Baseball Moves into First in MAC West with Victory

Friday, April 25

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

3:00 PM

Ball State University

28-14, 12-3

Central Michigan

26-16, 12-4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Ball State	1	0	1	1	0	0	6	0	0	9	12	1
Central Michigan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1

Baseball Tallies 8-6 Win over Ohio State

April 25, 2014 | Baseball

Box Score

By: Ball State Athletics

Ball State's baseball team scored first and often in tallying a 9-0 victory at Central Michigan Friday to move into first place in the Mid-American Conference West Division.

With the victory, the Cardinals improved to 12-3 overall in MAC play, while Central Michigan fell to 12-4 in league play.

The Cardinals broke the game open with six runs in the seventh inning to take a 9-0 lead while T.J. Weir pitched six innings and limited the Chippewas to five hits, no runs and struck out nine. Weir earned the victory and improved to 6-1 on the season.

Clay Manering came on in relief and pitched the final three innings, allowing no hits, no runs and striking out three.

Sean Godfrey's third-inning home run, his eighth of the year, put the Cardinals up 2-0 and a Brandon Estep double in the fourth scored Kyle Raleigh to put Ball State up 3-0.

The pivotal seventh inning started with an Alex Call single through the left side of the infield and he advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Ryan Spaulding. Godfrey's double scored Call and a Raleigh two-out single scored Godfrey. Estep singled through the left side to score Raleigh, and Alex Maloney completed the innings' scoring with a double to left center to score two more Cardinals.

Godfrey completed the day with a 2-for-5 performance from the plate, two runs scored and two runs-batted-in. Estep was 2-for-4 from the plate with three RBI and one run scored. Raleigh was 2-for-5 with one RBI and two runs scored, while Call was 2-for-4 on the day with two runs scored.

Ball State improved to 28-14 overall, while CMU fell to 25-16. The two teams will meet Saturday with first pitched scheduled for 1 p.m., and the series finale will be Sunday at 1 p.m.