Mizzou Baseball Game Day: Eastern Illinois Panthers @ O'Fallon, MO

■ The numbers (BoydsWorld.com, 4/25)

• Record: MU 16-23, EIU 14-22
• RPI: MU 126th, EIU 228th
• ISR: MU 143rd, EIU 224th
• Strength of Schedule: MU 47th, EIU 160th

■ Eastern Illinois is 4-5 in mid-week games

• Wins: Chicago State (1-0), Illinois (4-1), Illinois College (20-0), Illinois (10-2)
  
  
• Losses: Mississippi State (9-4), Southern Illinois (7-4), St. Louis (7-2), Indiana State (5-2), Western Illinois (4-0)

■ Mizzou vs. EIU, 4/26 (rivercityrascals.com)

University of Missouri vs Eastern Illinois University
Tuesday, April 26
6:30 PM - Game Starts
5:30 PM - Gates Open
@ T.R. Hughes Ballpark, O'Fallon, MO (directions HERE)
Tickets available by clicking HERE. SponsorID=3440
All tickets $5.00

■ Panthers come back to split double header (jg-tc.com, 4/23)

Jacob Reese went 2-for-2 and Brent McNeil pitched four innings of three-hit relief allowing only an unearned run as Eastern Illinois beat Murray State 5-3 for a split in Saturday's Ohio Valley Conference baseball doubleheader.

Jake Donze pitched a four-hitter in Murray State's 4-1 win over Eastern Illinois in the first game.

■ EIU baseball rides early lead to win over Illinois (jg-tc.com)

The Eastern Illinois baseball team scored early and never looked back as they dropped the University of Illinois for the second time this season, 10-2, on Wednesday evening at Illinois Field. The Panthers have now won five of the last eight meetings.
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Barton (3-3) posted the win, striking out two batters and not allowing a hit in 2.1 innings of relief work.

Thoma paced EIU at the plate, turning in a 4-for-5 performance with three RBIs, two runs and three doubles

■ Ohio Valley Conference to play Friday-Sundays in 2012 (College Baseball Daily)

The Ohio Valley Conference has announced a change to the format of its Conference regular season series for baseball starting with the 2012 season.

Currently the OVC plays a three-game series spread over two days, with the teams playing a doubleheader on Saturday (with one of those games being a 7-inning game, the other a 9-inning affair) and a single 9-inning game on Sunday.

Starting in 2012 the series schedule will move to a three-game series over three days (Friday-Sunday), with a single 9-inning game being played each day. Games on Friday will begin no earlier than 3 p.m. local time and no later than 6 p.m. local time.