Friday, May 9
Athens, Ohio
6 PM
Ball State University
at
Ohio
Photo by: Amber Pietz, Ball State Creative Services
Baseball at Ohio for Final Road Series Starting Friday Night
May 08, 2025 | Baseball
The Ball State baseball team travels to Athens to face off with Ohio in its final road series on the Mid-American Conference schedule starting with a 6 p.m. game on Friday.
Links to the video streams, digital radio broadcasts and live stats can be found above and on the schedule page. Subsequent contests are set for 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.
Ball State (32-17, 18-6 MAC) fell to Purdue on Tuesday night but enters the final two weekends of the regular season tied at the top of the conference standings with Kent State and Miami (OH).
Ohio (11-34, 6-18 MAC) beat Akron 10-5 in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday to salvage a win in the three-game series. The Cardinals and Bobcats last met on the baseball diamond in late March of 2024, with the Cardinals sweeping a three-game set in Muncie.
The Bobcats are in their fifth season under the direction of head coach Craig Moore and were picked to finish eighth in the MAC preseason poll.
Ohio plays small ball, as the Bobcats lead the league in sacrifice bunts (32) and rank third in sacrifice flies (25). The Ohio offense is seventh in the MAC at 6.6 runs per game, while the pitchers are 11th in the conference in ERA (8.44).
Sophomore outfielder Ben Slanker is tied for first nationally with 10 sacrifice flies and also ranks at or near the top of the MAC standings in home runs (17, first, No. 16 in NCAA Division I), RBI (60, third, No. 24), slugging percentage (.681, fifth) and walks (34, seventh). Freshman infielder Matt Ineich leads the Bobcats with a .393 batting average, which ranks second in the league, and 55 hits.
Ball State wraps up the regular season with four home games next week including an afternoon rematch with Purdue on Tuesday afternoon and a three-game set with Miami starting at 3 p.m. on Thursday.
WALK THIS WAY: Korbin Griffin's walk-off single in the tenth inning of Saturday's 2-1 triumph over Kent State was Ball State's third of the year by three different players.
Dylan Grego drilled a solo homer in the ninth inning of the March 9 win over Western Michigan before Garrett Arnold blasted a pitch to center field to claim a win against Toledo in the March 15 contest.
TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM: Senior Alex Richter was hit by a pitch for the 24th time this season on Saturday against Kent State to tie the program record.
Ryan Read was hit 24 times as well during the 1995 campaign. Richter ranks fifth in NCAA Division I in HBP this year and leads the team in walks (31) as well for a .419 on base percentage. Additionally, the infielder paces the Cardinals in home runs (15), RBI (49) and runs scored (48).
OLD RELIABLE THIRTY: Ball State's 9-6 win on April 25 at Central Michigan was its 30th of the season, a mark the program has now reached in each of the last 12 completed seasons.
The Cardinals have posted at least 30 wins in each of head coach Rich Maloney's 19 full campaigns as the skipper.
BEVIS BOUNCING UP THE RECORD BOOK: Junior Blake Bevis hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning of Ball State's 7-4 triumph over the Chippewas on April 26 for his 13th of the year.
Bevis bested his previous single-season high of 12 from 2024 and now ranks in a tie for fifth in program history with 36 career homers (Brad Snyder). Next up on the list is Ed Farris (1994-97) with 38 home runs.
CLEAN FIELDING AND TURNING TWO: The Cardinals enter the weekend ranking fifth in NCAA Division I with a .982 fielding percentage.
Ball State has committed 30 errors in 1,686 opportunities this year through the first 48 games. Ball State is ninth nationally in double plays turned at 43.
TIED UP AT THE TOP: Ball State, Kent State and Miami (OH) enter the closing stretch of the season tied at the top of the conference standings.
The Cardinals play at Ohio this weekend and at home against Miami to close out the regular season, while the Golden Flashes host Western Michigan and finish up at Eastern Michigan. The RedHawks host Akron this weekend before heading to Muncie for a series starting on Thursday, May 15.
BALANCED POWER: Richter (15 home runs) Bevis (13), Dylan Grego (12) and Ty Davis (10) have each hit double digit homers this year for Ball State.
Four different Cardinals have also hit 10+ doubles: Grego (12), Nick Husovsky (12), Bevis (11) and Clay Jacobs (10). Finally, Richter (49), Grego (47), Husovsky (43) and Bevis (41) each have driven in more than 40 runs so far this season.
QUINN CAN WIN: Junior Owen Quinn tossed 3.2 shutout frames on Saturday for the Cardinals out of the bullpen to close out the game and earn his fourth win of the year.
The right-handed pitcher out of Indianapolis bettered his record to 4-1 with four saves, a 2.70 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 42 strikeouts in 43.1 innings with the performance.
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Links to the video streams, digital radio broadcasts and live stats can be found above and on the schedule page. Subsequent contests are set for 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.
Ball State (32-17, 18-6 MAC) fell to Purdue on Tuesday night but enters the final two weekends of the regular season tied at the top of the conference standings with Kent State and Miami (OH).
Ohio (11-34, 6-18 MAC) beat Akron 10-5 in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday to salvage a win in the three-game series. The Cardinals and Bobcats last met on the baseball diamond in late March of 2024, with the Cardinals sweeping a three-game set in Muncie.
The Bobcats are in their fifth season under the direction of head coach Craig Moore and were picked to finish eighth in the MAC preseason poll.
Ohio plays small ball, as the Bobcats lead the league in sacrifice bunts (32) and rank third in sacrifice flies (25). The Ohio offense is seventh in the MAC at 6.6 runs per game, while the pitchers are 11th in the conference in ERA (8.44).
Sophomore outfielder Ben Slanker is tied for first nationally with 10 sacrifice flies and also ranks at or near the top of the MAC standings in home runs (17, first, No. 16 in NCAA Division I), RBI (60, third, No. 24), slugging percentage (.681, fifth) and walks (34, seventh). Freshman infielder Matt Ineich leads the Bobcats with a .393 batting average, which ranks second in the league, and 55 hits.
Ball State wraps up the regular season with four home games next week including an afternoon rematch with Purdue on Tuesday afternoon and a three-game set with Miami starting at 3 p.m. on Thursday.
WALK THIS WAY: Korbin Griffin's walk-off single in the tenth inning of Saturday's 2-1 triumph over Kent State was Ball State's third of the year by three different players.
Dylan Grego drilled a solo homer in the ninth inning of the March 9 win over Western Michigan before Garrett Arnold blasted a pitch to center field to claim a win against Toledo in the March 15 contest.
TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM: Senior Alex Richter was hit by a pitch for the 24th time this season on Saturday against Kent State to tie the program record.
Ryan Read was hit 24 times as well during the 1995 campaign. Richter ranks fifth in NCAA Division I in HBP this year and leads the team in walks (31) as well for a .419 on base percentage. Additionally, the infielder paces the Cardinals in home runs (15), RBI (49) and runs scored (48).
OLD RELIABLE THIRTY: Ball State's 9-6 win on April 25 at Central Michigan was its 30th of the season, a mark the program has now reached in each of the last 12 completed seasons.
The Cardinals have posted at least 30 wins in each of head coach Rich Maloney's 19 full campaigns as the skipper.
BEVIS BOUNCING UP THE RECORD BOOK: Junior Blake Bevis hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning of Ball State's 7-4 triumph over the Chippewas on April 26 for his 13th of the year.
Bevis bested his previous single-season high of 12 from 2024 and now ranks in a tie for fifth in program history with 36 career homers (Brad Snyder). Next up on the list is Ed Farris (1994-97) with 38 home runs.
CLEAN FIELDING AND TURNING TWO: The Cardinals enter the weekend ranking fifth in NCAA Division I with a .982 fielding percentage.
Ball State has committed 30 errors in 1,686 opportunities this year through the first 48 games. Ball State is ninth nationally in double plays turned at 43.
TIED UP AT THE TOP: Ball State, Kent State and Miami (OH) enter the closing stretch of the season tied at the top of the conference standings.
The Cardinals play at Ohio this weekend and at home against Miami to close out the regular season, while the Golden Flashes host Western Michigan and finish up at Eastern Michigan. The RedHawks host Akron this weekend before heading to Muncie for a series starting on Thursday, May 15.
BALANCED POWER: Richter (15 home runs) Bevis (13), Dylan Grego (12) and Ty Davis (10) have each hit double digit homers this year for Ball State.
Four different Cardinals have also hit 10+ doubles: Grego (12), Nick Husovsky (12), Bevis (11) and Clay Jacobs (10). Finally, Richter (49), Grego (47), Husovsky (43) and Bevis (41) each have driven in more than 40 runs so far this season.
QUINN CAN WIN: Junior Owen Quinn tossed 3.2 shutout frames on Saturday for the Cardinals out of the bullpen to close out the game and earn his fourth win of the year.
The right-handed pitcher out of Indianapolis bettered his record to 4-1 with four saves, a 2.70 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 42 strikeouts in 43.1 innings with the performance.
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