Indiana will face Washington on Friday at 2 p.m. The Tigers will first face Omaha on Friday at 4:30 p.m.

Mizzou reached the SEC Championship after their Thursday quarterfinal matchup against Arkansas was delayed until 9 a.m. Friday, where the Tigers won 3-1.

Mizzou went on to beat LSU 2-1 in the eighth inning on a sac fly to reach the championship where they fell 6-1 to Florida.

The Tigers ended the regular season with a record of 43-15 (13-11 in SEC play) and Mizzou was ranked 12th by USA Softball as of this past week.

The University of Missouri will be busier than usual this weekend with the graduations of 117 medical students.

The graduating class includes 26 who trained at the school’s Springfield Clinical Campus which serves as a public-private partnership with M-U, Cox Health and Mercy hospitals.

Arguably more impressive, 97% of the class received a residency program match meaning they were highly recruited as top resident physician candidates.

The commencement ceremony will feature different speakers including School of Medicine Vice Chair Doctor Shellaine Frazier and special honoree Gilbert Ross Junior-MD the first urology resident at M-U in 1969 who also established the university’s kidney transplantation program.

Meanwhile, their dad, Travis Williams Sr., used to work in fast food at McDonald’s and Checkers and becoming an assistant manager along the way.

He then transitioned to working on guard rails and has added several odd jobs to support the family. That’s because, in 2023, Maria had to quit working.

It wasn’t necessarily a choice she wanted to make but her then six-year battle with diabetes was catching up to her.

That and gastroparesis, a symptom of diabetes that affects proper digestion.