1994 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament
The 1994 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament was held at Claude Smith Field on the campus of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. This was the sixteenth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its sixteenth year of existence. Southeastern Louisiana won their second tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2]
Teams | 4 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | Southeastern Louisiana (2nd title) |
Winning coach | Greg Marten (2nd title) |
MVP | Dan Newman (Southeastern Louisiana) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FIU x | 12 | – | 6 | .667 | 38 | – | 21 | .644 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stetson | 9 | – | 9 | .500 | 37 | – | 21 | .638 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UCF | 8 | – | 10 | .444 | 29 | – | 26 | .527 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College of Charleston | 7 | – | 11 | .389 | 27 | – | 21 | .563 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida Atlantic | 0 | – | 0 | – | 31 | – | 23 | .574 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mercer x† | 15 | – | 9 | .625 | 32 | – | 21 | .604 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southeastern Louisiana x†‡y | 15 | – | 9 | .625 | 34 | – | 30 | .531 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Samford | 13 | – | 11 | .542 | 19 | – | 33 | .365 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Centenary | 11 | – | 13 | .458 | 23 | – | 28 | .451 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Georgia State | 6 | – | 18 | .250 | 12 | – | 42 | .222 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1994[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. Florida Atlantic was not eligible and did not play games that counted in the conference standings as it was their first year in the league.
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Bracket
First round | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
1E | FIU | 5 | |||||||||||
2W | Southeastern Louisiana | 6 | |||||||||||
2W | Southeastern Louisiana | 4 | |||||||||||
1W | Mercer | 6 | |||||||||||
1W | Mercer | 8 | |||||||||||
2E | Stetson | 1 | |||||||||||
1W | Mercer | ||||||||||||
2W | Southeastern Louisiana | ||||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
2W | Southeastern Louisiana | 10 | |||||||||||
1E | FIU | 11 | 1E | FIU | 7 | ||||||||
2E | Stetson | 10 | |||||||||||
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[2]
POS | Player | School |
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P | Rick Miller | Mercer |
Matt Barefield | Mercer | |
C | Jason Moore | FIU |
1B | Kevin Millican | Southeastern Louisiana |
2B | Dan Newman | Southeastern Louisiana |
3B | Mitch Markham | Stetson |
SS | Kenny Langlois | Southeastern Louisiana |
OF | Chad Magistro | Mercer |
Bob Kallemeyn | FIU | |
Shane Brister | Southeastern Louisiana | |
DH | Jason Smith | Mercer |
Most Valuable Player
Dan Newman was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Newman was a second baseman for Southeastern Louisiana.[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 December 2, 2019.