BASEBALL: Clutch hitting evades Cardinals in 7-4 loss
March 10, 2012Ball State lost 7-4 at Middle Tennessee State on Saturday, falling to 3-8 this season.
Ball State lost 7-4 at Middle Tennessee State on Saturday, falling to 3-8 this season.
Ball State came out hot with the start of the Stetson Classic to pick up two wins in both its games on Friday.
The Ball State men's volleyball team out-hit, out-dug and out-blocked Grand Canyon on Friday. And it still wasn't enough.
Ball State beat Middle Tennessee State 5-4 Friday afternoon, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Cal State Northridge swept away Ball State 3-0 (25-17, 25-18, 25-20) in its home court, The Matadome, to hand the Cardinals one of their worst losses of the season.
The Ball State softball team built off two wins to end last weekend with a two dominating wins over North Florida on Thursday.
After losing to Michigan State last Saturday and breaking an 11-match winning streak, Ball State couldn't shake its demons on Thursday against UNLV.
Laura Seibold-Caudill has raised about 600 student-athletes as head coach of the Ball State women's swimming and diving team. They weren't actually her own kids, but for past and current swimmers, it certainly seemed that way.
Tennessee beat Ball State 9-7 in Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday.
Players have been able to rest and recuperate since their last match against Park on Feb. 25, knowing they wouldn't play for another 11 days until facing No. 12 Cal State Northridge (6-10) on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Even though its a little bit past the middle of the season, there isn't a better time to do an awards blog than during spring break. If you'd like to see any other award categories that I didn't cover, let me know and I'll add them.
Heading into this season, six wins in Mid-American Conference play and a ninth seed in the MAC Tournament were hardly what Ball State coach Billy Taylor envisioned.
All the struggles Ball State faced during the season could be nullified with a deep run in the Mid-American Conference Tournament. That was, at least, the Cardinals mindset going into Monday's game at Western Michigan.
Its bats stifled by Missouri's starting pitching for the second day in a row, Ball State was again unable to overcome an early deficit and lost 9-2 Sunday.
Four days after scoring a career-high 20 points on Senior Day, senior captain Suzanne Grossnickle did five points better against Central Michigan on Saturday.
Ball State's just can't escape its Big 10 demons. Michigan State made completely sure of that on Saturday.
While Saturday was a game to honor the team's seniors in Jarrod Jones, Randy Davis and Pierre Sneed, it was the subs who stole the spotlight and ultimately the win.
Following the Ball State softball team's roughest offensive game of the season, an eight run outburst backed by strong pitching sparked the Cardinals (6-5) to a 1-1 record on Friday at the Citrus Classic in Orlando, Fla.