Sycamores & other oddities

■ Indiana State Sycamores: 20-11 (5-2 midweek games)

• .311 Batting Average
• 5.87 ERA

■ The Sycamores' freshman backup catcher, Joe Meggs is Jmizzle on MySpace:

• "It's not the weight of the load, its how u carry it"

■ Wondering why the team's mascot is a tree? GoSycamores.com tells why. Sort of:

The problem has been that a Sycamore is a tree and does not lend itself very well to creation of a mascot. Athletic teams have been known in the past as “The Fighting Trees,” which was not considered a very glamorous or intimidating a concept. For a period of time in the 1950s and 1960s, there actually was a tree mascot developed, but this posed obvious problems of embarrassment with other mascots, when the University played such schools as the Butler Bulldogs or the Ball State Cardinals.

■ Special events and offers at the ballpark:

• Tuesday, April 14th: All-You-Can-Eat Seats – bleachers down first base line. Wristbands are $5 each (doesn’t include admission to the game) – available for purchase on day of game only at the Taylor Stadium ticket window

• Wednesday, April 15th: All tickets for this afternoon game only $1

• Free Youth Clinic prior to the Mizzou-Texas Tech game on Saturday April 25th, 12:30-1:30 PM. Contact Scott Nielson in the Mizzou Sports Marketing Office with your child’s name, age, grade in school, address, phone number and email. Call 573-882-0362 or email nielsons@missouri.edu

■ Speaking of odditites, how about this well-informed comment from Big12Hardball.com:

Missouri's ace Kyle Gibson threw his third consecutive complete game against Baylor, and suffered another loss in the process