Ball State Sports Roundup: MAC Indoor Championships and gymnastics keeps winning
Here’s a roundup of the latest Ball State sports news:
Perhaps the most talented athlete at Ball State is someone of whom you’ve never heard. Charity Griffith was named the Most Valuable Performer of the 2023 Mid-American Conference Indoor track Championships. Griffith took the title in the pentathlon and the high jump to help Ball State to a second-place overall finish. Griffith, who is 5’ 9”, won the high jump with a program record 6-feet-2-and-three-quarters inches. She ranks third nationally in the high jump and fourth nationally in the pentathlon.
In men’s volleyball, 12th-ranked Ball State beat UC San Diego three sets to two. The Cards are 11-and-6 overall and 4-and-2 in the MIVA. Next up, Ball State travels to Phoenix to play Grand Canyon University on Wednesday.
Ball State’s baseball Cardinals batted Purdue Fort Wayne out of the ballpark Sunday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 13 to 9. Today the Cards stay in warm weather as they travel to Tallahassee to face Florida A&M today at 5 p.m. Ball State is 7-and-5 on the season.
The 8-and-7 Ball State softball Cardinals topped the Stetson Hatters on Sunday in Athens, Georgia, 3-to-1. The Cards take on East Tennessee State, Wednesday at 2 p.m., in a double header.
Ball State’s women’s tennis team is burning up the courts with a 9-and-2 record. The Cards topped Azusa Pacific 4-to-2 in Azusa, California. Ball State stays in the sunshine with a trip to UC San Diego today in La Jolla, California.
The Cardinals’ men’s swimming and diving team closed out the MAC Championship with four medals Saturday in Oxford, Ohio at the Miami University Aquatic Center. The Cards finished fourth overall.
And Ball State’s women’s gymnastics Cardinals achieved their second-best score in program history in a close 196.375 to 196 win on the road at Bowling Green, Friday night. The Cards had 15 scores of 9.8 or higher in the win. Ball State is 14-and-4 overall and a perfect 5 and 0 in the MAC. Next up: A quad meet this Friday at the University of Missouri. Along with the Tigers, North Carolina and Southeast Missouri will round out the field.
