2009 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament

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2009 Mountain West Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
Champions Utah  (1st title)
MVPTyler Yagi (Utah)
Television Mountiain/CBS Sports Network
2009 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 17 TCU  y155 .7504018 .690
New Mexico  158 .6523720 .649
BYU  148 .6363024 .556
San Diego State  y159 .6254123 .641
UNLV  915 .3752632 .448
Utah  y816 .3332831 .475
Air Force  318 .1431437 .275
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
As of June 8, 2009 [1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2009 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 19 through 23. The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Texas Christian University's Lupton Stadium. Sixth seeded Utah won their first and only Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 9–3 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. [2] [3] Utah joined the Pac-12 Conference after the 2011 season without winning another title.

Contents

Seeding

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field.

TeamWLPct.GBSeed
TCU 155.750
1
New Mexico 158.652
1.5
2
BYU 148.636
2
3
San Diego State 159.625
2
4
UNLV 915.375
8
5
Utah 816.333
9
6
Air Force 318.143
12.5

Results

Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1 TCU 7
3 BYU 16Utah9
6 Utah 26Utah8
4San Diego State9
2 New Mexico 1
4 San Diego State 124San Diego State2
5 UNLV 1
6Utah49
4San Diego State13
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
6Utah6
1TCU91TCU4
2New Mexico13BYU2
3BYU53BYU5
5UNLV4

[4]

All-Tournament Team

NamePOSTeam
Marc OslundRHPBYU
Matt Vern1BTCU
Kyle WinklerRHPTCU
Erik Castro3B/CSan Diego State
Stephen Strasburg RHPSan Diego State
C. J. Cron C/DHUtah
Corey Shimada2BUtah
Jordan WhatcottRHPUtah
Tyler YagiOFUtah
Devin WalkerDHUtah
Greg KrauseRPUtah

Most Valuable Player

Tyler Yagi, an outfielder for the champion Utah Utes, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player. [3]

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