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METRO ROUNDUP: Rose-Hulman gets shot at HCAC title
First place in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball race is on the line this evening at Art Nehf Field when Rose-Hulman hosts Anderson.
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South golfers lose at Rea Park
Greencastle outscored Terre Haute South 156-172 in high school boys golf action in cool, windy conditions Monday at Rea Park.
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School Board honors Branam
The Vigo County School Board observed a moment of silence Monday to honor the memory of Matt Branam, the 14th president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, who died Friday in Union Hospital.
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PREP ROUNDUP: Cook gets Patriots’ lone singles win
Morgan Cook of the Terre Haute North improved to 8-1 on the season at No. 3 singles but was the only winner for the Patriots in a 4-1 girls high school tennis loss Monday to second-ranked Evansville Memorial.
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METRO ROUNDUP: ISU's Padgett breaks school record in 10,000 meters
Indiana State senior Craig Padgett broke a five-year-old school record in the 10,000 meters late Thursday night and junior Albaro Escalera ran the third fastest 10,000 meters in school history at Hilmer Lodge Stadium during the 54th Mt. SAC Relays.
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Military, baseball mix for Valley Air Force veteran
The Terre Haute Men’s Senior Baseball League, founded in 1991 and playing its games at Haley Field near the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds since then, includes the community’s doctors, lawyers, policemen, construction workers and college students to name a few.
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Class basketball debate draws 46 to Vincennes
In a blast from the past, the Indiana high school class basketball debate raged into 2012 on Monday in a town meeting at Vincennes, 16 years after the multi-class system was approved by the Indiana High School Athletic Association.
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PREP ROUNDUP: Lakers win pitchers’ duel vs. T-birds
Two Ben Davis pitchers held host Terre Haute South to three singles Monday night, enabling the Giants to win 4-2 in Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference high school baseball.
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METRO ROUNDUP: ISU softball to play two today
The Indiana State softball team’s opening game of a three-game series against Bradley was washed out Saturday.
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METRO ROUNDUP: Rose baseball opens weekend with HCAC win
Rose-Hulman opened Friday night's Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader against Hanover with a 6-1 victory.
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Fully staffed: ISU’s pitching has carried it during conference play
With six weeks left to go in the college baseball season, Indiana State has moved the needle a lot further than most thought perception-wise in both the Missouri Valley Conference and nationally.
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PREP ROUNDUP: Reinig homers, has 3 hits for Braves
Terre Haute South’s Cheyenne Reinig went 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBI as the host Braves defeated Greencastle 14-7 in high school softball on Monday.
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METRO ROUNDUP: Engineers get 4 HCAC Player of the Week awards
Rose-Hulman student-athletes combined for four Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors, in results released Monday by the league.
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Local golf: April 8, 2012
• Holes-in-one
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METRO ROUNDUP: Rose-Hulman baseball sweeps Mount St. Joseph
Rose-Hulman completed a three-game Heartland Collegiate Athletic conference baseball series sweep over Mount St. Joseph with a 9-6 victory on Saturday at Art Nehf Field.
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METRO ROUNDUP: Weinle hits three homers in Rose sweep
Rose-Hulman senior Jamie Weinle blasted three home runs, including a game one walk-off and a game two grand slam, to help the Engineers sweep Mount St. Joseph 5-4 and 9-8 on Friday.
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More than a long shot
Talk about a pressure situation.
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Curry is Sycamores’ ignitor
It didn’t figure that 2012 would be a season where Indiana State’s baseball introduced an everyday freshman starter.
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North baseball nips Lakers to go to 3-0
Terre Haute North made it three victories in three starts in high school baseball Monday evening, defeating Shakamak 9-8 at Jennings Field.
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METRO/PREP ROUNDUP: Rose grad Eitel makes D-backs’ Class AA roster
Four-year varsity letterwinner Derek Eitel, the first Rose-Hulman athlete selected in a professional sports draft, has earned a spot on the opening day roster of the minor-league AA Mobile BayBears in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization.
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IU’s expectations will grow
Only the most diehard Indiana fan could have expected this type of year.
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Simon says, bodybuilding is best
If you don’t remember the name Michael Simon as a swimming and track athlete at West Vigo High School in the mid-1980s, don’t feel bad.
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METRO ROUNDUP: Lucas earns MVC Player of Week
Indiana State catcher Jeremy Lucas has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week in baseball for the second time in three weeks, the league office announced Monday.
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METRO ROUNDUP: ISU track opens outdoors
The Indiana State track and field team opened up the outdoor season in grand fashion, wining nine women’s events and five men’s events Saturday in an unscored dual meet with Eastern Illinois.
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Rox loose as title shot nears
Rockville senior guard Cody Jeffries was a freshman on the boys basketball team when Rockville won the 2009 North Vermillion Sectional. As Rockville’s chance at state title contention that season dissipated in the wake of a 61-40 loss to Lafayette Central Catholic at the Frankfort Regional, Jeffries felt like his one chance at state championship game glory was slipping away too.
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Mahurin enjoying the moment
One of the significant moments of Dave Mahurin’s high school basketball coaching career involved basketball only peripherally and it led to one of the most bittersweet experiences of his life.
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What happened in December, stays in December
For Kentucky, the expectations have been there since before the season. Ranked second in both preseason college basketball polls, the Wildcats have been on a steady march toward their goal of a national title.
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Evansville, ISU red-hot entering MVC play
Not since 1990 has Indiana State entered Missouri Valley Conference play on the hot streak it take into its MVC opener tonight at Evansville.
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METRO ROUNDUP: Sullivan’s Ficklin wins Elks Hoop Shoot contest
Tribune-Star staff report Angola
Solomon Ficklin of Sullivan won the national regional of the Elks Hoop Shoot basketball contest last Saturday and has qualified for the national finals.
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PREP ROUNDUP: WRC names all-conference basketball teams
Basketball players from the area are on the Wabash River all-conference teams for girls and boys high school basketball.
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