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- ↑ "Ohio Valley Conference - 2016 Standings". d1Baseball.com. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ↑ "2016 OVC Baseball Championship". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ↑ "2015-16 OVC Championships". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ↑ Autumn Allison (May 16, 2016). "APSU baseball vacates 4 wins over ineligible player". The Leaf-Chronicle . Clarksville, Tennessee . Retrieved May 29, 2016.