MEN'S VOLLEYBALL: Ball State sweeps Belmont Abbey
Earlier this week head coach Joel Walton said he expected Ball State’s men’s volleyball team to win both of its games.
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Earlier this week head coach Joel Walton said he expected Ball State’s men’s volleyball team to win both of its games.
After sweeping through the past weekend, Ball State’s men’s volleyball team’s confidence is back to the level it was when the team started the season 8-0.
Like many volleyball players, as an adolescent Jamion Hartley never imagined he would prefer volleyball’s float serves over basketball’s jump shots.
Division-I athletics are usually looked at through a lenses that makes it a job. Athletes perform rather than play, and the word game is a misnomer.
Division-I athletics are usually looked at through a lenses that makes it a job. Athletes perform rather than play, and the word game is a misnomer.
Ball State finally got back on track and got into the win column against Sacred Heart in a clean sweep (25-16, 25-23, 25-16) in the first match of the Don Shondell Active Ankle Challenge.
Ball State’s men’s volleyball team came into its match Friday on its heels and in a downward spiral.
Ball State men’s volleyball team started out its season 8-0 and was the nation’s last unbeaten team. Now the Cardinals have lost three straight matches, all in conference play, and are looking for their first win since Feb. 9.
In a weekend marred with upsets in men’s volleyball, including five top 15 teams losing, Ball State had hope going into its first match against a nationally-ranked opponent in No. 6 Ohio State.
On Friday Harvard downed No. 9 Penn State in a clean sweep 3-0 (25-23, 25-17, 25-23), effectively ending the longest winning streak in men’s volleyball.
After suffering their first loss of the season to Grand Canyon on Sunday, Ball State coach Joel Walton said his team needed to take a look in the mirror and figure out its identity.
In Ball State and Grand Canyon’s second match in as many days, one team came out with a high intensity level, cohesive passing and a locked in mentality. It was not the previously nation’s last undefeated team; it was Grand Canyon which had just suffered five set loss to Ball State the day before.
In a match filled with momentum swings, long rallies and long scoring runs, everyone held their breath in Worthen Arena until the final point was scored.
Stationed at the forefront of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association conference standings and on the cusp of a national ranking, Ball State will try and show supremacy over a team many coaches thought to be parallel to the Cardinals in the preseason.
Despite the Ball State’s men’s volleyball team’s success this season, it has yet to garner any national recognition, due to its feeble schedule.
With the score 14-12 in the fifth set, sophomore Shane Witmer held the ball in his hands ready to serve the potential match point.
The Cardinals improved to 6-0 overall and won their first Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association conference game of the year.
Ball State men’s volleyball has established itself to be one of the better defensive teams in the MIVA, but head coach Joel Walton knows the offense isn’t where it needs to be.
Sophomore middle attacker Jon Clawson once thought he wouldn’t play volleyball after his senior season at Center Grove High School, but two years later he found himself in the last place he thought he would be.