1994 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament

The 1994 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament took place in May 1994. The top four regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Gene Michael Field on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. This was the sixth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seeded Central Michigan won their first tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3]

1994 Mid-American Conference
baseball tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsCentral Michigan (1st title)
Winning coachDean Kreiner (1st title)
MVPTim Fails (Kent State)
1994 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 29 Kent State  ‍†‍‍y 18–7 .72033–17 .660
Ohio  ‍‍‍ 18–10 .64334–19 .642
Bowling Green  ‍‍‍ 16–10 .61529–18 .617
Central Michigan  ‍‍‡‍y 18–12 .60038–21 .644
Western Michigan  ‍‍‍ 18–12 .60030–23 .566
Eastern Michigan  ‍‍‍ 15–12 .55629–27 .518
Toledo  ‍‍‍ 12–16 .42923–31 .426
Akron  ‍‍‍ 10–16 .38529–25 .537
Miami  ‍‍‍ 9–21 .30018–36 .333
Ball State  ‍‍‍ 4–22 .15417–32 .347
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1994[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Seeding and format

The top four finishers based on conference winning percentage only, participated in the tournament. The teams played double-elimination tournament. Central Michigan claimed the fourth seed over Western Michigan by tiebreaker.

TeamWLPCTGBSeed
Kent State187.720
–
1
Ohio1810.643
1.5
2
Bowling Green1610.615
2.5
3
Central Michigan1812.600
2.5
4
Western Michigan1812.600
2.5
–
Eastern Michigan1512.556
4
–
Toledo1216.429
7.5
–
Akron1016.385
8.5
–
Miami921.300
11.5
–
Ball State422.154
14.5
–

Results
Upper round 1Upper finalFinal
1Kent State1
4Central Michigan2
4Central Michigan5
2Ohio1
2Ohio7
3Bowling Green6
4Central Michigan511—
1Kent State4—
Lower round 1Lower final
2Ohio7
1Kent State51Kent State9
3Bowling Green1

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[4]

NameSchool
Travis MillerKent State
Mike SnopkowskiOhio
Tim FailsKent State
Sean FreemanKent State
Kevin YoungCentral Michigan
Kevin ZellersKent State
Tony CarrollCentral Michigan
Andy KrugerCentral Michigan
Steve SmetanaKent State
Chris MongriardoKent State

Most Valuable Player

Tim Fails won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Fails played for Kent State.[4]

References
  1. "All-time Standings" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  2. "Mid-American Conference Tournament History" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  3. 2012 Record Book (PDF). Miami RedHawks. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 1, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  4. "All-Tournament Teams & Tournament MVP's" (PDF). Mid-American Sports. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
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