Quarantine Self-Improvements
Brandon Miniard, Sports Editor
September 16, 2020
On March 16, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced its decision to cancel all spring sports for the 2020 season amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. While the cancellations brought an unexpected and disappointing end to the baseball, softball, and tennis seasons at IU Southe...
Grenadiers bounce back against Midway
Brandon Miniard, Staff Reporter
March 12, 2019
A cold snowy day at Koetter Sports Complex made for an interesting game last Thursday when the IU Southeast baseball hosted River States Conference rival Midway University in the first game of a two day, three-game series. The nine-inning affair was originally scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m., but snow...
Grenadiers open home season with a comeback win
Brandon Miniard, Staff Reporter
February 28, 2019
The IUS baseball team started by picking up victories against three schools ranked in the top 20 in NAIA, the University of the Cumberlands (19), Bryan College (15), and Campbellsville (14). They would follow that with a two game sweep of Huntington University in Westfield Indiana to start the year 5-3. ...
Grenadiers Baseball Hope to Build on Historic Run
John Renfrow, Staff Reporter
February 2, 2018
The grit of a baseball diamond can go unnoticed to the average student. While the team and student body share one campus, the work success requires is often overlooked when stats are revealed, while the blood, sweat and tears linger in the minds of those who produced them. Ben Reel, IU Southeast base...
Grenadiers Baseball: New Year, New Team
Jacob French, Staff Reporter
March 6, 2017
The IUS baseball team is coming off a 43-15 2016 season, a school record for wins, including 27-1 in the then named Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Grenadiers started the 2017 season ranked 22 in the preseason NAIA coaches poll, including the number 1 ranking in the newly named R...
The Mental Fatigue Factor
Enrique Bryan, Staff Reporter
March 21, 2016
Pitcher Chris Kemp said sometimes athletes can be their own biggest obstacles. He said it’s easy for them to overthink when on the field. “It’s easy in baseball to go get inside your own head,” said Kemp, a senior who also plays first base. “You throw a few balls and think, ‘Oh man, what am I...
IUS athletes take on new challenges
Somolia Pumphery
March 21, 2016
Playing college sports usually means student athletes play four years of one sport before graduation. Here at IU Southeast, things can be a little different. The next two semesters will have senior forward for the IUS men’s basketball team Jordan Thompson and senior forward for the IUS women’s...
One man, two sports
Parker Henes, Staff Reporter
October 15, 2015
This year, senior Jordan Thompson will step onto the hardwood court to finish out his collegiate basketball career. After that, he will then stand atop of the white rubber slab that is approximately 60 feet and six inches away from home plate for the first time in four years. Thompson plays center...
Out with staying in, in with getting out
March 31, 2014
That moment when the weather begins to change is a breath of fresh air for all those who spent the winter wishing for an early spring. Though cold winter has taken its time in leaving, the new season has arrived at last, and the warmer weather is soon to become the norm. Now it is tim...
Take me out to the ballgame
IUS Horizon
March 10, 2013
For people like me, there are only two seasons: winter and baseball season. As a Hoosier, I will always have a passion for basketball, but my true love is baseball. Even though the Super Bowl is probably the biggest event in all of sports, and football is arguably one of the most popular sports in the United ...
Reds ready to rival for championship title
IUS Horizon
September 30, 2012
Late in the ninth inning, Aroldis Chapman stands on the mound and sends a 99 mph fastball toward the Dodgers’ Hanley Ramirez. Ramirez sends a bouncer straight into the mitt of second baseman Brandon Phillips. Phillips passes the ball over to Zach Cozart and Cozart to first baseman Joey Votto for a d...
Grenadiers conquer Concordia in doubleheader
IUS Horizon
March 18, 2011
The Grenadiers edged out Concordia University, 3-2, in the first game and returned to sweep the second game, 12-4, in a doubleheader game at IU Southeast on March 12. After a week of rain, flooded fields and rescheduled games, the Grenadiers took the field and got off to a slow start. With two scoreless innings, the Grenadiers traded runs with Concordia in the t...
