2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament
The 2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament began on May 13 and ended on May 16 at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, MD. It was a six-team double elimination tournament. Florida A&M won their first tournament championship and claimed the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Runner-up Bethune-Cookman had claimed fourteen of the sixteen tournament championships, with Savannah State winning in 2013 and North Carolina A&T earning the 2005 title.[2][3]
Teams | 6 |
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Format | Double-elimination tournament |
Finals site | |
Champions | Florida A&M (1st title) |
Winning coach | Jamey Shouppe (1st title) |
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Northern | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norfolk State x | 19 | – | 5 | – | 0 | .792 | 27 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .628 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland Eastern Shore | 14 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .583 | 16 | – | 33 | – | 0 | .327 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delaware State | 13 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .542 | 16 | – | 29 | – | 0 | .356 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coppin State | 2 | – | 22 | – | 0 | .083 | 3 | – | 38 | – | 2 | .093 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southern | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida A&M x‡y | 15 | – | 9 | – | 0 | .625 | 23 | – | 23 | – | 0 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bethune-Cookman | 14 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .583 | 19 | – | 40 | – | 0 | .322 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Savannah State | 12 | – | 12 | – | 0 | .500 | 21 | – | 33 | – | 0 | .389 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina Central | 12 | – | 12 | – | 0 | .500 | 19 | – | 30 | – | 0 | .388 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina A&T | 7 | – | 17 | – | 0 | .292 | 10 | – | 36 | – | 0 | .217 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of 22:06, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
Format and seeding
The top three teams in the North Division and top three finishers from the South Division were seeded one through three based on regular season divisional records, with first round matchups of the second seed from the North and the third seed from the South, the second seed from the South against the third seed from the North, with the divisional winners gaining first round byes. The first round winners advance in the winners' bracket to face regular season divisional champions in the second round, while first round losers play elimination games. The format means that one team from the North and two from the South will be left out of the field.
Savannah State earned the tiebreaker for the S3 seed over North Carolina Central.
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Results
Upper round 1 | Upper round 2 | Upper final | Final | |||||||||||||||
N3 | Delaware State | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
S2 | Bethune-Cookman | 2 | N1 | Norfolk State | 11 | |||||||||||||
N3 | Delaware State | 6 | N3 | Delaware State | 2 | |||||||||||||
S1 | Florida A&M | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
S3 | Savannah State | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
N2 | Maryland Eastern Shore | 6 | S1 | Florida A&M | 7 | |||||||||||||
S3 | Savannah State | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
S1 | Florida A&M | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
S2 | Bethune-Cookman | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower round 2 | Lower final | ||||||||||||||||
S2 | Bethune-Cookman | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
N3 | Delaware State | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
S3 | Savannah State | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
S2 | Bethune-Cookman | 12 | S2 | Bethune-Cookman | 13 | |||||||||||||
N1 | Norfolk State | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
N2 | Maryland Eastern Shore | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
N1 | Norfolk State | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
References
- "Standings and Leaders". meacsports.com. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
- "2015 MEAC Baseball Championship Central" (PDF). meacsports.com. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- "2014-15 MEAC Championships". Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2015.