MVC Baseball
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MVC Tourney – Game 3: UIC Tops SIU in Bonkers Slugfest
Flames Rally from 12-4 Down; Salukis Hit 10 Home Runs in Defeat When the first 5 innings of the line score look like a pair of ZIP Codes (31031 and 13820, respectively, you know you might be in for a crazy game. When a team hits 10 home runs, you know you might be in Continue reading
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MVC Championship: And Then There Were 6
Illinois State, Belmont Advance with 1st-Round Wins Hosts Illinois State, the 5th-seed, and 6th-seeded Belmont both advanced out of the single-elimination round of the Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship. The Redbirds downed Indiana State in 8 innings Tuesday night, 14-4, scoring 6 runs in the bottom of the 8th to end the game. That game Continue reading
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MVC Tournament’s Knockout Round Set for Tuesday
Illinois State takes on Indiana; while Belmont Battles Bradley If familiarity breeds contempt, and you combine that with 2 teams playing a single knockout game to keep their seasons alive, then you have a recipe for must-see TV (well, streaming) at 1:30 p.m. Central today when 5th-seed Illinois State takes on 8th-seed Indiana State in 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 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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Redbirds Overwhelm Huskies
Illinois State Scores 2 Touchdowns to Down Northern Illinois Judah Morris doubled, homered, scored twice, and drove in 2 runs in Illinois State’s 14-6 win over visiting Northern Illinois Wednesday in Normal. The game was the lone affair involving a Missouri Valley Conference team Wednesday. Brayden Bakes went 4-for-5 with a double, 2 runs, and Continue reading
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The Monday 9! Turning the Corner
Valley Season More than Half Over as Bears Maintain Slim Edge College baseball’s season goes by faster and faster the older we get. Here we stand, feeling like we just started back in mid-February, and now the weather has warmed up in most places, Spring has long since sprung, and we’ve turned past the halfway 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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