Season | 2003 |
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Finals site | |
Champions | Central Missouri State (2nd title) |
Runner-up | Tampa (5th CWS Appearance) |
Winning coach | Brad Hill (1st title) |
MOP | Jay Hyland, OF (Columbus State) |
Attendance | 13,342 |
The 2003 NCAA Division II baseball tournament was the postseason tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of baseball among its Division II members at the end of the 2003 NCAA Division II baseball season. [1]
The final, eight-team double elimination tournament, also known as the College World Series, was played at Paterson Field in Montgomery, Alabama from May 24–31, 2003. This was the final Division II tournament at Paterson Field, with the event moving to the new Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium in 2004.
Central Missouri State defeated Tampa in the championship game, 11–4, to claim the Mules' second Division II national title and first since 1994.
First Rounds May 24–27, 2003 | Second Rounds May 26–28, 2003 | Semifinals May 29, 2003 | Championship May 31, 2003 | |||||||||||||
Slippery Rock | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Franklin Pierce | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Franklin Pierce | 4 | |||||||||||||||
Central Missouri State | 11 | |||||||||||||||
Central Missouri State | 3 | |||||||||||||||
Grand Valley State | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Central Missouri State | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Bracket One | ||||||||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Slippery Rock | 8 | |||||||||||||||
Grand Valley State | 9 | |||||||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 7 | |||||||||||||||
Grand Valley State | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Central Missouri State | 11 | |||||||||||||||
Tampa | 4 | |||||||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 9 | |||||||||||||||
UC Davis | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Tampa | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Tampa | 14 | |||||||||||||||
Abilene Christian | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Tampa | 18 | |||||||||||||||
Bracket Two | ||||||||||||||||
Franklin Pierce | 9 | |||||||||||||||
UC Davis | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Abilene Christian | 3 | |||||||||||||||
Franklin Pierce | 5 | |||||||||||||||
UC Davis | 3 |
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is a baseball tournament held each June in Omaha, Nebraska. The MCWS is the culmination of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Baseball Championship tournament—featuring 64 teams in the first round—which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. The eight participating teams are split into two, four-team, double-elimination brackets, with the winners of each bracket playing in a best-of-three championship series.
Paterson Field is a baseball stadium in Montgomery, Alabama. The stadium, named after William Burns Paterson junior, has a maximum capacity of 7,000 people and was opened in 1949. Paterson Field has played host to, among other professional teams, the Montgomery Rebels, a AA-class minor-league team affiliated with the Detroit Tigers, and the Montgomery Wings, an independent minor-league team. The stadium is still in use today, having recently been used as the home field of Alabama State University, a Division I program that competes in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
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