NCAA Tournament
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Evansville Trying to Leap into Uncharted Waters
Purple Aces Face One Game for Trip to First SuperRegional Today I’ve never subscribed to the idea that a team wins because “they wanted it more.” Everyone who plays a sport wants to win. If you’re keeping score, both teams want to win. Certainly, some teams win because they work harder when no one is Continue reading
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ECU Starts Fast, Pulls Away Late to Defeat Evansville
Purple Aces Still Alive, Play Pirates Monday for Regional Championship By winning its first 2 games at the Greenville Regional, the 4th-seeded Evansville Purple Aces earned the right to have a bad game and not be knocked out. In losing to Evansville to open its regional as host, East Carolina knew it would have to 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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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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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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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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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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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
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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