It was a busy -- but productive -- week for Olivet College junior first baseman Scott Purdy, a TC West product. (Plus more news on area college athletes.)

It's steak for Patrick Rigan, a can of beans and franks for Eric Gordon. A pair of area redshirt freshmen were on opposite teams for Saturday's Green and White spring football game at Michigan State University. (Plus more news on area college athletes.)

It was a reunion for former TC Central teammates at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate and UMB Bank Mizzou Tiger Intercollegiate golf tournaments. (Plus more news on area college athletes.)

Before the NCAA hockey tournament began, Justin White's family was looking into last-minute plane tickets to watch him play at the West Regional. "Save it for the Frozen Four," joked the Notre Dame junior center and TC West grad.

One hit, that's it. That's all that prevented Northwood junior shortstop Brett Rohn from turning in a .500 week at the plate. (Plus more news on area college athletes.)

It wasn't exactly the cover of Rolling Stone, but for a collegiate golfer it might have felt that way. Along with his teammates, Michigan State University junior Randy Hutchison, a TC Central grad, was on the cover of Golfweek magazine in an article on first-year Spartans' coach Sam Puryear. (Plus more news on area college athletes.)

He might be on the power play, he might not. He might be centering the third line, he might be on the fourth. Heck, Notre Dame junior Justin White could even show up as a wing in the NCAA tournament.

Autumn Rademacher said she knew for some time that she was the front runner to become women's head basketball coach at the University of Detroit Mercy. She just wasn't 100-percent sure she had the job until this week.

There's no easy way for a collegiate career to end, but the NCAA Tournament isn't a bad place to exit. (Plus more on area college athletes.)