The Ball State Cardinals (19-19, 8-9 MAC) beat the Ohio Bobcats (10-31, 5-12 MAC), 7-3, in the second game of the three game series.
A big, four-run sixth inning put the game away, as Ball State roughed up Ohio starter Marck Paliotto (2-7) and reliever Brett Barber.
The Ohio women's golf team sits in ninth place after the first round of the MAC Championships held Friday. The Bobcats shot a combined 343 and are 40 strokes off tournament leading Kent State. Ohio is also 16 strokes behind the eighth place team, Bowling Green.
Two men stood stranded to end the Ohio Bobcats’ final threat to the Ball State Cardinals (18-19, 7-9) as the Cards took home a 5-4 victory Friday. Jake Miller was hit with his fifth loss, despite throwing seven innings with seven strikeouts.
Game One
Despite having just three hits, Ohio Softball manufactured enough runs to take down the Western Michigan Broncos, 7-5, in the first game of a doubleheader Friday.
The long season continues to wear on the Ohio Bobcats. With 39 games complete, the Bobcats have won just 10, with five coming in conference play.
With the first overall selection in the 2013 NFL Draft in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, the Kansas City Chiefs selected Eric Fisher, an offensive lineman from Central Michigan.
It took eight different pitchers, but the Marshall Thundering Herd topped Ohio 4-2 in a rainy day in Huntington, WV.
In Ohio’s 45 games this season, Bobcat batters have been hit by 45 pitches.
During the second game of Ohio’s doubleheader against Ohio State, Buckeye pitcher Alex DiDomenico plunked senior Tessa Bailey three times.
Talk about taking one for the team.
Of the 20 players on Ohio’s softball roster, only seven come from the state of Ohio. The remaining 13 players represent 10 different states; from Washington and California, to Virginia and South Carolina and many places in between.
Former Bobcat Football players JD Bales, Bakari Bussey, Tyler Futrell and Corey Hastings shined in last Saturday’s 2013 Ohio-Michigan Senior Bowl as the best seniors from Ohio topped the best seniors from Michigan 10-7.
