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The 2004 West Coast Conference Baseball Championship Series was held on May 28 and 29, 2004 at Loyola Marymount's home stadium, George C. Page Stadium in Los Angeles, California, and pitted the winners of the conference's two four-team divisions. The event determined the champion of the West Coast Conference for the 2004 NCAA Division I baseball season. Pepperdine won the series two games to none over Loyola Marymount and earned the league's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
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- ↑ "Baseball Record Book". West Coast Conference. p. 23. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Loyola Marymount Lions. p. 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 3, 2017. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Pepperdine Waves. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ↑ "Baseball Record Book". West Coast Conference. p. 26. Retrieved September 3, 2017.[ permanent dead link ]