BY STEVE KRAH
Indiana State University swept its sixth weekend series of the 2019 college baseball season, topping Valparaiso University three times in Terre Haute Friday and Saturday, April 12-13.
The Sycamores (27-7) are scheduled to visit Vanderbilt at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16.
Also Tuesday, Ball State goes to Indiana with a 6:05 p.m. start at Bart Kaufman Field.
The Hoosiers (24-12) are riding a seven-game win streak, including a three-game weekend sweep of Evansville. The Cardinals (23-12) have won four of their previous five games.
NCAA Division III’s Rose-Hulman (17-8) is on a five-game win streak.
The Ivy Tech Northeast program in Fort Wayne recently got the thumbs up from its administration to get going with the program, which is in its second season as a pilot for athletics in the Ivy Tech statewide system.
The Lance Hershberger-coached Titans won 25 games in 2018 and already have 22 victories in 2019, including the 600th of Hershberger’s storied coaching career.
If weather cooperates, there will be plenty of collegiate diamond action around Indiana Tuesday, including (all times local):
NCAA Division I
Western Michigan at Valparaiso, 3 p.m.
Evansville at Murray State, 5 p.m.
Northwestern at Notre Dame, 6 p.m.
Ball State at Indiana, 6:05 p.m.
NCAA Division II
Lake Erie at Indianapolis (DH), 1 p.m.
Kentucky Wesleyan at Southern Indiana, 6 p.m.
NCAA Division III
Wittenberg at DePauw (DH), noon.
Wabash at Ohio Wesleyan (DH), noon.
Bluffton at Anderson (DH), 1 p.m.
Defiance at Manchester (DH), 1 p.m.
Earlham at Mount St. Joseph (DH), 4 p.m.
Franklin at Rose-Hulman (DH), 4 p.m.
NAIA
Mount Vernon Nazarene at Saint Francis (DH), 1 p.m.
Goshen at Spring Arbor (DH), 1 p.m.
Indiana Wesleyan at Grace (DH), 2 p.m.
Marian at Huntington (DH), 3 p.m.
IU Southeast at Lindenwood-Belleville, 3 p.m.
IU South Bend at St. Ambrose, 4 p.m.
St. Francis (Ill.) at Calumet of St. Joseph, 4 p.m.
Junior College
Sinclair at Ivy Tech Northeast (DH), 2 p.m.
INDIANA COLLEGE BASEBALL
Records Through April 14
NCAA Division I
Indiana State 27-7 (4-2 Missouri Valley)
Indiana 24-12 (7-2 Big Ten)
Ball State 23-12 (7-3 Mid-American)
Butler 18-15 (2-4 Big East)
Evansville 17-15 (5-1 Missouri Valley)
Notre Dame 13-21 (8-10 Atlantic Coast)
Purdue 11-23 (5-6 Big Ten)
Valparaiso 6-24 (1-8 Missouri Valley)
Fort Wayne 5-28 (0-15 Summit)
NCAA Division II
Indianapolis 23-14 (15-9 Great Lakes Valley)
Southern Indiana 21-14 (14-9 Great Lakes Valley)
Oakland City 19-11
NCAA Division III
Rose-Hulman 17-8 (6-0 Heartland)
Franklin 16-10 (5-3 Heartland)
DePauw 15-11 (2-4 North Coast)
Anderson 13-10 (4-4 Heartland)
Earlham 13-14 (5-5 Heartland)
Wabash 13-14 (1-6 North Coast)
Trine 11-15 (4-10 Michigan Intercollegiate)
Hanover 10-14 (2-6 Heartland)
Manchester 8-19 (3-5 Heartland)
NAIA
Taylor Trojans 29-13 (9-9 Crossroads)
Indiana University-Kokomo 28-13 (15-6 River States)
Indiana University Southeast 27-14 (15-6 River States)
Indiana Tech 25-13 (9-3 Wolverine-Hoosier)
Huntington 20-10 (14-5 Crossroads)
Marian 19-16 (11-8 Crossroads)
Indiana Wesleyan 17-24 (11-8 Crossroads)
Purdue Northwest 14-18 (9-5 Great Lakes Intercollegiate)
Goshen 13-24 (7-12 Crossroads)
Saint Francis Cougars 13-28 (7-12 Crossroads)
Grace 12-19 (8-11 Crossroads)
Bethel 9-23 (5-14 Crossroads)
Calumet of Saint Joseph 8-32 (1-19 Chicagoland)
Indiana University South Bend 8-32 (6-15 Chicagoland)
Junior College
Ivy Tech Northwest 22-11
Vincennes 18-18 (6-10 Mid-West)
Ancilla 5-18 (4-12 Michigan Community)
www.IndianaRBI.com 