This comes from a blog, ‘Baseball Perspectives’ written by Colin Young, a former professional baseball player. I think it’s an interesting read. Please feel free to share your opinion.
Here’s the link.
Wheels’ World: ‘Nice job, Caldwell’
May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Cindy Caldwell became a member of the Fast Pitch Hall of Fame in Decatur recently. At church Sunday this accomplishment was brought to the congregation’s attention. Typical, Cindy spoke up saying, “not me, our team the West Frankfort Cardinals of whom I was a member was put in the Hall of Fame.”
Cindy Caldwell, right, with former Christopher coach Tom Wheeler.
To me, Caldwell is my ex short-stop at Christopher Community High School, one of the best I ever had, and she was also my first Black Diamond All Conference player. To students at Rend Lake College, she is Ms. Caldwell, associate professor in mathematics.
Going to the garage I came up with this info on Caldwell’s background. After graduating from Christopher she became a “Wren” at RLC (that’s what the women teams were called while the men’s teams were Warriors). For the Wrens she did it all, playing volleyball, basketball and softball. From the “small world department” her volleyball and softball coach was John M Kretz who played short stop on the Zeigler Raiders fast pitch team while Caldwell’s High School coach (me) played second base on the same team. Cindy was elected Most Valuable Player by her teammates that year.
At RLC her coach in basketball was Carol Whipple, assisted by Lila Waugh where she had CCHS classmate Christy Cook as a teammate. As a freshman in softball Cindy was All Conference at short-stop along with Wrens first baseman Kelly Stewart (Benton) in the Southern Illinois College Conference.
Playing short stop for Coach Tim Broy with the WF Cardinals was a great experience for the now math teacher as she was surrounded by the best fast pitch players in the south including ex- Bearcat Sue Ramsey. Winning state with this team was “one of my biggest thrills,” she said.
A very typical game for Cindy was hitting a grand slam and triple while going 4-for-5 against a good team from McLeansboro. Checking some clippings I noticed it was not unusual for the infield to turn double plays, Caldwell to second baseman Ramona Weiser (who’s Dad Raymond also helped coach) to first basemen Lisa Bernhardt.
When I first watched Cindy play I was sure of one thing, she will do what it takes to win, and she was and is such a great competitor. All the time I coached her I never called her Cindy, it was always “Caldwell.”
So let me finish by saying, ‘Nice job, Caldwell!’
Illinois outslugs SIU 11-7
May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Southern Illinois twice could not hold onto the lead in an 11-7 loss to Illinois Tuesday evening at Illinois Field. That finished Illinois’ (27-13) four-game season series sweep of the Salukis (20-24). On a night with the wind blowing out steadilytowards left field, 11 of the game’s 18 runs were scored on home runs.
Austin Montgomery drove in four of SIU’s seven runs.
“We battled hard all night and gave ourselves a chance late in the game,” SIU Coach Ken Henderson said, “but we just didn’t execute a couple times.”
Illinois’ Thomas Lindauer broke a 7-7 tie with an RBI double in the bottom of the eighth inning. Lindauer then scored on Michael Hurwitz’ single to give the Illini a 9-7 advantage. After Justin Parr singled, Jordan Parr and Brandon Hohl hit consecutive doubles to tack on two more runs. Jordan Parr drove in seven of Illinois’ runs in the game.
SIU’s Matt Jones had tied the game at 7-7 in the top of the seventh with his third home run of the season, a line drive solo shot over the left field wall. It was the Salukis’ third home run of the game.
Matt Murphy took the loss for SIU. He allowed four runs in two and two-thirds of an inning. He had tossed two scoreless innings and retired six batters in a row before running into trouble in the eighth. With another midweek game looming on Wednesday, Southern stuck with Murphy for the five straight hits in the four-run eighth inning.
“Murphy’s thrown a lot lately, and he’s pitched well for us,” Henderson said. “He left some balls up in the zone, and they capitalized.”
Southern Illinois jumped on the board in the first inning when Austin Montgomery hit a two-out, two-run homer.
“He made a mistake and left it over the plate, and I got a piece of it,” Montgomery said. “It was a pretty good park for hitters today, and it was good to get a start like that.”
Following a dropped infield popup, Cody Daily followed with a two-run shot of his own to extend the lead to 4-0.
After the Illini tied the game with four runs in the bottom of the third, Montgomery gave SIU a 6-4 lead in the top of the fifth with a two-run triple off the wall in center field. Montgomery drove in four of SIU’s seven runs and finished a double short of the cycle.
Illinois took a 7-6 lead in the bottom of the fifth with Jordan Parr’s second three-run home run of the game. He had also tied the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the third inning with a three-run home run. It came one batter after his brother extended the inning and drove in a run by beating out a potential double play with the bases loaded.
SIU starter Brad Drust allowed a season-high seven runs off 10 hits in five innings of work and took a no-decision. Six of the runs against him were on Jordan Parr’s two three-run homers.
The loss for Southern Illinois breaks an eight-game nonconference winning streak. The Salukis will be back home on Wednesday to face Belmont at 3 p.m. at Abe Martin Field
Vols lead Region 24 tourney after first-round play Sunday
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
BY JOHN D. HOMAN
Logan Media Services
EFFINGHAM – The John A. Logan College women’s golf team has an eight-stroke lead over Rend Lake after first-round play in the two-day Region 24 tournament event at Effingham Country Club.
The Vols posted a score of 369 compared to 377 for the Warriors. Further back in the pack are Lincoln and Kaskaskia colleges. Logan is seeking its second regional title in the last three seasons.
Top individual performer for the Vols was freshman Brittanie Garrison of Carmi with an 84 (43 on the front nine and 41 on the back). Freshman Molly Borowiak of Nashville had the second-best score for Logan at 89 (44, 45). Freshman Abby Miller of Anna-Jonesboro was third at 96 (50, 46). Sophomore Kelsey Cicardi of Pinckneyville was fourth at 100 (54, 46) and Dana Kaufmann of Carterville was fifth at 102 (51, 51). Kaufmann’s score was not counted. Only the top four scores are counted on each team.
“We played in the same kind of weather conditions today that we’ve dealt with all spring – cold, rainy and windy, which made for sloppy fairways,” said Vols head coach Bill Glenn. “That’s why I was proud of the way the girls kept things together today. It was a good effort.”
Glenn said he expects the scores to improve Monday in the second and final round of the tourney as the weather forecast is sunny and warm.
“I think we’re capable of shooting in the 340s or 350s, and if we can do that, we should have a pretty good chance at winning,” he said. “An eight-stroke lead is not a comfortable lead by any means, but it’s better than being down eight.”
Wheel’s World: The Real Fab Five
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Tom Wheeler
Rich Herrin took the 85-86 SIU basketball program when it was at an all-time low. The year before Coach Allen Van Winkle had five starters back while Herrin started his era with only FOUR letterman back: Doug Novsek, Steve Middleton, Dan Weiss and Brian Welch. These four played .o8 percent of SIU’s game minutes and contributed 108 of 2,044 points (.05 percent) in the 84-85 season. Somehow Rich’s first team won 8 games (4-12 in the conference) including a big win at St. Louis University. Remember also, this team was put on probation by the Missouri Valley and was not allowed to play in the post-season tournament.
Coach Herrin has always said that this team laid the groundwork for the Saluki’s later success. Checking closer I found that that is not the only groundwork that five of these players laid.
Let me explain about five of these special players!
Thad Matta is now head coach at Ohio State University. He is one of only two coaches who have posted 20 wins in their first 13 years. He has won five Big Ten titles, was runner –up in the NCAA tournament in 2007 and made the final four again in 2012. The Hoopston-East Lynn High School star played at SIU and Butler where he also coached. He moved on to Xavier before Ohio State and has a great resume of his assistants moving up the coach’s ladder, Illinois Coach John Groce being an example.
Steve Middleton is in his fifth year as an associate head coach at Oklahoma State. The Brooklyn New York native ended up in Carbondale and after a great career at SIU he became a very prosperous coach at St. Mary’s High School in Paducah, Kentucky where he was 81-35 his last four years. Ex-University of Kentucky standout Travis Ford was so impressed with Coach Middleton that he convinced him to enter the college scene. Middleton has become one of the top recruiters in the nation and he has joined Coach Ford at Eastern Kentucky, then Massachusetts University and now at Oklahoma State.
Doug Novsek came to SIU from the famed Ron Felling Lawrenceville High School period. He was runner-up for the prestigious Illinois’ Mr. Basketball award after leading the Indians to an undefeated record which included an Illinois State Championship. Doug was the basketball captain his last two years at SIU before entering the college coaching ranks. He has been an assistant for five years at Southwest Texas, three years at Illinois State, four years at the University of Nebraska and is in his seventh year as the associate head coach at the University of Nevada.
Randy House was a four year starter at SIU where he scored over 1,000 points and he has taken these “Rambo” type qualities he learned under Coach Herrin at Benton High School and then at SIU to become a top Junior College coach at Rend Lake College. Last season Coach House got his Warriors to the National tournament for the first time in the school’s history and topped that journey this year by winning the NJCAA D-II Tournament in Danville. Their 87-69 Championship win over Morraine Valley of Chicago was a fitting way to prove to fans they were truly the number one team at Danville. More impressive during their 30-3 season record is the fact they won the GRAC Conference being the “only” school in the conference that was not a Division I school.
Wayne Harre was a Nashville high School All –State player who first played at Kaskaskia College in Centralia (where he was later inducted into the schools Hall of Fame) before moving to SIU to be a Saluki. Wayne returned home to coach the boys JV team before he decided to become the Nashville girls’ coach. In 13 years at the helm of the Lady Hornets his team has won 362 games while losing only 64. His worse season in these 13 years was in 07-08 when he “only” won 22 games and lost 8 (that was his worst). His team’s success at the IHSA state tournament includes finishing fourth twice, finishing third twice and this year they were the IHSA Class 2A state champs finishing 33-2.
SIU Salukis – 1985-86
Warriors baseball takes league’s top spot from Wabash on Sunday
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MT. CARMEL, Ill. (April 28, 2013) – Jarret Bednar threw six scoreless innings for Rend Lake as the Warriors won 3-1 twice on Sunday at Wabash Valley and took first place in the Great Rivers Athletic Conference with only four games to go before postseason play.
Bednar (Decatur) improved to 6-1 as a starter for the Warriors this season. He gave up only three hits and had three strikeouts in the 3-1 nightcap win for RLC. The victory makes Rend Lake 16-5 in the league – the same as Wabash Valley. Since RLC took two out of a three-game series, the Warriors from The Lake move into the top GRAC spot.
Blake Deaton (Mt. Vernon) just seems to know how to score. Whether at the plate or on base, Deaton’s play against Wabash Valley came up clutch and helped RLC grab the #1 place in the Great Rivers Athletic Conference.
Justin Busekrus (O’Fallon) and Blake Deaton (Mt. Vernon) each had a RBI for RLC in the nightcap. Ty Broady (Greenville, Ky.) scored Rend Lake’s third run on Brandon Allen’s wild pitch in the top of the fourth. Wabash’s run came in the bottom of the seventh after Jeff Smith advanced to third on Brady Wright’s (Jonesboro) wild pitch and was then brought in on a double by Tim Barry. Wright picked up his 10th save of the season. Allen got the loss. RLC outhit Wabash 5-4 and Rend Lake had two errors to WVC’s zero.
There was more hitting in the first game, but there were also more innings. And there were more strikeouts and more runners left on base – RLC stranded six, WVC five. The outcome was still 3-1 Rend Lake in nine innings. The game winning run for Rend Lake came when Deaton led off in the top of the ninth with a single. Zack Jones (Mt. Vernon) sacrificed him over to second with a bunt and Deaton scored on an error by WVC first baseman Conor Dishman.
The Warriors from Rend Lake outhit WVC 9-4 and Wabash’s defense committed two errors this time, compared to RLC’s none. Deaton, Jones and Aaron Choate (Mt. Vernon, Ind.) all had doubles for RLC and Jones had Rend Lake’s lone RBI – a double in the top of the sixth to score Deaton.
Rend Lake’s mound man Nick Andros (Tunnel Hill) struck out 10 batters, and gave up four hits and one run in six innings. Logan Tabor (Marissa) threw two innings of relief and Wright got the save in the bottom of the ninth after getting Dishman to fly out and Rey Perez to hit into a double play.
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rend Lake College (32-14) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| Wabash Valley College (32-14) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
RLC, now 33-14 overall this season, will play a nonconference game at Lindenwood University – Belleville on Monday before wrapping up the season with a three-game series against conference rival John A. Logan College. Their first game will be played at 3 p.m. Thursday, at JALC. The doubleheader will be played at noon on Saturday, May 4, at RLC. It will be the Warriors’ regular season closer and final home game. For all things athletic at The Lake, visit RLC online at www.rlc.edu/warriors.
RLC, Logan play for softball survival Monday
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
|CARTERVILLE, Ill. – Rend Lake and John A. Logan split in college softball action Sunday, forcing a deciding third game at 3 p.m., Monday, at JALC. It was the opening round of a NJCAA DI Region XXIV Tournament that was postponed by rain on Friday and Saturday.
In Sunday’s first game, RLC dominated and won on the mercy rule, 13-5. The Lake scored two in the third, four in the fourth and seven in the fifth on a dozen hits and committed one error. Taylor Thomas (Arcola) improved to 10-7 on the mound this season after throwing all five innings – three strikeouts, four walks, five hits and four earned runs. RLC catcher Alaina Reeves (Mt. Vernon) had one of her best games of the year with a bat: 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI. Haley Miller (Rockport, Ind.) had a monster game hitting: 2-for-3 with a triple and six RBI. Breanne Pelker (Nashville) was 2-for-2 with three runs scored. Every batter in RLC’s lineup had at least a base hit.
The Lady Volunteers scored two in the first, two in the second and one in the third for five runs on five hits and one error. The losing pitcher was Heather Johnson with Taylor Brackett catching.
The nightcap featured home runs by Rend Lake’s Molly Whaley (Benton) and catcher Abbie Lehman (Marissa). But it also featured three errors by Rend Lake in the field that resulted in five unearned runs for JALC and a 15-7 loss for The Lake.
Logan scored three runs in the second, six in the third, four in the fourth and two in the fifth for 15 runs on 16 hits and three errors. The winning pitcher was Sara Kroeger with Brackett behind the plate.
RLC scored first with a run right off the bat. It got another run in the third, four in the fourth, and tacked on one more in the fifth for seven runs on nine hits. The losing pitcher was Amanda Holloway (Benton) with Lehman. Holloway went three and two-thirds innings and is now 10-13. She struck out one, walked four and gave up 11 hits and 13 runs, eight of which were earned. She was relieved in the fourth by Erica Wilson (O’Fallon) who walked one and gave up five hits and two earned runs. Hitters for The Lake: Whaley was 2-for-3 with a home run and a RBI; and Lehman was 1-for-3 with a home run and two RBI.
“We are in that situation where you either do it and win tomorrow or your season is over,” said RLC Head Coach Dave Ellingsworth. “I told the players today, you’ve really got to love the fact that you are playing games … where every at-bat, every pitch and every defensive play is meaningful. I believe they are relishing that.
We hit the ball really well today. In the second game, we didn’t struggle hitting, but we struggled otherwise. If we hit the ball like that tomorrow, and play some defense, we’ve got a good shot at moving on to the final four.”
Two Region XXIV Final Four spots are filled. Lake Land and Olney Central have advanced in the tournament after sweeping Southeastern Illinois and Kaskaskia, respectively. Rend Lake is now 25-25 overall. For all things athletic at The Lake, visit RLC online at www.rlc.edu/warriors.
Cicardi, Lehman, Miller all go yard in RLC softball sweep of Shawnee
April 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
INA, Ill. – Rend Lake College softball has won seven games in a row after sweeping Shawnee Community College, 4-3 and 13-1, Tuesday in Ina.
Shawnee scored all three of its runs in the third inning of the first game. It had five hits and did not commit an error. Rend Lake scored one run in the first, two in the second and one in the fourth for four runs on 10 hits and one error. The winning pitcher was Taylor Thomas (Arcola) with Alaina Reeves (Mt. Vernon) behind the plate.
Thomas threw seven innings, struck out five, walked two, and gave up two earned runs. Thomas is now 6-7 on the mound for RLC. Hitters for the Lake: Taylor Cicardi (Pinckneyville) went 2-for-3 with a home run and RBI, Haley Miller (Rockport, Ind.) went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI, Kendyl Ahrens (Poseyville, Ind.) went 2-for-4, and Breanne Pelker (Nashville) went 2-for-3 with a double.
In the nightcap, Shawnee scored its only run in the fourth inning. It had six hits and committed three errors in the field. RLC won in five innings after scoring two in the first, one in the second, and 10 in the third for 13 runs on 13 hits and no errors. The winning pitcher was Amanda Holloway (Benton) with Abbie Lehman (Marissa) behind the plate. Holloway threw five innings, struck out three, and gave up six hits and one earned run. She is now 9-11 on the mound for RLC. Hitters for The Lake: Fallon Clayton (Anna) went 2-for-3 with a double, Cicardi went 1-for-3 with a home run and three RBI, Molly Whaley (Benton) went 2-for-2, Ahrens went 2-for-3 with two doubles and a RBI, Emily Cripps (Herrin) went 2-for-3 with a double and a RBI, and Lehman went 2-for-2 with a double, a home run and three RBI.
Rend Lake is now 10-16 in the league and 20-22 overall. The Lake will host Southwestern Illinois at 2 p.m. Thursday. RLC heads to Lincoln Trail on Friday and Southeastern Illinois for a makeup doubleheader on Saturday. The regular season will wrap up with a home doubleheader at 2 p.m. Sunday. For all things athletic at The Lake, visit RLC online at www.rlc.edu/warriors.
Logan takes two from Mineral Area
April 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
BY JOHN D. HOMAN
Logan Media Services
CARTERVILLE – Sophomore Keelin Rasch banged out four hits and drove in four runs, including a three-run homer, and sophomore Zac Mishler stroked four hits and also drove in four runs to lead the John A. Logan College baseball team to a doubleheader sweep of visiting Mineral Area College Tuesday.
The Vols, now 24-19 overall, won the opener, 15-5 in five innings, and then earned a hard-fought 4-2 victory in the nightcap over a Cardinals team that was 29-10 coming into the day.
A Harrisburg native, Rasch said getting a pair of wins after losing two of three over the weekend to Lake Land College, was a boost to the team morale.
“I think we really needed this,” he said. “We didn’t play our best ball over the weekend, so getting a couple of wins definitely helps to get us back on the right track.”
Rasch’s home run in Game 1 was his fifth of the season, a team high. He has also driven in 34 runs to lead the team. The sophomore has raised his batting average to.342, and his 52 hits ranks him second only to Anthony Bayus’s 55.
“I’m just trying to slow things down when I’m at the plate,” Rasch said. “I’m seeing the ball pretty well right now.”
Things did not appear so rosy for Logan in the opener as the Cardinals put up a five spot in the top of the first inning against Vols starter, Austin Denault. But it was all Logan from that point forward.
The Vols sent 12 batters to the plate in the second inning and posted nine runs on five hits. Mark Self had a two-run single. J.C. Davis had an RBI from a bases-loaded walk. Mishler singled home two. Tanner Scott singled in a run and Rasch followed with his three-run bomb to left.
Logan tacked on four runs in the third with RBIs from Mishler, Scott and Rasch again. The game ended in the bottom of the fifth inning of the scheduled seven-inning contest when the Vols tallied two more runs. Mishler singled in a run and Bayus followed suit.
Denault, after his first-inning struggles, settled down and shut out the Cardinals the next four innings on one hit. He helped himself out by picking off a stunning three Mineral Area baserunners. For the game, he struck out two and walked four in improving his personal record to 3-3 on the spring.
Vols head coach Jerry Halstead was pleased with the outburst of scoring and deferred credit to his assistant coach, Kyle Surprenant, who works primarily with the hitters.
“I thought Kyle’s superior coaching skills with the hitters really showed today,” Halstead said. “He unleashed the bats on Mineral Area. He gets all the credit for this one.”
In Game 2, another Harrisburg native, Tyler McGowan, was a key factor in a win. The freshman righthander took care of business on the mound in leading the Vols to a 4-2 win. McGowan evened his record to 2-2 on the spring with the win. He went six innings, allowed two unearned runs on only two hits, struck out seven and walked seven.
Sophomore Anthony Spangler came on in relief in the seventh inning with one on and no outs and worked out of the jams to record his third save.
Trailing 2-1 in the second inning, DeJohn Suber tied the game with an RBI single to center. Logan took the lead at 3-2 in the third when Derek Repking drove in a run with a groundout. The Vols added an insurance run in the fifth when Rasch singled, was bunted to second by Bayus and scored on a single to right by Self.
Logan had 23 hits on the day – 12 in Game 1 and 11 more in Game 2.
“Hitting is contagious,” Halstead said. “Today, we hit the ball a lot and we hit it hard for the most part. That nine spot we put up in the second inning of Game 1 was the most runs we’ve put up in any inning all year. Hopefully, we’re settling in here and will get on a roll.”
Not to be overlooked was the defensive efforts of Suber, who has been switched from shortstop to rightfield. The freshman from Chicago made a Jim Edmonds-type catch with his back completely to the infield near the warning track in the opener. He followed up that gem with a racing catch in foul ground next to the wagon gate in Game 2 and put an exclamation point on his day when he threw out a pinch runner attempting to go from first to third after an errant pickoff attempt at first base.
“DeJohn was drafted as a shortstop, so there’s some serious talent there,” Halstead said. “He’s never played the outfield, but we were in a position injury-wise where we needed to get one of our best athletes in the outfield. And let me tell you, he showed a Major League-plus arm when we took infield practice before the game at Lake Land Sunday. And we saw that again today. It won’t take long for the word to get out about what he’s done in the outfield. The two catches he made today…you don’t see those made at this level. They were big-time catches and that throw was a big-time throw.”
The Vols are scheduled to play host to Southwestern Illinois at 3 p.m. Thursday and will travel to Belleville in a return match Saturday at noon.
Salukis to play first-ever college football game at Busch Stadium
April 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
ST. LOUIS – Southern Illinois will play Southeast Missouri State at Busch Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 21, marking the first football game in the storied tradition of that stadium and giving St. Louis-area fans and alumni of the two schools an opportunity to see the teams in their own backyard.
Dale Lennon speaks at Busch Stadium on Monday.
The official announcement of the game took place during a press conference on Monday and is the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes work between officials at SIU, SEMO and the Major League Baseball Cardinals. The pro franchise will rent-out the facility for the day while their team is out of town for a week during the regular season.
“We are thrilled to host our first football game in Busch Stadium with two great schools that have such a large following in St. Louis,” said Bill DeWitt III, President of the Cardinals. “We are excited to showcase the versatility of Busch Stadium as a multi-use venue ideally suited for special football games like this historic game between two longstanding rivals.”
SIU Chancellor Dr. Rita Cheng lauded the cooperation between the schools as a key factor in securing the agreement to play the non-conference game at a neutral site.
“We have a great rivalry on the field, but off the field, we share the commitment to student success and the success of our communities,” Cheng said. “It’s fitting that we should have this historic event in this beautiful stadium.”
Combined, the two University have approximately 40,000 alumni in the St. Louis area, plus thousands of current students.
“Nearly 40 percent of this year’s freshman class at Southeast is from the greater St. Louis region,” said Kenneth W. Dobbins, President of Southeast Missouri State University. “Playing this game at Busch Stadium is exciting for all our students and great exposure for our University and the Redhawk football program.”
The 80-game series between two schools separated by just 45 miles dates all the way back to 1909. While the Redhawks hold a 39-33-8 advantage overall, Southern has won six of the last seven meetings.
“It’s intense — it’s what you want in a rivalry,” said SIU head coach Dale Lennon. “Now you put it in the city of St. Louis where both programs recruit heavily, you have the alumni bases that are very strong in the community — I hope we can make something special.”
Tickets will go on sale June 3 and prices start at $5 for students and $10 for adults. Fans will be able to purchase seats through the Cardinals website at Cardinals.com/football, and each school will have blocks of tickets to sell on consignment.
“This game can only be a success if our fans rally behind it and support this,” said SIU Deputy AD Chet Savage. “I make an open call to Saluki Nation — whether you’re in the St. Louis area or Metro-East, Carbondale and beyond, we’d love to see you here September 21st at Busch Stadium for a first-class event.”
