College Sports

INDIANAPOLIS — Marian University’s national champion volleyball team has players from three different states and many in Indiana from its largest schools — such as Fishers and Lawrence Central and perennial volleyball powers such as Roncalli, Fort Wayne Dwenger and Wapahani...

INDIANAPOLIS - It was a battle for 60 minutes, but the Marian football team prevailed, and ultimately punched its ticket to the 2019 NAIA National Championship with a 34-24 win over No. 6 Lindsey Wilson Saturday afternoon at St. Vincent Field in Indianapolis...

OBERLIN, Ohio — The DePauw University men’s basketball team defeat the Yeomen of Oberlin College 80-67 to earn its first conference win of the season. In the first six minutes of play, the Tigers shot a cool 4-4 behind the arc and completed a three-point play to take a commanding 15-7 lead...

KANSAS CITY — With an 11-0 record, MSFA Mideast League title and a pair of playoff wins under their belt, Charles Salary, Mac Dutra and Tyler Lotz of the Marian football team added to their special season by earning NAIA-AFCA All-America honors. Salary was named to the first team, while Dutra was named to the second team and Lotz was given honorable mention...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tenth-ranked DePauw used a 13-0 run over a four-minute stretch of the fourth period to pull away from Wittenberg and gain a 70-55 North Coast Athletic Conference victory. DePauw moved to 7-1 overall and 1-0 in the NCAC, while the host Tigers dropped to 3-4 overall and 0-2 in conference play...

DePauw University’s men’s basketball team will look to even its North Coast Athletic Conference record at 1-1 tonight when the Tigers host No. 4-ranked Wittenberg. Tipoff is 7 p.m., and admission is free. The Tigers hosted Kenyon on Sunday and lost 69-65 to fall to 2-3 on the season...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- DePauw University earned two outright league titles during the fall season to take the early lead in the race for the 2019-20 North Coast Athletic Conference All-Sports Championship. The Tigers posted top-five finishes in all seven of the fall championship sports, as they finished on top of the league in both men’s cross country and women’s soccer...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Sydney Kopp’s layup with three seconds left propelled 11th-ranked DePauw to a 69-67 win over Illinois Wesleyan in the Midwest Challenge championship game at WashU. The Tigers improved to 6-1 with the win, while the Titans, ranked 21st by D3hoops.com and 24th in the latest coaches’ poll, dropped to 5-2...

TERRE HAUTE -- Indiana State used a late run and hot shooting from Cloverdale sophomore Cooper Neese as well as the steady hand of junior Tyreke Key to down visiting Missouri-St. Louis by the score of 62-55 in the Sycamores 2019 debut inside Hulman Center. Indiana State has now won three straight to improve to 3-4 while the Tritons are 6-1. Neese led the way for the Sycamores with 19 points on the strength of a 6-of-9 shooting performance, including a mark of 4-of-6 from 3-point range.

BIMINI, Bahamas – Indiana State took its best defensive effort of the season and added to it the best shooting performance of the year en route to a 72-60 victory over Loyola Marymount on the second day of the 2019 Junkanoo Jam at Resorts World Bimini...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Ninth-ranked DePauw moved to 4-0 on the season following a 60-55 victory over #12 Wisconsin-Oshkosh at Wisconsin Lutheran’s Paul Knueppel Classic. The Titans dropped to 2-2. The Tigers scored the game’s first seven points on the way to an 11-6 lead at the quarter break. ...

Four Tigers have been selected all-North Coast Athletic Conference Football second team in voting by the league’s coaches. Right tackle Nick LaChapelle (Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio/Moeller) was DePauw’s lone selection on the offensive team after anchoring a line that ranked fourth in the conference by allowing 2.1 sacks per contest...

Bill Lynch, DePauw’s head football coach for eight seasons overall including the last seven, has announced his retirement effective Jan. 2, 2020. A search for his replacement is underway. “The time is right for my family and me,” Lynch said. “I’ve been fortunate to have a great run in this profession, but with grandchild number 17 on the way there are many reasons for me to move on to the next stage with my family. ...

The Monon Bell Classic is always special. Sure, there are much better known college football rivalries around the country and even in this state, but there is just something about these two small schools in Western Indiana that evokes something other rivalries lack...

DePauw senior guard Sydney Kopp of Hinsdale South High School in Burr Ridge, Ill., has been chosen North Coast Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week for her performances in DePauw’s three wins last week. Kopp averaged 26.3 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists as the Tigers, ranked 10th in the D3hoops.com preseason poll and 12th in the coaches’ rankings, topped Earlham (69-43), Wisconsin-Stevens Point (66-61) and Wisconsin-Whitewater (70-69, OT)...

A 62-yard touchdown with 38 seconds to play gave DePauw University its first lead of the game Saturday in the 126th Monon Bell Classic. It was all the Tigers needed, as the defense did what it had done all day, holding Wabash College in check. The Tigers walked away with a 17-13 victory over the Little Giants, their first victory over the arch rival school in three years...

DePauw and Wabash will renew their bitter rivalry on Saturday for the 126th time as the Little Giants come to Greencastle to take on the Tigers. Wabash has won the last two meetings and leads the all-time series 62-54-9. Since the Monon Bell was introduced in 1932, Wabash leads the series 43-38-6...

DePauw senior right-side hitter Morgan Stearley (Center Point, Ind./ Northview) has been named the North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year in voting by the conference’s coaches. This marks the second consecutive season a DePauw player has earned the distinction after Suzanne Peters garnered the award last year...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The resilient, fourth-seeded Tigers wrapped up an incredible weekend with their first North Coast Athletic Conference Volleyball Tournament title following a 3-1 (25-19, 25-16, 18-25, 25-21) win over second-seed Denison in the championship match. The championship ended Wittenberg’s run of 12 straight tourney titles dating back to 2007. DePauw improved to 18-12, while the Big Red dropped to 18-8...

DePauw will open its men’s basketball season tonight at home against the Franklin Grizzlies. Tipoff is 7 p.m., and admission is free. Colin York of Greencastle is a sophomore guard for the Grizzlies. He did not play in Franklin’s season-opening 86-84 loss to Otterbein on Saturday...

DePauw moved to 5-4 overall and 5-3 in the North Coast Athletic Conference after posting a 34-0 shutout win over Oberlin on Senior Day on Nick Mourouzis Field at Blackstock Stadium. The Yeomen dropped to 1-8 overall and 1-7 in NCAC play. The opening six minutes of the game included lost fumbles on three consecutive offensive plays before DePauw took over on the Oberlin 46. ...

Several Putnam County graduates are competing in college sports this fall and many are having successful seasons. Eight cross country runners and one coach are competing, along with 13 football players, two golfers, five soccer players along with two coaches, five tennis players and five volleyball players...

HIRAM, Ohio — Host Hiram scored on the opening drive of the game, but DePauw shut out the Terriers the rest of the way and came away with a 21-7 North Coast Athletic Conference victory. DePauw improved to 3-2 overall and 3-1 in the NCAC, while Hiram dropped to 0-5 overall and 0-4 in conference play...

DePauw overcame a 17-14 halftime deficit with 17 unanswered points and came away with a 31-26 Old Gold Day and North Coast Athletic Conference win over visiting College of Wooster on Saturday. The Tigers improved to 2-2 overall and 2-1 in the conference, while the Fighting Scots dropped to 2-2 overall and 1-2 in NCAC play...

Greencastle graduate Evan Crowe and the St. Mary-of-the-Woods College men’s soccer team will play at DePauw at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Pomeroys are 8-2 this season, with defeats of Brescia, Eureka, Cincinnati Christian, Great Lakes Christian, MacMurray, Andrews, Welch and Franklin. The team’s only defeats were to Moody Bible Institute and Webster...

Six DePauw alumni, a former director of sports medicine and a men’s basketball team will be inducted into the DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 28. The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. in Kresge Auditorium in DePauw’s Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts...