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Sean Godfrey stepped up to the plate to lead off the bottom of the ninth inning with Ball State trailing 2-1. Kent State starting pitcher Ryan Bores started his windup, fired home and Godfrey blasted a solo home run over the left field wall, tying the game at 2-2.
After Ball State pushed across a run in the eighth inning to tie Friday's game at Ball Diamond, coach Alex Marconi said he felt like Ball State was going to beat Kent State, the three-time reigning Mid-American Conference champions.
Whatever momentum Ball State gained by snapping its seven-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory at Akron on Sunday appears to have dissipated.
Right-handed pitcher Jacob Brewer started Ball State's game Tuesday against Dayton well enough.
There is no one moment when Cal Bowling became a true college ace. There was never a day when he discovered a new grip for his curveball or suddenly reared back and found a few extra miles per hour for his fastball.
Nestor Bautista cruised through the first inning, inducing consecutive fly outs from the first two Indiana State batters, and then he struck out the third batter on four pitches.
Right-handed pitcher Jacob Brewer started Ball State's game Tuesday against Dayton well enough.
After snapping a seven-game losing skid at Akron on Sunday afternoon, Ball State made a brief return to Muncie before departing for Dayton with a 4 p.m. game against the Flyers today.
After struggling to score runs all weekend at Akron, Ball State coach Alex Marconi was willing to take a gamble in the 12th inning on Sunday. After T.J. Weir tripled with one out in the inning, Marconi flashed the sign for a suicide squeeze.
It took Ball State 17 innings to score its first run in Mid-American Conference play this season. By the time T.J. Weir crossed home on a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning Saturday for Ball State's first run of its series at Akron, the Cardinals were well on their way to their seventh straight loss.
Before boarding the bus for Akron, Ohio, Thursday, Alex Marconi said he was confident in the way Ball State was hitting on the eve of Mid-American Conference play.
When Alex Marconi looks across the diamond and into the home dugout this week at Akron, he will see a familiar face. Rick Rembielak, in his first season as the Zips coach, was, Marconi's coach at Kent State from 1997-2000.
Coming off the best start of his career a week ago, right-hander T.J. Weir was roughed up at Louisville on Saturday in one of the worst starts of his career.
For 6 1/2 innings, the pitchers' duel that was anticipated between Ball State's Cal Bowling and Louisville's Justin Amlung did not disappoint. Through seven innings, Amlung allowed only an unearned run and struck out nine. Bowling had matched him entering the bottom of the seventh, allowing just one run on four hits.
The final weekend tune-up for Ball State before Mid-American Conference play begins March 23 may provide the Cardinals their biggest test of the season.
The frustration was palpable in coach Alex Marconi's voice. Though the Ball State starting rotation had seemingly been righted with a shakeup last weekend at Middle Tennessee State, the bullpen remained as much a problem as ever.
For the first three weekends of the season, Ball State struggled to get much of anything going on offense. It was ranked 256th in the nation with 59 hits, an average of 7.375 per game.
To start the ninth inning at Middle Tennessee State on Saturday, Ball State batters hit three consecutive singles. As Elbert Devarie walked to the plate representing the tying run, the four-run advantage the Blue Raiders held looked precarious.
With the tying run at the plate for Middle Tennessee State and starting pitcher Cal Bowling tiring in the eighth inning, coach Alex Marconi had a choice to make. Should he go to his bullpen, which had been inconsistent this season, or stick with Bowling even as his pitch count steadily climbed?
With the bases loaded and no outs in the top of the ninth inning Wednesday, Tennessee clung to a two-run lead as coach Dave Serrano went to the mound to talk to closer Nick Williams. Whatever Serrano told Williams worked.
