Ball State University Athletics
Baseball Puts Three on All-MAC Second Team
May 20, 2015 | Baseball
Alex Call, Zach Plesac and Jarett Rindfleisch have each been named to the baseball All-Mid-American Conference Second Team in a vote by the league's head coaches.
Call, a sophomore outfielder for the Cardinals, leads the team with a .349 batting average and is second on the team with 37 runs-batted-in. He leads Ball State with 22 multiple-hit games this season and is second with 10 multi-RBI contests. Call, who was named to the Capital One Academic All-District Five Team, has made 102 career starts and has reached base safely in 94 of those contests.
Plesac, a sophomore pitcher who was named the MAC Freshman Pitcher of the Year and to the All-MAC First Team last season, is 4-4 with a 3.24 earned-run average this season. He has thrown five complete games this year, including a stretch of four straight complete contests, which is the most for a Ball State pitcher since Bryan Lynch threw seven straight complete games in 2003. Plesac leads the MAC and ranks ninth in the nation in complete games. He has pitched six or more innings in 12 of his 16 starts this season.
Rindfleisch, a sophomore catcher for the Cardinals, leads the team with 10 multi-RBI games and seven of those came in conference contests. He leads the team with nine home runs and had a streak of seven straight games recording at least one RBI during the season. Rindfleisch has reached base in 12 straight games entering this week's MAC Tournament. In the month of May, he is hitting .461 with 11 runs scored, 10 RBI, one double, one triple and three home runs. Rindfleisch was named the MAC Freshman Player of the Year and to the All-MAC First Team last season.
Ball State begins play in the MAC Tournament Wednesday in Avon, Ohio, as the tourney's No. 5 seed. The Cardinals will face No. 4 seeded Toledo in an 8 p.m. game at All Pro Freight Stadium. Ball State ended the regular season with a 30-23 overall record and a 14-13 mark in league play.
