Evansville Purple Aces
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Belmont, Murray State Continue Strong Starts
Indiana State’s Unbeaten Run Ends at #9 Vanderbilt; Commodores Host Evansville Today Entering the Missouri Valley Conference last season, the Murray State Racers and the Belmont Bruins both knew they had pretty big shoes to fill. Taking spots of departed teams such as Dallas Baptist, Wichita State, and long-lost Creighton, the Racers and Bruins were… 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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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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Sycamores Complete Regular-Season, Tournament Double; Dashing Aces’ Upset Hopes
For 17 innings Saturday, the Impossible Dream was real. For 17 innings, there was reason to think Evansville might just defeat mighty Indiana State not once but twice, and earn a long-awaited trip to the NCAA Tournament. And then, in inning number 18, Indiana State RF Parker Stinson, the 9th-place hitter in the Sycamores’ order,… Continue reading
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It’s All About Indiana as 2 Teams Remain to Battle for MVC Baseball Championship
Top-seed Indiana State and #4-seed Evansville will square off Saturday for the Missouri Valley Conference baseball championship, with the undefeated Sycamores in dominating position having already routed the Purple Aces Friday, 10-1. Evansville must beat Indiana State not once but twice on Saturday to capture the championship and earn the MVC’s automatic bid to the… 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
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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