2019 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

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2019 Southern Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams9
Formattwo bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Finals site
Champions Mercer Bears  (2nd title)
Winning coach Craig Gibson
MVPTrevor Austin, (Mercer)
TelevisionSoCon DN
ESPN+ (Championship)
2019 Southern Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
Samford  195 .792  4119 .683
Wofford  149 .609  3625 .590
UNC Greensboro  1410 .583  3420 .630
Mercer  y1410 .583  3529 .547
Furman  1311 .542  2631 .456
East Tennessee State  1112 .478  3421 .618
VMI  915 .375  1741 .293
Western Carolina  816 .333  2132 .396
The Citadel  519 .208  1243 .218
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 5, 2019 [1] ; Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2019 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 21 through May 26 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual event determined the conference champion of the Division I Southern Conference in college baseball. The tournament winner, Mercer Bears, earned the league's bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This was the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2018–19 academic year. [2]

Contents

The tournament was originally held from 1950-53, when the Southern Conference was a large conference composed of several small schools and several large schools, the latter of which would form the Atlantic Coast Conference after the 1953 season. The event was re-established in 1984 and has been held every year since. Western Carolina has claimed ten championships, the most of any school, with The Citadel close behind at eight tournament wins. Furman and defending champion Samford are the only other current schools with multiple championships, having each won two. East Tennessee State and VMI have never won a title, although they both returned to the conference in 2015 after over ten years in other conferences. Mercer claimed the conference championship in its first ever appearance in 2015.

The tournament was played in Greenville, which has hosted six of the past ten events. [3]

Seeding and format

All nine teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom two seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams then played a double-elimination tournament. [4]

Bracket

Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 21
Team R
#9 The Citadel 3
#8 Western Carolina 7

Double-elimination round

 First Round  Second Round  Third Round  Semifinals  Finals
                         
 Winner's Bracket
 1 Samford 5 
 8Western Carolina410  
   1Samford11 
   4Mercer0  
 4 Mercer 11     
 5 Furman 2    
   1Samford2      
   2Wofford5       
 2 Wofford 12       
 7 VMI 7        
   2Wofford2     
   6East Tennessee State1    
 3 UNC Greensboro 2     
 6 East Tennessee State 4    2Wofford85
   4Mercer129
 Loser's Bracket   
 8Western Carolina7    
 5Furman9  5Furman5    
  6East Tennessee State7     
   6East Tennessee State7    
 7VMI2    4Mercer11  4Mercer4  
 3UNC Greensboro4  3UNC Greensboro5    1Samford3 
  4Mercer9 

Conference championship

Southern Conference Championship
(2) Wofford Terriersvs.(4) Mercer Bears
May 26, 2019, 12:00 p.m. (EDT) at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina
Team123456789 R H E
(4) Mercer31400220012142
(2) Wofford2001004108143
WP: Sawyer Gipson-Long (8–3)   LP: Austin Higginbotham (9–4)
Home runs:
MER: None
WOFF: Andrew Orzel
Attendance: 1,094
May 26, 2019, 4:40 p.m. (EDT) at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina
Team123456789 R H E
(2) Wofford1000130005103
(4) Mercer03120003X9120
WP: Taylor Lobus (2–0)   LP: Jake Hershman (2–3)   Sv: Tanner Hall (1)
Home runs:
WOFF: Brett Rodriguez
MER: None
Attendance: 774

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