Arkansas will host Southeast Missouri State in the first game of the NCAA Fayetteville Regional on Friday. The winner of the Arkansas-SEMO game will play the winner of a game between Louisiana Tech (45-17) and Kansas State (32-24) in the winners bracket Saturday night. The losers of those games will...

#2 Southeast Missouri Baseball (34-25) defeated #3 Morehead State (37-24) to win the 2024 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Championship on Saturday afternoon by a final score of 9-6 from Mountain Dew Park in Marion, IL.

Attendance = 1,064




 
 

Western Baseball lost all 3 games at Southern Indiana to end their season. Western Baseball finishes with an overall record of 13-37 and 8-19 in the OVC (last place). Western and Lindenwood did not qualify for the OVC Tournament. Last year, Western was 12-40 overall and 8-16 in the Summit League (ti...

SEMO won the series two games to one. SEMO hit 8 home runs in Sunday's game which they won 17-8. Western is now 8-16 in the OVC (last place). The top 8 teams will be in the OVC Tournament.  Western is currently in 10th place -- 2 games behind the 8th place team, Eastern Illinois. Western will start ...

The 2024 OVC Softball Championship was held May 8-11 at the Louisville Slugger Sports Complex in Peoria, Illinois. It marked the first time the event has been held at the venue and will be the 30th all-time OVC Softball Championship. #2 seed Southeast Missouri claimed the 2024 crown, knocking off #1...

Saturday's Peoria Journal-Star listed these schools as possible candidates to replace Missouri State in the Missouri Valley Conference:

Wright State
Northern Kentucky
Texas-Arlington
Morehead State
Oral Roberts
Eastern Kentucky
Nebraska-Omaha
Saint Thomas
Austin Peay
UMKC
Bellarmine
 

Little Rock won 2 of the 3 games this weekend.

Western Baseball is now 7-14 in the OVC (tied with Lindenwood for last place).

Western will finish the home portion of the schedule with a series vs Southeast Missouri State which starts on Friday.

Southern Indiana won 2 of the 3 games this weekend.

Western finishes with an overall record of 16-34 and 5-22 in the OVC (last place).

The top 8 teams will play in the OVC Tournament which starts May 8 in Peoria.

Western and Morehead State will not be playing in the conference tournament.

Macomb movie theater re-opening.
From Tri-States Public Radio, WIUM-FM:
https://www.tspr.org/tspr-local/2024-05 ... -reopening
 
 

Western Baseball beat Illinois State 11-1 today in Normal.

The game was stopped after 7 innings via the Ten Run Rule.

Attendance at Illinois State = 463