Baseball Leads Early but Falls Tuesday Night at Kentucky

Tuesday, March 10

Lexington, Ky.

6:30 PM

Ball State University

7-8

Kentucky

15-2

Ball State

Kentucky

Photo by: Caden Vincent

Baseball Leads Early but Falls Tuesday Night at Kentucky

March 10, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Ball State baseball team got out to a 2-0 lead but fell 10-3 to No. 25 Kentucky on Tuesday night at Kentucky Proud Park.

The Cardinals (7-8) got a sacrifice fly by Ryan Muizelaar to plate Brayden Huebner in the third inning, and Gavin Balius later scored on a wild pitch to stake the visitors to the early 2-0 edge. Kentucky (15-2) responded with two runs in the bottom half of the frame and one in the fourth to take a 3-2 lead.

Ball State knotted the score at 3-3 in the fifth after Muizelaar doubled and scored on an RBI groundout from Brett Griffiths. The Wildcats crossed home plate five times in the bottom of the inning and once
each in the seventh and eighth frames on their way to a home win.

Balius, Muizelaar, Jacob Gillis, Taber Stokes and Maalik Perkins each had a hit for the Cardinals, but the double from Muizelaar was the lone extra base hit of the night for the visitors.

Zach Kwasny started a staff game for Ball State and tossed a scoreless first inning. Jeremy Jones (0-2) allowed five runs in an inning of work to suffer the loss.

Oliver Boone (1-0) was credited with the win after giving up one run in 2.0 innings out of the bullpen. Jayce Tharnish, Luke Lawrence, Ryan Schwartz and Tagger Tyson posted two hits each for the Wildcats.

"We made too many mistakes to beat a good team," Ball State head coach Rich Maloney said. "We take great pride in playing good defense and today we gave them too many free opportunities. We will regroup and get ready to play EMU."

Ball State returns home to host Eastern Michigan for three games starting Friday afternoon.