Ball State Softball splits doubleheader, loses series to Bowling Green
ByBall State (27-13, 5-3 MAC) took one out of two close games to avoid a sweep against Bowling Green (15-20, 3-7 MAC) at home Saturday.
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Ball State (27-13, 5-3 MAC) took one out of two close games to avoid a sweep against Bowling Green (15-20, 3-7 MAC) at home Saturday.
As the Cardinals picked up their 14th victory of the season, head coach Max Norris was making history.
After falling to Bowling Green (14-19, 2-6 MAC) in the first game of the weekend series today 4-1, Ball State Softball (26-12, 4-2 MAC) is now 1-2 in the first game of a MAC series this season.
With Thursday’s win, the Cardinals tied their season series with the Bearcats after suffering a 3-0 sweep at Worthen Arena on Feb. 7.
Redshirt junior Chase Sebby got the call to pinch hit in the bottom of the sixth inning, and he had an at-bat that shifted momentum in Ball State’s (19-9, 4-0 MAC) 12-4 win over Manchester (7-14, 2-0 HCAC) Wednesday.
While seven players from the 2018 Ball State Soccer roster weren’t born in the United States, they all call Muncie home.
After Northern Illinois (16-18, 3-4 MAC) held off a Cardinal comeback in the first game for the 7-6 victory, Ball State Softball (26-11, 4-1 MAC) stormed back in the second game to defeat the Huskies 7-5 and split the doubleheader.
Freshman Joey Ranieri’s score of 140 led all individuals and Ball State Men’s Golf at the Butler Invitational on April 1 and 2.
After getting rained out Saturday and snowed out Sunday, Ball State (18-9, 4-0 MAC) woke up Monday to some better news. According to the Collegiate Baseball Division I Poll, the Cardinals were ranked 28th in the nation, and they showed why in their 12-5 win over Indiana Kokomo (24-10, 12-3 RSC).
The NFL Draft will visit the towns of the original NFL teams, with Muncie being one of them.
The team dropped two conference matches last week by one point, with both times seeing the opponent pick up the doubles point.
Despite struggling after day one of the EKU Colonel Classic, Ball State jumped up the leaderboard during the final round on Saturday.
It took 13 innings, but Ball State (17-9, 4-0 MAC) walked away from Friday’s contest with Kent State (10-14, 1-3 MAC) with a 9-8 win, bringing the Cardinals’ win streak to eight games.
From freshman to seniors, every player has played some sort of role into the Cardinals success this season. The freshman class alone has accounted for 57 runs and eight home runs this season.
Ball State head baseball coach Rich Maloney has an autographed ball in a glass case. Not a baseball, but a basketball. It was a gift from a friend. That friend is John Beilein, head basketball coach at the University of Michigan.
“Anything you can do” seemed to be what Ball State (16-9, 3-0 MAC) was humming in a 14-8 win against Valparaiso (5-16, 0-0 Valley) Wednesday.
Crossing the finish line at the Carmel Marathon on March 31, 2018, junior biology major Chris Meyer, junior architecture major Katie Fedoronko and junior chemistry/pre-med major John Brown punched their tickets to Boston.
The Cardinals began their five-match MIVA road trip Tuesday with a 3-0 loss to No. 15 Purdue Fort Wayne.
In his second at-bat of the bottom of the ninth inning, Blake Dunn doubled home Western Michigan’s (6-16, 0-3 MAC) 15th run of the game and its eighth of the inning. The only problem was Ball State (15-9, 3-0 MAC) scored 20.
Despite leading through the first two events, Ball State Gymnastics finished in seventh at the Mid-American Conference Championships.