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FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2016

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MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

NO. 9 CARDS VS. NO. 1 OHIO STATE

TONIGHT @ 7:30 p.m. WORTHEN ARENA

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Team hosts No. 1 Ohio St., McKendree

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ELIZABETH WYMAN MEN’S VOLLEYBALL REPORTER @Heavens_2betsey

The Ball State men’s volleyball team closes out its final two regular season home matches of the season, taking on No. 1 Ohio State and McKendree. No. 9 Ball State (17-5, 9-1 Midwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) is tied for first in the conference with the Buckeyes (18-3, 9-1 MIVA). The Cardinals traveled to Columbus, Ohio, on Feb. 6, where they upset the then-No. 7 Buckeyes in a comeback five-set victory. After losing the first two sets, Ball State earned three consecutive set wins (25-23, 25-11, 18-16) while tallying a season-high 21 blocks. The loss on Feb. 6 was the last time Ohio State lost a match, as the Buckeyes have a 17-1 record since Jan. 8. Cardinals’ head coach Joel Walton knows while his team beat the Buckeyes once, every match is a different story. “Every match is going to be different because you just don’t know at this time of the year who’s healthy,” Walton said. “You never know when you’re going to walk into a gym and the player you’re expecting to see doesn’t step on the court.” Ohio State junior outside hitter Miles Johnson and sophomore outside hitter Nicolas Szerszen are high on the MIVA statistics leaderboards. Johnson ranks fifth in kills per set and total kills with 3.43 and 240, respectively. Johnson is also tied for first in the MIVA in services aces per set with .44. Szerszen ranks second in both kills per set and total kills.

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The Muncie Animal Shelter is a non-profit organization funded by the city and its taxpayers. The shelter has been using social media to help get animals adopted and advertise themselves.

Muncie animal shelters see increase in adoptions, donations due to Internet traffic AUDREY KIRBY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | ajkirby@bsu.edu

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na, a 4-month old pitbull puppy with a vibrant personality, hobbles through the hallways of the Muncie Animal Shelter, her tail wagging more rapidly with each visitor who stops to show her attention. The workers at the shelter say she is full of love and as a young puppy — she has an innocence to her. She hasn’t seen much of the world yet. “She’s just the sweetest thing,” shelter office manager Ashley Honeycutt said. Shelter workers discovered Ana digging through a dumpster near a home, her front left paw broken and hanging limp as she lifted it up. The nerves in her limb are so damaged that she has no feeling in it. She’s unable to walk or run normally, and because the leg has been broken for more than four weeks, it will most likely need to be amputated. The procedure to do so can be costly. See SHELTERS, page 4

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ENROLLMENT SERVICES SEES 3RD NEW FACE SINCE 2014 Kay Bales, dean of students and vice president of student affairs, is now overseeing enrollment services — a role that has seen three different executives since Paul W. Ferguson became university president in 2014. The Office of Student Affairs will now work with students during KAY BALES their entire time at Ball State, from Vice president their recruitment to graduation. of student Joan Todd, associate vice presi- affairs, dean of dent of strategic communications, students said this was the structure before Jo Ann Gora became the university’s president in 2004. “Bales has been doing a great deal of work in student retention,” Todd said in an email. “It makes perfect sense for her to oversee student life from the beginning to commencement.” The previous interim vice president of enrollment management, Julie Hopwood, is now the associate vice president for business and auxiliary services. Hopwood was also the interim vice president of the Division of Strategic Communications, a position the university is still looking to fill permanently. Todd said a prior search had failed. Acting President Terry King said in an email the university has tabled this search until the presidential search has concluded and the candidate is in office. King also said because of ongoing efforts to maximize operations and efficiency, more organizational changes will happen in the coming weeks. –

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Muncie Animal Shelter workers discovered Ana, a pitbull puppy, digging in a dumpster with a broken left paw. Ana needed to have surgery on her paw, so the shelter started a GoFundMe page to help raise funds.

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BASEBALL

CARDINALS CONFIDENT ENTERING MAC Ball State begins conference play on road at Miami

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COLIN GRYLLS ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR sports@bsudailynews.com

Ball State baseball (12-10) kicks off its Mid-American Conference schedule today when it takes on the Miami Redhawks (8-10) in Oxford, Ohio. Head coach Rich Maloney said the excitement starting MAC play is “like Opening Day all over again.” “The 22 [non-conference] games are over,” he said. “They’re behind us, they’re done. … Now it’s a quest for who does the best over eight weekends.” Redshirt junior left-handed pitcher Kevin Marnon (3-2, 3.52 ERA) said he expects to compete for the regular sea-

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The Ball State baseball team will start its Mid-American Conference schedule today. The Cardinals (12-10) will play the Miami Redhawks (8-10) in Oxford, Ohio.

and No. 13 Louisiana State. On March 11, Ball State beat LSU in Baton Rouge, La., 7-1. Marnon earned the win and said beating LSU, as well as losing to Oregon State by only one in its first game of the season, is part of why the Cardinals are confident they’ll win the MAC. “It just proves we can play against any team in the country,” he said. “The difference between them and us isn’t a whole lot.” Ball State has won four of its last five games, including a come-from-behind 9-8 victory against Purdue Tuesday. The Cardinals fell behind 7-0 after the second inning, but scored seven runs of their own in the bottom of the second and third innings to tie the game 7-7 before taking a 9-7 lead after four. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE

son title, but the real goal is to win the conference tournament and earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals. “You’ve gotta play your four or five best games of baseball [of] the entire season [in the tournament],” he said.

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The Cardinals played their first 17 games of the season away from Muncie, including five games against three teams ranked in the top 25 of the USA Today coaches poll — No. 3 Oregon State, No. 9 Mississippi

FORECAST

Look for decreasing cloud cover with temperatures pretty cool with a high of only 48 degrees for today. - David Sipler, WCRD weather forecaster

Today

Partly cloudy

High: 48 Low: 35 2. MOSTLY CLOUDY

3. PARTLY CLOUDY

4. MOSTLY SUNNY

5. SUNNY

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