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The Bloomington Regional
BY EVAN HOOPFER ehoopfer@indiana.edu Game 2 Friday, May 30 7 p.m. ESPN3
IU will welcome three teams to the Bloomington regional this weekend in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers will face Youngstown State in their first game at 7 p.m. Friday. Youngstown State and Indiana State offer some challenges to IU, which is 30-3 in the past 33 games. For a breakdown of the Penguins and the Sycamores, read below. For a breakdown of the Stanford Cardinal, read the IDS Q&A with the Stanford Daily’s Jordan Wallach.
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Game 4 Saturday, May 31 6 p.m.
YOUNGSTOWN STATE PENGUINS(16-36) Youngstown State is 20 games below .500 and was the No. 6 seed in its own conference tournament, the Horizon League. The Penguins knocked off No. 1 seed Wright State in the Horizon League Tournament twice in three days, and they received the conference’s automatic bid. The Penguins have a rank of No. 270 in the projected RPI of 302 teams, while IU is No. 2. Youngstown State pulled off the major upset in its own conference tournament, and the team will have to pull off an even bigger upset against the Hoosiers in the first round matchup. Lefty Jared Wight will get the start on Friday for the Penguins. In 16 appearances this year, Wight has a 6.97 ERA in 40 innings pitched. Wight is 1-3 and has walked more than he has struck out. Who Wight will go up against for the Hoosiers is still in flux. IU Coach Tracy Smith said he will probably keep ace Joey DeNato until later in the weekend. “We’re still trying to figure out what we’re doing Friday,” Smith said. “I think the good part for us is we have a lot of confidence in the other guys.” On the offensive side of the ball, the Penguins have two players who have hit more than .300 this season. Second baseman Phil Lipari has been on a tear during the later stretch of the season. As recent as April 27, Lipari was hitting just .236. In the past 15 games Lipari is 30-for-65, good for a .462 average that has bumped his season average to .322. INDIANA STATE SYCAMORES (35-16) The Sycamores are the only team in the Bloomington regional that IU has played this season. The two teams split the season series. Indiana State took a 12-8 bout March 26 in Terre Haute, and the Hoosiers got revenge with a 8-4 win April 9 in Bloomington. Indiana State is coming off a strong regular season, where it finished 14-7 in the Missouri Valley Conference, but the Sycamores followed that with a lackluster performance in the conference tournament, where they went 0-2. They received an at-large bid mainly because of their RPI, which was No. 22 in the nation. On the offensive side, Mike Fitzgerald and Derek Hannahs are the only Sycamores who are hitting more than .300 on the year. Fitzgerald also has an on-base percentage of .461, which is the highest on the team. He is usually the team’s cleanup hitter, batting fourth in the lineup. Three Sycamore pitchers have thrown more than 70 innings this year, and each have an ERA less than 3.50. Stanford and Indiana State play the first game of the regional at 2 p.m. Friday.
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IU is trying to win its first College World Series in school history. The first steps back to Omaha begin this weekend for the Hoosiers.
Game 1 Friday, May 30 2 p.m. ESPN3
Game 6 Sunday, June 1 6 p.m.
Game 7 Monday, June 2 (if necessary) 5:30 p.m.
Game 5 Sunday, June 1 1 p.m. Game 3 Saturday, May 31 2 p.m. GRAPHIC BY CONNOR RILEY
Breakdown of the NCAA postseason BY EVAN HOOPFER ehoopfer@indiana.edu
Just like the NCAA Tournament in basketball, the NCAA Tournament in baseball has 64 teams in the first round. Basketball has added a few more teams through the years, but its base bracket still consists of 64 teams. That’s where the similarities end between the two sports’ postseasons. IU was selected to the No. 4 national seed during Monday’s NCAA Tournament selection show. But the NCAA baseball postseason can be tough to understand for first-time college baseball fans. There are two weekends of postseason play in college baseball and then the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. IU looks to return to the College World Series for the second consecutive year, as the team fell short of winning a national title in Omaha, Neb., last year. That journey begins this week-
end with regional play at IU. All games will be played at Bart Kaufman Field. There are three other teams in the regional, ranked from seeds two-to-four. IU is the No. 1 seed in the regional. It is joined by No. 2 seed Indiana State (35-16), No. 3 seed Stanford (30-23) and No. 4 seed Youngstown State (16-36). IU and Youngstown State received automatic bids into the NCAA Tournament by winning their respective leagues. If a team wins its conference, it is automatically granted entry into the NCAA Tournament. Stanford and Indiana State were at-large bids. Regional play is a double-elimination tournament. The winner of the four-team tournament moves on to super regionals. If IU sweeps the regional and wins all its games, the team will play three games — at 7 p.m. Friday, at 6 p.m. Saturday and at 6 p.m. Sunday. However, if IU wins its first two games against Youngstown State
and the winner of the Stanford–Indiana State game but loses Sunday, a different situation will ensue. The Hoosiers won’t be out of the tournament, since it’s a doubleelimination format. In that case, there will be another game at 5:30 p.m. Monday with a “winner take all” feel. To recap, if IU takes care of business and wins all of its games, the team will be done by Sunday with a regional crown. If the Hoosiers have several hiccups, the team could be out of the regional by Sunday. And, if necessary, there will be another game Monday. If IU makes it out of the regional, the Hoosiers will move on to the super regionals. This is where the importance of being a national seed comes in. The top eight teams in the nation are named national seeds, and each will be a host to a super regional. Whichever team comes out of the Nashville, Tenn., regional will play IU in the super regional.
Vanderbilt, Oregon, Clemson and Xavier are the potential teams. The super regional format is much easier to digest. It’s simply a best-of-three series between the two teams. If IU wins the super regional, the Hoosiers will move on to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., where the top eight teams in the nation take part in a double-elimination tournament to determine the national champion. Last season IU defeated Valparasio, Austin Peay and Austin Peay again to sweep its regional. The team traveled to Tallahassee, Fla., and took two games from national seed Florida State to move on to Omaha, Neb. The Hoosiers beat Louisville and then lost to Mississippi State and Oregon State — both in onerun games — and were knocked out of the NCAA Tournament. The road back to Omaha, Neb., starts 7 p.m. Friday for the Hoosiers.
Unanimous vote moves deer issue forward BY SARAH ZINN sjzinn@indiana.edu @sarah_zinn
The future of deer in Griffy Lake has moved from the hands of the City Council to the Park Commissioners. Tuesday, the Bloomington Board of Park Commissioners unanimously approved a contract with a wildlife management company that will facilitate deer sharpshooting in the Griffy Lake Nature Preserve. The $31,000 contract will allow the nonprofit organization White Buffalo to kill more than 100 deer
in Griffy Lake between Nov. 15 and Feb. 28, 2015. Park commissioners discussed sharpshooting logistics with White Buffalo after a long awaited approval from the City Council, which amended a city code prohibiting the discharge of firearms within city limits. The issue of deer overabundance in Bloomington has been steeped in controversy. The Bloomington Deer Task Force, which includes City Council member Dave Rollo, is in favor of sharpshooting deer to curb what they perceive to be an overpopulation problem. Others question
the proposed use of violence and whether the deer population is even out of hand. Sandra Sharpshay, executive committee member of Bloomington Advocates for Nonviolent and Innovative Deer Stewardship, stressed the lack of concrete evidence of deer overpopulation. A 2014 study at IU Shelton Research Center has collected data of deer pellets, but scientists have admitted this method is not the most accurate, Sharpshay said. “No one knows if the deer are overabundant at Griffy now,” she said at the meeting. Not having a definitive deer
count will not affect the sharpshooting processes, White Buffalo representative Ryan Rotts said. “Although we don’t know exactly how many deer are in the preserve, that information is really irrelevant,” he said. “What’s important is that we have the metrics available to show that our management has provided measurable successes in reestablishing some of the species that have been near eliminated in the park.” Many community members came out in favor of culling the SEE DEER, PAGE 10