TERRE HAUTE —
Indiana State placed three student-athletes on the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete team Tuesday, according to a vote by the conference’s sports information directors.
Senior Taylor Whitley and junior Anna Munn led the way with first-team selections with redshirt junior Andrea Rademacher earning honorable-mention status. Munn was a second-team honoree as a sophomore while Rademacher was named to the honorable mention team for the second consecutive season.
Whitley became the 26th member of the 1,000-point club against Drake on Feb. 10 and enters the MVC tournament in a tie for 21st in scoring at Indiana State with 1,080 career points. The Geneva, Ill., native also ranks sixth in career steals (235) and seventh in career assists (367) at ISU, one of only four Sycamores to be in the top 10 in career steals and assists. Whitley leads the MVC by averaging 2.7 steals per game this season, totaling 74 overall. She ranks third on the team this season at 10.5 points per game and has scored in double figures in 18 games, including a season-high of 20 points at Drake on Jan. 11. In the classroom, Whitley carries a 3.79 grade-point average while majoring in physical education.
Munn leads the team and ranks fourth in the MVC in scoring this season, averaging 14.7 points per game with 22 games of at least 10 points. The Indianapolis native has posted some of her best games of the season away from Hulman Center, going for a career-high 27 points on the road at Missouri State on Feb. 1 and Southern Illinois on Feb. 16. Munn also leads the conference in minutes played, averaging 37.2 minutes per game on the court. The ISU guard ranks third in the MVC with 68 3-pointers this season, sitting in seventh place in Indiana State’s career standings. An exercise-science major, Munn carries a 3.74 GPA.
Rademacher makes her second straight appearance on the honorable mention list after also earning the honor as a sophomore. The Borden native has appeared in 20 games off the bench this season, going 6-for-15 from the field and 4-for-6 at the free-throw line for 16 points and 16 rebounds. Rademacher posted a season-high six points against UIC inside Hulman Center on Dec. 7. In the classroom, Rademacher carries a perfect 4.0 GPA while majoring in management.
Bradley led the MVC with four scholar-athlete selections while Indiana State and Northern Iowa tied for second with three honorees each. UNI’s Jacqui Kalin earned the 2012-13 MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
Indiana State enters the MVC tournament as the fifth seed and will match up with fourth-seeded Northern Iowa on Friday. Tipoff is set for 3:30 p.m. EDT inside The Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo.
In other basketball news:
• Fougerousse honored — Dess Fougerousse of Linton has been named a Subway high school Player of the Week for his efforts last weekend.
The 6-foot-5 senior posted 22 points against Clarksville and 26 points and 13 rebounds against Perry Central in helping the Miners win the Class 2A Southridge Regional.
Fougerousse was good on 15 of 25 field-goal attempts, including two of five 3-pointers, and hit 16 of 19 free throws in the two games.
Rockville senior Lane Mahurin was another nominee for the honor.
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• Rose men picked for first — The Rose-Hulman men’s team has been unanimously selected as the preseason favorite to win its sixth consecutive Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference outdoor championship, according to balloting by league coaches released Tuesday.
The Engineers won their fifth straight HCAC men’s title last April, marking the first time that any Rose sports team has won five consecutive championships since track and field accomplished the feat from 1985-89.
The HCAC women’s poll will be released today.
Rose-Hulman claimed eight men’s first-team all-HCAC awards during the 2013 HCAC indoor season. Student-athletes earning individual league titles included senior Tyler Hannan in the 200- and 400-meter runs; senior Collin Crowson in the pole vault (15 feet, 5 inches), senior Jeremiah Edwards in the 60-meter dash (6.99 seconds) and sophomore Stuart West in the mile (4:20.31).
Four Rose men earned first-team all-conference honors for their efforts on relay teams during the indoor season. The winning 4-x-200 relay team included Hannan, junior Clay Becker, sophomore Jake Kelley and senior Travis Stallings. The 4-x-400 relay included Hannan, Kelley, Stallings and freshman Thomas McGuire.
Rose-Hulman claimed seven women’s first-team all-HCAC awards, including four individual conference title winners. League champions included senior Liz Evans in the long jump and high jump; senior Creasy Clauser in the 400, senior Tanya Colonna in the pole vault and junior Ryann-Rebecca Montgomery in the mile.
Clauser, senior Gloria Boxell and junior Erin Cox also were first-team all-conference for their indoor 4-x-200 relay effort.
The outdoor season begins with the Rose-Hulman Early Bird Invitational on March 23.
2013 HCAC men’s preseason poll
Team (1st-place votes) Pts.
1. Rose-Hulman (10) 100
2. Defiance 84
3. Franklin 83
4. Manchester 71
5. Anderson 62
6. Hanover 45
7. Bluffton 38
8. Mount St. Joseph 32
9. Earlham 25
10. Transylvania 10
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METRO ROUNDUP: ISU women's players named scholar-athletes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
ISU couldn’t do it. - More College Headlines
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