LOUISVILLE, Ky. - IU Southeast junior Jordan Pass has been named Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Player of the Week for March 1 - March 7. This is the first time this season that pass has won the conference player of the week award.

Pass is a 5'10" junior infielder from Louisville, Ky. He went 4 of 8 against Indiana Institute of Technology with two runs. Pass also drove home four runs in a win over Cardinal Stritch University.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - IU Southeast senior Brent Bennett has been named Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) Baseball Pitcher of the Week for March 1 - March 7. This is the first time this season that Bennett has won conference's weekly top pitching honor.

Bennett is a 6'2" senior pitcher from Madison, Indiana (Ancillia C.C). He only gave up five hits during a shutout of Anderson University. In seven innings pitched, Bennett gave up four walks and struck two out.

FLORENCE, Ky. - Former Indiana University Southeast baseball player and current Grenadier assistant baseball coach Beau Manning has signed a professional baseball contract with the Florence Freedom of the Frontier League.

Manning, a Louisville native who played at Christian Academy in high school, was offered a contract after playing last year for the Big Bend Cowboys of the Continental Baseball League in Alpine, Texas.

Last year, Manning was a valuable hitter in the Cowboys lineup batting .312 with 52 RBI and seven homeruns. He was also efficient at the plate with a .401 on-base percentage and only 14 strikeouts in 205 at-bats.

WALESKA, Ga. - The IU Southeast baseball team is pushing back its season opening weekend games against Reinhardt College due to inclement weather in Waleska, Ga.

The Grenadiers will now take on Reinhardt on Saturday, Feb. 13 for a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. The two teams will also play a single game on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m.

The IU Southeast baseball team finished 33-21 last season with a 13-3 record in the KIAC. The Grenadiers were picked as the No. 1 team in the KIAC Preseason Coaches' Poll.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The 2010 Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Preseason Baseball Poll was released this week. All KIAC baseball coaches at member schools participated in the polling on the regular season finish of the conference teams.

In baseball, Indiana University Southeast is projected as the top team, with 31 points out of a possible 36. Three of the six first place votes were secured by IU Southeast. Asbury College gained two first place votes and finished with 30 points.