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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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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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The Monday 9: The Amazing Race, Times 3
Battles Up and Down the Valley Standings with 2 Weeks to Go This week in the Monday 9, I’ll take a look at the Missouri Valley Conference standings, including races for the top seed, the 4th seed, and the 8th seed, that are far from decided with 2 conference weekends left in the regular season. Continue reading
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UIC’s Bak No-Hits Beacons
Valpo Suffers 2nd No-Hitter in as Many Weekends UIC junior Brandon Bak pitched a 7-inning no-hitter, blanking the Valparaiso Beacons in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, 10-0. Bak walked 2 and struck out 3, facing 2 batters above the minimum on 82 pitches, a fantastic 3.90 pitches per out (or a 105-pitch pace for Continue reading
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The Monday 9: Belmont’s Set of Aces Dominate Valparaiso
Bruins Sweep Series Without Allowing a Run There’s simply no other way to start the Monday 9 in this Kentucky Derby week other than to talk about Belmont’s weekend on the mound. And … we’re off! 1 – Zippy Chippy: In this modern era of college baseball, where there seem to be more home run Continue reading
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Zane Brown No-Hits Valparaiso
Sophomore Righty Fans 9 in Dominant Performance On Friday, Belmont starter Joe Ruzicka pitched an 8-inning complete-game shutout, allowing just 1 hit as the Bruins run-ruled visiting Valparaiso, 1-0. On Saturday, Zane Brown told Ruzicka, “Hold my sports drink.” Brown, a sophomore from Cottontown, Tenn., who came to Belmont by way of Cleveland State Community Continue reading
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Missouri State Routs Mizzou
Bears Roll Past SEC Foe in Front of Large Crowd Four multi-run innings helped power Missouri State past Missouri, 11-0, Tuesday night in Springfield. Caden Bogenpohl had 3 hits, including a double and a homer, to lead the Bears’ 13-hit attack, while Jake McCutcheon, Taeg Gollert, and Max Knight all had 2 hits each. Gollert 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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