Chandler Alderman’s freshman baseball season at Middle Tennessee State University began with a bang when he tossed a 10-0 eight-inning no-hitter against Liberty University with 11 strikeouts on March 23.
Since then, the 6-foot-5 left-hander has had some more ups and a few downs as expected for a first-year pitcher making the transition from pitching for North Boone in the Big Northern Conference to Division 1.
Alderman has appeared in 12 games for the Blue Raiders (12-21, 4-7 CUSA), with five starts. He has pitched 40 innings, allowed 36 hits and 18 earned runs, walking 14 and striking out 44. He has a 4.05 earned run average and batters facing him are hitting only .228. He is 2-2 so far.
In his most recent effort on Saturday, Alderman threw seven innings in a 10-9 win over New Mexico State and allowed seven hits and three runs. He walked two and struck out four. He left with a 4-3 lead, but the bullpen allowed the Aggies (14-19, 3-8 CUSA) to take the lead before the Blue Raiders eventually rallied for a win.
• D.J .HONORED: Rock Valley College’s softball program honored retiring assistant coach D.J. Johnson on Saturday between games of a double-header Saturday in Rockford against Indian Hills Community College.
A Rockton native and Hononegah grad, Johnson has been a member of head coach Darin Monroe’s staffs which were named NFCA Junior College D-III National Coaching Staff of the Year 2014-19 as well as 2021. He was awarded the NFCA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2018.
The Golden Eagles are currently 15-12. They split a pair of twinbills with Indian Hills and next will travel to Grayslake, Ill., to play College of Lake County in a double-header on Wednesday.
Sophomore infielder Paige Hendricks (Clinton) has played in 17 games for RVC and has hit .240 with one home run, three RBIs, seven runs scored and two stolen bases. Freshman outfielder Briella Sendele (Hononegah) has played in 25 games and is hitting .263 with one homer, 16 RBI, 18 runs scored and three steals.
• EAGLES SWEEP: Rock Valley College swept a double-header from Moraine Valley Community College on Monday 7-4 and 13-10 to improve to 23-11. Konner Giddley (Turner) has capably manned the shortstop position for the Golden Eagles and his hitting .371 with 27 runs scored and 13 RBIs. He has one home run and five stolen bases.
• BENNETT BLASTS: Freshman Joscelyn Bennett (Hononegah) has been a force for 24-3 Bryant & Stratton of Milwaukee, batting at a .471 clip (32-68) with 22 runs scored and 24 RBIs. She has a .513 on-base percentage and leads the Bobcats with an .809 slugging percentage.
Bennett has six doubles, four triples and three home runs, including one on Saturday in a 10-7 loss at Black Hawk in Moline, Ill. She has also 11 steals in 13 tries.
Saturday, Bennett was 1-for-3 in a 4-3 win over Black Hawk and then had a monster game in the losing effort. She was 2-for-3 with a double and homer, a run scored, three RBIs and a stolen base. Black Hawk, incidentally, is coached by Hononegah grad Josh Keener and is 20-16 this spring.
• YOUNG GUN: Freshman pitcher Mckenna Young (Brodhead) picked up the win as the University of South Dakota softball team (19-25) snapped a four-game skid with a 5-1 decision over 30-9 Omaha on Sunday.
Young came on in relief and did not allow a run over 4 2-3 innings. She allowed two hits with one walk and four strikeouts. Overall, the right-hander has a 4-5 mark, having appeared in 21 games with six starts. She has pitched 55 1-3 innings, allowed 53 hits and 28 earned runs, walked 26 and struck out 54. Batters are hitting .247 off her.
• GARRETT SAILS: UW-Whitewater’s Shelvin Garrett II (Beloit Memorial) won the triple jump in the UW-Platteville Invitational on Saturday. He jumped 15.08 meters (49-5.75), which is the fourth-best distance nationally in NCAA D-III.
• HELLACIOUS HITTER: Braydon Savitski-Lynde (Hononegah) has gone from terrorizing opposing defenses in Illinois to dominating opponents in Indiana as a part of the Ball State men’s volleyball team.
Savitski-Lynde, who paced the state of Illinois with 474 kills last season, had three kills, a pair of aces and three digs to help the top-seeded Cardinals sweep Queens University of Charlotte in three sets at the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament’s semifinals on Saturday.
The freshman is third on Ball State, which is 21-9 overall and 13-3 in conference play, in kills with 143. He averages 2.3 kills per set and has 14 total aces, 67 digs and 34 total blocks. He had a game-high 16 kills against Hawaii on Jan. 28.
The Cardinals face fourth-seeded Lindenwood on Thursday in the MIVA Tournament semifinals.
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