EVANSVILLE, Ind. –  The University of Evansville baseball team will wrap up a season-long eight-game homestand on Tuesday night at German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium, as the Purple Aces will host long-time rival Austin Peay State University at 6 p.m.  Tuesday’s game can be heard live in the Tri-State area on 107.1 FM-WJPS.

Evansville will bring an 11-16 overall record into Tuesday night’s game after winning two out of three games against Southern Illinois over the weekend.  Redshirt sophomore Kevin McCormick’s pinch-hit RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning capped a three-run rally for UE in Saturday’s series finale, as the Purple Aces rallied for an 11-10 victory over SIU to win the series.  The win was career victory #400 for head coach Wes Carroll, as he is just the 11th head coach in Missouri Valley Conference history to reach the 400-win barrier with all 400 wins coming as a member of the Valley.

Evansville will bring a .298 team batting average into Tuesday’s contest.  The Purple Aces rank third in NCAA Division I baseball behind only Virginia (87) and Tennessee (80) in terms of doubles, as UE has knocked 76 doubles on the year.  Junior outfielder Harrison Taubert and graduate third baseman Brent Widder are currently tied for the team and MVC lead with 11 doubles each this year.  Taubert hit a team-best .500 last week in four games, with three doubles in four contests.  Overall, Taubert is second on the team in hitting with a .330 batting average to graduate outfielder Mark Shallenberger’s .380 team-leading average.

Austin Peay, meanwhile, will bring a 16-11 overall record into Tuesday’s game.  The Governors rank among the NCAA’s top 10 in six different offensive categories, including team batting average (8th-.329), doubles (6th-72), hits (9th-315), home runs (4th-60), scoring (9th-9.7) and slugging percentage (4th-.609).  Two-way standout Lyle Miller-Green paces the Austin Peay attack with a .388 batting average, 12 doubles, 15 home runs and 41 RBI.  He ranks third in NCAA Division I baseball in home runs and is ninth in RBI.

All-time, UE leads the series over Austin Peay, 43-26-2.  The two teams have not met since 2022, when Evansville won both ends of a home-and-home series by scores of 20-4 and 10-5.  UE leads the all-time series in Evansville, 21-9-1, and the Purple Aces have won five-straight meetings at home dating back to the 2010 season.  Freshman left-hander Kevin Reed (2-0, 7.62) is expected to the get the start on the mound for UE.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — University of Southern Indiana Baseball concludes a five-game road swing this week with a visit to Murray State University Tuesday before starting a four-game homestand at the USI Baseball Field. The first pitch for the Screaming Eagles at Murray State Tuesday is set for 5 p.m.
 
USI will take on Murray State for a second time Wednesday at the USI Baseball Field when the Eagles start four-straight at home. The homestand concludes with a visit from Lindenwood University for a three-game Ohio Valley Conference series.
 
The USI-Lindenwood series starts Friday with a 6 p.m. first pitch before continuing Saturday at 3 p.m. and concluding Sunday at 1 p.m.  
 
Links to follow the Eagles during the opening weekend of 2024 can be found on USIScreamingEagles.com and on the USI Baseball Schedule.
 
USI Baseball Notes:

USI Eagles 1-3 road swing. The USI Screaming Eagles are 1-3 on the five-game road swing. USI lost to Ball State University last week before losing two of three with Morehead State University over the weekend. USI junior centerfielder Terrick Thompson-Allen leads the hitters during the trip with a .500 average (9-18) and is tied for the team-lead in home runs with three. Senior designated hitter Jack Ellis drove in a team-high eight RBI.
 

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) on Monday (April 1) rewarded two members of the Indiana swimming and diving program among its postseason awards.

For the third consecutive season, Indiana head diving coach Drew Johansen was named a CSCAA Diving Coach of the Year – his second-straight award in the men’s category. Junior Carson Tyler was named the CSCAA Men’s Diver of the Year.

Indiana showcased perhaps the greatest-ever diving performance at an NCAA Championships last week during the 2024 NCAA men’s national meet in Indianapolis. The Hoosiers totaled 121 points on the boards, 66 points better than the second-best diving team (Ohio State) and outscoring all but 10 combined swimming and diving programs. Indiana has eclipsed 100 points at back-to-back NCAA meets, earning 104 points last year.

Johansen was previously named the CSCAA Men’s Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2023, as well as the women’s coach of the year in 2022. His program has produced an NCAA Champion in five of the last six full seasons (since 2018) and seven total titles in that span. The Hoosiers have won the 3-meter and platform championships in back-to-back seasons.

At the NCAA Championships, the trio of juniors Tyler and Quinn Henninger and sophomore Maxwell Weinrich collected two medals from each of the three diving events – two gold, two silver, two bronze – and eight All-America finishes.

Tyler won two NCAA titles last week, repeating as platform champion Saturday after earning his first-career 3-meter title Friday, which was won by now-graduated Hoosier Andrew Capobianco last season. Combining the championships and a bronze-medal finish on 1-meter, Tyler totaled 56 points over the week – a total that outscored every other diving program.

Tyler won on platform with a score of 515.75, IU’s best-ever mark at an NCAA Championships. He led a 1-2 finish for the second-straight night as Weinrich earned his first-career national medal. Weinrich totaled 19 points on the week. Henninger took silver on both springboards and finished seventh on platform – a total of 46 points.