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         <title>Walczak Garners Valley Field Athlete of the Week Honor</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Heading into the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships Illinois State senior Anton Walczak was named MVC Field Athlete of the Week, as announced by the league office this afternoon. Over the past weekend, Walczack sharpened his performance in the hammer throw, as he exceeded his personal-best and earned his third regional qualifying mark with a distance of 197 feet, one inch for a third-place finish at the Billy Hayes Invitational May 9. Walczak currently holds The Valley's second best throw and is 21st in the Mideast Region standings.]]></description>
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         <title>Dubler Breaks Doubles Record; Redbirds Fall to WMU in Extras</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:43:30 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Junior Kevin Dubler broke the single-season doubles record, while senior Kyle Cherney hit his fifth home run of the season, but it wasn't enough. The Illinois State baseball team (22-27) fell in 10 innings, 5-4, to Western Michigan in a non-conference game Tuesday afternoon at Hyames Field. The Redbirds played their second-straight extra-inning affair, and dropped to 3-3 on the year when playing extra innings.]]></description>
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         <title>Redbird Baseball Finishes Regular Season on the Road</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Illinois State baseball team will finish its 2008 regular season this week on the road, beginning Tuesday with a non-conference game at Western Michigan at 2 p.m. CST. The Redbirds (22-26, 6-15) will then travel to Terre Haute, Ind., to play Indiana State in a three-game Missouri Valley Conference series, beginning Thursday at 5 p.m. CST.]]></description>
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         <title>Redbird Volleyball Online Ticket Rewards Scheduled</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:08:49 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The Illinois State Athletics Department will conduct a two-week online season ticket reward drawing, beginning May 12, for patrons who order 2008 volleyball season tickets on GoRedbirds.com.]]></description>
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         <title>Redbird Softball Left Out of NCAA Tournament Field</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 21:56:33 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[For the first time since 2005, the NCAA Division I Softball Tournament will not feature the Illinois State softball team, as the Redbirds were left out of the 64-team field, as announced by the NCAA Division I Softball Selection Committee Sunday night.]]></description>
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         <title>Cherney's Bases-Loaded Single Gives Redbirds Win in Extras, 2-1</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 22:28:32 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th inning, senior Kyle Cherney delivered a single down the right field line to give the Illinois State baseball team a hard-fought, 2-1 victory over in-state rival Southern Illinois in the night cap of a Missouri Valley Conference doubleheader Saturday at Duffy Bass Field. Cherney's game-winning hit salved a split with SIU in Saturday's doubleheader and kept alive the Redbirds' chances to qualify for the 2008 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.]]></description>
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         <title>Redbirds Fall in Game One to Southern Illinois, 10-5</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Illinois State baseball was unable to stop Southern Illinois in the batter's box, as they surrendered 18 hits and fell, 10-5, to the Salukis in game one of a Missouri Valley Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Duffy Bass Field.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Junior and Bloomington, Ill., native Tiffany Hockensmith carded a team-best third-round total of a five-over par 77, highlighting the Illinois State women's golf team's final day in the 2008 NCAA Central Regional at the University of Texas Golf Club in Austin, Texas Saturday. The Redbirds finished the regional in 20th place, shooting a 34-over par 322 in the third and final round. ISU's three-round total was a 91-over par 955.]]></description>
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         <title>Smith, Nelson Earn MVC All-Tournament Team Honors</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Following second-seeded Illinois State's 5-4 loss to No. 7-seed Missouri State Friday afternoon in the semifinals of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in Carbondale, Ill., junior pitcher/first baseman Amber Smith and sophomore third baseman Kara Nelson were both selected to the 2008 State Farm MVC All-Tournament Team, the conference office announced Saturday.]]></description>
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         <title>Walczak Nails Down the Hammer Throw at Billy Hayes Invite</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 22:53:10 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Illinois State track and field senior Anton Walczak sharpened his performance in the hammer throw, as he exceeded his personal-best and earned his third regional qualifying mark with a distance of 197feet, one inch for a third-place finish at the Billy Hayes Invitational, held on the Billy Hayes Track inside the Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex in Bloomington, Ind., Friday.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:30:50 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Sophomore Ryan Copeland was in control early on the mound for the Illinois State baseball team, as he retired Southern Illinois in order in four of the first six innings, but the Redbirds (21-25, 5-14) surrendered two runs in the top of the eighth and dropped a 4-3 decision to SIU in a Missouri Valley Conference game Friday night at Duffy Bass Field.]]></description>
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         <title>Redbirds Finish Day Two of NCAA Central Regional in 20th Place</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 21:16:42 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Redshirt sophomore Marisa Milligan carded another stellar second nine of her round, but the 20th-seeded Illinois State women's golf team suffered a rough day in day two of the NCAA Central Regional at the University of Texas Golf Club in Austin, Texas Friday. The Redbirds finished the second round with a 34-over par 403, 90 strokes more than ISU shot in Thursday's opening round. The Redbirds enter Saturday's final round in 20th place, 62 strokes ahead of 21st-place Farleigh Dickinson.]]></description>
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         <title>Errors Cost ISU in 5-4 Loss to Missouri State in MVC Semifinals</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:56:51 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Junior pitcher/first baseman Amber Smith hit her Missouri Valley Conference record 40th-career home run, but in the end, four errors in the game, including three in the fifth inning, cost the Redbirds a shot at the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference championship game, as the second-seeded Illinois State softball team (28-20) suffered a 5-4 loss to No. 7-seed Missouri State (28-21) in the semifinals of the MVC Tournament Friday afternoon at Southern Illinois' Charlotte West Stadium in Carbondale, Ill.]]></description>
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         <title>Threat of Inclement Weather Forces ISU to play Doubleheader Saturday</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:58:49 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Due to the threat of inclement weather in the Central Illinois area, the Illinois State baseball team will now play a doubleheader against Missouri Valley Conference rival Southern Illinois Saturday, beginning at 2 p.m. at Duffy Bass Field. The Redbirds and Salukis were originally slated to play three games in three days, with the finale scheduled to start Sunday (April 11) at 1 p.m.]]></description>
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         <title>Kreger Named Assistant Coach for Redbird Volleyball</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:41 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Kelly Kreger, a former Redbird volleyball standout and Illinois State's interim head coach during the spring season, has been hired as an assistant coach on new head coach Melissa Myers' staff.]]></description>
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