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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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Weekend Preview, Part 1: More Chances for the Valley to Prove Itself
Sycamores, Bruins, Beacons Have Power-5 Matchups It’s already the second weekend of the 2024 college baseball season (no season is as anticipated yet zips past so quickly as college baseball), and for the Missouri Valley Conference, it’s another chance to prove itself against quality competition. Valley teams are 27-12 so far in 2024, and the… Continue reading
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Valley Teams Plate 46 Runs in Sweeping 4-Game Slate
Bears Compound Oral Roberts’ Valley Problems in 10-6 Win After a tremendous weekend that saw Missouri Valley Conference baseball teams log a 22-10 record against non-conference competition, 4 Valley teams took things to the next level Tuesday, as the conference went unbeaten with no shortage of offense. Missouri State 10, Oral Roberts 6 ORU (1-3)… 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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Happy New Year!
College baseball is officially back today and 9 of the 10 Missouri Valley Conference teams (Murray State starts tomorrow) are scheduled for action on Friday at venues throughout the southeast. Here’s a look at today’s schedule with broadcast coverage where available. All times Eastern. … Louisville at Indiana State, Underway (Video: FloSports)* This game was… Continue reading
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Four Left to Decide Valley Baseball Championship
Host and top-seed Indiana State, 2-seed Missouri State, 4th-seeded Evansville, and #5 Murray State survived Day 3 of the Missouri Valley Conference baseball Championship, the last quartet standing as Thursday saw 3 teams eliminated. Indiana State and UE are the last two remaining unscathed teams, with the Sycamores crushing Belmont today, 10-0, while the Purple… Continue reading
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And Then There Were 7 – Day 2 at The Valley Championship
Indiana State, Evansville, and Murray State notched wins to move forward undefeated in the Missouri Valley Conference baseball Championship on Wednesday, while Belmont stayed alive in the loser’s bracket, scoring 9 runs in the 2nd inning and then hanging on to edge Valparaiso, 10-9. The loss ends Valve’s season at 20-27. Here are quick capsules… Continue reading
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Racers and Flames Notch Day 1 Wins at Valley Tournament
Tuesday’s Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament openers both went as expected if seeds mean anything, as #5 seed Murray State downed 8th-seed Valparaiso, 11-6, while #6 seed Illinois-Chicago defeated 7th-seeded Belmont, 10-5. The victory by the Racers and Flames cemented Wednesday’s stacked tournament schedule, which will see all 8 teams in action. Fourth-seeded Evansville will… Continue reading
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Final Valley Regular-Season Stat Leaders
Battles for top-10 positions and conference leadership in a variety of individual stat categories came right down to the while, with some races such as OPS being decided by .002. Here’s a look at the final MVC stat leaders as The Valley Tournament begins later today. PLAYER TEAM AVG. Vogel BRAD 0.382 Nivens MOST 0.357… 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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