ROUNDUP: Woods to play for MSFL championship again

Nov. 11—Freshman Derron Hazzard ran for two touchdowns — covering 51 yards late in the third quarter and 7 yards in the fourth quarter — and caught a 47-yard TD pass from Jeremiah Tosky after that.

Those efforts propelled Saint Mary-of-the-Woods past Quincy 23-13 in a Midwest Sprint Football League playoffs semifinal matchup Saturday afternoon at West Vigo High School's Jay Barrett Field.

A former Riverton Parke standout, Hazzard finished with a team-high 69 yards rushing along with 53 yards receiving.

Drake Varns provided the Pomeroys' other points with a 20-yard field goal in the second period — after they fell behind 7-0 in the first period — and two extra points.

Quincy concluded its season with a 5-3 mark.

Seeded No. 2 in the four-team playoffs, The Woods (7-1 and defending MSFL champion) will play host to fourth-seeded Calumet of St. Joseph for the MSFL championship at 1 p.m. next Saturday at Jay Barrett Field.

While the Pomeroys were downing Quincy on Saturday, Calumet upset No. 1 seed Bellarmine — the only team to beat Saint Mary-of-the-Woods this season — by a 28-14 score at Louisville.

SMWC and Calumet opened the 2023 regular season Sept. 16, with the Pomeroys winning 28-10 in the city of Whiting, where Calumet's campus is located.

The Crimson Wave are on a five-game winning streak, although one of those victories came on a forfeit.

College volleyball

—Indiana State 3, Belmont 0 — Inside the ISU Arena, the host Sycamores extended their winning streak to two matches Saturday night by defeating Missouri Valley Conference foe Belmont 25-22, 25-15, 25-19.

Indiana State's statistical leaders included freshman Kira Holland with 14 kills and two assists, Avery Hales with 28 assists and 11 digs, Karinna Gall with nine kills and two aces, Ella Scott with six blocks and six kills, Macy Lengacher with five aces and nine digs and Cadence Gilley with 12 digs.

This match was a homecoming for Belmont head coach Katelyn Harrison, formerly known as Katelyn Bishop, who starred in volleyball and played on the Class 4A state championship girls basketball team at Terre Haute South High School in the early 2000s.

Belmont is now 12-19 overall and 6-11 in the MVC.

On Friday evening, ISU defeated MVC opponent Murray State 3-0 (25-13, 25-13, 27-25) behind 18 kills from Holland, 38 assists from Hales, 12 digs from Gall and five blocks from Scott.

Holland has surpassed 300 kills for 2023, becoming the first Sycamore since Laura Gross in 2018 with at least 300 kills in a season.

Also, Indiana State has won back-to-back matches for the first time since November 2021.

The Sycamores (5-22, 3-14) will play host to Evansville for their "White Out" season finale at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Arena.

—Transylvania 3, Rose-Hulman 1 — At Cincinnati, the Engineers lost a 25-22, 21-25, 25-14, 25-13 decision to No. 17-ranked Transylvania in the semifinal round of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament Saturday.

Megan Korte led the Engineers with 17 kills, Jillian Gregg with 35 assists and 17 digs, Lily Ebright with 33 digs and Sophia Koop with 11 kills.

After a tough loss in the first set, the Engineers bounced back in Set 2. The team put together a five-point run to stand ahead 19-11. A kill by Korte on an assist from Gregg evened the match at one set each.

But the Pioneers were able to catch a rhythm offensively in the third and fourth sets to claim the victory and eliminate the Engineers (15-14) from the postseason tournament.

Men's soccer

—Ohio Wesleyan 2, Rose-Hulman 0 — At Chicago, the Engineers fell in the opening round of the NCAA Division III tournament for the second season in a row Saturday afternoon.

The Engineers had several opportunities to take an early lead, but they were unable to find the back of the net. Ohio Wesleyan took the lead in the 44th minute with a penalty-kick goal after a Rose handball. The Battling Bishops added a second goal early in the second half after a defensive misstep allowed a one-on-one with the goalkeeper.

The Engineers (12-6-3) recorded eight shots compared to 12 for Ohio Wesleyan.

Women's swimming

—Smith secures pair of wins — At Carbondale, Ill., Zoe Smith took home the event wins in the 3-meter and 1-meter diving finals and Bailey Betzer had a pair of top-five finishes to headline the Indiana State divers that took on the field at the A3 Performance Invitational held this past week inside the Shea Natatorium.

On Friday, Smith completed the diving sweep over the weekend A3 Invitational Meet as the senior topped the field in the evening's 1M finals. Betzer added a fourth-place result in her second top-five finish of the week.

Smith earned the win with a six-dive score of 265.70 to defeat Evansville's Maddie Rollett (259.90) and Southern Illinois' Farida Moussa (257.30). Betzer's score was 243.90.

Smith placed first in the 3M diving Thursday evening with a six-dive score of 267.20 to top runner-up Moussa (265.30), with Betzer coming in fifth at 237.10.

ISU will close out the fall portion of its 2023-24 schedule at the Miami (Ohio) Invite on Nov. 30-Dec. 2 Oxford, Ohio.

Cross country

—Conhoff, Pietrzak lead way for Trees — At Madison, Wis., Rachel Conhoff and Logan Pietrzak paced Indiana State's contingent at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet Friday afternoon on the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course.

Indiana State finished 16th on the men's side and 22nd on the women's side.

Conhoff was the lone finisher in the top 100 for the Sycamore women, with her 6-kilometer time of 22:04.9 placing her 88th. Morgan Dyer (22:23.3) and Kyra Young (22:35.4) followed behind, while freshmen Emma Gresham (22:45.7) and Halle Miller (23:00.5) rounded out the top five for ISU.

Pietrzak led a group of four male Sycamores in the top 100, with his 10k time of 31:24.8 coming in 76th. Cael Light (31:30.3) and Jason Dworak (31:37.5) placed 84th and 89th respectively, while Ethan Breen also earned a top-100 finish with a time of 31:42.5.

Butler and Wisconsin earned automatic bids to the NCAA men's national championships, while Notre Dame and Wisconsin snagged the NCAA women's automatic bids. Wisconsin's Bob Liking and Notre Dame's Olivia Markezich won the men's and women's individual titles respectively.