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The Indiana Hoosiers baseball team (8-2) fell to the Purdue Boilermakers (2-8) by a score of 8-5 Saturday afternoon at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington. Coming off a quiet 2-1 victory on Friday, the Hoosiers had McCade Brown on the bump and were primed for a big performance, but Indiana’s…
“We are excited and ready to go,” Indiana baseball head coach Jeff Mercer said a few days before the Hoosiers’ opening day. “I don’t know if we are ready to play.” That rust was apparent at times for Indiana, which looked excited if not overeager on the diamond. The Hoosiers…
Indiana baseball’s 2020 season was abruptly cut short last March. Nearly a year since the Cream and Crimson last took the diamond, the Hoosiers start their 2021 season on Friday. IU will play a 44-game, Big Ten-only schedule starting with two games apiece against Rutgers and Minnesota this weekend indoors…
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…
After dropping its first two games of the season to LSU, the Indiana baseball team caught fire at the South Alabama Tournament. The Hoosiers defeated UT-Martin 3-2 this past Friday, followed by a 4-2 win over South Alabama and 12-3 route of Siena to extend their win streak to four…
There are few environments that will test both a team’s physical ability and mental toughness more than a trip to Baton Rouge to take on the No. 11 LSU Tigers. Playing in front of a packed stadium of passionate college baseball fans was an immediate wake-up call, but that’s the…
After losing to Louisville in the 2019 regional final, IU also lost three players who combined to start 136 games in the infield last year. First baseman and team RBI leader Matt Lloyd, along with senior catcher Ryan Fineman, left for the MLB and shortstop Justin Walker transferred to Purdue.…
Under the direction of first-year head coach Jeff Mercer in 2019, the Indiana baseball team won the Big Ten regular-season title for the first time since 2014. But with success comes turnover, as 10 Hoosiers were selected in the 2019 MLB Draft. Mercer admits he questions where certain production will…
We’re at January’s end, which means 2019 is entirely behind us, in Bloomington and elsewhere. The past 12 months in Indiana Athletics saw some tremendous success, whether it be the women’s basketball team’s NCAA tournament run, witnessing another historic Big Ten double captured by Todd Yeagley’s group, or the excitement…