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Kuester to enter Hall of Fame

Sarah Loesch, Sports Editor January 12, 2016

Brian Kuester, a former USI baseball player, will be inducted into the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame this month. He is entering as a coach of the South Spencer High School Rebels. He coached the team...

Baseball ranked 33rd

Sarah Loesch, Sports Editor January 12, 2016

The baseball team ranked 33rd this year in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Preseason Poll. The team ranked 33rd in 2010 when it won the national championship, and in the past nine years it has ranked...

Freshman Justin Buchanan, an exercise science major, records himself running across the field of a Cincinatti Reds baseball game.

Freshman, Reds fan hops fence, avoids sentence

Megan Thorne August 19, 2015
Incoming freshman Justin Buchanan learned quickly what a little fame could bring after he ran across the field at a Cincinnati Reds game July 22.

Baseball ranked No. 2 despite rocky start

Caitlin Golden April 28, 2015

Canceled games and a rocky start at the beginning of the season hasn’t stop USI’s baseball team from competing. Currently ranked second in the Great Lakes Valley Conference standings, the team is...

Kempf and Holder receive GLVC awards in same week

Caitlin Golden April 14, 2015

USI men’s baseball had a rocky start to its spring season, but this past week, both Kyle Kempf, a junior outfielder and Alex Holder, a junior pitcher, received weekly honors from the Great Lakes Valley...

COLUMN: National champions need to spice up game

Jerry McCartney March 24, 2015

Coming off of an NCAA Division II National Championship, the Screaming Eagles’ baseball squad is underway once again with the start of the 2015 season. The reigning champs started the season with...

Baseball team hopes for back to back championships

Caitlin Golden March 4, 2015

The baseball team has had a slow start to the season with five out of eight games being canceled due to weather. After the three games they played in Tampa, Florida at the start of the season, they...

Softball and baseball struggle to find playing time

Sarah Loesch March 3, 2015

Both the softball team and the baseball team have had its scheduled destroyed by weather related issues. The softball team has had to postpone or cancel 15 games and will not back in action until March...

Baseball coach to begin radio show next month

Sarah Loesch February 25, 2015

Head baseball coach Tracy Archuleta will begin "The Tracy Archuleta on Baseball" radio show at 7 p.m. March 24. The show will take place at the St. Phillip's Inn on March 24, April 2, and April 16....

Baseball team predicted to be champions

Sarah Loesch February 10, 2015

The men's baseball team was picked to finish first in the GLVC East. This comes off of the team's strong season last year. They were 49-13 overall and 10-4 in the post season. The season is scheduled...

Indiana General Assembly honors athletes

Sarah Loesch February 10, 2015

The Indiana General Assembly made two resolutions Feb. 5, congratulating the 2014 USI men's baseball team and Johnnie Guy. The baseball team was congratulated for its NCAA division II national championship...

Jonathan Wandling pitching for the Screaming Eagles last season. 

Photo courtesy of Photo Services.

Eagles to Blue Jays: Former players sign contracts with same organization

Armon Siadat October 1, 2014

The university continues to make ties with the Toronto Blue Jays as two former Screaming Eagles received calls from the major league organization this past summer. USI utility player Jonathon Wandling...

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