25 YEARS AGO: Illinois State softball wins 14th straight game, 3rd outright MVC title in a row | From Pages Past

5 a long time back (2017): Illinois State’s Dan Muller and Northwestern’s Chris Collins were being named co-winners of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association NCAA Division I Coach of the Calendar year award, the IBCA announced. Muller led ISU to a 28-7 document and a share of the Missouri Valley Meeting standard-time title.

15 a long time ago (2007): Illinois Wesleyan freshman Christy Engel did all she could in the pitcher’s circle, but the typical-year champion Titans stranded nine baserunners in slipping to Augustana, 4-1, in the CCIW softball event.

25 yrs in the past (1997): Led by Betsy Youngquist’s torrid bat, the Illinois Point out softball staff gained their 14th consecutive video game and history third straight outright Missouri Valley Convention common-time title with a sweep of Southwest Missouri State.

50 decades in the past (1972): Abundant Grethey, the proficient Bloomington Superior College hurler, a single of the finest to appear out of this metropolis in modern many years, is out of the Navy and completely ready to resume his observe profession soon after a few-and-a-fifty percent yrs in the SeaBees. He spent two several years in Vietnam.