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Reflecting on a Historic MVC Season
Murray State’s Run to Omaha Capped Awesome Year of #ValleyBall Another season of Life in the Valley has come to a close. The curtain fell on the 2025 campaign on Monday, when Murray State lost to Arkansas, 3-0, and the Racers were eliminated from the College World Series in their first appearance. In the 3 Continue reading
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Racers on Brink of MVC Championship
Murray State into Final After Holding Off UIC, 5-2 The top seed in the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship has done nothing yet to show they don’t belong in that spot. The Murray State Racers downed 4th-seeded UIC, 5-2, Friday night to advance unblemished to the championship game. Down 2-1 in the 7th inning, the Continue reading
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Racers, Bears, and Bruins Earn Wins on Thursday
Four Remain in Quest to win MVC Championship; Earn NCAA Regional Bid Coming off a tough loss to Missouri State, 7-2, on the first day of Thursday’s action at the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship, the Illinois State Redbirds had the unenviable task of taking on Belmont in the 2nd game yesterday with only about Continue reading
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Murray State Outlasts Belmont in MVC Tourney Epic
Racers Capture Game 4 at MVC Championship in 11 innings Much of the day at the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament Wednesday featured offense and drama. Those factors combined in the 11th inning of the nightcap, as Jonathan Hogart’s sac fly scored Gunnar Bingham with the winning run in Murray State’s 15-14 victory over Belmont. Continue reading
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MVC Championship: And Then There Were 6
Illinois State, Belmont Advance with 1st-Round Wins Hosts Illinois State, the 5th-seed, and 6th-seeded Belmont both advanced out of the single-elimination round of the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship. The Redbirds downed Indiana State in 8 innings Tuesday night, 14-4, scoring 6 runs in the bottom of the 8th to end the game. That game Continue reading
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MVC Tournament’s Knockout Round Set for Tuesday
Illinois State takes on Indiana; while Belmont Battles Bradley If familiarity breeds contempt, and you combine that with 2 teams playing a single knockout game to keep their seasons alive, then you have a recipe for must-see TV (well, streaming) at 1:30 p.m. Central today when 5th-seed Illinois State takes on 8th-seed Indiana State in Continue reading
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A Look at Valley Stars, Teams Among NCAA Leaders
Regular season complete; MVC Tournament begins Tuesday With another Missouri Valley Conference baseball regular season in the books, it’s time to see where the MVC’s players and teams ranked nationally in a myriad of NCAA categories. Unsurprisingly, there’s more offensive representation than pitching, given some of the run totals and wild games we saw in Continue reading
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The Day the Valley Went Bonkers
Eight Teams Combine to Score 109 Runs on Regular Season’s Penultimate Day In one of the wildest days in recent Missouri Valley Conference baseball memory, offenses around the conference blew up Friday, with the four games averaging 27.3 total runs as some answers became clear for the upcoming MVC Tournament, while others go into the Continue reading
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Tuesday Recaps: Schark Powers SIU Past Edwardsville
Saluki Slugger Posts Another 7-RBI Game, Homers Twice in 17-11 Win In a game where neither team posted a scoreless half-inning until SIU-Edwardsville was blanked in the top of the 6th, Southern Illinois captured its final non-conference game of the season, 17-11, Tuesday. Matt Schark homered twice, going 3-for-4 with 3 runs and 7 RBIs. Continue reading
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The Monday 9: It’s the Final Countdown
Just About Everything Up for Grabs as MVC Season Enters Closing Weekend You could have looked at the Missouri Valley Conference composite baseball schedule way back in early February and found “Missouri State at Murray State, May 16-18,” and thought, well wouldn’t that be neat if it was a battle for the MVC regular-season title? Continue reading
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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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