Colton White Earns GLVC Baseball Player of the Week

Southern Indiana junior catcher Colton White received the Great Lakes Valley Conference baseball player of the week award for his play last week.

White hit .615 in a three game series against UW Parkside last weekend and reached base at least twice in each game.  Colton also had two doubles, five rbi's and scored five times.  White is leading Southern Indiana in batting average (.364), slugging percentage (.500) and rbi's (28).

Colton is a transfer from Lincoln Land College, attended Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin and lives in Springfield Illinois.

USI baseball signs three in early period

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The University of Southern Indiana baseball team announced the signing of three players – pitcher Silas Dill (Bernie, Missouri), pitcher/infielder James Mulvaney (Mt. Vernon, Illinois), and outfielder Bradley Wannemuehler (Evansville, IN) – to national letters of intent in the early signing period. The three players will join the Screaming Eagles and Head Coach Tracy Archuleta for the 2011 season.

Mulvaney is in his final year at Mt. Vernon High School (Mt. Vernon, Illinois) where he lettered in baseball, football, and basketball. He has been the South Seven Conference Pitcher of the Year twice, in addition to earning All-South Seven Conference honors twice.


“Jim is a competitor on the mound with good movement on his fastball,” commented Archuleta. “He will be expected to chew up some innings for us as a freshman.”

Tyler Choate Named Preseason All-American

University of Southern Indiana Athletics - USI has a pair named preseason All-American:

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana senior pitcher/infielder Tyler Choate (Carmi, Illinois) has been named to the preseason All-American second team as a utility player by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Choate, who was a Daktronics second team All-Region and All-GLVC utility player, saw action at four different positions during his first year with the Eagles. He was USI's number one starter, finishing the season with a 7-3 overall record with a 3.22 ERA and 76 strike outs in 16 appearances and 15 starts.

At the plate, Choate sparked USI in the top third of the line-up. He had a team-best 10 home runs and ranked second with a .357 batting average. The 2009 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Newcomer to Watch also had 52 runs scored, 15 doubles, four triples, and 37 RBIs.