On an eight-game winning streak, the Ball State baseball team is at Eastern Michigan this weekend. Ball State is one game ahead of Miami and Central Michigan for first in the conference standings.
BSU has swept opponents in consecutive weekends, sweeping Butler (+20 run margin) and Akron (+27), and has won 10 of 11 games. Over those 11 games, the Cardinals are hitting .324 as a team and scoring 8.4 runs per game and the team's ERA is 3.72. Five different Cardinals (Powell, Tellier, Conant, Quartermaine, Peltier) are hitting better than .340 over the last 11 games.
Chayce McDermott has been lights out in his last three starts, going 3-0 with a 1.