Weekend Highlights
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Weekend Update: Indiana State Stays Perfect; Belmont Upsets #21 South Carolina
Games Against Nation’s Top Teams Await MVC Schools This Week In terms of the Missouri Valley Conference baseball season as a whole, there’s no debate that the season-long story so far is the play of the Indiana State Sycamores. One year after doing The Valley Double and winning the Terre Haute Regional, the Sycamores haven’t… Continue reading
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Friday Recap: Sycamores Stay Perfect, But Most of Valley Suffers Setbacks
Indiana State Walks Off Michigan State to Improve to 5-0 Indiana State’s dream start to the 2024 college baseball season continued with a little luck on top, as Josue Urdaneta scored on a passed ball in the 10th inning to lift the Sycamores past Big-10 foe Michigan State, 7-6. While it might have been a… Continue reading
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Indiana State, Evansville Move Forward Off impressive Weekends
Three Valley Teams Finish Opening Weekend Undefeated Our long national nightmare known as the college baseball offseason is over! Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) teams along with 280 or so others across the country got the 2024 season started over the weekend (except those folks in the Ivy League). It’s great to have baseball back and… Continue reading
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Magill Magic Sends Sycamores Past Wright State
Three on. Two out. A 1-2 count on Grant Magill. His Indiana State Sycamores trailing upset-minded Wright State, 5-4, in the 8th inning of an NCAA Regional in your home ballpark. Not many situations to produce a big hit that a hitter might dream of which would be better. But Magill doesn’t need to dream.… Continue reading
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Sycamores Complete Regular-Season, Tournament Double; Dashing Aces’ Upset Hopes
For 17 innings Saturday, the Impossible Dream was real. For 17 innings, there was reason to think Evansville might just defeat mighty Indiana State not once but twice, and earn a long-awaited trip to the NCAA Tournament. And then, in inning number 18, Indiana State RF Parker Stinson, the 9th-place hitter in the Sycamores’ order,… Continue reading
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It’s All About Indiana as 2 Teams Remain to Battle for MVC Baseball Championship
Top-seed Indiana State and #4-seed Evansville will square off Saturday for the Missouri Valley Conference baseball championship, with the undefeated Sycamores in dominating position having already routed the Purple Aces Friday, 10-1. Evansville must beat Indiana State not once but twice on Saturday to capture the championship and earn the MVC’s automatic bid to the… Continue reading
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It’s Tourney Time in The Valley!
While the Missouri Valley Conference baseball regular season isn’t quite over yet – Indiana State is looking for a sweep at Missouri State as the 2nd game of today’s doubleheader rolls on – we now know the seeds and matchups for the first few games of The Valley Tournament. Let’s take a look at what… Continue reading
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Salukis Clinch 3rd-Seed in Valley Tournament with Friday Rout
With the top 2 teams in The Valley rained out last night in Springfield, Mo., the battle for 3rd place in the conference took center stage as Southern Illinois visited Murray State and Evansville battled Illinois-Chicago. Early in the day, the Salukis did their part with an 11-4 win over the Racers to improve to… Continue reading
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Head on a Swivel: Looking Forward and Backward in The Valley
Teams have one last chance to jockey for MVC Tournament position this weekend. Continue reading
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Unranked(?) Sycamores Continue Steamrolling Valley
Are the Indiana State Sycamores Top-25 material? Let’s investigate. Continue reading
About THE AUTHOR
Ed Morgans is a Valley grad (UE ’95) and a huge college baseball fan. With no official MVC site for baseball, I’m trying to cover it as best I can from central Pennsylvania. Doing my best to shine a light on a conference full of great baseball. Thanks for reading! – Ed
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