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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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Weekend Preview, Part 1: More Chances for the Valley to Prove Itself
Sycamores, Bruins, Beacons Have Power-5 Matchups It’s already the second weekend of the 2024 college baseball season (no season is as anticipated yet zips past so quickly as college baseball), and for the Missouri Valley Conference, it’s another chance to prove itself against quality competition. Valley teams are 27-12 so far in 2024, and the… Continue reading
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Indiana State, Evansville Move Forward Off impressive Weekends
Three Valley Teams Finish Opening Weekend Undefeated Our long national nightmare known as the college baseball offseason is over! Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) teams along with 280 or so others across the country got the 2024 season started over the weekend (except those folks in the Ivy League). It’s great to have baseball back and… Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
College baseball is officially back today and 9 of the 10 Missouri Valley Conference teams (Murray State starts tomorrow) are scheduled for action on Friday at venues throughout the southeast. Here’s a look at today’s schedule with broadcast coverage where available. All times Eastern. … Louisville at Indiana State, Underway (Video: FloSports)* This game was… Continue reading
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And Then There Were 7 – Day 2 at The Valley Championship
Indiana State, Evansville, and Murray State notched wins to move forward undefeated in the Missouri Valley Conference baseball Championship on Wednesday, while Belmont stayed alive in the loser’s bracket, scoring 9 runs in the 2nd inning and then hanging on to edge Valparaiso, 10-9. The loss ends Valve’s season at 20-27. Here are quick capsules… Continue reading
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Final Valley Regular-Season Stat Leaders
Battles for top-10 positions and conference leadership in a variety of individual stat categories came right down to the while, with some races such as OPS being decided by .002. Here’s a look at the final MVC stat leaders as The Valley Tournament begins later today. PLAYER TEAM AVG. Vogel BRAD 0.382 Nivens MOST 0.357… Continue reading
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It’s Tourney Time in The Valley!
While the Missouri Valley Conference baseball regular season isn’t quite over yet – Indiana State is looking for a sweep at Missouri State as the 2nd game of today’s doubleheader rolls on – we now know the seeds and matchups for the first few games of The Valley Tournament. Let’s take a look at what… Continue reading
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Salukis Clinch 3rd-Seed in Valley Tournament with Friday Rout
With the top 2 teams in The Valley rained out last night in Springfield, Mo., the battle for 3rd place in the conference took center stage as Southern Illinois visited Murray State and Evansville battled Illinois-Chicago. Early in the day, the Salukis did their part with an 11-4 win over the Racers to improve to… Continue reading
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Indiana State Captures Valley Regular-Season Outright Title
Salute to the Sycamores! Indiana State overpowers Missouri State to claim Valley outright title. 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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