To start its final Mid-American Conference series of the season, Ball State (32-17, 9-7 MAC) split a Friday doubleheader with Central Michigan (19-24-1, 9-7-1 MAC) before falling in game three Saturday in Mount Pleasant.
Freshman Justin Conant flipped the ball to senior Will Baker who fired it to senior John Ricotta for the game-ending double-play, giving the Cardinals a 3-2 win as well as a series win.
Sophomore Drey Jameson’s 12 strikeouts helps Ball State Baseball (26-15, MAC 10-4) hand Bowling Green (13-24, MAC 6-10) its eighth loss in its last nine games.
Will Power got his first real glimpse at IndyCar's new debris deflector Wednesday. He is still getting used to the small piece on the front of his race car.
Some days are good. Some days are bad. For assistant professor of english Kathryn Gardiner, things could be worse. Like getting punched in the face worse.
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel adjusted the targeting rule in college football, allowing video review officials to overturn calls if any element of the penalty cannot be confirmed.
Just 14 pitches into the game, sophomore Drey Jameson punched out Indiana’s (28-13, 9-3 Big 10) first three batters. It was a favorable start for Ball State (25-15, 9-4 MAC), especially after giving up four runs in the first inning of the Cardinals’ 14-3 loss to the Hoosiers just a week prior. Tuesday, despite ending in a 9-3 loss, was a bounce-back game for the Cardinals.
senior pitcher Zach Peters complete game propelled the Owls over Muncie Central, 3-1, at First Merchants Ballpark Tuesday
The loss is all too familiar to the Cardinals as the Broncos knocked the Cardinals out of the conference tournament last season.
Seniors Audrey Berger, Peyton Gollhoffer and Sarah Swiderski’s singles matches all ended with the same result. They lost the first set, won the second, then fell in the third.
While Rothwell would pick up another career save, the Cardinals will split their double header to the Rockets.
She sat there and watched.
Ball State (23-13, 7-3 MAC) came into Tuesday’s matchup with Indiana (25-12, 8-2 Big 10) with a perfect 9-0 record against in-state opponents. It was clear after the first inning of the Hoosiers’ 14-3 win they had no intentions of letting that streak get to 10.
Philippians 4:13. “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Although the Cardinals fell short of a top-10 finish at the Boilermaker Invite on April 13-14, placing 11th out of 15 teams, Ranieri’s score of 143 placed him in a tie for 22nd through two rounds to lead the team.
Coming off a 2018 season which saw Ball State Men’s Volleyball head to the MIVA semifinals, great expectations were on the line heading into 2019.
In the weekend slugfest, it was Ball State Softball that would walk away with a 2-1 series victory over Western Michigan.
The Cardinals ultimately fell short of a MIVA Semifinals with a 3-2 loss to McKendree in the MIVA Quarterfinals Saturday.
In efforts to avoid the predicted bad weather for Sunday, Ball State and Eastern Michigan played two on Saturday afternoon.
The Cardinals concluded their Spring season Saturday with a 7-0 victory over Indiana Tech
