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IU radio:
http://www.whcc105.com/

Live stats:
http://www.huskers.com/liveStats/v2/baseball/index.dbml?GAME_STAT_ID=2772766&db_oem_id=100


Go Hoosiers!

 

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DP whips out FIneman's leadoff double in T2. UN has faced 9 IU batters in 3 innings of play. Where has the offense gone?
UN manufactured 2 runs in the 2nd.

Go Hoosiers!

 

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* * * R H E
IU 0 2 1
UN 2 3 0

UN, 2-0 after four.

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Bradley singles and is stranded.
UN goes single; misguided pick-off throw lets the runner move to 2nd; K; K; infield base hit with error in the throw to 1st allows the runner to score from 2nd; BB; advances to 3rd on a missed pick-off throw from the catcher; FO ends the inning.
Defensive play has not been our friend this afternoon. IU offensive needs to get to work.

* * * R H E
- IU 0 3 4
UN 3 5 0

UN, 3-0 after five.

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Indiana goes GO; LO; Dedelow singles, but K leaves him on 1st.
Stiever in to work the 6th.
UN goes K, single, DP to close the inning.

* * * R H E
- IU 0 4 4
UN 3 6 0

UN, 3-0 after six.

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Fineman walks, FO; DP retires the side.
Sabol relieves for IU.
UN goes K; single to LF; single to CF; Belcher comes to to halt the threat; 3 pitches gets a DP and the ends the inning.

* * * R H E
- IU 0 4 4
UN 3 8 0

UN, 3-0 after seven.

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Cangelosi singles; PO; Stratten singles, but DP ends the top half.
Kelzer enters.
UN goes GO; GO; runner reaches on an error (ugh); GO.
Need a big inning! GBR!

* * * R H E
- IU 0 6 5
UN 3 8 0

UN, 3-0 after eight.

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Cangelosi singles; PO; Stratten singles, but DP ends the top half.
Kelzer enters.
UN goes GO; GO; runner reaches on an error (ugh); GO.
Need a big inning! GBR!

* * * R H E
- IU 0 6 5
UN 3 8 0

UN, 3-0 after eight.

Go Hoosiers!

Not a good weekend for Hoosiers.....need to turn offense around or it will be 2 quick games in Omaha.

 

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Indiana goes easy; 1, 2 , 3. This is the first time IU has been shutout in 2 consecutive games in over 20 years,
Bussing to Omaha for the B10 Tourney, but IU has some things to sort out in a short time. I believe they will play at 10am EDT, Wednesday morning against MSU (correction, IU will play Maryland).

Go Hoosiers!

 

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20 years! That's a helluva tail to drag into Omaha. Let's hope the boys find their lost gumption.

 

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We made a decent but not great Husker team look like the greatest team in the annals of NCAA baseball. Hopefully, we can regain our previous form at the B1G tourney. We knew going into the season that this was going to be a team that would have to manufacture runs, but to come up with only a ninth inning homer over a three-game series is ridiculous.

 

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Back-to-back Shutouts Send Hoosiers Sputtering Into Postseason
by Mike Miller

This isn’t the way Indiana wanted to enter the conference tournament — not with an offense suddenly sputtering in the absence of clutch and timely hitting.

Nebraska dealt IU a 3-0 loss in Saturday’s regular season finale at Haymarket Park, sending the Hoosiers into next week’s Big Ten Tournament as the No. 3 seed. That means Indiana is due to meet No. 6 seed Maryland in the tournament’s opening game Wednesday at 10 a.m. Eastern at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb.

By that point, the Hoosiers hope their rotten weekend will have been confined to Lincoln.

Otherwise, Indiana could quickly find themselves on the wrong end of the bracket. The Hoosiers haven’t scored since Craig Dedelow’s solo home run to lead off the ninth inning of Thursday’s series opener. They managed six hits on Saturday, finishing the weekend with only 12 total. Of that dozen, 11 were singles.

IU hit into three double plays on Saturday, including one that killed a rally in the eighth. Austin Cangelosi led off the inning with a single and went first to third on Colby Stratten’s one-out base hit to left field. But what began as one of the few encouraging innings of the series ended on a 4-6-3 double play ball off the bat of Laren Eustace.

Senior right-hander Evan Bell tossed five innings, allowing a pair of RBI groundouts in the second inning. Jake Schleppenbach scored Nebraska’s third run on a throwing error by IU third baseman Isaiah Pasteur in the bottom of the fifth. The Hoosiers committed five errors in the finale, including two by Pasteur.

With the win, the Cornhuskers locked up the No. 2 seed in next week’s tournament. For the Hoosiers, it was the first time since 1983 that the program has been shut out in back-to-back games.

It’s especially troubling given the challenge that awaits IU in its opener. The Hoosiers will likely draw Terrapins ace Mike Shawaryn. The right-hander enters the postseason nine strikeouts shy of 300 for his career. Shawaryn, a preseason All-American, also leads the nation’s juniors with 29 career wins.

Kyle Hart is expected to make the start for Indiana.

Go Hoosiers!

http://scoop.hoosiershq.com/2016/05...d-hoosiers-sputtering-into-postseason-iubase/

 

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Purdue coach steps down:

http://www.indystar.com/videos/sports/2733078383001/4905628219001/

Go Hoosiers!

 

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Hoosiers Fall to Cornhuskers; Earn No. 3 Seed in Big Ten Tournament

Next Game: vs. Maryland
5/25/2016 - 10 a.m. ET

LINCOLN, Neb. — Indiana baseball (31-22, 15-9 Big Ten) dropped its regular season finale, 3-0, to the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Saturday afternoon.

With the loss, Indiana claims the No. 3 overall in the Big Ten Tournament. The Hoosiers will open the double elimination tournament against Maryland on Wednesday. First pitch is slated for 10 a.m. ET from T.D. Ameritrade Park.

Senior Evan Bell surrendered five hits over five innings of work, striking out three and allowing two earned runs. The Hoosiers' bull pen effort of freshman Jonahtan Stiever, sophomore B.J. Sabol, and juniors Thomas Belcher and Jake Kelzer combined for three shutout innings, holding Nebraska to just three hits during that span.

A leadoff walk and a double to left-center field led to two runs for Nebraska in the bottom of the second. Junior Alex Krupa tried to ignite the Hoosiers in the top of the fourth with a leadoff single back up the middle, but the Huskers were able to retire the side to leave Krupa stranded at first. Nebraska benefited from a fielding error in the bottom of the frame, but a quick 6-4-3 double play erased the runner. Freshman Ryan Fineman helped clear the base paths later on in the inning with a throw to second to catch a Husker trying to steal.

Indiana was unable to score in the fifth and sixth innings, following singles by freshman Scotty Bradley and junior Craig Dedelow. Nebraska tacked on an insurance run in the fifth, while the Hoosiers turned their second double play of the game in the home half of the sixth, wiping away a single earlier in the inning.

Sabol and Belcher combined to toss a scoreless seventh inning, after Nebraska threatened with two, one-out singles. A 5-4-3 double play ball by Belcher left one on base. Indiana's best chance of the day came in the top of the eighth, as singles by juniorAustin Cangelosi and freshman Colby Stratten pinned runners on the corners, but a double play ball quickly brought the inning to a close.

The third-seeded Hoosiers now turn their attention to the Big Ten Tournament. Indiana's first game is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday against the Maryland.

Go Hoosiers!

Boxscore within:
http://iuhoosiers.com/news/2016/5/2...ers-earn-no-3-seed-in-big-ten-tournament.aspx