Saturday, September 6, 2008

A great day for Ball State

The Ball State football team beat Navy 35-23 in front of 22,000 fans and a national TV audience on ESPN. A university record 10,000+ students attended the game. BSU took a quick 14-6 lead after trading touchdowns and field goals in the first quarter. Another Navy field goal and a Nate Davis touchdown pass made the game 21-9 towards the end of the second half. However, Davis threw an interception and Navy scored a touchdown going into the half. BSU led 21-16 at the half. Navy took the kickoff in the second half and scored a touchdown in 2 minutes to take the lead 23-21. At this point Ball State had not stopped Navy on any possession. BSU got the lead back with another Davis TD pass and led 28-23 at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the BSU defense stood its ground on a 4th and 1 inside the 5 and and had interception inside the 20 by DB BJ Hill to stave off any kind of Navy rally. Davis threw another TD pass to make the final score 35-23. Davis threw for 326 yards and 4 TDs with 2 INTs. Dante Love had 9 catches for 165 yards and 2 TDs and he ran 6 times for 37 yards and a TD. MiQuale Lewis ran the ball 21 times for 114 yards. BSU goes to Akron next Saturday for a 1pm start. GO CARDS!!!

The Atlanta Braves used a 7 run third inning to beat the Nationals 10-5 on Friday night. Jair Jurrjens gave up 1 run in 5 innings to get the win. Kelly Johnson had 3 hits and 2 RBI to lead the offense. The teams play game three of the series at 710p tonight. Mike Hampton pitches for the Braves and Tim Redding will pitch for the Nats.

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