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The Office of Victim Services is currently participating in The Teal Ribbon Campaign. The teal ribbon is a symbol of awareness and prevention of sexual assault.

SEXUAL ASSAULT Ball State numbers double even with underreporting

KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER

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f a person commits sexual assault on Ball State’s campus, they are not likely to ever sit AWARENESS behind bars. That’s because when the Editor’s Note: This is university — any university — the first story in a fourpart series on campus investigates a sexual assault, it sexual assault for Ball is considered a policy violation State’s sexual assault awareness week. and not a criminal matter, as it would be if reported to a law enforcement agency. Even when someone reports sexual assault only to the university, the most common punishment is a suspension, according to documents obtained through an email from Joan Todd, university spokesperson.

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In 2013, the number of sexual assaults reported to Ball State almost doubled from the previous year, according to figures the university is required to report to the U.S. Department of Education. Ball State has the second-highest sexual assault numbers out of the 12 universities in the MAC, behind Miami University, with 18 total reported cases in 2013. Title IX Coordinator for Student Affairs Katie Slabaugh attributes this increased number to improved reporting. But this number is only a fraction of the actual sexual assaults that occur on campus each year. An estimated 68 percent of sexual assaults go unreported, according to

the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, and the perpetrators never receive any kind of punishment. A U.S. Department of Justice study said the top reason people don’t report sexual assaults is because it was a personal matter, but others didn’t report because of a fear of reprisal, because they didn’t think it was important enough or because they didn’t think the police could do anything about it. Compared to all other age groups, college-aged women are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.

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THE PROTOCOL FOR REPORTING SEXUAL ASSAULT

Ball State and Indiana police departments have different methods of sexual assault investigation DN GRAPHIC ERIKA ESPINOZA, KARA BERG AND STEPHANIE REDDING

There are three possible ways to report a sexual assault in Muncie: the Muncie Police Department, Ball State University Police Department or Ball State University itself. MPD and UPD can charge people for a crime, while the university can only find students responsible for a sexual misconduct policy violation.

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Trey Moses, a Ball State men’s basketball signee, met Ellie Meredith at Eastern High School in Kentucky through a peer tutoring program and spends gym class with her. Moses presented the poster board to Ellie in front of their gym class.

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A sexual assault occurs and is reported to a Ball State employee who then has to report it to the university.

Victim calls either department and an initial uniform officer goes to the scene.

Step 1

Step 2

Title IX Coordinator for Student Affairs, Katie Slabaugh, takes the information and submits it to Mike Gillilan, director of student rights and community standards

The officer does an initial case report and encourages the victim to go to a hospital for a rape study kit. Designated nurses collect the forensic evidence they need.

Step 3

The student can choose to stop at the initial reporting or continue on with the university investigation.

Step 6 Otherwise, cases go to the university sexual misconduct board where they hear both sides to make a decision.

Step 7 The board can only decide if there was a sexual misconduct policy violation or not. Punishments include anything from disciplinary probation to expulsion.

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Step 4

The detective does a one-on-one interview with the victim, who can choose the date of the interview. The detective interviews the accused and any witnesses.

Step 5 If the student and the accused agree, they can choose to deal with the case informally. Gillilan will decide the punishment himself.

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The officer notifies a detective, who does the follow-up investigation after the initial report is taken.

Step 4 If the student chooses to move forward with the university process, Gillilan and Slabaugh review the evidence.

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Step 5 If the accused’s DNA is found in the rape kit, the detective uses the evidence to show that physical contact occurred. The detective might choose to do further investigations if the two stories don’t match.

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UNIVERSITY TO INSTALL PIPING ON RIVERSIDE

Step 6

The detective compiles evidence and statements and sends it to a prosecutor.

Step 7

Rape is considered a level 3 felony, which can result in prison time.

Geothermal project will continue in 4 phases from May to August ROSE SKELLY CHIEF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu

SOURCES: Katie Slabaugh, Mike Gillilan, Jim Duckham, UPD police chief, Joan Todd, university spokesperson and Amy Kesler, MPD investigator

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The university will tear up and redo Riverside Avenue this summer as they install new geothermal piping. The construction will take place GEOTHERMAL from May 3 to Aug. 7, and is seg- AT BALL STATE mented into four phases: from See a map of the 5. SUNNY Emens Drive to Martin Street, project’s impact Martin Street to Dill Street, Dill on campus Street to Dicks Street and Dicks + PAGE 3 Street to DeHority Drive. The installation of the pipes requires tearing up those 10. DRIZZLE sections of Riverside Avenue, which will be redone after the placing of the pipes is complete. Jim Lowe, Director of Engineering Construction and Operations, said the condition of the street will be “much improved,” and that the construction was planned during a time that would create the least amount of traffic and problems for the university. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE

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GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS ON CAMPUS Ball State began working on the project that stores heat energy underground in 2012. This summer’s Riverside update is the final stage of the project. The map shows the extent of the geothermal project on campus. Neely Avenue

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“We designed the staging of the project in such a way that it would not have a detrimental effect on the students and their parents reaching DeHority Hall,” Lowe said. “[We] purposely worked with those who are responsible for conferences, orientation, anybody that brings outsiders to campus; we worked with them on scheduling.” Lowe said he planned for the final leg of the construction from Dicks Street to DeHority Drive to occur after summer orientation for new students was complete, due to new students typically being housed there. The installation of the pipes is one of the final stages in Ball State’s effort to switch to a geothermal heating system. Lowe said the university has been working on this project for five years, and it will be completed after the projected installation of the same types of pipes on University Avenue in summer of 2016. Once the construction is complete, the university will have installed 10 miles of piping across campus, and all 47 buildings on campus will be connected to the system. The geothermal system uses hot and cold water to heat and cool buildings. The water is heated and cooled using geothermal energy, which is obtained through bore holes placed in the earth. The university currently has 1,000 miles of piping inserted into

these bore holes. The bore vice, said once all 47 buildhole piping and the supply ings are online to the geoand return piping all lead thermal system, there will back to two buildings that be a significant decrease in pump the water throughout emissions. The target date campus. The supply and re- to have zero emissions is 2050, which Koesturn pipes that are ter said is doable, being installed unas well as generous. derneath Riverside We “We’re thinking will be used to heat and cool Woodworth designed the now in terms of finding ways to try Complex, DeHority to pull that forward Hall and any future staging of so that we don’t buildings that may the project wait so long, we’d be constructed in in such a like to make it hapthat area. pen quicker rather The project is be- way that than later,” Koester ing funded through said. “There’s a lot state appropriations, it would of good will on camwhich allotted $78 not have a pus, a lot of interest million for the projon the part of upper ect. The university detrimental administration to do also received a $5 effect on all we can, so I think million grant from the U.S. Department the students that there’s a chance that we can move of Energy in 2009, and their that date forward.” which together Lowe said switchshould cover the cost parents ing from coal to of construction. reaching the geothermal The installation heating system of the geothermal DeHority greatly reduces the system is part of a Hall. university’s polluplan by Ball State tion output. to achieve climate JIM LOWE, “By not burning neutrality, called the Director of coal, we’re not proPresident’s Climate Engineering ducing the 85,000 Commitment. This Construction and tons of CO2 that it plan, which requires Operations used to produce. universities to eventually have zero emissions, … We’re not emitting carbon has been signed by 695 uni- monoxide; we’re not emitting particulate matter,” Lowe versities to date. Ball State’s pollution emis- said. “What we are doing is sion at the start of the plan making hot water through the was 150,000 metric tons per geothermal process which is year, and is now down to a lot more efficient; … it’s goabout 110,000 metric tons ing to be a nearly 50 percent per year. Robert Koester, di- reduction in our carbon footrector of Center for Energy print. It’s environmentally Research Education and Ser- sound and friendly.”

NECA chapter creates new energy plan Students develop green, money-saving system for campus |

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Ball State students are making an energy plan designed to save the school energy and money. The plan is part of a competition hosted by the National Electrical Contractors Association called the Green Energy Challenge.

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This is the fourth year Ball State has had a chapter of NECA participating in the Green Energy Challenge. In 2014, the chapter placed 11th out of the 15 teams present at the competition. The Ball State chapter’s project includes restoring the Dr. Joe and Alice Rinard Orchard Greenhouse on campus, which houses more than $1 million worth of plants. Ball State’s team is putting in lights that are more energy efficient and giving the school an estimate of how

much it would cost to install solar panels, said Steven Lozevski, a senior studying construction management. The team will also get an estimate of how much it would cost to add a backup generator because the green house needs one. “Within six years, this should be able to pay for itself,” said chapter president Garrett Homan, a senior studying construction management. Because of his involvement, Homan has landed a fulltime job with a NECA affiliate

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Allison Wynbissinger, Ball State’s victim advocate, said many students don’t report because they don’t consider what happened to them to be rape. She said many think of the stereotype that rapes are committed by strangers in the middle of the night. “So when some of our students have gone out and they’re drinking with people they know, and this person that they know, trust, they’ve hung out with before, walks them back into their room and ends up having sex with them when they pass out or against their will but doesn’t necessarily use physical force or hold them down, maybe in their mind they’re like, ‘OK, well this is what I’ve always heard is sexual assault and what happened to me doesn’t fit in that box,’” Wynbissinger said.

Clery reports

One reason for low reported numbers is how the university defines what is on campus and what isn’t. Ball State must report all sex offenses to the federal government because of the Clery Act, which requires public universities to keep track of and disclose crime statistics on and around campus each year. The U.S. Department of Education decides what is considered to be on campus. Those boundaries don’t include the approximate 60 percent of students who live off campus at Ball State, according to documents obtained in an email from Todd. In fact, the boundaries for Clery end beyond the sidewalks that border campus. Mike Gillilan, director of student rights and community standards, said the DOE doesn’t want universities to go outside of the decided boundaries because it makes it too difficult to compare schools.

Handling cases

Three agencies in Muncie investigate charges of sexual abuse: • Muncie Police Department • University Police Department

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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This week, Ball State presents its Sexual Assault Awareness Week with events such as The Talk Show, Stand Up! Bystander Intervention Training and a panel on consent.

• The university itself While there is less of burden of proof in a case reported to the university — it needs be “more likely than not” to have occurred — the penalties are also less severe. A person found guilty would be in violation of school policy, and the penalty could be as light as a school suspension or disciplinary probation. Universities handle sexual assaults to give survivors of sexual assault another option to which they can report. Reporting to the university involves a shorter process, Slabaugh said. Ball State has reported 38 sexual assault cases in the Clery reports since 2012. Of those, 28 were either reported to both the university and the University Police Department, or solely to UPD, according to documents obtained in an email from Todd. The remaining 10 were only reported to the university. Since August 2012, the university has investigated 49 cases of sexual assault, including 11 that were not reported for Clery Act purposes, according to documents from Todd. Of those, only nine ended with any kind of punishment, most of which were school suspensions. The other 40 cases investigated had insufficient information for the case to proceed. The university would not release the names of the students found responsible for sexual misconduct policy violations because the names are not compiled by category of offense, and it could lead to the identification of the victims, whose identity is protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), according to the Office

of University Compliance. Slabaugh said faculty, staff and administration care about students’ well-being on campus, which is why the university should be able to handle these cases. “My feeling … would be, even if we were not required to do so, universities have historically had structures in place [to help victims],” Slabaugh said. “All of those things are aiming toward a healthy, positive experience for students.” However, a British research psychologist who specializes in the psychology of sexual abuse said the idea that universities can handle something as serious as sexual assault cases is “insane” to her. “If someone was murdered on campus, would they also take over the criminal justice part of that, or would the police be like, ‘Oh no, no, that’s us’?” Nina Burrowes said. “Because sexual assault and murder, they both go under the category of serious crime.” In the United Kingdom, all reported sexual assault cases are investigated by the police, she said. Burrowes said the fact that the U.S. is having so many problems with universities not doing a good job dealing with sexual assault cases is evidence that this isn’t the way to do it. “Someone cheats on an exam, great, fine, perfect,” she said. “But rape? That’s just insane. I wonder if colleges have thought of the impact they’re having on the offenders. It’s having an impact on them too, along the lines of, ‘That is OK, carry on as you are, it’s not really important.’”

after graduation. On Oct. 3, all NECA student chapters will meet in San Francisco for the final round of judging. The top three contestants will receive a monetary award of up to $4,000. Homan is confident that the money spent on restoring the greenhouse will be put back in the school’s pocket. Ball State’s NECA chapter

is made up of seniors Garrett Homan, Steven Lozevski, Noah Waymire, Matt Freeman, Ryan Sawyer and Juan Castillo. The group has two remaining members: sophomore Quinten Pattison and junior Johnny Mahaffey. James Jones is their faculty adviser. ELECTRI International Foundation and the National Electrical Contractor’s As-

sociation sponsor the Green Energy Challenge. It is open to any students, regardless of major. “The Green Energy Challenge needs students in interior design, architecture and other related or interested majors too,” Homan said. Ball State’s student chapter meets at noon on Wednesdays in the Applied Technology building.

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Freshman auditions for dream role in ‘Rocky Horror’ show DANIELLE GRADY FEATURES EDITOR | features@bsudailynews.com Elizabeth Bolinger sat on one side of the long and narrow L.A. Pittenger Student Center meeting room. She faced a row of different hair colors: red, blue, blue, purple and blue. Bolinger’s hair, long and carefully curled, was an unmistakable natural brown. The nervous auditionee stared at Olivia Germann, this year’s director of Ball State’s annual “Rocky Horror Picture Show” performance. About 40 students audition each year and a little more than a thousand go to see the performance. Outside, Bolinger looked calm. Inside, her mind churned. “I can tell in five seconds whether you’re good or not,” Germann said. But Bolinger wasn’t sure she’d fit that expectation. “I’m extremely intimidated,” she said. Earlier, 30 minutes at the most, Bolinger had entered the room housing the “Rocky Horror” audition workshop. She had been alone, but bubbly, unsure of what to expect–—the stereotype of the eager freshman sorority-girl she is. “If you’ve ever seen ‘Grease,’ I’m just like Sandy,” she said later. “Like, that is me. She and I are one.” Bolinger watched “Rocky Horror” for the first time as a child and it scared her, but an obsessed friend and a 2010 “Glee” episode reintroduced her to

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the campy, 1975 cult-classic. people from her hometown–– Bolinger heard about the “Rocky the people she went to high Horror” showings and shadow school with. Bolinger had incasts, but none happened in her serted herself into every performance related activity she could town of Auburn, Ind. Shadow casts mimic the in school, but she came from a “Rocky Horror” movie during place where a last name got you showings. Performers dress up the lead role and some flattery and dance as if they were the received a solo. It surprised evactual characters, all while si- eryone, she said, when she manlently mouthing the dialogue aged to land a decent part in her senior year theater production. and lyrics. “I did it by myself,” she said. No Two months after Bolinger arrived at Ball State, she attended butt-kissing involved. Receiving the role was a big acher first showing with her sororcomplishment for Bolinger, but ity friends in tow. she wanted Bolinger’s to move onto companions something watched the bigger. For movie, but Bolinger, that they left the something is show callthe role of Jaing it weird. net. Bolinger left Janet’s charknowing she acter is diswanted to be tinct. She bein it. gins the movie The idea as the innoof auditioncent fiancée of ing floated Brad Majors. in the back ELIZABETH BOLINGER, a E v e n t u a l l y, of Bolinger’s freshman public relations major she experimind for ences a sexual months, but her resolve returned in full force awakening. In one scene, she when she received an email appears in a bra. It can be hard to find a stuabout auditions. She wanted to dent able to play both Janet’s be Janet. While Bolinger talked about sweet side and sultry one, Gerthe audition, she sounded like mann said. Bolinger knows some peoa motivational post from Facebook or a main character from a ple would be surprised to see grand, come-back type of movie. her bear it all if she got the part. She gestured towards Her bravado was genuine. “I know I can do this, and I her black leggings and longknow I can prove them wrong, sleeved shirt. It’s her go-to outand I know I can prove to them fit she said. She doesn’t even I can do it,” she said. “I just really feel comfortable in a bikini. No one would expect Bolinger want a chance. I’m going to do it to audition for Janet let alone get and prove everybody wrong.” “Them” and “everybody” are the part, she said.

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The auditions were on April 1 in Carmichael Hall, where Bolinger’s audition lasted 46 seconds. Bolinger found out through a Facebook message that she had received the part of Janet. There were 51 other names on the cast list.

At the workshop, Bolinger ran through her audition scene four times. At one point, she performed right next to the girl who had played Janet the previous year. It was during that run-through when Bolinger messed up. An arm went where it shouldn’t have, or a longing gaze ended too soon. It wasn’t obvious, but Bolinger noticed. She fretted about it afterwards, but promised to practice the part any spare second she could before the audition. “I’m going to be prepared,” she said before walking out of the Student Center and back to her Woodworth dorm room. *** Bolinger has a good luck charm. It’s unofficial, she said, but she carried it during her last

high school audition – the one that led to her proudest role. The talisman is a picture of Bolinger with two friends – Dominique and Shannon. They’re professional performers who toured with the musical “Rock of Ages.” On March 31, Bolinger reminded herself to tuck the photo in her purse before heading to auditions. On April 1, Bolinger arrived at Carmichael Hall almost 15 minutes before auditions began. The photo remained on the wall of her dorm room, forgotten. Bolinger had been too focused on getting to auditions in time. Bolinger was disappointed, but it didn’t take long for her to revert back to the optimistic attitude she had radiated on

March 30. “You gotta dream big,” she said. “Dream big. ‘Don’t stop believing.’ That’s my favorite song.” Bolinger arrived before most of the other students, but the classroom quickly began to fill with other “Rocky Horror” hopefuls. Volume levels swelled before Germann called for attention. “Welcome to auditions,” she said. “Well, day one of auditions.” When Germann’s debriefing ended, Bolinger and the rest of the noisy crowd were ushered into narrow hallways and handed forms to fill out. Bolinger whipped out a pink pen. It matched her shirt and eye shadow. She wrote her information carefully in bubbly, neat handwriting.

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PEOPLE SHOULD BE FREE TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN ‘WORLDVIEW,’ ‘IDENTITY’ To the Ball State University Democrats : Thank you for revealing your desire for sexual orientation rights to trump religious rights. Your quote of Jesus (Golden Rule) borrows from religion to justify your position, though. While I would agree that religion is a choice, I have met many people that believe they were born with their religion. I believe we can choose our worldview and our identity fits within that. If my identity is based on what I do, I guess I would be a sleeper. I choose to place my identity in my relationship with the Author of the Golden Rule and would encourage everyone to embrace a worldview in which one can live the abundant life. The damage done to this state is not from within but by Hoosier haters, and we can all fight this with our winsome hospitality. Darrel Norrick dnorrick@ballstate.bsu.edu

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Elizabeth Bolinger, a freshman public relations major, thought about auditioning for “Rocky Horror” for months before finally deciding to audition for the role of Janet. had watched the show with her friends in October and left knowing she wanted to be in it. She decided to attend a workshop, where she ran over her audition scene four times.

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Moses, a Ball State men’s basketball signee, volunteers for the peer tutoring program at Eastern and spends gym class with Meredith. Those selected for the program spend one period per day with a student with special needs. He also works with Best Buddies, another school group where he meets kids and hangs out with them outside of school. Meredith’s bashful nature didn’t last long with her new friend. “She’s not like most kids with Down syndrome,” Moses said. “Most kids are shy and once you get to know them, they’ll still continue to be shy. Once you know [Meredith], she’ll just keep talking and talking and talking.” Darla Meredith, Ellie’s mom, said her daughter didn’t have the best middle school experience, but the welcoming of Eastern and the inclusion it provided made the transition easier to build lasting friendships.

When Ellie told Moses she’d like to go to prom with him, Moses had to get permission from her parents and his own girlfriend. She was on board. The Taylor Swift-inspired prom proposal was written on a poster board this week by Moses, who presented it to Ellie in front of the gym class they share. Moses told a classmate to sit Ellie down on one side of the gym while other students sat in another set of bleachers. When he walked in with the poster and flowers, she responded with a “yes” and a hug. “She was just kind of speechless and didn’t know what to say,” Moses said. “She started turning red.” Moses said it made him happy to hear the claps and roar of the other students as Ellie’s head pressed against the chest of his 6-foot-8 frame. Darla said they were shocked at first. They didn’t know Moses personally, but had heard a lot about the “superstar at Eastern.” “We were surprised, to say the least,” Darla said. “You don’t ex-

pect high school seniors to have that much thought about a kid with special needs.” Moses’ proposal went viral. “I was shocked, honestly,” Moses said. “I wasn’t going in expecting people to talk to me.” CNN, along with other local news stations, contacted Moses about the proposal that took over Twitter. Some have talked to Ellie, and she likes the publicity. “She doesn’t mind being on the stage,” Darla said. “But in general, she’s a pretty introverted little girl. At first, she was kind of like, ‘What’s this about?’” Moses said all the kind words mean a lot to him. But amid all the retweets, favorites and comments, he said he hopes people are inspired to follow in his footsteps. He plans to continue his volunteer work at Ball State in the fall and major in special education. Ball State men’s basketball coach James Whitford said he looks forward to having Moses on the team. He learned of Moses’ passion for working with stu-

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Trey Moses, a senior at Eastern High School in Kentucky, asked freshman Ellie Meredith, who has Down syndrome, to go to prom with him this past week. The prom proposal went viral and took over Twitter.

dents with special needs during the recruiting process, and said this isn’t a one-time deal. “Sometimes in our world, people can do a good story where, deep down, they kind of have an eye on how it makes them look,” Whitford said. “I assure you, in [Moses’] case, he had no eye on himself. He only had the thoughts of Ellie and what this would do for her.”

The Ball State softball team rallied in game one, and run-ruled Buffalo in game two of Saturday’s doubleheader to earn the sweep and improve to 16-18 on the season. The Cardinals are now 4-1 in Mid-American Conference play. Trailing 5-2 going into the bottom of the seventh inning in game one, shortstop Selena Reyna tied the game with a home run. After both teams scored a run in the eighth inning, the Cardinals carried the momentum into the ninth as they came away with the 7-6 victory. Ball State recorded 13 hits offensively, led by second baseman Emily Dabkowski with four. She also had a pair of RBIs. Catcher Jessica Craft had two hits as well. Junior Nicole Steinbach picked up the win on the mound, pitching all nine innings. She allowed 13 hits and three earned runs while striking out 10 batters. Ball State received another complete-game pitching effort in the second game of the day, as Carolyn Wilmes allowed four earned runs in six innings. The offense gave Wilmes run support early, with three runs in the first. Overall, the Cardinals had 12 hits in the game. Center fielder Taylor Cooley was 3-3, while Reyna, Craft and catcher Shelbie Scamihorn had two hits apiece. With six runs in the six innings, Ball State put the game away for good. –

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