Coming off two consecutive wins, the Ball State University women's golf team will have a tougher time finishing at the top of the leader board this week. Ball State coach Katherine Mowat said the field at the Indiana Invitational, a two-day event that the Cardinals will play in, is a really strong field.
Because of poor golfing conditions, the Marshall Invitational in West Virginia was limited to 36 holes and the Ball State University men's golf team tied for ninth at the 17-team invitational. The 54-hole tournament at the Guyan Golf and Country Club postponed competition Friday and played the first and second rounds on Saturday.
The Ball State University women's tennis team (8-7, 1-3 MAC) was shutout for the third time in four matches in its 7-0 conference loss at Eastern Michigan University on Friday. The No. 3 doubles team of sophomore Katherine Rist and junior Emma Retter were the first off the courts with an 8-4 win at No.
After winning a 3-1 game in the opener, the Ball State University baseball team cruised through games two and three with easy victories to complete the sweep against the University at Buffalo. The Cardinals won game two on Saturday 16-1 and followed with a 9-3 victory Sunday.
While biking down McKinley Avenue, sophomore exercise major Cody Woods was about to enter his pit to tag another member of his team into the race. Woods pedaled hard in the final stretch because his team was behind by about 100 meters, he said. Upon entering the pit stop, he didn't slow down in time and crashed.
FORT WAYNE- Within five minutes of Sen. Barack Obama taking the stage at Wayne High School, he marshaled the nation from praising the present to remembering the past. After being introduced by Mike Riley, Robert Kennedy's 1968 Indiana campaign manager, Friday morning in the nationally televised event, Obama entered to a screaming crowd. var uslide_show_id = "a543517e-95e5-4060-ab89-58be98b22351";var slideshowwidth = "350";var linktext = "";
As of Saturday, blueberries are officially in season in Delaware County. With classes winding down, blueberries are one way to get a last boost of energy before Finals Week. "Blueberries have been called a super food," said Geraldine Airriess, instructor of family and consumer sciences.
Despite not winning an event, the Ball State University track and field team turned in 11 top-four finishes Saturday at the Mike Poelein Invitational. The meet, located at Purdue University, was the team's first meet in more than a month and its first outdoor meet of the season.
After a 4-3 victory against Northern Illinois University Sunday, the Ball State University men's tennis team remains undefeated in Mid-American Conference play. Overall, the Cardinals split their matches this weekend 1-1, with a 7-0 loss Friday to the No.
With two outs in the top of the first inning Sunday, Bowling Green State University's Emily Gouge hit a ball high into the air above the pitcher's mound. Ball State University's pitcher Tiffany Garofano ran to the third base side to get out of the way as the Cardinals' infielders looked up and moved in on the ball as it drifted right of the mound.
FORT WAYNE - Homestead High School senior Andrew Reiman was handed a microphone after the speech to ask Sen. Barack Obama a question. At Obama's speech Friday in Fort Wayne, local students and future Ball State University students had their chance to witness the campaign first hand.
The campus-wide game Humans vs. Zombies is entering its fifth and final day. In the game's storyline, scientists working to defeat the zombies in the L.A Pittenger Student Center were supposed to be airlifted Sunday, but their helicopter crashed in North Quad.
FORT WAYNE - As each minute elapsed past 11 a.m., the chants and encouraging screams became louder from the restless audience waiting for Barack Obama to appear. Instead, an elderly man with balding, gray hair emerged from the curtain behind the stage and took the podium.
The No. 12 George Mason University men's volleyball team defeated No. 6 Ball State University 33-31, 30-26, 26-30, 30-26.
FORT WAYNE, Ind.- On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's assignation, Sen. Barack Obama spoke at Wayne High School about topics ranging from gun control, making college affordable, jobs and defense spending. After quoting King and speaking about the civil right leader's message, Obama said it's the people's job to continue King's message.
As presidential hopefuls - and their children - appear in Muncie to campaign to be the next face of America, memories linger of another on-campus presidential campaign stop in 1968. Friday marks the 40-year anniversary of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's visit to Ball State University.
Watching the floor-stomping, fist-pounding craziness that goes into Tracy Roller's sideline antics, it's difficult to view her as anything but a women's basketball coach. Certainly the majority of the time, Roller would prefer to be perceived as such. As much as we like to view our sports figures as superhuman, the reality is they aren't much different than the general public.
A group of Ball State University students are working on a project expected to change the way people watch TV. Jennifer Palilonis, assistant professor of journalism, said Ball State is in its third year of working on developing an interface that will let viewers interact with advertisements, graphics, poll questions and other things related to TV news broadcasts.
The Ball State University athletics department just lost one of the best things it had going for it. Tracy Roller announced Wednesday she was resigning as head coach of the women's basketball team for medical reasons. With her record - a stellar 118-73 in seven years - she was the winningest coach in Ball State's women's basketball history.
The mid-summer sun was in my eyes, but I didn't have too much trouble catching the slow-pitch softball as it bounced off home plate, knocking red dust into the air. It had been a few years since Dad's last game, and he still had some warming up to do. I glanced beyond my father while our opponents switched batters and saw my shortstop brother give his center fielder wife a high five.
