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SIU Softball Has Set Records. Now They Need to Settle Down.

Joe Szynkowski · 8 May 2026

Not Fixed, Just Alive: SIU Baseball Finding Its Fight w/ Small Ball & Quality Pitching

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2005 SIU journalism grad. Saluki season-ticket holder. Covered sports for The Southern. Founder and owner of The UpWrite Group - a strategic communications firm HQd in Marion, Illinois.

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