Sophomore Ball State golfer Johnny Watts stood on the back edge 17th green in the Earl Yestingsmeier Memorial Invitational with the ball more than 30 feet away from the hole.
Ball State men’s golf's "A" team finished the first round of the Earl Yestingsmeier Memorial Invitational with a seven-stroke lead over second-place Cleveland State.
Junior Naiel Smith will transfer after one season at Ball State.
After its 15 match win-streak was snapped last Sunday, the Ball State Women’s Tennis team (18-3, 5-1 MAC) will face conference rival Bowling Green (2-15, 0-4 MAC) on Sunday. The Bowling Green Falcons are the first of the last two teams that stand in the way of the Cardinals’ search for their first regular season Mid-American Conference title in program history.
Ball State men's volleyball had five players earn All-Conference honors for the first time in their careers.
Ball State softball dropped to fourth in the Mid-American Conference West Division rankings and is set to play the team directly above it: Eastern Michigan. Ball State (18-23, 4-8 MAC) travels to Eastern Michigan (15-23, 5-6 MAC) for a three-game series April 15-16.
The No. 8 Ball State men’s volleyball team will host McKendree on Saturday April 16 at Worthen Arena in the quarterfinals of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association conference tournament. The third seed Cardinals have defeated the sixth seeded Bearcats twice this season.
The Ball State men's golf team will host the Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational this weekend. The Cardinals are coming off a tie for seventh and a tie for sixth in their last two tournaments.
Ball State’s soccer team will travel to Notre Dame April 15 to play its fourth spring game of 2016.
For the first time since the outdoor track and field season began, Ball State will host a home meet on April 15-16.
Ball State women's golf has finished in first or second place in three of its previous four matches, with each of those efforts being led by juniors Allison Lindley and Kelsey Sear.
Ball State baseball (21-13, 7-2 MAC) snapped its six-game winning streak in a 4-3 loss to Indiana University (17-13, 4-2 Big Ten).
Ball State softball (18-22, 4-7 MAC) had an extra practice this week to prepare for its game April 13 against Northern Illinois (26-11, 7-3 MAC).
The 2015 NCAA men’s volleyball championship was the first time two teams from the same conference, other than the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, played in the championship. Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association rivals Loyola and Lewis played in the conference championship that year.
Ball State baseball (21-12, 7-2 MAC) will take its Mid-American Conference-best offense to Bloomington April 13 when it takes on Indiana University (17-13, 4-2 Big Ten), which has the Big Ten's second-best pitching staff. In the National Collegiate Athletic Association RPI, the Cardinals ranked 118th, 49 spots ahead of the No. 167 Hoosiers.
In the last week, St. Louis Cardinals rookie outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker has made his first Major League start, hit his first career home run and stolen his first career base. The Muncie native and Wapahini High School graduate is 10-19 at the plate so far this year with five runs scored, five RBIs, two doubles, a triple, two home runs and two stolen bases.
A number of players, coaches and teams earned awards at the second annual Chirpies award ceremony.
After a 4-0 week and a dominating three-game home sweep against Western Michigan over the weekend, the Mid-American Conference honored the Ball State baseball team.
Baseball Ball State outscored Mid-American Conference rival Western Michigan 41-6 over its three-game home streak. After canceling the original opener on April 8, the teams rescheduled for a doubleheader on April 10. The Cardinals followed up its 7-2 opening win with two more, winning them 21-1 and 13-3.
Davis, a Muncie native, played at Muncie Central and spent the last two seasons at Ball State.
