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Weather pushes final day of MVC Tournament to Sunday

Harrison Keegan/News-Leader

With stormy weather in the forecast Saturday in Springfield, the final day of the Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament at Hammons Field was pushed back to Sunday.

Missouri State will play Illinois State at 11 a.m. Sunday, and the winner of that contest will take on Dallas Baptist in the championship game at 3 p.m.

The winner of the MVC Tournament championship will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Meteorologist Andy Foster with the National Weather Service in Springfield said Saturday afternoon there were tornado and flash flood watches in the area.