Evansville Purple Aces
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Purple Aces Roar Into Regional Final
UE Knocks Off VCU, 17-11, to Go 2-0 in Greenville Evansville advanced to a regional final for the second time in school history Saturday evening, defeating the Virginia Commonwealth Rams, 17-11, to go to 2-0 in the Greenville Regional and win its 8th straight game overall. UE (37-23), which is 28-8 in its last 36 Continue reading
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Deverman Shines on Regional Stage, Pitches Purple Aces Past Pirates
UE to the Winner’s Bracket in Greenville After 4-1 Win over 1-seed ECU Of course, Kip Fougerousse homered. Of course, Evansville played stellar defense. And of course, Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Year Kenton Deverman threw 8 outstanding innings, giving up just 1 run on 3 hits with 4 strikeouts on 98 pitches (4.08 Continue reading
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Greenville Regional: Aces, Purple and Otherwise, the Story
Top Starters for UE, ECU, Wake Forest, and VCU Have All Been Excellent In a season where the Purple Aces found their new ace, Evansville will find 3 other aces waiting for them when they begin NCAA Regional play in Greenville, N.C., against top-seed and 14th-ranked East Carolina at noon Central on Friday. As the Continue reading
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Inside the Numbers: UE’s Prolific Offense vs. the Greenville Regional Field
UE, Host East Carolina Joined by Wake Forest, VCU Evansville made a long trek up a big mountain to finally get back to the NCAA Regionals for the first time in 18 years. But they didn’t arrive quietly. Evansville (35-23) has made noise all season, lacing 150 doubles which is second in the country behind Continue reading
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Committee Sends Indiana State to Lexington; Evansville to Greenville for Regionals
State Goes from Projected Host to 2-seed in #2 National Seed Regional “Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.” – Bill Walton (RIP, Big Red). The now late, great Bill Walton was right, you know. No one at a young age is perfect. Not even high-level college baseball players. Continue reading
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UE Stuns Sycamores, Captures MVC Baseball Championship
Purple Aces Swept Through Tourney, Outscoring Opponents, 54-21 Evansville’s long road to redemption took 364 days to traverse. It was that long ago that the 2023 Purple Aces baseball season ended in Terre Haute, a 6-0 loss to Indiana State in a winner-take-all game to complete the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship. It would only Continue reading
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Sycamores Still Loom After Eliminating UIC
Indiana State Withstands Late Rally to Stay Alive For all the fun this Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship has been, for all the great moments, big hits, and explosive innings … there’s one thing that must be remembered. The champs are still here. #20 Indiana State scored a 5-3 victory over the UIC Flames on Continue reading
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Explosive 6th Inning Propels UE Past UIC
Purple Aces Stay Perfect Via a 10-Run Frame With a 2-0 lead cut in half after Zane Zielinski’s single and Kendal Ewell’s RBI double, Evansville starter Donovan Schultz had one more tough hitter to face in UIC’s Jackson Bessette. But if the Flames were thinking this was their moment, Schultz would have none of it. Continue reading
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Purple Aces Pummel Redbirds in Run-Rule Rout
Teams Combine for 9 Homers in Morning Slugfest With its ace on the mound to begin play in the Missouri Valley Conference Championship, Evansville couldn’t have expected to be down, 6-2, after the top of the 3rd inning to the Illinois State Redbirds, with starting pitcher and Valley Freshman of the Year Kenton Deverman done Continue reading
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Tuesday Stat Pack: Final Regular-Season Leaders
Close Races Came Down to Final Weekend With the regular season complete and the first pitch of the MVC Championship now just about a half-hour away, here’s a final stat pack for the regular season. There will be another update of this feature after the Valley tournament concludes. But season awards and such have already 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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