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Road Teams Dominate Day 1 of Valley Play
Missouri State Trips up Defending Champs in Opener As the old adage goes, it’s tough to win on the road in the conference. Any sport. Any conference. Such wasn’t the case Friday in the Missouri Valley Conference, as the league baseball season opened with road teams winning 4 of the 5 games. Missouri State captured Continue reading
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Friday Stat Pack – It’s Time for Conference Play
All 10 Valley Teams Begin First Series Friday, Weather Permitting There is nothing I like more here at MVCBaseball.com headquarters in central Pennsylvania then a good, crisp, Spring morning where the temperature is warm but not too warm, there’s a light breeze, and it’s almost like you can just see and smell baseball. The last Continue reading
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Sears Catapults Sycamores Past IU
Other Valley Teams Struggle vs. Power Conference Foes While the days of shopping for cool Christmas toys in the Sears Wish Book are long gone, Indiana State saw its baseball wishes for Tuesday come true thanks to the bat of DH Mike Sears. Sears hit a 3-run homer in the bottom of the 5th inning Continue reading
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Tuesday in The Valley: Tough Challenges Await
Five MVC Teams Face Power-5 Opponents Today A couple wins against some really good teams could make it a banner day for The Valley today, as tough competition abounds for MVC clubs. Here’s a quick look at today’s opponents. (All times Eastern) #3 Vanderbilt vs. Belmont, 7 (SECN+) It’s a prime-time matchup for the Bruins Continue reading
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Where We Stand as Conference Play Looms
MVC Series Begin This Weekend Amazingly, we’ve already sailed through 5 weekends and Missouri Valley Conference teams are a third of the way through their baseball regular seasons. For as long as we look forward to this time of year, the season goes by in a flash and 2024 is no different. With another weekend Continue reading
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Valley Teams Split vs. Power Conference Foes
Valpo Grabs Road Win at Gardner-Webb Indiana State and Murray State came out on opposite ends of games Tuesday night vs. power conference opponents. The Sycamores earned a 7-6 victory over visiting Illinois out of the Big Ten, while the Racers were on the wrong end of a 10-6 decision at Kentucky from the Southeastern Continue reading
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Valley Stays Above .500 for Season After Positive Weekend
Redbirds Sweeps Leads Way to MVC’s 17-15 Weekend While this appears to be another season where there weren’t be much talk about the Missouri Valley Conference being a multi-bid league when Selection Monday arrives for NCAA Regionals, the Valley is more than holding its own 3 weeks into the 2024 college baseball season. Valley teams Continue reading
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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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Western Half of The Valley Hits the Road for the Weekend
Bradley Visits Vegas, Baby, Vegas If you’re going to go on a road trip, you might as well do it right and the Bradley Braves are doing it up this weekend with a trip to Las Vegas to take on UNLV for a 3-game series that opens today. Bradley went 1-2 on opening weekend, winning 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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