TERRE HAUTE —
Indiana State got off to a solid start, but a rash of bogeys on the back nine slipped the Sycamores into a tie for sixth place after the first round of the Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Golf Championships at the Country Club of Terre Haute on Sunday.
On a more positive note, ISU might have found itself in seventh place if not for a great 20-foot putt from the tall grass on the 18th hole.
McCall Christopher, a sophomore, found herself in that predicament after her approach shot from below green level sailed well past the cup. But she recovered nicely to bring a smile to her face.
“[The ball] was in a hole and it was hard to get [the club] down,” Christopher said. “Got a little handsy and skinned it. The second shot, it was about speed really … getting it through that rough there.”
Christopher finished out her round with a five-over-par 77. Moments later, junior Emily Dixon saved also par on 18 with a nice approach shot to pace the Sycamores with a three-over-par 75.
With those two saving par, ISU finished tied with Southern Illinois at 313.
Northern Iowa leads with 299, followed closely by Missouri State (300), Bradley (305), Illinois State (305) and Wichita State (311).
Individually, Katie Tabbert of Northern Iowa was the first-round medalist with 72, one shot ahead of Bradley’s Thea Hedemann at 73. ISU’s Dixon is tied for sixth place with her 75. Last year’s medalist, Illinois State’s Brianna Cooper, is tied for 11th place with 76.
The Sycamores’ next two high scorers were both freshmen, Gina Della Camera and Amanda Smith, with scores of 77 and 82 respectively. ISU’s fifth score — top four count in the team total — was junior Christina Beyerl with 84.
“We had a really good start,” ISU coach Greg Towne said. “We made some birdies on the front side, thought it was a nice start. But this course will really catch you, bring you back down a little bit.”
ISU managed only five birdies on the day — three by Christopher, two by Dixon. Of their 28 bogeys, 17 came on the back nine along with their only double bogey.
“I kind of scrambled a few times today,” Christopher said. “The front side I was pretty solid, not much going on. But the back I had a few goofy shots … [the course’s] a lot more narrow.”
“That’s well put,” Towne laughed when informed of Christopher’s “narrow” course description. “We’ve prepared on this course, fighting through the little ups and downs. So over the course of 54 [holes] we’ll be in good shape.”
Towne also noted the play of Dixon and Della Camera.
“Emily [Dixon] making a birdie on 13 … the only birdie of the day there,” Towne said. “Difficult hole, difficult pin location. That turned her day, got her the extra boost she needed to get it in nicely. Gina [Della Camera] had a little trouble on the range early, then kind of got it fixed, then she had a nice 13 or 14 holes.”
Despite the 14-shot deficit after the first of three rounds in the 54-hole tournament, all involved with ISU are thinking positively about today and Tuesday.
“This course you can score at, so I’m excited to see what our team can do with two more days,” Christopher said. “Thirty-six holes; anything can happen.”
Today’s second round will have a two-hour delay due to a frost warning for the area. Tee time will be 10:30 a.m., then return to 8:30 a.m. for the final round on Tuesday.
MVC Women’s Golf Championships
At Country Club of TH (par 72)
Sunday
First round
Team standings
Northern Iowa (299) — Katie Tabbert 72, Brittany Atterbury 75, Sarah Boss 76, Alex Zenor 76, Blair Bonner 77.
Missouri State (300) — Catherine Dolan 74, Emma Clegg 74, Kelsey Welber 75, Hermine Greyling 77, Megan Thompson 79.
Bradley (305) — Thea Hedemann 73, Erin Gorman 75, Christie Lin 78, Kelly Amundrud 79, Cassandra Marschall 79.
Illinois State (305) — Katie Jean 74, Brianna Cooper 76, Rachel Powers 77, Jordyn Wyzgowski 78, Hannah Bachman 81.
Wichita State (311) — Daniela Rugeles 77, Hollie Weatherburn 77, Gretchen Huhnerkock 77, Hannah Martin 80, Natalie Samb 88.
Indiana State (313) — Emily Dixon 75, McCall Christopher 77, Gina Della Camera 79, Amanda Smith 82, Christina Beyerl 84.
Southern Illinoi (313) — Cassie Rushing 75, Ashleigh Rushing 76, Shaina Rennergarbe 80, Alisha Matthews 82, Margaret Gilley 84.
Drake (323) — Hadley Jennings, Chelsey Falk 81, Danielle Brooks 81, Paige Menze 84, Christy Wimmer 88.
Evansville (327) — Alyssa Key 79, Lauren Ellerman 81, Sydney Skiles 81, Cathy Doyle 86, Dana Hayden 93.
Creighton (337) — Rachel Thompson 81, Mary Cathryn Thompson 81, Celeste Gassman 86, Katie Morel 89, J. Stuckenschneider 90.
Individual leaders
72 — Tabbert (UNI)
73 — Hedemann (BU)
74 — Clegg (MSU), Dolan (MSU), Jean (ILS)
75 — Dixon (INS), Atterbury (UNI), Gorman (BU), C.Rushing (SIU), Welber (MSU)
76 — Boss (UNI), Cooper (ILS), A.Rushing (SIU), Zenor (UNI)
77 — Bonner (UNI), Christopher (INS), Greyling (MSU), Huhnerkock (WSU), Jennings (DU), Powers (ILS), Rugeles (WSU)
78 — Lin (BU), Wyzgowski (ILS)
79 — Amundrud (BU), Della Camera (INS), Key (UE), Marschall (BU), Thompson (MSU)
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Related Photos
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Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Yes: Indiana State University golf coach Greg Towne gestures after McCall Christopher dropped a 20 foot-putt from the fringe on the 18th hole of play during Sunday's MVC tournament action.
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Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Approach: Indiana State's Emily Dixon hits her final approach to the 18th green during Sunday's Missouri Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship at the Terre Haute Country Club.
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Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Gallery: Gallery members watch the players on the 18th hole at the Terre Haute Country Club during the first round of the Missouri Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship.
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Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Eye on the prize: Indiana State University golf coach Greg Towne watches the flight of McCall Christopher's ball on the 18th hole at the Terre Haute Country Club Sunday afternoon during the Missouri Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship
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Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Uphill: Indiana State's McCall Christopher carries her clubs up a steep hill at the 18th green during MVC play at the Terre Haute Country Club on Sunday afternoon.
Discussion
Sycamores tied for 6th in MVC
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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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Four Indiana State athletes advance to NCAA outdoor track and field championships
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ISU baseball hoping Manaea can get its MVC Tournament moving in right direction
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ISU sending largest group yet 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
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Indiana State to host 2014 MVC baseball tourney
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Behind 16 hits and Manaea's pitching, ISU beats Bradley
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TODD GOLDEN: Don't give up on ISU baseball just yet
If you had to pick one word that would describe the 2013 Indiana State baseball season, it would have to be frustration.
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ISU baseball team builds on success with 14-2 rout
Indiana State’s baseball victory over Alcorn State on Friday would take on more meaning Saturday if the Sycamores could build momentum and pick up on the good work they did in Friday’s ninth-inning rally.
Mission accomplished.
The Sycamores were aggressive from the opening inning at the plate and starting pitcher Devin Moore gave them eight valuable and effective innings on the mound as ISU defeated Alcorn State 14-2 at Bob Warn Field.
“It was a really good experience for everybody. It felt great to finally come out here and put some things together. It’s also really nice when your offense puts a lot of runs on the board,” Moore said.
Moore’s eight innings of work were as valuable as gold to an ISU team that is short on quality arms due to injury and ineffectiveness. He didn’t allow a hit until the fourth inning and one of the two runs he conceded was unearned. -
ISU earns badly-needed win
Alcorn State’s baseball team might be ranked in the bottom 10 in RPI and Indiana State might have never lost to a Southwestern Athletic Conference team. So it wouldn’t appear that a quality win was in the offing when Alcorn State visited Bob Warn Field on Friday.
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ISU’s Mascari and Hope win MVC track & field titles
Indiana State produced two champions during the opening day of action in the Missouri Valley Conference track and field championships Friday at Drake. Freshman John Mascari, a Terre Haute native, won the men’s 10,000-meter race and Nicole Hope won the women’s pole vault for the second time in three seasons.
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ISU pole vault tradition continues with help from its author
Pole vault is track and field for the adrenaline junkie, Indiana State senior Nicole Hope proclaimed during a recent practice at Marks Field.
To catapult oneself about 14 feet into the air with a large $500 fiberglass pole on a daily basis is a risky endeavor.
“We have to be fearless. You can’t be afraid at all,” said Hope, who has also catapulted herself into the NCAA’s elite in the event, ranking 15th in the NCAA with her leap of 13-feet, 9 1/4. -
Lansing looking for more home games for next fall
Indiana State’s men’s basketball team is looking for a few good games.
Home games that is.
The Sycamores have filled in most of the blanks in their nonconference schedule, but as ever, ISU coach Greg Lansing would like to visit the friendly confines of Hulman Center a bit more often. -
ISU baseball gets back into rhythm with victory
Baseball is a rhythm game. With contests every day or five times a week in the case of many college programs, you have the chance to build on success or wallow in a slump.
Mother Nature took that rhythm away from Indiana State’s team last week. After a 7-1 loss to Indiana on April 24, ISU was supposed to play a three-game series at Tennessee-Martin, but it was wiped out by rain.
So the rhythm was disturbed, but perhaps that wasn’t a bad thing.
ISU was in a five-game losing streak before its unintended vacation and the Sycamores made a move in the right direction Wednesday with a 7-0 win over DePauw at Bob Warn Field.
“It was a disappointing weekend. We went all the way down to Tennessee and didn’t get to play. We sat around in the hotel room. We came here and it was still raining. It was nice to get out and see some live pitching,” ISU center fielder Landon Curry said. -
Metro roundup: ISU hands out spring awards
The Indiana State University athletic community, along with family, friends and fans, paused Tuesday night to honor the spring sports teams at the Terre Haute Savings Bank Spring Sports Banquet.
Most of the ISU teams are still in competition with the baseball team having 13 games left of its regular-season schedule before beginning the Missouri Valley Conference tournament May 21, the softball team with just three games left of the docket this coming weekend against Southern Illinois and the track and field program with just one more meet before beginning its postseason events.
The ISU women’s golf team is the team that has ended at this time, with the group recording a sixth-place finish at the MVC championships one week ago. -
Indiana State loses 2 in MVC softball
Indiana State aspired to upset Illinois State to get at least a doubleheader split in Missouri Valley Conference softball Thursday at Price Field as the Sycamores opened an eight-game season-ending homestand.
Paige Schreiner hit a two-run blast over the left-field fence in the fifth inning and junior Shelby Wilson delivered a sizzling RBI triple down the right-field line in the sixth as ISU ended the day playing well against the league’s highest-scoring offense.
The result was still a 5-3 loss to the Redbirds (26-18, 11-6 Missouri Valley Conference) as freshman Halle Humphrey gave up four runs in the first two innings. Humphrey, called upon to pitch the opener as well — she’s the only full-time pitcher remaining on the team — gave up six runs and eight hits as the Sycamores dropped a 6-1 game to start the day. -
ISU, MVFC brace for change at FCS football level
It seemed so far-fetched.
Internet rumors circulated that Indiana State had been approached by the Sun Belt Conference to bring the Sycamores’ football team into the Sun Belt’s fold.
The Sun Belt is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision. Bowl football. Big boy football … and all it entails.
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ISU football in good spirits after healthy Spring Game
Was Saturday afternoon’s weather an omen for Indiana State football as the Sycamores wrapped up spring practice with the annual Blue-White Game at Memorial Stadium? After several practices conducted in less-than-perfect conditions, they’d like to think so.
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Loyola ready to take big step
Loyola University and the Missouri Valley Conference took their first steps together Friday and the MVC is hoping the Ramblers don’t have to take too many baby steps before they become a competitive part of the conference.
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Sanford wraps up first spring with ISU
The final day of Indiana State football’s first Mike Sanford experience is upon the Sycamores.
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Lansing excited about Etherington's signing with Sycamores
The spring signing period for men’s basketball is usually a time to use available scholarships to load up on junior college additions and transfers.
To find a diamond-in-the-rough at the high school level who can give you four years? That’s harder to come by. -
Creighton sweep puts ISU in thick of things
In a difficult early-season Missouri Valley Conference schedule, Indiana State took its lumps. Unenviable back-to-back trips to contenders Missouri State and Wichita State had ISU reeling with five straight MVC losses eight days ago.
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Second City in the Valley: Loyola joins the MVC
For the first time in its history, the Missouri Valley Conference will have a home in the Second City.
The Chicago Tribune confirmed Saturday via a Loyola University source that the Ramblers will replace Creighton as the MVC’s 10th team. Loyola — a member of the Horizon League — will join the MVC effective July 1.
Indiana State Director of Athletics Ron Prettyman — who was part of the MVC search committee that scouted potential replacements for Creighton — confirmed Sunday that the Ramblers were in the MVC loop. -
Sycamore baseball holds off Creighton rally
By his own estimation, Indiana State baseball coach Rick Heller has been involved in close to 2,000 baseball games. If anyone has seen it all on the field, he’d be as good a candidate as any.
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Devin Moore pitches gem in 6-1 victory over Creighton
A hip injury suffered by Indiana State ace starting pitcher Sean Manaea shuffled the Sycamores’ starting rotation for the second weekend running as it opened a Missouri Valley Conference home series against Creighton on Friday.
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Sanford gets 2nd look at Sycamores
In the immediate aftermath of a practice, game, or in Friday’s case for Indiana State, a scrimmage, most football coaches defer to the film to paint a true picture of what was and wasn’t done. ISU coach Mike Sanford is no different. With the flurry of activity on both sides of the ball, it’s hard to get a true evaluation of anything watching it live.
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ISU center FN Lutz glad to be back in the middle of things
For someone who missed an entire season due to a knee injury, Indiana State center FN Lutz has certainly kept himself visible since then.
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METRO ROUNDUP: ISU's Brandon Pounds the top collegian in Sea Ray relays
Indiana State senior Brandon Pounds was the top collegian in the men’s hammer throw and fellow senior Felisha Johnson opened up the Sycamores’ three-day competition at the University of Tennessee’s Sea Ray relays with a second-place finish in the women’s hammer throw.
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