Around the Ohio Valley: May 4

It's a new month, and we wanted to start out with some headlines from around the league to get you started.

• The Austin Peay Lady Gov's tennis team will celebrate its OVC Championship and learn of its NCAA parings today, after beating Eastern Kentucky in the OVC Tennis Championships last week. APSU has The OVC Player of the Year (Vanja Tomic) and Freshman of the Year (Carolin Weikard) on its team.
• The EIU Panthers had a great showing at the track and field championships over the weekend as both men and women swept the titles. Zye Boey won male athlete of the championship, Kandace Arnold won female athlete of the championship.
• The Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's and women's track and field teams finished in third place at the OVC Track and Field Championships. EKU softball and baseball matchups this weekend were rained out. The Colonels won eight individual titles at the meet.
• JSU's Elizabeth Bond won OVC Freshman Track and Field Athlete of the Year. The freshman qualified for the USA Track and Field Junior National Championships in the 400 meter for her performance at the Ole Miss Invite.
• Morehead State signed high school basketball standout Dionte Ferguson to a National Letter of Intent. The Eagles also signed Brianna Athey, Jami Whitcomb, and Kelcey McMurray to its softball program. Softball and baseball matchups were also rained out over the weekend.
• Senior Wes Cunningham set a new single-season home run record at Murray belting his 17th homerun in a 13-9 victory over SEMO over the weekend. Last week, both the Murray men and women won the OVC Golf Championships, becoming only the second school that has ever won both titles in the same year. The women have been named to the NCAA Central Region while the men have yet to find out.
• SEMO track and field teams finished in second place at the OVC Track and Field Championships. Individually the Redhawks captured four individual titles and 15 top-three finishes on Saturday.
• Despite rainy conditions, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville freshman Kaleb Henry qualified for his second event at U.S. Junior Nationals.
• TSU Tigerbells had strong showings in field events at the OVC Track and Field Championships over the weekend. Martinique Guice returned as long jump champion.
• Tennessee Tech's Charles Newton travel to East Asia at the end of the Spring semester to participate in Reach USA- a christian ministry that bridges the gap between basketball and belief.
• Senior pitcher for UT Martin Paij Lintz became the program's all-time strikeouts leader in a 2-0 shutout win over Southeast Missouri that additionally clinched the Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title.