With the season already underway, the cross-country squad is looking to carry the track and field program’s success from the winter and spring into the fall. Head coach Adrian Wheatley is entering his third year as head coach of the cross-country and track & field programs.
Ball State and Indiana State may both be winless through the first two weeks of the season, but each side remains hungry heading into a rivalry game for the Blue Key Liberty Bell Sept. 16 at 2 p.m. This contest will cap off Family Weekend at Ball State and is the Cardinals' home opener at Scheumann Stadium.
The Cardinals have been very successful at home, with a 23-2-4 record over the past 3 years, and held true with a 3-0 win over Austin Peay as Senior Night festivities took place before the match.
The Ball State Daily News Sports crew of sophomore associate sports editor and football secondary reporter Elijah Poe, opinion editor and photographer Kate Farr, associate photo editor Mya Cataline and reporter Zach Carter share their experience following their trip to Athens, Georgia, to cover Ball State V. No. 1 Georgia.
Sophomore Carter Smith and junior Kash Bellar finished the 2023 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational individually in first and second place to push the Cardinals to a first place finish out of 10. The Cardinals look to continue their strong start to the 2023-24 season when they head to the Badger Invitational in Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 1.
Ball State snapped a four-game losing streak with a 3-0 win over Austin Peay (2-5-1) on Senior Day. Ball State (2-4) looks to capitalize on its momentum in its upcoming road matchup with Butler (2-4-1) Thursday, Sept. 14.
After losing the first four games of the 2023 campaign, the Cardinals defeated Lock Haven (2-3) in an overtime shootout. Ball State (1-4) will travel to Athens, Ohio, Sept. 15 to take on Ohio for the first game of Mid-American Conference play.
Sophomore Daily News reporter Zach Carter talks about his experience covering Ball State vs. No. 1 Georgia in Southeastern Conference (SEC) football country.
From a stadium in Muncie surrounded by grass fields to a stadium with roads closed off for gameday in Athens. A sea of thousands of Bulldog fans swarmed the stadium in a crowd that seemingly never ended.
Ball State leaves Dayton with a six-match losing streak and a 2-7 record, the Cardinals’ slowest start since head coach Kelli Miller Phillips’ debut campaign in 2016.
Now a freshman at Ball State, Semonza lined up against the No. 1 team in the nation. Not only did Semonza start against a program coming off of back-to-back national championships, but was doing so in a Southeastern Conference (SEC) environment.
Although the game was scoreless after the first fifteen minutes, the floodgates opened in the second quarter and never let up. Here are three takeaways from Ball State's 45-3 loss to No. 1 Georgia.
Yorktown (2-2, 0-2 HHC) fell to .500 on the season after a 22-13 loss to Delta (4-0, 2-0 HHC) on the Eagles’ Senior Night.
Departing from Muncie at 6:00 a.m., the team made a quick stop at a gas station, with their eyes set on Lawrenceburg, Indiana, the first stop of the trip. Learn more from day one as the Sports team goes to Georgia.
The loss extends the Cardinals’ losing streak to four games, and although the skid comes at the disappointment of many around the program, experiencing a mid-season streak of setbacks is far from uncharted territory for coach Miller Phillips.
After a 44-14 loss to Kentucky in week one, Ball State travels down to Athens, to play the No. 1 team in the nation, the University of Georgia. Mike Neu is looking at the positives of the Cardinals' 30-point loss to the Wildcats instead of the negatives coming into their matchup with the Bulldogs.
A Vanderbilt score with just under three minutes remaining put away the Cardinals the final leg of their grueling four-game road tilt. The Cardinals return to Muncie Sunday, Sept. 10 to take on Austin Peay at 1 p.m. in Ball State's senior day.
As a Cummings, Georgia, native, Ball State football's matchup against the No. 1 Bulldogs carries an added meaning for Mikhari Sibblis and his family.
