Austin Peay: For the first time since 2007, the Austin Peay baseball team has claimed the OVC Baseball regular season championship. The Governors locked up the championship last Sunday with a victory over Southeast Missouri. The title is even more satisfying for the program when you consider they did not make the OVC Championship field (six teams) each of the past two years. Ticket information for the 2011 OVC Baseball Championship (which is May 25-29 at Pringles Park in Jackson, Tenn.) can be found HERE.
Eastern Kentucky: Although the EKU men's golf team came up short of winning the OVC Team Championship, the Colonels Johan Eriksson shared medalist honors and received an automatic individual berth to the NCAA Regionals. Eriksson was assigned to the Central Regional in Zionsville, Ind. which begins on Thursday. EKUColonels.com takes a look at Eriksson chances at the event.
Eastern Illinois: The EIU men's track and field team was ranked 11th in the final Midwest Region poll of the regular season released by the USTFCCCA. Overall the Panthers were 57th nationally. The rankings are projections based on how athletes would fare at the NCAA Championships. Individually Zye Boey was 13th in the 100 meters and 17th in the 200 meters while Mick Viken is ranked seventh in the pole vault. This past week the EIU athletic department announced its student-athletes had a combined 3.08 G.P.A. for the spring semester, as 57 percent of its student-athletes had a G.P.A. of 3.00 or higher. In addition 15 of the Panthers 19 intercollegiate teams had combined G.P.A.'s of 3.00 or higher and 54 student-athletes had perfect 4.0's.
Jacksonville State: The Jacksonville State softball team will play in its fourth-straight NCAA Tournament this weekend. After winning the OVC Championship last weekend in Charleston, Ill., the Gamecocks were picked to play in the Louisville Regional and open play on Friday (May 20) against No. 7 California. Daniel Paulling of the Birmingham News takes a look at the JSU softball team and how they overcame a poor finish to the regular season to win the OVC Championship. The softball team is the first Gamecock program to make four consecutive postseason trips since the school became a Division I program.
Morehead State: If you search the internet you can find a new and different NBA Mock Draft every day. Every outlet has an opinion of where they think forward/center Kenneth Faried will go in this year's Draft (which will be held June 23). This mock draft from SB Nation has Faried going to the Golden State Warriors at No. 11, while this one at CSNPhilly.com thinks the 76ers should pick Faried at No. 16. If you take to Google you can find numerous other ones predicting Faried to go to a variety of teams in the first round. If Faried is picked in the first round (which he should be), he will be the first OVC player taken in the first round since Carlos Rogers was 11th overall in the 1994 NBA Draft.
Murray State: Although Murray State is currently going through the search for its next head coach, as Billy Kennedy announced on Monday he was taking over at Texas A&M, the school did announce that it will be playing in this year's 2011 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage. The Racers will be paired with UC Irvine in the first round (Nov. 23) and play either host Alaska-Anchorage or Southern Miss in the second round on Nov. 25. The rest of the field includes Central Michigan, Dartmouth, New Mexico State and San Francisco. This will be the 34th annual Great Alaska Shootout.
Southeast Missouri: The Redhawks softball team made a great run through the OVC Championship last weekend in Charleston, Ill., making the Finals and playing eventual champion Jacksonville State to two title games. After trailing in the first championship game, freshman catcher Shelby Kuryllo hit a three-run walk-off home run to give the 5th-seeded Redhawks the 3-2 victory. The next day the team came up just short in falling to JSU by a 9-5 margin. Southeast Missouri finished the year 31-30 overall.
SIU Edwardsville: Earlier this week the NCAA announced the winners of its NCAA Public Recognition awards for high Academic Progress Rates (APR). SIUE led all OVC schools with five individual sports programs that were recognized, including men's cross country, women's tennis, women's golf, women's soccer and softball. As SIUE continues it reclassification to being a full Division I member, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Vahe Gregorian took a closer look at the school and how the process has been going. Finally, SIUE baseball coach Gary Collins is just two wins away from 1,000 for his career. Steve Porter of the Alton Telegraph wrote a story about Collins' career and reaching the milestone (which could potentially come this weekend against Eastern Kentucky).
Tennessee State: The Tennessee State Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) recently received a 2011 Service Learning Award at the Community Partners Luncheon put on by the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement. The award was one of just six given out at the luncheon, which honors groups across the city of Nashville.
Tennessee Tech: Following the basketball season head coach Mike Sutton stepped down and long-time assistant coach Steve Payne assumed the head coaching duties for the Golden Eagles. The website National Hoops Report recently interviewed Payne to talk about the transition of taking over as head coach. In the sport of football Tennessee Tech recently announced is 2011 football schedule, which features a game at Football Bowl Subdivision foe Iowa.
UT Martin: One of the surprise men's basketball teams last year was UT Martin, as head coach Jason James took a young team and helped them develop over the season to earn the No. 8 seed in the OVC Championship Tournament and pull off an upset of No. 5 seed Tennessee State in the first round. Recently James announced the addition of five signees to his 2012 recruiting class. The group included three junior college transfers and two freshmen.
Belmont: Although not a member of the OVC until 2012-13, last Friday the OVC announced the Bruins will become the 12th member of the Conference. The Nashville school will play one final year in the Atlantic Sun before joining the OVC. This story has a link to all the news stories that were generated from last Friday's announcement.
Eastern Kentucky: Although the EKU men's golf team came up short of winning the OVC Team Championship, the Colonels Johan Eriksson shared medalist honors and received an automatic individual berth to the NCAA Regionals. Eriksson was assigned to the Central Regional in Zionsville, Ind. which begins on Thursday. EKUColonels.com takes a look at Eriksson chances at the event.
Eastern Illinois: The EIU men's track and field team was ranked 11th in the final Midwest Region poll of the regular season released by the USTFCCCA. Overall the Panthers were 57th nationally. The rankings are projections based on how athletes would fare at the NCAA Championships. Individually Zye Boey was 13th in the 100 meters and 17th in the 200 meters while Mick Viken is ranked seventh in the pole vault. This past week the EIU athletic department announced its student-athletes had a combined 3.08 G.P.A. for the spring semester, as 57 percent of its student-athletes had a G.P.A. of 3.00 or higher. In addition 15 of the Panthers 19 intercollegiate teams had combined G.P.A.'s of 3.00 or higher and 54 student-athletes had perfect 4.0's.
Jacksonville State: The Jacksonville State softball team will play in its fourth-straight NCAA Tournament this weekend. After winning the OVC Championship last weekend in Charleston, Ill., the Gamecocks were picked to play in the Louisville Regional and open play on Friday (May 20) against No. 7 California. Daniel Paulling of the Birmingham News takes a look at the JSU softball team and how they overcame a poor finish to the regular season to win the OVC Championship. The softball team is the first Gamecock program to make four consecutive postseason trips since the school became a Division I program.
Morehead State: If you search the internet you can find a new and different NBA Mock Draft every day. Every outlet has an opinion of where they think forward/center Kenneth Faried will go in this year's Draft (which will be held June 23). This mock draft from SB Nation has Faried going to the Golden State Warriors at No. 11, while this one at CSNPhilly.com thinks the 76ers should pick Faried at No. 16. If you take to Google you can find numerous other ones predicting Faried to go to a variety of teams in the first round. If Faried is picked in the first round (which he should be), he will be the first OVC player taken in the first round since Carlos Rogers was 11th overall in the 1994 NBA Draft.
Murray State: Although Murray State is currently going through the search for its next head coach, as Billy Kennedy announced on Monday he was taking over at Texas A&M, the school did announce that it will be playing in this year's 2011 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage. The Racers will be paired with UC Irvine in the first round (Nov. 23) and play either host Alaska-Anchorage or Southern Miss in the second round on Nov. 25. The rest of the field includes Central Michigan, Dartmouth, New Mexico State and San Francisco. This will be the 34th annual Great Alaska Shootout.
Southeast Missouri: The Redhawks softball team made a great run through the OVC Championship last weekend in Charleston, Ill., making the Finals and playing eventual champion Jacksonville State to two title games. After trailing in the first championship game, freshman catcher Shelby Kuryllo hit a three-run walk-off home run to give the 5th-seeded Redhawks the 3-2 victory. The next day the team came up just short in falling to JSU by a 9-5 margin. Southeast Missouri finished the year 31-30 overall.
SIU Edwardsville: Earlier this week the NCAA announced the winners of its NCAA Public Recognition awards for high Academic Progress Rates (APR). SIUE led all OVC schools with five individual sports programs that were recognized, including men's cross country, women's tennis, women's golf, women's soccer and softball. As SIUE continues it reclassification to being a full Division I member, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Vahe Gregorian took a closer look at the school and how the process has been going. Finally, SIUE baseball coach Gary Collins is just two wins away from 1,000 for his career. Steve Porter of the Alton Telegraph wrote a story about Collins' career and reaching the milestone (which could potentially come this weekend against Eastern Kentucky).
Tennessee State: The Tennessee State Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) recently received a 2011 Service Learning Award at the Community Partners Luncheon put on by the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement. The award was one of just six given out at the luncheon, which honors groups across the city of Nashville.
Tennessee Tech: Following the basketball season head coach Mike Sutton stepped down and long-time assistant coach Steve Payne assumed the head coaching duties for the Golden Eagles. The website National Hoops Report recently interviewed Payne to talk about the transition of taking over as head coach. In the sport of football Tennessee Tech recently announced is 2011 football schedule, which features a game at Football Bowl Subdivision foe Iowa.
UT Martin: One of the surprise men's basketball teams last year was UT Martin, as head coach Jason James took a young team and helped them develop over the season to earn the No. 8 seed in the OVC Championship Tournament and pull off an upset of No. 5 seed Tennessee State in the first round. Recently James announced the addition of five signees to his 2012 recruiting class. The group included three junior college transfers and two freshmen.
Belmont: Although not a member of the OVC until 2012-13, last Friday the OVC announced the Bruins will become the 12th member of the Conference. The Nashville school will play one final year in the Atlantic Sun before joining the OVC. This story has a link to all the news stories that were generated from last Friday's announcement.
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