Baseball Begins April Battling Bellarmine at Shebek Stadium

The Ball State baseball team is set to host Bellarmine at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at Shebek Stadium in what is scheduled to be the first of only four games in Muncie for the Cardinals in the month of April.

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Ball State (19-10, 7-2 Mid-American Conference) secured its third straight MAC series win by taking the first two games of a set at Akron over the weekend. Junior Dylan Grego was named MAC Co-Player of the Week on Monday after amassing an 8-for-12 weekend with two doubles, three home runs, 10 RBI and four runs scored.

Bellarmine (6-21, 2-7 Atlantic Sun Conference) has lost four straight games, most recently being swept at home by Austin Peay on Friday (doubleheader) and Saturday. The Knights are in their first season under head coach Ben Reel and were picked to finish 11^th in the 12-team ASUN preseason poll.

Senior first baseman Casey Sorg was a preseason All-ASUN pick after being voted First Team All-Conference in 2024. Redshirt junior Eli Watson leads the Knights in batting average (.347) and RBI (23).

Bellarmine is second in the ASUN in scoring at 7.1 runs per game, while its pitching staff has an ERA of 11.03 to enter Tuesday's game at 10^th in the league. Redshirt freshman infielder Landon Akers is the team leader in total bases (61), as his 41 hits are fourth in the league and No. 67 in NCAA Division I.

Up next for Ball State is a three-game series at Eastern Michigan scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on Friday.

Baseball Begins April Battling Bellarmine at Shebek Stadium

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