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Where We Stand as Conference Play Looms
MVC Series Begin This Weekend Amazingly, we’ve already sailed through 5 weekends and Missouri Valley Conference teams are a third of the way through their baseball regular seasons. For as long as we look forward to this time of year, the season goes by in a flash and 2024 is no different. With another weekend Continue reading
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Redbirds Rip Hoosiers
Rasmussen Homers Twice in 1 Inning in 16-6 Rout Look out, Valley. Heeeeeeeeeee’s baaaaaaaaack. Auggie Rasmussen announced his return with authority Wednesday, clubbing 2 home runs and driving in 5 runs to lead the Illinois State Redbirds to a 16-6 demolition of the Indiana Hoosiers in Bloomington. Rasmussen, who missed most of the early part Continue reading
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Valley Teams Split vs. Power Conference Foes
Valpo Grabs Road Win at Gardner-Webb Indiana State and Murray State came out on opposite ends of games Tuesday night vs. power conference opponents. The Sycamores earned a 7-6 victory over visiting Illinois out of the Big Ten, while the Racers were on the wrong end of a 10-6 decision at Kentucky from the Southeastern Continue reading
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Owls Hand Bruins Heavy Defeat
Two Valley Teams in Action Tonight Kennesaw State improved to 7-6 while dropping Belmont to the same record in comprehensive fashion Wednesday, as the visiting Owls routed the Bruins, 15-2, in Nashville. Kennesaw State held modest leads of 3-1 and 7-2 before exploding for 8 runs in the 6th inning and taking a 13-run lead. Continue reading
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Big Early Innings Key Wins for Murray, UIC, and SIU
Valpo Rallies in 9th Only to Lose Tough One at Jacksonville Murray State and UIC got their offenses in gear Tuesday, scoring home victories over Arkansas State and Milwuakee, respectively, as The Valley went 3-1 in non-conference play on Tuesday. Murray State 12, Arkansas State 7 The Racers (7-5) upended a good Red Wolves club Continue reading
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Valley Stays Above .500 for Season After Positive Weekend
Redbirds Sweeps Leads Way to MVC’s 17-15 Weekend While this appears to be another season where there weren’t be much talk about the Missouri Valley Conference being a multi-bid league when Selection Monday arrives for NCAA Regionals, the Valley is more than holding its own 3 weeks into the 2024 college baseball season. Valley teams Continue reading
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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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Western Half of The Valley Hits the Road for the Weekend
Bradley Visits Vegas, Baby, Vegas If you’re going to go on a road trip, you might as well do it right and the Bradley Braves are doing it up this weekend with a trip to Las Vegas to take on UNLV for a 3-game series that opens today. Bradley went 1-2 on opening weekend, winning 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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