College notebook: Hardin’s 3s help Purdue beat No. 2 Buckeyes

Purdue women’s basketball player Cassidy Hardin made good on five of her 3-point attempts to lead the Boilermakers to a 73-65 victory at second-ranked Ohio State.

Hardin, a senior guard and former Center Grove player, finished with 15 points, six rebounds and three assists.

Center Grove

Senior guard Emma Utterback led the way with 20 points, seven rebounds, six assists and two steals.Vermont women’s hoops won its seventh straight game with a 64-51 victory at UMBC.

Senior guard Ella Thompson had 15 points for Bentley in a 63-55 loss at Southern Connecticut State.

Truman State junior Claire Rake scored nine points in a reserve role in the team’s 72-71 victory over visiting Missouri-St. Louis.

Indiana’s 86-70 home win over Ohio State included an 18-point, 10-rebound, six-assist performance from senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis. He finished with 18 points and 20 boards in IU’s 66-55 loss at Maryland.

Senior guard Ben Nicoson produced five points, three boards and two assists off the bench as the University of Indianapolis upped its record to 18-2 with an 81-70 win at Lewis.

Indiana sophomore pole vaulter Taylor Jarosinski cleared a height of 11 feet, 10¾ inches, to place fifth at the IU indoor track and field relays.

Freshman swimmer Ben Clarkston competed for Ball State at the Butler Invite, taking 10th in the 50 freestyle (21.63) and 21st in the 100 butterfly (53.67). He also represented the Cardinals on the fifth-place 200 free relay and ninth-place 400 medley relay.

Franklin

UIndy junior Andrew Bixler won the 3,000-meter run at the Tom Hathaway Distance Carnival indoor track and field meet, finishing in 8 minutes, 56.22 seconds.

Eli Cochrane of Franklin College finished sixth in the 800 in 2:01.62 at the Rose-Hulman Friday Night Spikes indoor track and field meet. He was part of the 4×400 relay that placed third (3:32.66), as was Drew McGaha.

Ball State sophomore swimmer Ethan Pheifer competed for the team’s third-place 400 medley relay at the Butler Invite in a time of 3:23.23. Individually, he was fourth in the 200 individual medley (1:58.57), sixth in the 100 backstroke (53.42) and 12th in the 100 freestyle (48.10). In the women’s meet, BSU soph Gracey Payne swam for the victorious 200 free relay (1:36.41), finished third in the 200 free (1:55.68), sixth in the 50 freestyle (24.70) and sixth in the 100 free (53.34). Teammate Jessie Fraley was 11th in the 100 backstroke (1:00.10).

Radford women’s basketball downed visiting USC-Upstate, 59-39, behind the double-double of freshman guard Ashlyn Traylor (16 points, 10 boards and five assists). Traylor had seven points, six assists and four steals in a 71-50 decision over visiting Presbyterian.

Greenwood

Emily Bonser and Dylan Mayhew threw for the UIndy women’s and men’s teams, respectively, at the Tom Hathaway Distance Carnival indoor track and field event. Mayhew won the shot put with a new personal best of 16.06 meters. Bonser took third in the weight throw, while Mayhew was fourth.

Franklin College senior Nick Patton placed fifth in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.03 seconds at the Rose-Hulman Friday Night Spikes indoor track and field meet. For the Grizzlies women’s squad, junior Mallory Watson was part of the seventh-place 4×400 relay that produced a time of 4:30.79.

Anderson sophomore center Gavin Dowling scored six points off the bench in the Ravens’ 70-62 home loss against Earlham. He had five points, two rebounds and a steal in AU’s 87-80 loss at Hanover.

Whiteland

Sophomore guard Logan Willoughby had 17 points and five rebounds as Manchester won a home men’s basketball game against Franklin College, 80-67. Senior swingman Carter Crowe had seven points for the Grizzlies. Willoughby then finished with 10 points, five rebounds and two assists in the team’s 81-67 victory at Defiance.

IU East guard Megan Harlow scored two points and had four rebounds in a 105-66 loss at Rio Grande (Ohio). She had two points, a rebound and an assist in a 77-60 victory over IU Kokomo.

Indian Creek

Marian sophomore Luci Woodrum finished eighth in the 800-meter run and 12th in the mile as the Knights women’s track and field team competed at the Olivet Nazarene Tiger Invite.

Greenwood Christian

Junior forward Champ McCorkle scored 16 points, grabbed six rebounds and made three steals for Wabash College in a 74-69 defeat of visiting Kenyon. He also had four points and an assist in the team’s 89-79 conquest of visiting DePauw.

Roncalli

Ball State guard Maddie Bischoff, a Greenwood resident, had eight points and four assists in a 78-58 victory at Ohio. The sophomore finished with 15 points, four boards and three assists in a 76-68 victory against visiting Northern Illinois.