1988 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament
The 1988 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament was held at Centenary Park on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana. This was the tenth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its tenth year of existence. Stetson won their first tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1988 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2]
Teams | 2 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | Stetson (1st title) |
Winning coach | Pete Dunn (1st title) |
MVP | Mike Sempeles (Stetson) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Georgia Southern x† | 13 | – | 4 | .765 | 30 | – | 27 | .526 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 20 Stetson ‡y | 9 | – | 8 | .529 | 35 | – | 25 | .583 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mercer | 7 | – | 10 | .412 | 24 | – | 25 | .490 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Samford | 5 | – | 12 | .294 | 8 | – | 49 | .140 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Centenary x | 11 | – | 5 | .688 | 30 | – | 20 | .600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arkansas–Little Rock | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 27 | – | 29 | .482 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hardin–Simmons | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 30 | – | 30 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1988[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
Format and seeding
The top two finishers from each division by conference winning percentage qualified for the tournament, with the top seed from one division playing the second seed from the opposite in the first round.
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Bracket
First round | Semi-finals | Finals | ||||||||||||
1E | Georgia Southern | 14 | ||||||||||||
2W | UALR | 13 | ||||||||||||
1E | Georgia Southern | 2 | ||||||||||||
2E | Stetson | 4 | ||||||||||||
1W | Centenary | 2 | ||||||||||||
2E | Stetson | 4 | ||||||||||||
2E | Stetson | 5 | — | |||||||||||
1E | Georgia Southern | 3 | — | |||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | |||||||||||||
1E | Georgia Southern | 4 | ||||||||||||
2W | UALR | 5 | 2W | UALR | 0 | |||||||||
1W | Centenary | 4 | ||||||||||||
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[2]
POS | Player | School |
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P | Craig Risdon | Stetson |
Jeff Jay | Georgia Southern | |
C | Rob Fitzpatrick | Georgia Southern |
1B | Brett Hendley | Georgia Southern |
2B | Eloy Garcia | UALR |
SS | Eddie Corbett | Stetson |
3B | Shawn Lee | Stetson |
OF | Roy Gilbert | Centenary |
Tom Riginos | Stetson | |
Mike Sempeles | Stetson | |
DH | Kevin Weickel | Stetson |
Most Valuable Player
Mike Sempeles was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Hendley was an outfielder for Stetson.[2]
References
- Atlantic Sun Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic Sun Conference. p. 5. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic Sun Conference. Retrieved September 10, 2019.