VOLLEYBALL: Two players earn All-American honors
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Chicago – For two months No. 9 Ball State had brazenly beaten all of its competition, the latest coming on Saturday.
No. 9 Ball State’s semifinal match with No. 12 Loyola will culminate by ending a streak and extending another one.
Ball State won its 13th match in row in straight sets (25-21, 25-17, 25-20) against I-69 rival IPFW. Another win against a conference opponent, all that changed was the stakes.
Ball State athletics will soon announce a plan for a new volleyball and basketball practice facility, along with the possibility of other improved sports facilities.
In the preseason polls, Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association coaches did not give Ball State much of a chance to compete in the upper tier of the conference. With nearly an identical roster that produced mediocre results in the 2012 season, the accolades Ball State received at the end of the regular season were not anticipated.
By ending 2012 with a 14-12 overall record and 5-7 conference record, the Ball State men’s volleyball team extended its fall from being one of the elite programs in the country that began after the 2002 season.
No. 15 Ball State’s win over No. 11 Loyola on Saturday — the team’s 20th on the season — transcended the win-loss column.
No. 15 Ball State’s 3-1 (25-23, 21-25, 27-25, 25-19) win over No. 11 Loyola was more than just Ball State’s 20th win and ninth conference victory.
In the midst of its now 11 match-winning streak, Ball State has played the underdog role twice to opponents ranked higher in the national standings. But from the start of the match against No. 9 Lewis, Ball State brought an onslaught of torpedoing attacks and impermeable defense.
Six weeks ago Ball State men’s volleyball slunk out of Loyola in a weekend where it was swept at, then-No. 12, Lewis and Loyola. Those losses extended Ball State’s losing streak to five games at 8-5 overall and 3-5 in the conference.
Since early January, before the season even started, No. 15 Ball State men’s volleyball coach Joel Walton stressed the amount of parity in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.
It looked like a trap match on the schedule, and Limestone did its best to make it exactly that. The Division II program kept No. 15 Ball State volleyball on its heels for a majority of the night.
The newest American Volleyball Coaches Association top-15 poll has a fresh face. At 14-5, Ball State was ranked No. 15 for its first national ranking in more than two years.
The Six Flags theme music echoed throughout Worthen Arena, but it was not an old man with a top hat and cane dancing—it was 2562 Ball State fans anticipating set point and effectively match point.
Riding a four-match winning streak, Ball State traveled north on I-69 to the Gates Sports Center, getting another win over a quality opponent 3-1 (19-25, 25-22, 25-19, 25-22).
FRIDAY
Last season when Ball State’s men’s volleyball team toppled No. 10 Ohio State only 510 people sparsely lined Worthen Arena. When the No. 8 Buckeyes come to Muncie on Friday, two Cardinal volleyball enthusiasts are hoping a few more fans are there to greet them.