Missouri Western State University Athletics

2012 Drury Inn Classic

Missouri Western will host the annual MIAA/GAC Challenge this year. The 4-team event will take place in Spratt Stadium on the campus of Missouri Western State University, located in St. Joseph, Mo.

The event was hosted last season by East Central University out of Ada, Oklahoma. Previously, three of the four teams participated in the MIAA/Lone Star Challenge which started in the fall of 2007 with East Central University hosting Missouri Western, Emporia State and Angleo State University. Southwestern Oklahoma State University has taken the place of Angelo State in the challenge.

The event features two teams from the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association and two from the Great American Conference. The MIAA is a 15-member conference that includes schools from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The conference was formed in 1912 and this year will feature its first with schools from Oklahoma. The GAC is a 10-member conference with teams in Oklahoma and Arkansas. It began its first year of competition as a conference in 2011-12.

Game 1: Emporia State 1, East Central 0 - Box Score
Game 2: Missouri Western 0, SW Oklahoma State 2 - Box Score

Game 3: SW Oklahoa State 2, Emporia State 1 - Box Score
Game 4: Missouri Western vs. East Central: 2:30 pm - Live Stats