Indiana State Sycamores
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Hannahs Era Ends at Indiana State
Successful Head Coach Leaves Sycamores for South Florida Success catches people’s attention. Such was the case for now former Indiana State head coach Mitch Hannahs, who resigned that position this weekend to accept the same job at the University of South Florida (USF). The Bulls went 21-39 in 2024, 7-17 in the AAC, which brought… Continue reading
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Sycamores Season Ends with Loss at Kentucky
Indiana State Beat Illinois in Elimination Game Earlier in the Day Indiana State’s 44-win baseball season came to an end on Sunday night with a 5-0 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats in the first regional final game at the Lexington Regional. The Sycamores (44-15) had earned their trip to the regional final with a 13-2… Continue reading
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Sycamores Stay Alive, Down Western Michigan
Diaz Homers Again as Indiana State Earns 6-4 Win; Return Date with Illinois Indiana State was never going down *that* easy. One day after the offense all but disappeared in a 4-1 loss to Illinois, the Sycamores won their elimination game in the Lexington Regional Saturday, defeating Western Michigan, 6-4. Indiana State (43-14) earned a… Continue reading
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Indiana State Falls to Illinois; Must Win Out in Lexington
Cutts, Hayden Still Available as Sycamores Face Western Michigan Saturday The road will be hard now for the Indiana State Sycamores, but it isn’t impossible. The Sycamores fell to Illinois, 4-1, in the Lexington Regional on Friday evening, moving Indiana State to the loser’s bracket where it will play an elimination game Saturday afternoon against… Continue reading
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Lexington Regional: Who Gets Enough Pitching to Advance?
Indiana State Led the Valley With a 4.61 ERA With the hitting we’re going to see from all 4 teams in the Lexington Regional, it’s no secret that the final verdict on who wins the regional and advances on to Supers is going to lie with the pitching, both from an effectiveness standpoint as well… Continue reading
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Lexington Regional: Indiana State Faces a Trio of High-Scoring Teams with Differing Styles
Indiana State’s Power an Improvement Over ’23 Super Regional Team If you said before the season that Indiana State would find pitchers woh would at least be as strong on the mound as 2023 starting aces Connor Fenlong and Matt Jachec, I probably would have believed you, given how the school has produced quality pitching… 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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Murray State’s Tourney Run Lasts 1 Day
Racers Eliminated After Losses to UIC, Indiana State Some 14 weeks ago, Murray State began its quest in the 2024 college baseball season hoping to first make the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, then make a run, then hopefully make NCAA Regionals. We often say here that the college baseball season goes by way too fast.… 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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