Cardinals drop series opener against Bowling Green State
By Colin Grylls / April 23, 2016Ball State baseball (23-16, 9-4 MAC) lost its series opener against Bowling Green State University (15-23, 5-8 MAC) 5-1.
Ball State baseball (23-16, 9-4 MAC) lost its series opener against Bowling Green State University (15-23, 5-8 MAC) 5-1.
Ball State women's golf did not have to travel far for the 2016 Mid-American Conference championships, as the team starts its postseason play at the Purgatory Golf Club in Noblesville on April 22.
Ball State men's tennis junior Lucas Andersen posted a 2-0 record this past weekend, earning him a Mid-American Conference Tennis Singles Player of the Week award.
Ball State football will take the field in a game situation for the first time since November 24, 2015.
It will be a packed weekend for Ball State athletics as six athletics teams will be at home for 10 contests over the course of the weekend.
Ball State softball (18-27, 4-11 MAC) will be looking to snap a five-game losing streak this weekend against Central Michigan (18-21-1, 5-8-1 MAC) at home.
At the Ball State baseball game April 23, Ball Diamond at First Merchants Ballpark Complex will finally receive its official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Head coach Rich Maloney said he expects a crowded stadium for the event, which coincides with Ball State Athletics’ Spring Ball Saturday. “I suspect this will be the biggest crowd that we’ve had since I’ve been here,” he said.
About six weeks before classes started in the Fall Semester, redshirt junior Kevin Marnon playing summer ball with the Wilson Tobs of the Coastal Plains League.
Ball State track and field will be one of more than 40 colleges and universities travelling to Ohio State April 22-23 for the Jesse Owens Track & Field Classic.
Each year, Ball State football announces two honorary captains for its annual Spring Football Game.
Ball State assistant volleyball coach Kelli Miller coached under recently retired head coach Steve Shondell for six years.
Senior right-handed pitcher Nicole Steinbach has pitched 157.1 innings this season, more than the the rest of the Cardinals pitching staff combined (111.2 innings pitched).
Ryan Diem leans against the fence along the visitor's sideline at Scheumann Stadium April 19. He holds a bag of Bigs Sea Salt & Black Pepper sunflower seeds in one hand and an empty Dasani water bottle for the shells in the other, spitting occasionally.
For the eighth week in a row, a Ball State baseball player earned Mid-American Conference honors. Right-handed closer BJ Butler earned the MAC West Division Pitcher of the Week award after winning two games in relief appearances against Central Michigan this weekend.
Ball State baseball (23-14, 9-3 MAC) will head to West Lafayette to take on Purdue (5-27, 1-11 Big Ten) tonight at 6 p.m. In their last match up on March 22 in Muncie, the Cardinals erased a seven-run deficit in a come-from-behind 9-8 victory over the Boilermakers. Ball State carries a .298 team batting average into the game, the best average in the Mid-American Conference. Purdue, however, is last in the Big Ten with a .255 batting average.
The Ball State Men's Golf team is playing well this spring season. In the last three tournaments, the team has placed fifth, tied for seventh, and tied for sixth.
Ball State track and field finished the Ball State Challenge with 16 top-five finishes and 15 career-best performances.
Former Ball State soccer players returned to campus April 17 to take on the women’s soccer team in its alumni game.
Ball State closer BJ Butler was credited with two wins this weekend, as Ball State baseball (23-14, 9-3 MAC) won two of its three games against Central Michigan (8-28, 3-6 MAC).
The 11th-ranked Ball State Cardinals (20-9, 12-4 MIVA) were knocked out of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association quarterfinals April 16 by the McKendree Bearcats (11-13, 5-11 MIVA).
