By STEVE KRAH
Ivy Tech Northeast (30-23) swept a National Junior College Athletic Association sub-regional series against Lakeland over the weekend.
The Great Lakes Region 12 tournament will be hosted by the highest seed.
In the second season of the program (2019), Ivy Tech went 33-14. For now, that is the school victory record.
The 2021 sub-regional win was also the 10th postseason championship of Titans boss Lance Hershberger’s college coaching career.
He had earned two NAIA independent sectionals (1996, 1998), one conference tournament title (2000), five consecutive NAIA regional crowns (1998-2002) and one NAIA super regional title (2001) at Indiana Tech prior to Saturday’s feat for Ivy Tech.
Hershberger’s 55 postseason victories is the most all-time among college baseball coaches in Indiana.
Indiana University Southeast (43-14) has made it to championship game of NAIA River States Conference tournament.
By going 3-1 Thursday through Saturday, the Grenadiers earned the right to meet Point Park Monday (May 10) for the right to move on to the NAIA Opening Round.
With a RSC tournament loss to IU Southeast, Indiana University Kokomo (28-20) saw its 2021 season come to a close. Point Park put out Oakland City (17-27).
The top six seeds — Indiana Wesleyan (41-12), Taylor (36-19), Huntington (33-14), Saint Francis (34-21), Mount Vernon Nazarene (29-18) and Marian (25-28) — are still alive in the NAIA Crossroads League tournament at IWU in Marion, Ind.
Play began Friday and resumes Monday, May 10. The championship will be Tuesday, May 11 (Wednesday, May 12, if necessary).
With each win, Saint Francis adds to its single-season school record for victories.
With a 10-inning Saturday loss to Saint Francis, Bethel (15-39) concluded its season.
Indiana Tech (31-25) went 1-2 in the NAIA Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference tournament and now awaits the NAIA Opening Round pairings.
Indiana University South Bend (24-23) went 1-1 in its first two games of the NAIA Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament and was slated to play again Monday, May 10 in Joliet, Ill.
Next up for NCAA Division II Indianapolis (21-19) and Southern Indiana (22-18) is the eight-team Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament, slated for Thursday-Sunday, May 13-16 at Lindenwood in St. Charles, Mo.
The first part of the two-tier NCAA Division IIII Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament has been set.
Best-of-3 series are slated for Friday-Saturday, May 14-15 with No. 10 seed Defiance (6-31) at No. 1 Transylvania (26-10), No. 9 Mount Saint Joseph (12-26) at No. 2 Franklin (23-12), No. 8 Bluffton (16-22) at No. 3 Rose-Hulman (23-12), No. 7 Manchester (19-20) at No. 4 Earlham (21-18) and No. 6 Hanover (20-18) at No. 5 Anderson (20-17).
A five-team double-elimination tournament will follow May 20-23 at the best remaining seed after Round 1.
Fifth-year senior Danny Dopp is now the career hits leader at Earlham. His 194 — reached in Saturday’s doubleheader against Manchester — surpass the 192 of Nate Lynch, who played for the Quakers 2014-17.
DePauw (15-21) saw its season wrap Saturday in non-conference D-III play against Washington University of St. Louis.
NCAA Division I Indiana (23-10, 23-10) went 2-0 against Rutgers and 1-1 against Nebraska in Piscataway, N.J., and hold a 1/2-game lead on Michigan for the lead in the Big Ten Conference standings. IU is slated to play three at Michigan Friday-Sunday, May 14-16.
Even with a 1-2 series against Florida State, Notre Dame (25-10, 22-10) is well ahead of Louisville (26-15, 16-10) for the lead in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
By splitting a four-game series at Central Michigan, Ball State (30-14, 21-7) remains 1 game behind first-place CMU in the Mid-American Conference standings.
Indiana State (24-12, 11-5) went 3-1 in a Missouri Valley Conference series at Missouri State. The Sycamores trail MVC front-runner Dallas Baptist by 2 games.
With a win in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader at Youngstown State, Purdue Fort Wayne gave Mastodons head coach Doug Schreiber the 500th win of his collegiate coaching career.
Because of health concerns within the Northwestern program, the Northwestern at Purdue series was postponed.
Purdue has worked an arrangement with Ohio State to add a Tuesday, May 11 game at Alexander Field.
INDIANA COLLEGE BASEBALL
Records Through May 9
NCAA Division I
Ball State 30-14 (21-7 MAC)
Notre Dame 25-10 (22-10 ACC)
Indiana State 24-12 (11-5 MVC)
Evansville 23-23 (6-13 MVC)
Indiana 23-10 (23-10 Big Ten)
Valparaiso 13-25 (8-12 MVC)
Purdue 11-20 (11-20 Big Ten)
Butler 10-19 (4-9 Big East)
Purdue Fort Wayne 10-28 (7-21 HL)
NCAA Division II
Southern Indiana 22-18 (18-14 GLVC)
Indianapolis 21-19 (19-13 GLVC)
Purdue Northwest 11-21 (5-18 GLIAC)
NCAA Division III
Franklin 23-12 (23-12 HCAC)
Rose-Hulman 23-12 (23-12 HCAC)
Earlham 21-18 (21-18 HCAC)
Anderson 20-17 (20-17 HCAC)
Hanover 20-18 (20-18 HCAC)
Manchester 19-20 (19-20 HCAC)
Wabash 18-15 (9-6 NCAC)
DePauw 15-21 (8-8 NCAC)
Trine 6-26 (6-17 MIAA)
NAIA
Indiana University Southeast 43-14 (26-1 RSC)
Indiana Wesleyan 41-12 (28-4 CL)
Taylor 36-19 (24-12 CL)
Saint Francis 34-21 (23-13 CL)
Huntington 33-14 (23-13 CL)
Indiana Tech 31-25 (16-6 WHAC)
Indiana University-Kokomo 28-20 (16-10 RSC)
Marian 25-28 (17-19 CL)
Indiana University South Bend 24-23 (19-11 CCAC)
Oakland City 17-27 (10-17 RSC)
Bethel 15-39 (12-24 CL)
Grace 12-31 (9-23 CL)
Calumet of Saint Joseph 7-29 (7-20 CCAC)
Goshen 3-34 (2-26 CL)
Junior College
Ivy Tech Northeast 30-23
Vincennes 19-27 (7-19 MWAC)
Ancilla 6-29 (2-18 MCCAA)
Conferences
NCAA Division I
Atlantic Coast (ACC)
Horizon (HL)
Mid-American (MAC)
Missouri Valley (MVC)
NCAA Division II
Great Lakes Valley (GLVC)
Great Lakes Intercollegiate (GLIAC)
NCAA Division III
Heartland Collegiate (HCAC)
Michigan Intercollegiate (MIAA)
NAIA
Crossroads League (CL)
Chicagoland Collegiate (CCAC)
Wolverine Hoosier (WHAC)
River States Conference (RSC)
Junior College
Mid-West Athletic (MWAC)
Michigan Community College (MCCAA)
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