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Aaron Slegers asked if he could move the time of his scheduled phone call with The Hoosier Network to another day. Less than a week earlier, he had boarded a plane in Phoenix bound for south Florida, Slegers himself entirely uncertain of where he and likely roommate Josh Fleming would…
Tommy Sommer sat in the locker room with his teammates listening to head coach Jeff Mercer speak in preparation for a series versus Memphis. Mercer addressed rumblings about the spring baseball season getting pushed back or possibly canceled, but Sommer never thought these rumors would come to fruition. Mercer had…
On Thursday afternoon, the Big Ten Conference officially canceled all remaining athletic competition on the calendar for the 2019-20 school year, in response to the growing concerns about COVID-19. The NCAA swiftly followed, canceling all remaining winter and spring championships. The move is obviously devastating for athletes, coaches, fans, the…
As midweek games start to become more frequent, Indiana Head Coach Jeff Mercer gets the opportunity to try out some new arms on the mound. Mercer seems set on a weekend rotation of Gabe Bierman, Tommy Sommer and Braydon Tucker, but more midweek games means more fresh faces taking the…
Indiana junior Cooper Trinkle, who played his freshman season at the University of Evansville, stood at the plate with two outs in the ninth. He eyed his former teammate Michael Parks, who stood on the mound ready to deliver the 1-1 pitch. Indiana trailed by just one run and was…
Indiana looked to have found its groove after a dominating 17-2 mercy-rule win versus Purdue on March 4, but a 1-2 weekend versus San Diego revealed inconsistencies that still exist on this team. The Hoosier bats stayed hot in the first game of Saturday’s double-header, but did not have a…
Indiana baseball opened their home schedule Wednesday in what was a non-conference matchup with rival Purdue. Last season, The Hoosiers captured a 7-6 win in their only contest against Purdue, with Cade Bunnell walking it off with an RBI single in the 10th inning. Including Wednesday’s game, the Hoosiers and…
The Indiana baseball guys break down a 2-1 weekend in Greenville, NC as well as preview a month of March with almost every game at The Bart, including the home opener on Wednesday against Purdue. All that and more on the latest Indiana Baseball Podcast presented by The Hoosier Network.…
The defense committing six errors was the biggest negative that Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer could come up with when asked about his takeaways from the Hoosiers’ 2-1 weekend. And for Mercer, a slow start defensively is in part because of the lack of practices his team has been able…
It’s a rational approach to use the nonconference schedule to ease a team into the season. In theory, playing against weaker competition at the start of the year will help a team gain confidence, make adjustments and work through problems before the heart of conference play. But Indiana head coach…