| Teams | 2 |
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| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Georgia Southern (4th title) |
| Winning coach | Jack Stallings (4th title) |
| MVP | Brett Hendley (Georgia Southern) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 29 Georgia Southern x†‡y | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 33 | – | 30 | .524 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stetson | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 37 | – | 22 | .627 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mercer | 6 | – | 9 | .400 | 27 | – | 22 | .551 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Samford | 2 | – | 13 | .133 | 6 | – | 41 | .128 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hardin–Simmons x | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 27 | – | 31 | .466 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas–Little Rock | 9 | – | 7 | .563 | 25 | – | 20 | .556 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Centenary | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 19 | – | 25 | .432 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1987 [1] ; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1987 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at J. I. Clements Stadium on the campus of Georgia Southern in Statesboro, Georgia from April 30 to May 2. [2] This was the ninth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its ninth year of existence. Georgia Southern won their third tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. [3]
The top two finishers from each division by conference winning percentage qualified for the tournament, with the top seed from one division playing the second seed from the opposite in the first round.
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| First Round | Semi-Finals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1E | Georgia Southern | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 2W | Arkansas–Little Rock | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 1E | Georgia Southern | 18 | ||||||||||||
| 2E | Stetson | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1W | Hardin–Simmons | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 2E | Stetson | 16 | ||||||||||||
| 1E | Georgia Southern | 8 | — | |||||||||||
| 2E | Stetson | 6 | — | |||||||||||
| 2W | Arkansas–Little Rock | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 1W | Hardin–Simmons | 14 | ||||||||||||
| 2E | Stetson | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 1W | Hardin–Simmons | 8 | ||||||||||||
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. No MVP was named until 1985. [4]
| POS | Player | School |
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| P | Keith Richardson | Georgia Southern |
| Steve Woide | Stetson | |
| C | Mike Robinson | Stetson |
| 1B | Brett Hendley | Georgia Southern |
| 2B | Shawn Lee | Stetson |
| SS | Jeff Shireman | Georgia Southern |
| 3B | Scott Foith | Hardin–Simmons |
| OF | Mike Shepherd | Georgia Southern |
| Frank Vashaw | Georgia Southern | |
| Lynn Turner | Hardin–Simmons | |
| DH | Pat Harding | Stetson |
Brett Hendley was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Hendley was a first baseman for Georgia Southern. [4]
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