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Baseball games moved to today\nThe IU baseball team will play Taylor University at 3 p.m. this afternoon at Sembower Field. Coach Bob Morgan announced the doubleheader originally scheduled for April 29 against Taylor has been rescheduled to a single game today to accommodate Taylor's conference schedule. \nTuesday's contest will be the first of five games for IU this week. Following the game against Taylor, the Hoosiers will travel to Oxford, Ohio, to face Miami (Ohio) in a 3 p.m. contest. \nIU (25-11, 9-7 Big Ten) then returns home for a pivotal Big Ten series against league leading Minnesota. Sembower Field will host four games in three days as the series opens Friday with first pitch at 3 p.m. Saturday's doubleheader will get under way at 1 p.m. with the series finale Sunday at 1 p.m.\nMorgan also announced that on April 30 IU will host Indiana Wesleyan with first pitch set for 3 p.m.\nIU track stars named 'Athletes of the Week'\nThe Hoosiers swept the Big Ten Conference Men's and Women's Track and Field Athletes of the Week, for the seven-day week ending April 19. Senior Danielle Carruthers and sophomore John Jefferson were the two named by the league office Monday. They were named Athletes of the Week for clocking the second-fastest times this season in each of their events at the Mt. Sac Relays in Walnut, Calif., last week.\nKenyan, Russians win Marathon\nBOSTON -- His name sounds like "chariot," and he certainly rolled through the streets of Boston, from Hopkinton to Heartbreak Hill.\nRobert Cheruiyot became the 12th Kenyan in 13 years to win the Boston Marathon on Monday, and his countrymen took the next four spots in the 107th running of the race.\nSvetlana Zakharova of Russia won the women's race to prevent a second straight Kenyan sweep. Marla Runyan, who is legally blind, was fifth -- the best finish for a U.S. runner since 1993.\nThe men's and women's winners in the field of 20,260 each won $80,000.\nCheruiyot won in a time of 2 hours, 10 minutes, 11 seconds.\nEddy Hellebuyck, a native of Belgium who became a U.S. citizen in 1999, was the first American to finish, coming in 10th.