Baseball: Major League drafts, MAC titles and NCAA tournament play
ByBaseball is known as America’s “national pastime,” and at Ball State, that pastime has been around since 1920.
Baseball is known as America’s “national pastime,” and at Ball State, that pastime has been around since 1920.
Thirty-five years after the creation of the game of basketball, Ball State men’s basketball was born.
The only building in the country on a college campus to get its name from a volleyball coach now resides at Ball State.
Ball State women’s basketball has found its most consistent period of success over the past two decades.
Throughout its history, Ball State men’s golf has known just three head coaches.
Although it is one of the younger sports programs at the university, Ball State soccer has recently found a winning recipe.
Since its inception in 1975, Ball State field hockey owns a 398-367-18 record, meaning its 400th win will likely come in the 2018 season.
As the only Ball State sports program to reach 1,000 wins while holding a winning percentage above .700, the men’s volleyball team has been a model of consistency throughout its 55-year history.
Ball State baseball has been represented in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft for the third straight year.
Founded in 1975, Ball State softball has found arguably its longest stretch of success over the last decade, holding an all-time record of 1,008-1,037-4.
Ball State track and field had not had an athlete qualify for the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships since Amanda Barnhart did so in 2008. That was until Regan Lewis came along.
Ball State baseball gave up a run in the first inning of Friday's Mid-American Conference Tournament elimination game against Central Michigan and had to play catch-up the rest of the way.
From the start of Thursday's Mid-American Conference Tournament game between Ball State baseball and Miami (Ohio), it had the look of a long day in the making for Ball State.
Ball State baseball used back-to-back three-run innings in the third and fourth to put its game against Eastern Michigan out of reach.
Beth Goetz, former chief operating officer (COO) and senior woman administrator at the University of Connecticut (UCONN), was named the new director of athletics at Ball State Monday afternoon.
With the game tied 4-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning, Tim Blankenberger stepped to the plate and sent the first pitch of his only at-bat over the left-field wall for a 2-run shot.
Having won 10 of its last 13 games, Ball State baseball looks to have found its stride as the end of the regular season approaches.
Since becoming a varsity program in 1975, Ball State softball has reached 37 or more wins just five times. The 2018 season was one of those five.
Ball State Basketball is coming off a good season with a 19-13 record. But the team will have new help beyond the three point arc next season.
Noah Dowden’s mother claims the best $5 she ever spent was on a Little Tikes basketball hoop for her then 3-year-old son.