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UE Stuns Sycamores, Captures MVC Baseball Championship
Purple Aces Swept Through Tourney, Outscoring Opponents, 54-21 Evansville’s long road to redemption took 364 days to traverse. It was that long ago that the 2023 Purple Aces baseball season ended in Terre Haute, a 6-0 loss to Indiana State in a winner-take-all game to complete the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship. It would only… Continue reading
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Sycamores Still Loom After Eliminating UIC
Indiana State Withstands Late Rally to Stay Alive For all the fun this Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship has been, for all the great moments, big hits, and explosive innings … there’s one thing that must be remembered. The champs are still here. #20 Indiana State scored a 5-3 victory over the UIC Flames on… Continue reading
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Explosive 6th Inning Propels UE Past UIC
Purple Aces Stay Perfect Via a 10-Run Frame With a 2-0 lead cut in half after Zane Zielinski’s single and Kendal Ewell’s RBI double, Evansville starter Donovan Schultz had one more tough hitter to face in UIC’s Jackson Bessette. But if the Flames were thinking this was their moment, Schultz would have none of it.… Continue reading
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Redbirds Stay Alive; Rout Salukis in Thursday Nightcap
Monke’s Strong Start Clutch for Illinois State If you were Southern Illinois heading into Thursday night’s game against Illinois State, your game plan to eliminate the Redbirds would probably have been to limit the damage done by red-hot Illinois State hitters Auggie Rasmussen, Daniel Pacella, and Noah Rabin. Job done, sort of. That trio combined… Continue reading
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Murray State’s Tourney Run Lasts 1 Day
Racers Eliminated After Losses to UIC, Indiana State Some 14 weeks ago, Murray State began its quest in the 2024 college baseball season hoping to first make the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, then make a run, then hopefully make NCAA Regionals. We often say here that the college baseball season goes by way too fast.… Continue reading
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Rabin Homers Twice as Redbirds Eliminate Belmont
Perry Goes 7 2/3 Innings to Pick Up 7th Win It remains to be seen how long Illinois State sticks around in the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship. But the longer the Redbirds stay, the more Noah Rabin is going to have to be considered one of the top players of the tournament. Rabin homered… Continue reading
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SIU Stuns Sycamores in Six-Hour Thriller
Salukis Stay Perfect With 10-9 Win in 11 Innings It looked like so many other Indiana State games this year. The bullpen does the job when called upon, the Sycamores score a late run to take the lead, and boom, another win in the books. That had to be the thought when in the 8th… Continue reading
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Belmont Bullpen Banishes Bears
Thielke, Pryor, Duby Pitch 3 2/3 Scoreless Innings in 6-4 Bruins Win For the first 4 innings of Wednesday’s Game 4 of the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship, it looked a lot like this morning’s Game 3 – won by Evansville, 17-6. Lots of scoring, waiting to see which team would take control, with Belmont… Continue reading
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Purple Aces Pummel Redbirds in Run-Rule Rout
Teams Combine for 9 Homers in Morning Slugfest With its ace on the mound to begin play in the Missouri Valley Conference Championship, Evansville couldn’t have expected to be down, 6-2, after the top of the 3rd inning to the Illinois State Redbirds, with starting pitcher and Valley Freshman of the Year Kenton Deverman done… Continue reading
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Salukis Explode Late to Bash Belmont
SIU Scores 9 Runs in Final 2 Innings in 12-2 Run-Rule Romp For 6 innings, Tuesday’s second game at the Missouri Valley Conference baseball championship in Evansville was just what you’d think a postgame experience would be. A tight, low-scoring game that saw 6th-seed Southern Illinois just barely ahead of 7-seed Belmont, 3-2. Two innings… 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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