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20-05-2025
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Laracuente-Huebner is first Bearcat to win Big 12 track and field title
Highland graduate Juliette Laracuente-Huebner, who was a multi-time state champion in high school, continues to add to her trophy and medal collection as a member of the women's track and field team at the University of Cincinnati. Laracuente-Huebner won the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships in the pentathlon while competing earlier this season in Lubbock, Texas. She scored a 4,182, which was one point from advancing to the NCAA Division I national championships, according to her high school coach Chip Wendt. Advertisement College Notebook: Pair of Presidents earn All-American honors in track and field College Notebook: Juliette Laracuente-Huebner makes All-America for Cincinnati At the Big 12 Championships, she was second in the long jump at 19 feet, 4 inches, third in the high jump at 5-7 3/4 and third in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.56 seconds. She took fifth in the 800 in 2:16.47 and eighth in the shot put at 36-10 1/2. She is the first Bearcat to win an individual Big 12 title, and it was the second-best score ever posted in the pentathlon by a UC athlete. Here are results from other Marion-area college athletes as they competed in indoor track and field this winter: Highland grad Juliette Laracuente-Huebner is an athlete on the University of Cincinnati's women's track team, where she competes in the pentathlon among other events. Mount Gilead's Allison Johnson is a junior on the women's track team at Penn State. She ran the 1000 meters in 2:43.05 to take second at the Nittany Lion Challenge, and she was fifth in the 800 in 2:05.36 at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships. Ohio Wesleyan's Hazel Jolliff is another pentathlete. The junior from Cardington finished 10th at the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Championships with a score of 2,221 where she was third in the shot put at 32-1 1/2, eighth in the high jump at 4-5 1/2, 10th in the 60 hurdles at 10.74, 14th in the long jump at 13-6 and 15th in the 800 at 3:04.84. In the same competition, River Valley's Lainee Valentine , who is a senior at Wittenberg, posted an eighth-place finish in the pentathlon with a 2,590. She was third in the long jump at 16-0 1/2, sixth in the shot put at 28-8 1/2, seventh in the 60 hurdles at 9.82, eighth in the high jump at 4-5 1/2 and 13th in the 800 at 2:56.7. OWU sophomore Alexis Eusey of Highland was seventh in the NCAC's women's shot put at 36-7, which is a personal record. Another Highland grad, Mason Duncan , a junior at Wittenberg, was fifth in the men's distance medley relay at the NCAC meet, helping his team to a 10:32.83. River Valley's Emma Hawk is a junior at Wittenberg, and she produced a PR in the 3000 meters at the NCACs with a 10:34.75 for seventh. She was also eighth in the 5000 at 18:19.29. Aaron Gannon , a freshman from Mount Gilead, competes for Mount Vernon Nazarene, and he was 16th in the 800 in 2:04.43 at the Crossroads League Indoor Track and Field Championships. Northmor's Julia Kanagy ran the 5K in 19:34.62 for 15th at the Crossroads. She is a senior on the MVNU women's team. Another MVNU runner, sophomore Lauren Garber of Highland posted a PR of 3:25.31 for 16th in the 1000 at the Crossroads. Competing for Walsh as a freshman on the men's track team, Mount Gilead's Quade Harris ran second in the 500 at 1:10.9 and fourth in the 200 at 23.68 during an indoor meet at Muskingum. At the Great-Midwest Athletic Conference's indoor meet, he was part of the sixth-place 4x400 relay that ran 3:20.15. He also posted a 51.04 in the prelims at the G-MAC. Kelsey Kennon , a grad student at Findlay, finished third at the Ashland Jud Logan Light Giver with a 43-7 in the shot put. The Mount Gilead grad had a PR of 57-2 1/4 in the weight throw during a home meet and claimed second. At the G-MAC, she was seventh in the shot put at 43-4 1/4 and 10th in the weight throw at 53-6 1/2. River Valley grad Grant Butler , a sophomore at Ohio Northern, was eighth in the long jump with a 21-4 3/4 at the Ohio Athletic Conference Indoor Championships. He was also 17th in the high jump at 5-9 3/4. Connor Robins , another RV product who competes at Ohio Northern, was seventh at the OACs in the shot put at 48-0 and ninth in the weight throw at 53-10 1/4. The junior set a PR in the shot put with a 48-9 1/2 for eighth place at Grand Valley State. He also set a PR by finishing third in the weight throw at 53-10 1/4 during a home meet. Highland's Landon Remmert is another ONU competitor. The senior was eighth at the OACs in the 60 hurdles with a 9.44. His indoor PR was set during the OAC prelims when he ran 8.89. Advertisement This is the second of four winter sports college notebooks for Marion-area athletes. Anyone with information on a local college athlete and send material to the Marion Star's Rob McCurdy at rmccurdy@ 419-610-0998, X @McMotorsport and Instagram @rob_mccurdy_star. This article originally appeared on Marion Star: Cincinnati's Laracuente-Huebner wins first Big 12 title
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11-04-2025
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No. 13 Baylor sweeps Tech on senior night
WACO, Texas (FOX 44) — A senior night sweep for the Bears sent the Baylor Men's Tennis seniors out in style at the Hurd Tennis Center with a 4-0 win over Texas Tech on Thursday night. The Bears extend their win streak to seven with the win heading into a top-15 showdown with No. 2 TCU on Sunday, April 13th to wrap up the regular season before returning to Waco as the host of the Big 12 Championships. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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27-03-2025
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Cincinnati Bearcats basketball transfer history. How have they done?
Though NCAA college basketball players have been posting their availability shortly after their team's untimely demise from postseason tournaments, Monday marked the official opening of the transfer portal for men's college hoops. Not surprisingly, names went into the hopper as rapidly as a free time-share drawing at the county fair. College athletics in 2025 involves the frequent switching of team colors all in the name of the most worshipped color of all: green. As Jerry Seinfeld explained some years ago, "We root for laundry". Who will suit up for Cincinnati Bearcats basketball in College Basketball Crown? That was a question many had when it was announced UC would play in the inaugural College Basketball Crown. The NCAA tournament was missed with the loss to Iowa State in the second round of the Big 12 Championships With just three Quadrant 1 wins and the number of automatic bids involved in the field of 68, UC missed the tournament. Advertisement "Our team will play," Miller said last week. "We gave the guys some time off after the conference tournament. We've spoken to the whole team as a staff. The guys I've interacted personally with are excited to play." That said, it's conceivable a player could enter the portal and still play. There is a monetary incentive to play, should your team advance. Recent history would suggest some arrivals, as well as some departures. The Enquirer will update such information should it become available. This portal window closes April 22. Rating Cincinnati Bearcats basketball top transfer portal additions under Wes Miller Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Wes Miller gestures to players in their game at Fifth Third Arena against the Utah Utes. UC split with the Utes during the season. 1. Landers Nolley II Nolley was UC's most prolific scorer since Jarron Cumberland if you're talking recent history. He averaged 16.8 points and 5.8 rebounds. This came after seasons at Memphis where he was at 13.1 points one year and a freshman campaign at Virginia Tech where he averaged 15.5 points per game. 2. John Newman III The 6-foot-5 wing didn't necessarily post eye-opening numbers but did average 9.2 points and 5.4 rebounds in 2023-24 and provided a great deal of leadership. He missed most of the season just before his final year with an injury but came in initially averaging 6.9 points and 4.2 rebounds. As a sophomore at Clemson, he averaged 9.5 points per game. Cincinnati Bearcats guard Day Day Thomas (1) has been efficient in his two seasons under Wes Miller. 3. Day Day Thomas Thomas came via the junior college route, which will now lead to more eligibility as recent court rulings won't count the JUCO years on his clock. Thomas started all but the last two games of 2023-24 for the Bearcats averaging 10.4 points per game. This season, he came off the bench until February when he provided a spark starting with Jizzle James. Thomas finished at 9.8 points per game and has 108 steals in two seasons. His three-point shooting improved from 28% to 37%. Key Cincinnati Bearcats pickups who helped, but needed more consistency UC forward Dillon Mitchell (23) throws one down for the Bearcats in their Big 12 second-round game with Iowa State. The Cyclones won and UC will next play in the College Basketball Crown in Las Vegas. 4. Dillon Mitchell The 6-foot-8 sky-walking forward came from Texas and stayed status quo with his scoring at 9.6 points per game. His rebounds dropped from 7.5 to 6.7 per game. His field goal and three-point percentages improved, but free throw shooting dropped. Mitchell still provided key blocks and steals and improved in both of those categories this season. 5. Simas Lukošius Lukošius saw his scoring drop from 11.8 points per game to 10.3. He had 22 double-digit games as a junior and 16 as a senior. He began the season on fire from the perimeter but then dipped in Big 12 games. He finished at 34% from deep, down from 38% the previous season. Lukošius averaged 11.6 points per game at Butler playing in the Big East, so his production was about what was expected. He did battle injuries in both seasons. He was hit in a pedestrian accident just before the 2023 Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout, then suffered a shoulder injury at Iowa State this season that left him less than 100%. 6. Aziz Bandaogo The 7-foot center increased his scoring to 7.4 points this season but dropped in rebounding from 7.4 to 6.1. His shooting percentages improved and he still blocked 99 shots in two seasons. However, many will tell you that the best game he ever played came against UC in the 2023 NIT tournament at Utah Valley when he had 15 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks while eliminating the Bearcats in the quarterfinals. He averaged 11.5 points and 10.4 rebounds that season with 106 blocks. Playing in the more physical Big 12, those numbers were hard to match. 7. Jamille Reynolds You could argue UC missed the size of Reynolds (6-foot-11 and 275 pounds) and Viktor Lakhin (transferred to Clemson) when faced with the bulky behemoths of the Big 12 this season. But, Reynolds only averaged 5.4 points and four rebounds after scoring 10.1 points with 5.4 rebounds at Temple the year before. Neither cared to be role players as Reynolds joined Lakhin in the portal, eventually settling at USF in the AAC. He averaged 12.5 points and 7.7 rebounds this year, but the Bulls season is done at 13-19. 8. Ody Oguama The 6-foot-9 Oguama came from Clemson where he averaged 4.2 points and 4.2 rebounds. He became a starter in his first season averaging a reliable 5.5 points and 5.4 rebounds with six double-figure games. In his last season, he became more of a role player and averaged 2.2 points and 2.3 rebounds. 9. Arrinten Page Page came from USC where he averaged 3.1 points and 2.1 rebounds. In his first season at UC, the 6-foot-11, 240-pounder averaged 3.5 points and 2.3 rebounds and had two double-double games. Cincinnati Bearcats transfers whose tenures were incomplete Cincinnati Bearcats guard Connor Hickman (8) played in 13 games and started seven for UC this season before being injured. 10. Connor Hickman The 6-foot-3 guard gets an incomplete grade as he was injured with a boot cast on his foot after Jan. 7. He averaged 4.3 points and 2.5 rebounds after coming from Bradley where he was a 14.5 points per game scorer. His injury first came in December and Hickman is pursuing a medical redshirt. He started seven of his 13 games after Dan Skillings Jr. was injured in the season-opener against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Hickman had 14 points at Georgia Tech. 11. C.J. Fredrick Fredrick is also an incomplete as his two seasons were riddled with injuries. He averaged 1.3 points this season while missing 14 games. Previously he averaged 6.1 points and was a 43% marksman from the arc in 2023-24 when he started 10 of the 15 games he played. Fredrick also averaged 6.1 points at Kentucky and 10.2 and 7.5, respectively in his first two seasons at Iowa. 12. Abdul Ado Ado started 130 games at Mississippi State and averaged in the range of six points and seven rebounds. As a grad player at UC he averaged 2.4 points and 4.5 rebounds. 13. Kalu Ezikpe Ezikpe brought the 6-foot-8, 235-pound frame that UC struggles with, but averaged just 3.3 points and 2.2 rebounds in his one season. Before coming, he averaged 11.7 points and 7.1 rebounds at Old Dominion. Again, there's a clear difference in jumping to a Power Four league. 14. Hayden Koval Koval was a tall target at 7-foot-1 but checked in at 3.1 points and three rebounds per game after averaging 7.1 points at UNC-Greensboro and 12.2 at Central Arkansas. 15. Rob Phinisee The guard goes into the incomplete category as he played just 12 games before being injured. He spent the 2018-2022 seasons at Indiana. 16. A.J. McGinnis After a season averaging 6.1 points at UNC-Greensboro, McGinnis was at 2.3 points and 0.5 rebounds in his one season. 17. Jarrett Hensley Hensley also came from UNC-Greensboro. At UC his freshman numbers were 1.5 points/1.3 rebounds which went to 2.0 points and 0.9 rebounds the following season. Jizzle James (2) topped the Cincinnati Bearcats in scoring this season at 12.8 points per game. 2024-25 Cincinnati Bearcats non-transfer ratings Jizzle James – Stock up. James upped his scoring from 8.5 to 12.8 points per game. His shooting was roughly the same and he added 29 steals, up nine from last year. Advertisement Dan Skillings Jr. – Stock down. After leading UC in scoring at 12.9 points per game and averaging 6.4 rebounds, he dropped out of the starting lineup and averaged 9.3 points and only 3.8 rebounds. He did improve his shooting but went from 25 double-digit games to 11. His stock goes as he chooses as there's no debating his potential. Josh Reed – Stock up. Though he averaged just 4.5 points and 2.5 rebounds, he started seven games and was a 43% shooter from the field and 85% from the line. All six of his double-digit scoring efforts came from Feb. 8 to now. Tyler Betsey, Rayvon Griffith, Halvine Dzellat – All incomplete as they are role players looking for their window to shine. Betsey can line up 3-pointers but will need to shoot better than 33%. Griffith is a great team guy waiting for his moment and the 6-foot-10 Dzellat is raw with much to learn. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: How has Cincinnati Bearcats basketball fared with transfer portal?
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09-02-2025
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Cyclones get by Colorado with 86-56 win, Crooks breaks ISU sphomore scoring record
AMES, Iowa (Courtesy of Iowa State Athletics) – Iowa State (17-9, 8-5 Big 12) closed the final 5:14 of the first quarter on a 17-0 run and never looked back, as the Cyclones beat Colorado (16-7, 7-5 Big 12) 86-56. The meeting was the first since 2011 for the old Big 8/12 rivals, as Iowa State beat Colorado in Hilton Coliseum for the eighth-straight time. During the game, Iowa State honored the 1999-00 and 2000-01 teams on the 25th anniversary of their back-to-back Big 12 Championships. How It Happened The Cyclones held a 12-9 lead with 5:45 to play in the opening quarter before the onslaught began. A layup by Emily Ryan with 5:14 left in the quarter sparked the 17-0 run to close the quarter. Audi Crooks hit back-to-back baskets following Ryan's layup, but it was back-to-back 3-pointers by Arianna Jackson, and a third-straight 3-pointer from Sydney Harris that put the game out of reach with the Cyclones up 29-9. It was the second time this season Iowa State had held a Big 12 opponent to single digits in the opening frame, as Iowa State led Arizona 15-6 after the first quarter on Jan. 11. With three assists in the first quarter, Ryan moved into the top 10 in NCAA Division I women's basketball history. She now has 942 for her career. Neither team put together any momentum in the second quarter, a jumper by Crooks and a 3-pointer by Jackson were the only back-to-back baskets by either team in the quarter. Those baskets came within the first four minutes of the quarter. The Cyclones held a 43-23 lead at the half, as Crooks turned in 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting. Crooks has now scored in double figures in 58-straight games. Colorado scored the first six points of the third quarter, cutting the lead to 14 with 8:00 remaining, but the Cyclones answered in a big way. Five-straight points from Crooks sparked a 12-2 run, as Iowa State pushed the lead to 24 with 5:26 remaining in the quarter. Colorado went on an 11-1 run late in the quarter, cutting the lead to 56-42 with 1:23 left in the quarter, but the Cyclones answered with the final five points to take a 61-42 lead into the final frame. The fourth quarter was just more of the Cyclones. Crooks and Kelsey Joens combined to score the first eight points of the quarter, as the lead increased to 69-42 with 7:52 to play. Iowa State took its largest lead of the day with :40 to go at 86-54 on a 3-pointer by Reagan Wilson. Key Performers Crooks turned in her ninth double-double of the season with 33 points and 12 rebounds. With 597 points this season, she broke Ashley Joens' sophomore scoring record of 594 points. Ryan moved into second on Iowa State's all-time steals list with 215. Next Up Iowa State will have a bye this week before returning to action next Saturday at Kansas. Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
