The Southern Conference began conference play on March 21 and ended on May 17. Each team played 21 conference games, with three games against each conference opponent home or away.
In regular season play, East Tennessee State won the outright SoCon regular season title by one game. The eight SoCon baseball coaches voted Cooper Torres of East Tennessee State as 2025 SoCon Baseball Player of the Year and Brady Frederick of East Tennessee State as 2025 SoCon Baseball Pitcher of the Year.[4] Axel Melendez of East Tennessee State was selected as 2025 SoCon Baseball Freshman of the Year, and Joe Pennucci of Ease Tennessee State was voted 2025 SoCon Baseball Coach of the Year.[4] Bradley Frye of Mercer was voted as the 2025 SoCon Baseball Golden Glove recipient, which is given to the 2025 SoCon Baseball Defensive Player of the Year.[4]
Source: Southern Conference[5] Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Regular Season Honors
Southern Conference Baseball awards for regular-season performance were unveiled on May 19, 2025. These awards included awards for player, pitcher, freshman, coach, and defensive players of the year, as well as all-conference first, second, defensive, and freshman teams.
All eight SoCon baseball teams participated in the tournament and were seeded based on regular season conference record. The bottom four seeds played in a single-elimination play-in round to begin the tournament. The two play-in round winners then joined the top four seeds in a six-team double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving byes into the third round, and the third and fourth placed teams playing the play-in round winners in the second round.[3] The Wofford Terriers were defending champions, having won the 2024 edition of the tournament.
Mercer and The Citadel both began tournament play in the second round with losses to Western Carolina and Wofford, respectively. The Bears and The Citadel then each won their first elimination game, and met each other in an elimination game afterwards. Mercer won this elimination game, but fell in their next game to Samford.
East Tennessee State and Samford received byes into the third round as the top two regular season teams. Samford won their opening matchup against The Citadel, followed by a loss to East Tennessee State in the semifinal round. Samford then won their only game in the lower bracket, resulting in another matchup with the Buccaneers in the championship match. However, East Tennessee State would prevail again, winning their first SoCon tournament title as a member of the Southern Conference, and qualified for their first NCAA tournament berth since 2013, when they were members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Cooper Torres of East Tennessee State received the Walt Nadzak Award (named after Walt Nadzak) for being voted as the tournament's most outstanding player.[6]
Game times are in EDT. Rankings denote tournament seed. Superscripted number next to scores denote games that use extra innings or the run rule. Source: Southern Conference[3]
* Game times are in EDT. # Rankings denote tournament seed. Superscripted number next to scores denote games that use extra innings or the run rule. Source: Southern Conference[3]
Tournament Honors
The Southern Conference announced tournament honors on May 25, 2025. These awards included the Walt Nadzak Award, named after Walt Nadzak, for the tournament's most outstanding player, the Pinnacle Award for the member of the championship-winning team with the highest grade point average (GPA), as well as the 2025 All-Tournament Team.
Updated to all games played in 2025 season. Includes regular season conference and non-conference games, as well as conference and NCAA tournament games. Source: Southern Conference[12] Note: AVG, OPS, ERA, and WHIP leaders must qualify for their respective leaderboards per the SoCon Baseball 2025 Statistics webpage.[12]
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
