The Indiana Hoosiers will play the Nebraska cornhuskers in a elimation game tomorrow hope iu brings the bats tomorrow
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Hoosiers Drop Big Ten Tournament Opener to Maryland, 5-3
Next Game: vs Nebraska
5/26/2016 - 10 a.m. ET
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OMAHA, Neb. – Indiana Baseball (31-23) fell to the Maryland Terrapins by a score of 5-3 in its first game of the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday morning at T.D. Ameritrade Park. The Hoosiers were limited to four hits off Maryland's Mike Shawaryn in the loss.
Offensively, freshman Luke Miller led the way for the Hoosiers in the loss, going 2-of-4. Sophomore Colby Stratten doubled and drove in a run, while junior Craig Dedelow provided the other hit for Indiana.
On the mound, senior Kyle Hart worked five innings and struck out four, while surrendering four runs. Freshman Jonathan Stiever and sophomore B.J. Sabol combine for the final four innings, including 1 1/3 hitless innings from Sabol.
Maryland struck first in the top of the first. After Hart struck out the leadoff batter, Marty Costes tripled to center, which was followed by a Nick Dunn single to left field to make it a 1-0 game.
In the top of the third, junior Austin Cangelosi drew a leadoff walk to give the Hoosiers their first base runner. After a strikeout, Stratten hit a hard hit ball through the third baseman's legs to give Indiana runners on the corners. From there, junior Alex Krupabeat out a double play attempt to score Cangelosi to knot the game up at one.
Hart had retired 10-straight until one out in the fifth inning. The Terrapins put together a three-run fifth inning to take a 4-1 lead. A one out single set things up for Costes again, who doubled to left center to allow Maryland to retake the lead. Nick Dunn then singled to right to drive in a run, followed by a Kevin Smith RBI groundout, to make it a 4-1 game.
The Hoosiers looked to rally in the bottom half of the fifth. After senior Brian Wilhite led things off with a walk, Stratten doubled to deep left center to score Wilhite, cutting the Terrapin lead to two runs. Then with one out, Dedelow singled to center, moving Stratten to third. A sacrifice fly from Sowers made it a 4-3 game.
Miller reached on a leadoff single in the sixth and stole second with one out. A ground out and a foul out squandered the scoring opportunity for Indiana though. From there, Shawaryn went on to retire the final nine Hoosiers he faced to earn the complete game victory.
Indiana awaits the loser of the Nebraska-Michigan State game for a 10 a.m. ET matchup on Thursday morning.
Go Hoosiers!
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Next Game: vs Nebraska
5/26/2016 - 10 a.m. ET
WHCC 105.1 FM
Big Ten Network
OMAHA, Neb. – Indiana Baseball (31-23) fell to the Maryland Terrapins by a score of 5-3 in its first game of the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday morning at T.D. Ameritrade Park. The Hoosiers were limited to four hits off Maryland's Mike Shawaryn in the loss.
Offensively, freshman Luke Miller led the way for the Hoosiers in the loss, going 2-of-4. Sophomore Colby Stratten doubled and drove in a run, while junior Craig Dedelow provided the other hit for Indiana.
On the mound, senior Kyle Hart worked five innings and struck out four, while surrendering four runs. Freshman Jonathan Stiever and sophomore B.J. Sabol combine for the final four innings, including 1 1/3 hitless innings from Sabol.
Maryland struck first in the top of the first. After Hart struck out the leadoff batter, Marty Costes tripled to center, which was followed by a Nick Dunn single to left field to make it a 1-0 game.
In the top of the third, junior Austin Cangelosi drew a leadoff walk to give the Hoosiers their first base runner. After a strikeout, Stratten hit a hard hit ball through the third baseman's legs to give Indiana runners on the corners. From there, junior Alex Krupabeat out a double play attempt to score Cangelosi to knot the game up at one.
Hart had retired 10-straight until one out in the fifth inning. The Terrapins put together a three-run fifth inning to take a 4-1 lead. A one out single set things up for Costes again, who doubled to left center to allow Maryland to retake the lead. Nick Dunn then singled to right to drive in a run, followed by a Kevin Smith RBI groundout, to make it a 4-1 game.
The Hoosiers looked to rally in the bottom half of the fifth. After senior Brian Wilhite led things off with a walk, Stratten doubled to deep left center to score Wilhite, cutting the Terrapin lead to two runs. Then with one out, Dedelow singled to center, moving Stratten to third. A sacrifice fly from Sowers made it a 4-3 game.
Miller reached on a leadoff single in the sixth and stole second with one out. A ground out and a foul out squandered the scoring opportunity for Indiana though. From there, Shawaryn went on to retire the final nine Hoosiers he faced to earn the complete game victory.
Indiana awaits the loser of the Nebraska-Michigan State game for a 10 a.m. ET matchup on Thursday morning.
Go Hoosiers!
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snowling
Hall of Famer
IU baseball on verge of elimination after historic struggle at the plate
by Michael Hughes
The Hoosiers looked lost at the plate Wednesday from start to finish.
From when Maryland starting pitcher Mike Shawaryn struck out the first six batters of the game to the right-hander retiring the last 12 batters of the game, the Hoosiers looked over matched.
This was all part of a 5-3 IU loss where the Hoosiers struck out 16 times.
Shawaryn pitched a complete game to give the Terrapins the win over IU.
“We’ve had a 10-day period where a lot of our at bats look like that,” IU Coach Chris Lemonis said. “We’re fighting it a little bit offensively so hopefully we can come out together and put some good swings together and get it rolling.”
IU managed those three runs off of only four hits compared to Maryland’s 11.
IU scored one of those runs in the third without the help of a base hit before scoring its last two runs in the fifth inning thanks to an RBI double from sophomore second baseman Colby Stratten and a sac fly from sophomore outfielder Logan Sowers.
“There’s probably one, maybe two innings on a bad day when you’re going to have a chance to get to him,” senior starting pitcher Kyle Hart said. “I thought we did that in the fifth or the sixth when we put up a two-spot.”
Sowers has also not recorded a hit in his last 21 at-bats after Wednesday’s loss.
Hart labored through five innings, tied for his shortest start this season.
The left-hander started the day in trouble after allowing a run in the first, but was able to strand a second to escape. He stranded two more runners in the second, forcing freshman pitcher Jonathan Stiever to stop warming up in the bullpen.
Hart then had a stretch of nine straight batters retired before finding trouble once more in the fifth. He allowed four straight hits on his way to allowing three runs in what might prove to be his last inning pitching in an IU uniform.
“Personally I need to do a better job to make three runs stand up,” Hart said. “Especially against a Maryland lineup that I feel like I can out-match on nine out of 10 days.”
Hart said if he could, he would have thrown more cut fastballs to better keep Maryland’s right-handers off balance, which in turn would have made his changeup more effective.
But something he couldn’t change was his fastball, a pitch Hart said just wasn’t there for him Wednesday.
But Hart didn’t blame the 10 a.m. start for his struggles Wednesday, quickly pointing out his Maryland counterpart had no trouble on the mound.
Wednesday really exasperated IU’s recent struggles at the plate since it was facing a pitcher who Lemonis called one of the best in Big Ten history.
The Hoosiers don’t have much time to dwell about what went wrong against Shawaryn because come 10 a.m. Thursday they have an elimination game, not only for the Big Ten Tournament, but for their season.
If IU doesn’t find a remedy to its recent struggles at the plate, it won’t be in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in four seasons.
“We can pitch and defend, we just need to start getting some hits.
Go Hoosiers!
http://www.idsnews.com/article/2016...mination-after-historic-struggle-at-the-plate
by Michael Hughes
The Hoosiers looked lost at the plate Wednesday from start to finish.
From when Maryland starting pitcher Mike Shawaryn struck out the first six batters of the game to the right-hander retiring the last 12 batters of the game, the Hoosiers looked over matched.
This was all part of a 5-3 IU loss where the Hoosiers struck out 16 times.
Shawaryn pitched a complete game to give the Terrapins the win over IU.
“We’ve had a 10-day period where a lot of our at bats look like that,” IU Coach Chris Lemonis said. “We’re fighting it a little bit offensively so hopefully we can come out together and put some good swings together and get it rolling.”
IU managed those three runs off of only four hits compared to Maryland’s 11.
IU scored one of those runs in the third without the help of a base hit before scoring its last two runs in the fifth inning thanks to an RBI double from sophomore second baseman Colby Stratten and a sac fly from sophomore outfielder Logan Sowers.
“There’s probably one, maybe two innings on a bad day when you’re going to have a chance to get to him,” senior starting pitcher Kyle Hart said. “I thought we did that in the fifth or the sixth when we put up a two-spot.”
Sowers has also not recorded a hit in his last 21 at-bats after Wednesday’s loss.
Hart labored through five innings, tied for his shortest start this season.
The left-hander started the day in trouble after allowing a run in the first, but was able to strand a second to escape. He stranded two more runners in the second, forcing freshman pitcher Jonathan Stiever to stop warming up in the bullpen.
Hart then had a stretch of nine straight batters retired before finding trouble once more in the fifth. He allowed four straight hits on his way to allowing three runs in what might prove to be his last inning pitching in an IU uniform.
“Personally I need to do a better job to make three runs stand up,” Hart said. “Especially against a Maryland lineup that I feel like I can out-match on nine out of 10 days.”
Hart said if he could, he would have thrown more cut fastballs to better keep Maryland’s right-handers off balance, which in turn would have made his changeup more effective.
But something he couldn’t change was his fastball, a pitch Hart said just wasn’t there for him Wednesday.
But Hart didn’t blame the 10 a.m. start for his struggles Wednesday, quickly pointing out his Maryland counterpart had no trouble on the mound.
Wednesday really exasperated IU’s recent struggles at the plate since it was facing a pitcher who Lemonis called one of the best in Big Ten history.
The Hoosiers don’t have much time to dwell about what went wrong against Shawaryn because come 10 a.m. Thursday they have an elimination game, not only for the Big Ten Tournament, but for their season.
If IU doesn’t find a remedy to its recent struggles at the plate, it won’t be in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in four seasons.
“We can pitch and defend, we just need to start getting some hits.
Go Hoosiers!
http://www.idsnews.com/article/2016...mination-after-historic-struggle-at-the-plate
snowling
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Hoosiers can't solve Shawaryn in 5-3 loss to Terps
by Matt Miller
Indiana players have spent the last week living out of suitcases in Nebraska. Another empty offensive showing in Omaha guarantees the Hoosiers a ticket home.
IU couldn’t solve Maryland ace Mike Shawaryn in its Big Ten Tournament opener, leaving the three-seed Hoosiers on the brink of elimination after their 5-3 loss to the six-seed Terrapins on Wednesday at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha.
Shawaryn struck out 16 in a dominant, complete-game win for the Terps (29-25), who advance to face No. 7-seed Michigan State. Relegated to the loser’s bracket in the double-elimination tournament, the punchless Hoosiers will get No. 2-seed Nebraska at 10 a.m. Thursday.
“We can pitch and defend, we just have to start getting some hits and getting some timely hits,” IU coach Chris Lemonis said. “We can match-up tomorrow and play, but it’s been a long 10 days of not a lot of offense. Our guys have to find some way to get that off their back and have some good at-bats tomorrow.”
Indiana (31-20) has now dropped five in a row — including a weekend sweep in Lincoln — as their NCAA Tournament hopes rest on thin ice. The Hoosiers won’t be able to qualify for a program-record fourth consecutive NCAA appearance unless they receive the Big Ten’s automatic bid. Earning that from here would set a precedent. Since the tournament expanded to eight teams in 2014, no program has made the championship game out of the loser’s bracket.
Indiana broke a 20-inning scoreless streak in the bottom of the third, using a walk, an error and a fielder’s choice to bring Austin Cangelosi home and tie the game at 1-1. But the Hoosiers mostly appeared to be without a plan at the plate, otherwise.
Granted, Shawaryn is an All-American capable of making hitters look silly, but Indiana showed no signs of snapping out of the offensive funk that has followed the team during the course of the last two weeks.
IU managed only four hits against Shawaryn, who tied a ballpark record with six straight strikeouts to start the game. Most impressively, he needed only 22 pitches to do so.
“Tip your hat, obviously,” Lemonis said. “He’s got one of the best arms in the country, and one of the best arms in Big Ten history, probably, with what he’s done. Also, on the flip side, we’ve had about a 10-day period where a lot of our at-bats look like that, too. We’re fighting a little bit, offensively. Hopefully, we can come out tomorrow and put some good swings together to get us rolling. 16 strikeouts, that goes a little bit to us for not taking care of business.”
Shawaryn finished one strikeout shy of the Big Ten Tournament single-game record, while becoming the only pitcher in Maryland history to win 30 games, record 300 strikeouts and pitch more than 300 innings in a career.
He had help at the plate, too, including three hits and three RBIs from Nick Dunn. Maryland freshman Marty Costes supplied further damage against IU’s Kyle Hart, finishing 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a triple, an RBI and three runs scored.
Hart struggled with his fastball location and was hit hard in the first and fifth innings, allowing the Terps to take an early lead on Dunn’s one-out, first-inning single to left that scored Costes. Indiana’s senior lefty later settled in and retired 10 in a row between the second inning and the start of the fifth.
“I didn’t have my best fastball today and I was kind of searching for that the whole game,” Hart said. “I did have a good changeup that I thought kept them off balance, for the most part, against those right-handers. I just ran into that (fifth) inning where I left some pitches over the middle and they did what they were supposed to do with them.”
That included four consecutive one-out hits for Maryland, which took a 2-1 lead on Costes’ run-scoring double to left-center. Dunn added to the advantage with the second of two RBI singles, while a run-scoring groundout by Kevin Smith gave the Terps a 4-1 lead by the end of the fifth inning.
That was enough to chase Hart, who at that point had scattered eight hits, while throwing 56 of his 78 total pitches for strikes.
“You could tell he was struggling,” Lemonis said. “He just didn’t have his best stuff today.”
Indiana scored twice against Shawaryn in the bottom half of the fifth. The Hoosiers collected an RBI double by Bloomington North product Colby Stratten, who later came home on a sacrifice fly by Logan Sowers.
But that was all for the Hoosiers, who watched Dunn cap the scoring with a two-out double off IU reliever Jonathan Stiever with two outs in the seventh. Shawaryn went on to retire the final nine Hoosiers he faced to send Indiana to the verge of elimination.
Go Hoosiers!
http://scoop.hoosiershq.com/2016/05/hoosiers-cant-solve-shawaryn-in-5-3-loss-to-terps-iubase/
by Matt Miller
Indiana players have spent the last week living out of suitcases in Nebraska. Another empty offensive showing in Omaha guarantees the Hoosiers a ticket home.
IU couldn’t solve Maryland ace Mike Shawaryn in its Big Ten Tournament opener, leaving the three-seed Hoosiers on the brink of elimination after their 5-3 loss to the six-seed Terrapins on Wednesday at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha.
Shawaryn struck out 16 in a dominant, complete-game win for the Terps (29-25), who advance to face No. 7-seed Michigan State. Relegated to the loser’s bracket in the double-elimination tournament, the punchless Hoosiers will get No. 2-seed Nebraska at 10 a.m. Thursday.
“We can pitch and defend, we just have to start getting some hits and getting some timely hits,” IU coach Chris Lemonis said. “We can match-up tomorrow and play, but it’s been a long 10 days of not a lot of offense. Our guys have to find some way to get that off their back and have some good at-bats tomorrow.”
Indiana (31-20) has now dropped five in a row — including a weekend sweep in Lincoln — as their NCAA Tournament hopes rest on thin ice. The Hoosiers won’t be able to qualify for a program-record fourth consecutive NCAA appearance unless they receive the Big Ten’s automatic bid. Earning that from here would set a precedent. Since the tournament expanded to eight teams in 2014, no program has made the championship game out of the loser’s bracket.
Indiana broke a 20-inning scoreless streak in the bottom of the third, using a walk, an error and a fielder’s choice to bring Austin Cangelosi home and tie the game at 1-1. But the Hoosiers mostly appeared to be without a plan at the plate, otherwise.
Granted, Shawaryn is an All-American capable of making hitters look silly, but Indiana showed no signs of snapping out of the offensive funk that has followed the team during the course of the last two weeks.
IU managed only four hits against Shawaryn, who tied a ballpark record with six straight strikeouts to start the game. Most impressively, he needed only 22 pitches to do so.
“Tip your hat, obviously,” Lemonis said. “He’s got one of the best arms in the country, and one of the best arms in Big Ten history, probably, with what he’s done. Also, on the flip side, we’ve had about a 10-day period where a lot of our at-bats look like that, too. We’re fighting a little bit, offensively. Hopefully, we can come out tomorrow and put some good swings together to get us rolling. 16 strikeouts, that goes a little bit to us for not taking care of business.”
Shawaryn finished one strikeout shy of the Big Ten Tournament single-game record, while becoming the only pitcher in Maryland history to win 30 games, record 300 strikeouts and pitch more than 300 innings in a career.
He had help at the plate, too, including three hits and three RBIs from Nick Dunn. Maryland freshman Marty Costes supplied further damage against IU’s Kyle Hart, finishing 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a triple, an RBI and three runs scored.
Hart struggled with his fastball location and was hit hard in the first and fifth innings, allowing the Terps to take an early lead on Dunn’s one-out, first-inning single to left that scored Costes. Indiana’s senior lefty later settled in and retired 10 in a row between the second inning and the start of the fifth.
“I didn’t have my best fastball today and I was kind of searching for that the whole game,” Hart said. “I did have a good changeup that I thought kept them off balance, for the most part, against those right-handers. I just ran into that (fifth) inning where I left some pitches over the middle and they did what they were supposed to do with them.”
That included four consecutive one-out hits for Maryland, which took a 2-1 lead on Costes’ run-scoring double to left-center. Dunn added to the advantage with the second of two RBI singles, while a run-scoring groundout by Kevin Smith gave the Terps a 4-1 lead by the end of the fifth inning.
That was enough to chase Hart, who at that point had scattered eight hits, while throwing 56 of his 78 total pitches for strikes.
“You could tell he was struggling,” Lemonis said. “He just didn’t have his best stuff today.”
Indiana scored twice against Shawaryn in the bottom half of the fifth. The Hoosiers collected an RBI double by Bloomington North product Colby Stratten, who later came home on a sacrifice fly by Logan Sowers.
But that was all for the Hoosiers, who watched Dunn cap the scoring with a two-out double off IU reliever Jonathan Stiever with two outs in the seventh. Shawaryn went on to retire the final nine Hoosiers he faced to send Indiana to the verge of elimination.
Go Hoosiers!
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