Metro roundup: ISU women's hoops still among top in nation in academics

July 19, 2008 12:00 am

— The Indiana State University women’s basketball team ranked third in the most recent Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division I in team GPA with a stellar mark of 3.591.
This honor marks the seventh consecutive season — all under head coach Jim Wiedie — that the team’s GPA has ranked among the nation’s Top 15, and is the sixth time over that span that the team has ranked in the nation’s Top 3.
ISU led the nation in academics following both the 2002-03 and 2004-05 seasons.
Individually, Laura Rudolphi earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team honors while Kelsey Luna was an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District selection.
Golf
• Seniors compete — At Indianapolis, Randy Nichols and Gary Gant teamed to win the PGA Senior Pro-Am concluded Friday at Brickyard Crossing.
The winners had rounds of 62 and 63 to finish with a 19-under-par 125 score.
Tom Jones and Fort Wayne pro Bill Miller placed fifth with 11-under-par 133, shooting 67 and 66.
Idle Creek pro Ray Goddard and Don Alumbaugh tied for 15th at 4-under-par 140.
Auto racing
• Coons a winner — At Boswell, Jerry Coons Jr. won the fifth feature in Indiana Sprint Week racing Thursday at Kamp Speedway.
Coons led all 30 laps of the main event with Tracy Hines second and Shane Cottle third with 54 cars at the track.
Coons moved into second place in the U. S. Auto Club sprint totals, trailing Levi Jones by 31 points. Dave Darland took a nine-point lead over Jones in the Sprint Week totals into Friday’s action at Bloomington Speedway. The final race is tonight at Haubstadt.

Thursday’s results
Fast qualifier — Jon Stanbrough
Qualifying race winners — Kevin Thomas Jr., Scotty Weir
Heat winners — Darren Hagen, Bryan Clauson, Levi Jones, Brad Sweet, Tracy Hines (B-main)
Feature — Jerry Coons Jr., Hines, Shane Cottle, Jesse Hockett, Jones, Cole Whitt, Sweet, Brady Short, Stanbrough, Dave Darland, Thomas Messeraul, Robert Ballou, Brady Bacon, Hagen, Damion Gardner, Kyle Cummins, Daron Clayton, A. J. Anderson, Chad Boat, Bryan Clauson, Hunter Schuerenberg, Chris Windom