TERRE HAUTE — Weather permitting, the Indiana State baseball team will open up the new Bob Warn Field on Saturday against Tennessee-Martin with a doubleheader. ISU’s series was originally tabbed for one game each on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
“That’s exciting. It’s actually later than we hoped of course,” ISU Director of Athletics Ron Prettyman said Wednesday.
ISU’s home opener was originally slated for Tuesday against Indiana University, but constant cold temperatures held back the construction crew’s ability to finalize the new FieldTurf surface on the infield.
“We’ve got the crew in there night and day,” Prettyman said. “The turf was down, but because of the process of sewing it all together, they needed the appropriate weather. It hasn’t been glued down. The various layers haven’t been sowed down.”
A special celebration for the new facility will not be held until later in the season, Prettyman said.
“We’re actually going to do a grand celebration during one of the last sessions of the year where we’ll have alumni in,” Prettyman said. “Again, because of the weather, we were unable to finish the parking lot, unable to finish the cement work.
“While it’s going to be an exciting thing to open the facility, it’s still a work in progress.”
Start times on Saturday and Sunday is at 1 p.m., with all three games going nine innings.
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In other baseball news:
• Rose 21, Widener 9 — At Auburndale, Fla., Rose-Hulman moved to 4-0 on its annual spring trip with a 21-9 pounding of Widener University on Wednesday.
The No. 19-ranked Engineers, according to this week’s d3baseball.com poll, scored five runs in the first inning and exploded for 10 tallies in the third inning to secure the win.
Widener 100 101 231 — 9 14 8
Rose-Hulman 51(10) 041 00x — 21 21 2
W — Oakley (1-0); L — Culbert (0-1); HR — Thompson (R)
Highlights — For Rose-Hulman, Chris Stemple had 4 singles, 3 runs scored; Kirk Thompson had an inside-the-park home run, double, 3 RBIs, 2 runs scored; Michael Kovacs had a double, 2 singles, 2 runs scored, 5 RBIs; Keenan Long had a 3-RBI triple and single; Andrew Bilse had 4 runs scored, 4 RBIs, 2 singles and a stolen base; Chandler Kent had 2 singles, 2 RBIs; Andrew Oakley pitched 6 innings, allowed 2 earned run, scattered 8 hits and struck out 2 for his first victory.
Next — Rose-Hulman (4-0) returns to action against undefeated Augustana College (6-0) at 10 a.m today in Winter Haven, Fla.
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• Woods drops USCAA opener — At Uniontown, Pa., St. Mary-of-the-Woods dropped a close 48-45 decision to Penn State Brandywine in the opening round game of the USCAA Women’s Nationals on Wednesday.
SMWC trailed most of the game, but were even at 42-42 with four minutes remaining on two free throws by Chelsey Barron. But a late 3-pointer by Bobbi Caprice, her only 3-pointer in 10 attempts, put PSB in the lead for keeps.
Barron paced the Pomeroys with 16 points and eight rebounds, Brittney Shaner had 10 points, while Brooke Brown had nine points, 13 rebounds, four assists and two blocks.
Sara DeBerardinis led PSB with 16 points, while Amber Chandler had a double-double of 14 points, 18 rebounds.
PENN STATE BRANDYWINE (48) — Harper 0-8 3-4 3, Ciancia 0-0 0-0 0, DeBerardinis 6-20 4-5 16, Matthews 3-6 0-0 6, Price 1-4 0-0 2, Caprice 3-17 0-0 7, Chandler 6-6 2-4 14. Totals 19-61 9-13 48.
ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS (45) — Tracy 2-8 0-0 5, Shaner 5-9 0-0 10, Blickenstaff 1-6 2-6 4, Barron 3-8 9-11 16, Brown 4-13 1-2 9, Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Allen 0-4 1-2 1, Axtell 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 15-50 13-21 45.
Halftime — PSB 28, SMWC 24. 3-point goals — PSB 1-13 (DeBerardinis 0-3, Caprice 1-10), SMWC 2-15 (Tracy 1-5, Shaner 0-3, Barron 1-2, Brown 0-2, Allen 0-3). Rebounds — PSB 43 (Chandler 18), SMWC 43 (Brown 13). Total fouls — PSB 15, SMWC 13. Fouled out — Shaner. Assists — PSB 7 (Price 3), SMWC 13 (Brown 4). Turnovers — PSB 21, SMWC 27. Blocks — PSB 2 (Matthews, Chandler), SMWC 3 (Brown 2). Steals — PSB 12 (Harper 4), SMWC 8 (Shaner 5). Att — NA.
Next — St. Mary-of-the-Woods (14-13) will play Southern Maine Community College in a consolation bracket game at noon today.
• Marsh named first team all-HCAC — Rose-Hulman junior Donna Marsh earned first-team all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honors and three women's basketball players were recognized with postseason awards from the league office.
Sophomore Alisa Dickerson captured honorable mention all-conference accolades, and Erin Davey earned a spot on the league's all-freshman team.
Marsh averaged a team-high 13.2 points per game and ranked second in the conference with 10.5 rebounds per game. She also led the league with 71 blocked shots and paced Rose with 36 steals.
Dickerson averaged 12.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, and also led the team with 61 assists.
Davey topped HCAC freshmen in scoring at 6.8 points per game.
• Craft in national rankings — At Vincennes, Vincennes University sophomore Megan Craft finished third among NJCAA players in 3-point accuracy, making 46-of-91 attempts for 51 percent.
The Terre Haute South graduate also had the seventh best figure in the nation by posting 6.207 assists (180 total) per game, and ranked 14th in free throw percentage at 82 percent (79-for-96).
• Middle school — The following girls middle school results were reported to the Tribune-Star:
Tuesday
Eighth grade — Honey Creek 62 (Kylie Fendrick 18, Bailey Williams 13), Sarah Scott 11 (Mariah Cheesman 5).
Sixth grade — West Vigo “A” 30 (Cardinal 10), Chauncey Rose “A” 4 (Lawson and Johnson 2); West Vigo “B” 40 (Border 10), Chauncey Rose “B” 2 (McNeal 2).
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