{"id":420997,"date":"2026-10-07T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420997\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:30:47","slug":"volleyball-suffers-tuesday-setback-to-miami-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420997\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball Suffers Tuesday Setback To Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUNCIE, Ind. &#8211; &#8211; Despite four players with 11 kills and a career-high 29 digs from junior libero\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/sophie-ledbetter\/13183\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13183\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Ledbetter<\/a>, the Ball State women&#8217;s volleyball team suffered a 3-1 (25-16, 19-25. 25-18. 25-20) setback to Miami Tuesday evening in Worthen Arena.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter a rough opening set, the Cardinals (11-5; 2-3 Mid-American Conference) seemingly found its grove with a solid second set victory. Unfortunately, the RedHawks (11-5; 3-2 MAC) regained the momentum midway through the third frame and never looked back.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor Ball State, senior middle\u00a0Cameron Wise\u00a0turned in another strong offensive performance, smashing 11 kills and hitting a match-best .550 (11-0-20). In her last two home matches, Wise has been nearly unstoppable, connecting at a\u00a0\u00a0.711 (27-0-38) clip.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAlso smashing 11 kills apiece for the Cardinals on the night were junior outsides\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/audrey-geer\/13314\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13314\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Geer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/ava-smith\/13317\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13317\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Smith<\/a>, along with junior middle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/tiffany-snook\/13184\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13184\" target=\"_blank\">Tiffany Snook<\/a>. Snook hit .348 (11-3-23) for the match, while Geer led Ball State with a career-high tying five total blocks and Smith chipped in one of BSU&#8217;s three aces.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the backcourt, Ledbetter paced all players with her career-high 29 digs, while going nearly flawless in serve receive with a .958 (23-for-24).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior setter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/lindsey-green\/13182\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13182\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Green<\/a>\u00a0also collected double-digit digs in the match, adding 10 to go along with her 22 assists for her sixth double-double of the season. Sophomore setter <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/reese-axness\/13177\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13177\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Axness<\/a> added a team-high 24 assists, while the Cardinals connected at a .222 (55-21-153) clip as a team.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn the other side of the net, Molly Creech paced the RedHawks attack with 20 kills, while Rachel Morgan earned a team-leading 20 digs. Miami finished the match hitting .257 (56-17-152).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Ball State women&#8217;s volleyball team will look to snap its current three-match skid on Saturday when it hosts Central Michigan for a 4 p.m. first serve back in Worthen Arena. It will be Kids Club &amp; Camper Day and more information about the promotions can be found by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/2026\/8\/17\/WVB_KidsCampers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUNCIE, Ind. &#8211; &#8211; Despite four players with 11 kills and a career-high 29 digs from junior libero\u00a0Sophie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-420997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}