SOUTH BEND —
Indiana State senior Brandon Pounds smashed his own school record in the men’s weight throw and currently has the best throw in the nation by almost three feet after winning the event at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational Friday.
Felisha Johnson, Greggmar Swift and former Sycamore great Kylie Hutson were the stars of the day for Indiana State on Saturday as the second day came to an end.
Johnson established her second meet record of the weekend as she won the women’s shot put at 55-feet-9 1/4. She also set the meet record in the weight throw on Friday with a winning distance of 68-3 1/4.
Swift won his 12th straight race in the men’s 60-meter hurdles with a winning time of 7.79 seconds in the finals Saturday. The Sycamore junior tied his career best with a 7.72 finish in the semifinals.
Hutson, inducted into the Indiana Track & Field Hall of Fame on Friday, competed Saturday in the pole vault invitational and broke the meet record and the Loftus Sports Center/Meyo Field record at 15-1. That height ranks second in the U.S. and fourth in the world right now.
Pounds’ best throw on Friday was 73-11 3/4, breaking his own school record of 70-8 1/2. The previous best throw in the nation this season was 70-9 1/4.
Johnson broke her own meet record with a throw of 68-3 on Friday, and John Mascari was second overall with the second-fastest 5,000 meters in ISU history (14:27.65). Maurice Lyke returned to action with a third-place finish in long jump (23-11 1/2) and Connor Curley had a career-best pole vault of 15-9.
In other track and field:
• Engineers win seven — At Ada, Ohio, Rose-Hulman won seven events and had 17 top-three performances Saturday at the Ohio Northern Joe Banks Invitational.
Engineer men were third in the nine-team meet, with the women placing fourth.
Creasy Clauser and Liz Evans had two first-place efforts and one third-place finish each. Clauser won the 200 (27.16) and 400 (1:00.05), while Evans set a meet record in the high jump (5-8 3/4) and also won the long jump (16-10 3/4).
Tyler Hannan added a fifth individual win in the men’s 400 in a time of 50.73 seconds and Rose won both the men’s and women’s 4x200 relays. Clauser, Erin Cox, Nicole Bueltel and Gloria Boxell won for the women in 1:50.62 and Hannan, Travis Stallings, Clay Becker and Philip Koranteng were the men’s combination that won in 1:32.75.
Rose-Hulman returns to action at the DePauw University Invitational next Saturday in Greencastle.
Swimming
• Rose comes close — At the Sports and Recreation Center, host Rose-Hulman had 12 first-place finishes against nationally ranked DePauw, which won 138-130 in men’s competition and 134-78 in the women’s meet.
Rose-Hulman seniors honored at their final home meet were Shannon Cunnien, John Huster of Terre Haute North, Ross Meininger, Nicole Richardson and Matt Ross.
Sam Gould and Orion Martin had two wins each for the home team. Gould swept 1-meter diving (249.60 points) and 3-meter diving (272.20), while Martin won the 50 freestyle (21.89) and the 100 butterfly (50.63).
Richardson set a school record in 3-meter women’s diving (241.30) and Regen Foote established a new women’s 1-meter mark (226.90).
Other men’s winners were Tai Enrico in the 200 backstroke (2:00.44), Andrew Podgorski in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.69) and Logan Ryan in the 200 breaststroke (2:15.17). Chelsea Rossick added a win in the women's 200 individual medley (2:26.69) and Stephanie Wolfersberger won the women’s 50 freestyle (25.74). Huster, Martin, Podgorski and Paul Hintz won the 200 freestyle relay (1:26.17).
Rose divers compete next Saturday at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Invitational at Illinois Wesleyan. The swimmers compete in the CCIW Championships the following weekend at Wheaton.
Basketball
• Spalding 87, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods 53 — At Louisville, Ky., the Pomeroys, still without leading scorer Brittney Shaner, stayed with their hosts for a half on Thursday.
Whitney Allen led the Pomeroys with 13 points, while Brandi McDaniel had 11 and Chelsea Weaver 10.
SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS (53) — Allen 5-13 2-2 13, Bruce 1-5 1-3 3, McKemie 0-3 1-1 1, Weaver 4-14 0-0 10, McDaniel 5-12 0-1 11, Rittinger 4-9 0-0 9, Lopez 1-7 4-9 6. Totals 20-63 FG, 8-16 FT, 53 TP.
SPALDING (87) — Harrod 13-23 2-7 29, Baker 5-10 0-0 10, Hayes 3-17 0-0 8, Roarx 2-11 0-0 4, Washle 3-10 2-4 8, Douglas 1-5 0-0 2, Smith 5-8 0-0 10, Dennison 3-4 2-4 8, Fears 1-4 0-0 3, Gahafer 0-3 2-2 2, Hamilton 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 37-97 FG, 8-17 FT, 87 TP.
Halftime — Spalding 42-28. 3-point shooting — SMWC 5-25 (Weaver 2-8, Allen 1-5, McDaniel 1-5, Rittinger 1-5, Bruce 0-1, McKemie 0-1), Spalding 5-23 (Hayes 2-12, Fears 1-1, Hamilton 1-2, Harrod 1-3, Dennison 0-1, Douglas 0-4). Total fouls — SMWC 15, Spalding 15. Fouled out — none. Rebounds — SMWC 43 (Lopez 9, Weaver 8, Rittinger 7), Spalding 69 (Harrod 15, Baker 10). Assists — SMWC 14 (Weaver 4, McKemie 3), Spalding 20 (Hayes 4, Douglas 4). Steals — SMWC 4 (Bruce 2), Spalding 14 (Roarx 6). Blocks — SMWC 5 (Weaver 3), Spalding 0.
Records — Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is 5-16, Spalding 8-10.
Baseball
• Engineers get votes — Rose-Hulman has received votes in the d3baseball.com preseason national top 25 poll released Friday.
Rose-Hulman received 15 poll points for 34th in the national poll. The Engineers were joined by Manchester (11 points), DePauw (3) and Anderson (2) as Indiana institutions receiving votes in the national poll.
Rose-Hulman won the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular-season championship last season after qualifying for the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The Engineers finished 27-14 last season and have a record of 148-73 since 2008.
Auto racing
• Clauson prevails again — At Peoria, Ariz., Bryan Clauson again was the big winner Friday in the second round of the Winter Challenge for U.S. Auto Club sprint cars at Canyon Speedway Park.
Clauson won his heat and led the final 19 laps to win the 30-lap feature. Jon Stanbrough took second; he won his heat and led nine laps in the main event. Action concluded Saturday in the event.
Friday's results
Heat winners — Bryan Clauson, Jon Stanbrough, Jimmy Crawford, Charlie Davis Jr. (semi).
Feature — Clauson, Stanbrough, Robert Ballou, Ryan Bernal, Davis, Andy Reinbold, Tom Ogle, Jeremy Sherman, Josh Hodges, Richard Vander Weerd.
College
METRO ROUNDUP: ISU's Pounds sets new weight throw school record, tops nation
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DeNato proves IU can pitch too
Joey DeNato dispelled the notion that College World Series newcomer Indiana is all about offense.
The junior left-hander threw a four-hitter and the Hoosiers looked mighty comfortable at TD Ameritrade Park while beating Louisville 2-0 on Saturday night. -
Etherington, Moore happy to be with ISU basketball
Not even two weeks into their college experience, Indiana State freshmen men’s basketball players Alex Etherington and Demetrius Moore stood sentinel as 115 kids ran around them collecting basketballs and getting autographs at the Greg Lansing Basketball Camp on Thursday.
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ISU's Johnson invited to World University Games
Indiana State senior Felisha Johnson will be traveling the world this summer after being named to represent the United States in the women’s shot put at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
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FROM THE PRESS BOX: Close, but no cigar, theme for ISU sports in 2012-13
When I covered my first event of Indiana State’s 2012-13 season — ISU’s opening football game at Indiana — I was the first one in the press box at IU’s Memorial Stadium. I’m never the first one in the press box.
Maybe the prospect of ISU’s season had me so pumped that I decided to get it started close to three hours early? (Or more truthfully, maybe I was over-vigilent about predicted traffic horrors on the Indiana 46 bypass that never came to pass.) -
Q&A: ISU football coach Mike Sanford ready for fall
It’s hard to believe, but Mike Sanford has already been Indiana State’s football coach for six months.
Time flies, but Sanford’s task of preparing for his first season in charge of the Sycamores comes with few breaks. -
Rex streak ends at 7
The Terre Haute Rex table setters — Kyle Kempf and Tyler Wampler — had three of the team’s eight hits Friday at Bob Warn Field, but the Rex offense found itself in a big early deficit for the first time this season.
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Manaea’s selection puts ISU in spotlight
Once the stress and hang-wringing over where Indiana State pitcher Sean Manaea might get drafted was over, the angst subsided and was replaced with a happier emotion. Pride.
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ISU’s Hope places 13th in NCAA pole vault
Indiana State senior Nicole Hope concluded her final competition of the 2013 outdoor season on Friday as she tied for 13th in the women’s pole vault at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
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Metro roundup: Former Sycamores take talents to CFL
Former Indiana State players Johnny Towalid and Justin Hilton were signed by teams in the Canadian Football League this week.
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Exit Minnesota, enter Oregon State on 2016 football schedule
When the Big Ten Conference implemented a nine-game football schedule starting in 2016 and discouraged members from playing Football Championship Subdivision teams, there was one game on Indiana State’s future schedule that was likely on borrowed time.
ISU’s scheduled game at Minnesota in 2016. -
METRO ROUNDUP: Swift reaches finals of NCAA Championships in 110-meter hurdles
Indiana State junior Greggmar Swift will be among the top eight in the NCAA in the 110-meter hurdles after qualifying for Saturday’s finals on Thursday.
Swift ran a time of 13.51 seconds to take third in his heat. He’ll run in either lane 1 or lane 8 on Saturday.
“I got out pretty good and then I hurdled three or four when I got bumped and it threw me off my rhythm,” said Swift, a native of Barbados. “I tried to get back my rhythm … but I held on for the third place.” -
ISU's Manaea selected 34th overall by Royals
Indiana State pitcher Sean Manaea selected 34th overall by the Kansas City Royals.
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Sycamores ready for more NCAA track success
Five of the six Indiana State athletes in Eugene, Ore., already have had some memorable track and field careers for the Sycamores.
But they’ll go ahead and try to add to their list of accomplishments in the NCAA outdoor championships this weekend.
Dustin Betz has been a scorer and key piece of eight Missouri Valley Conference championship teams between track and cross country. He’ll compete today in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as the Sycamores’ second best in the event behind Jordan Fife. -
Mike Lucas joins ISU football staff
What traits do head football coaches seek out when they hire position coaches?
Indiana State football coach Mike Sanford provided insight into that question as he hired former Southeast Louisiana head coach Mike Lucas to his staff Tuesday. Lucas will be the Sycamores’ defensive line coach.
“You have to look at your staff and see what you need. I felt like in this particular case, I wanted an experienced defensive line coach. I feel like we have a mixture of experience and youth and I want to keep that going,” Sanford said. -
TODD GOLDEN: MVC Tourney can be ISU success story if work is done
Prior to last week’s Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament at Illinois State’s Duffy Bass Field, fear and loathing prevailed in some corners of the conference.
It seemed that Missouri State, Creighton, and most notably, Wichita State, had a monopoly on the season-ending tournament since the Coolidge Administration. (It had actually been since 1998.) How could the tournament make it without playing in one of the three aforementioned universities’ big venues? - COLLEGE REPORT: Wabash College All-American relay team has TH flavor
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Six Sycamores heading to NCAA Track and Field championships
Three Indiana State seniors and a freshman punched their tickets Friday to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in two weeks at Eugene, Ore. Two more got the job done Saturday on the campus of UNC Greensoboro in the East Preliminary.
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Sycamores bow out of MVC Tournament
Indiana State’s baseball was out of pitching, and after a loss to Wichita State on Thursday, the Sycamores were out of second-chances too at the Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament. What the Sycamores weren’t out of was heart, guts and clutch performances from some unlikely sources. But in the end, Friday’s elimination game rematch against the Shockers was a sampling of ISU’s season overall — the Sycamores were out of luck.
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Metro Sports: Chalk up No. 5 for Liz Evans
Senior Liz Evans capped the top career in Rose-Hulman athletics history with her fifth national championship and eighth All-American award at Wisconsin-La Crosse on Friday.
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Four Indiana State athletes advance to NCAA outdoor track and field championships
Three Indiana State seniors and a freshman have punched their tickets to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in two weeks at Eugene, Ore., with their Friday efforts in the 2013 NCAA East Preliminary at Aggie Stadium on the campus of North Carolina A&T.
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Wichita State shuts out ISU to force elimination-game rematch
Indiana State starting pitcher Greg Kuhlman did his best.
Actually, he did far better than he ever has previously in an ISU uniform, but while Kuhlman’s gutty pitching effort spoke volumes, ISU’s bats remained ominously silent. -
Indiana State baseball now one win from MVC Championship
Indiana State’s Wednesday morning wish list probably read something like this: a dominant complete game effort from starting pitcher Devin Moore, near-immaculate defense to support him, and a steady diet of clutch situational hitting from lineup spots one to nine.
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Terre Haute's Mascari running 10,000 meters for chance to get to Hayward Field
Indiana State freshman and Terre Haute North graduate John Mascari is among the enormous group of Sycamores competing this weekend at the NCAA East Preliminary. The top 48 NCAA track and field competitors in each event on this half of the United States are narrowed down to 12 who will compete at the NCAA meet at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
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Manaea's shoulder causing him latest pain
Indiana State pitcher Sean Manaea has battled through so many aches and pains during the 2013 season that it can be hard to discern the serious pain from the pain he pitches through.
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ISU's Negele answers call in big way in wake of Manaea injury
When Indiana State starting pitcher Sean Manaea slumped on the mound in obvious pain after he took his warm-up pitches, red flags raised for ISU’s Missouri Valley Conference tournament hopes.
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ISU baseball hoping Manaea can get its MVC Tournament moving in right direction
Indiana State’s baseball team has been waiting all season for its stars to align.
But this is the 2013 Sycamores, after all, and after a season in which seemingly little has gone right, it appears its stars will remain crossed at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. -
ISU track sending record 22 to postseason
On the heels of their thrilling double victory at the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships both the Indiana State men and women moved up in the national rankings which were released Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
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ISU's athletic treasure trove
Think of every championship that Indiana State has won in each of its sports, past and present. Think of every tournament — postseason or regular season — which the Sycamores have claimed as their own.
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Ort sets ISU RBI record in 16-7 win
Robby Ort celebrated his Indiana State baseball Senior Day on Saturday by becoming the Sycamores’ all-time leader in RBIs as ISU ended its regular season with a 16-7 win over Bradley at Bob Warn Field.
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Bradley ends 16-game MVC losing streak against ISU
Momentum was the only thing riding on Indiana State’s baseball game against Bradley on Friday. With a five-game winning streak going, ISU wanted to keep the good vibes going into next week’s Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.
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