Indiana Wesleyan senior Tye Thixton was 9 for 18 with two doubles, a homer and 11 runs batted in as the Wildcats took three of four games against Marian. The Center Grove alumnus had seven RBIs in the series finale, an 11-7 win. Teammate Nick Coy scored three runs and drove in one over the weekend.
Center Grove
At the Louisville Invitational, Kiyah Yeast won the 200-meter dash in a time of 23.92 seconds and was runner-up in the 100 (11.76) for the host Cardinals.
Jordyn Rudd was 8 for 16 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored as Northwestern softball took three of four games against Maryland.
University of Indianapolis softball player Hanna Burris scored two runs and drove in one during a doubleheader sweep at Missouri-St. Louis.
Lexi Fair was 2 for 3 in a Southern Indiana softball loss to UIndy and drove in a run during another loss to McKendree.
Wittenberg outfielder Clara Andersen scored a run and drove in another during a twinbill sweep of Anderson. She also went 2 for 4 with a triple and two RBIs in a 9-7 win at Ohio Wesleyan.
Will Smithey had three hits and five RBIs as the UIndy baseball team took three of four games from Maryville. Josh Johnson worked 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief in one of those contests, a 6-4 Greyhounds win.
Jackson Young drove in a run for Franklin College baseball during a 9-8 win over Hanover.
Cincinnati golfer Sam Jean placed 14th individually with a three-round score of 77-73-74—224 at the Hoosier Collegiate Invite in Bloomington. The Bearcats placed fifth as a team.
Freshman MJ Hammill and the Wisconsin volleyball team are the top overall seed going into the NCAA tournament. The unbeaten Badgers received a first-round bye and will play Bowling Green or Weber State in the second round on Thursday.
Whiteland
Anderson senior Branton Sanders tortured Mount St. Joseph pitchers during a doubleheader sweep, going 4 for 8 with two doubles, two home runs, five runs scored and six RBIs. He then went 3 for 3 with three runs, two walks and a two-run homer in the Ravens’ 11-9 extra-inning win over Manchester.
Indiana Wesleyan pitcher Danielle Munn tossed two innings of scoreless relief in a 5-0 win over Grace, allowing one hit, but took her first loss of the spring in a 3-1 setback against Mt. Vernon Nazarene. Maddy Margraf singled in her lone at-bats during victories over Grace, Mt. Vernon Nazarene and St. Francis, driving in a run against the Cougars.
Franklin
Sophomore Emilie Hill scored her first career goal, heading in a corner kick to lift Evansville to a 1-0 women’s soccer win over Loyola Chicago.
Jacob Heuchan was 3 for 5 with a double and two RBIs in Franklin College’s 9-8 baseball victory over Hanover.
Freshman pinch runner Emma Rutan scored the winning run in UIndy’s 2-1 softball victory at Southern Indiana.
Rose-Hulman defensive back Tyce Miller had three tackles and two pass breakups in a 34-14 home win over Franklin College. Riley Roberts also made three stops.
Taylor men’s golfer Javan Johnson was fourth individually with a 70-75—145 as the Trojans finished third at the Purgatory Intercollegiate.
Greenwood
Franklin College sophomore Nick Patton won the men’s 110-meter hurdles at the Hanover Invitational, crossing the line in 16.35 seconds.
T.J. Bass drove in eight runs during Taylor’s four-game baseball sweep of Grace, with a three-run homer and two RBI doubles among his five hits in the series.
Junior Damon Maynard was 4 for 10 with two runs and an RBI as USC Upstate baseball took two of three in a weekend series at Radford.
Reid Werner earned a complete-game win in UIndy’s 5-2 baseball win over Maryville, scattering six hits and two walks while striking out eight.
Edinburgh
Taylor Tatlock won the javelin at the Hanover Invitational for Franklin College with a throw of 34.65 meters and was third in the discus (33.09 meters). Both efforts were personal bests.
