
| UC Santa Barbara vs Cal State Northridge | 5:00pm | ESPN+ |
| West Virginia vs TCU | 5:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Hawai’i vs Long Beach State | 9:00pm | ESPN+ |
| Oregon State vs Arizona | 9:00pm | PAC12N |
| UC Davis vs UC Riverside | 9:00pm | ESPN+ |
| TENNIS | TIME ET | TV |
| Internazionali BNL d’Italia Tennis: ATP Doubles Semifinals | 6:00am | TENNIS |
| Internazionali BNL d’Italia Tennis: WTA Singles Final | 11:00am | TENNIS |