2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament

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2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams6
Format Double-elimination tournament
Finals site
Champions Florida A&M  (1st title)
Winning coach Jamey Shouppe  (1st title)
2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
Northern
Norfolk State  x‍‍‍19–5–0 .79227–16–0 .628
Maryland Eastern Shore  ‍‍‍14–10–0 .58316–33–0 .327
Delaware State  ‍‍‍13–11–0 .54216–29–0 .356
Coppin State  ‍‍‍2–22–0 .0833–38–2 .093
Southern
Florida A&M  x‍‍‡‍y15–9–0 .62523–23–0 .500
Bethune-Cookman  ‍‍‍14–10–0 .58319–40–0 .322
Savannah State  ‍‍‍12–12–0 .50021–33–0 .389
North Carolina Central  ‍‍‍12–12–0 .50019–30–0 .388
North Carolina A&T  ‍‍‍7–17–0 .29210–36–0 .217
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of 22:06, 25 May 2015 (UTC) [1] ; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 13 and ended on May 16, 2015 at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, MD. It was a six-team double elimination tournament. Florida A&M won their first tournament championship and claimed the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Runner-up Bethune-Cookman had claimed fourteen of the sixteen tournament championships, with Savannah State winning in 2013 and North Carolina A&T earning the 2005 title. [2] [3]

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Format and seeding

The top three teams in the North Division and top three finishers from the South Division were seeded one through three based on regular season divisional records, with first round matchups of the second seed from the North and the third seed from the South, the second seed from the South against the third seed from the North, with the divisional winners gaining first round byes. The first round winners advance in the winners' bracket to face regular season divisional champions in the second round, while first round losers play elimination games. The format means that one team from the North and two from the South will be left out of the field.

Savannah State earned the tiebreaker for the S3 seed over North Carolina Central.

North Division
TeamWLPctGBSeed
Norfolk State 195.792—N1
Maryland-Eastern Shore 1410.5835N2
Delaware State 1311.5426N3
Coppin State 222.08317—
South Division
TeamWLPctGBSeed
Florida A&M 159.625—S1
Bethune-Cookman 1410.5831S2
Savannah State 1212.5003S3
North Carolina Central 1212.5003—
North Carolina A&T 717.2928—

Results

Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
N3 Delaware State13
S2 Bethune-Cookman 2 N1 Norfolk State 11
N3 Delaware State 6N3 Delaware State 2
S1 Florida A&M11
S3 Savannah State 4
N2 Maryland Eastern Shore 6 S1 Florida A&M 7
S3 Savannah State 8S1 Florida A&M8–
S2 Bethune-Cookman 2 –
N3 Delaware State 0
S2 Bethune-Cookman3S2 Bethune-Cookman13
S3 Savannah State 2 S2 Bethune-Cookman12
N2 Maryland Eastern Shore 6 N1 Norfolk State 1
N1 Norfolk State7

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References

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