1994 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

1994 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Central Michigan (1st title)
Winning coach Dean Kreiner (1st title)
MVP Tim Fails (Kent State)
1994 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#29 Kent State †y 18 – 7   .720     33 – 17   .660
Ohio 18 – 10   .643     34 – 19   .642
Bowling Green 16 – 10   .615     29 – 18   .617
Central Michigan ‡y 18 – 12   .600     38 – 21   .644
Western Michigan 18 – 12   .600     30 – 23   .566
Eastern Michigan 15 – 12   .556     29 – 27   .518
Toledo 12 – 16   .429     23 – 31   .426
Akron 10 – 16   .385     29 – 25   .537
Miami 9 – 21   .300     18 – 36   .333
Ball State 4 – 22   .154     17 – 32   .347
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1994[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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]

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.

Team W L PCT GB Seed
Kent State 18 7 .720
–
1
Ohio 18 10 .643
1.5
2
Bowling Green 16 10 .615
2.5
3
Central Michigan 18 12 .600
2.5
4
Western Michigan 18 12 .600
2.5
–
Eastern Michigan 15 12 .556
4
–
Toledo 12 16 .429
7.5
–
Akron 10 16 .385
8.5
–
Miami 9 21 .300
11.5
–
Ball State 4 22 .154
14.5
–

Results

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 Kent State 1  
4 Central Michigan 2  
  4 Central Michigan 5  
  2 Ohio 1  
2 Ohio 7
3 Bowling Green 6  
  4 Central Michigan 5* —
  1 Kent State 4* —
1 Kent State 5  
3 Bowling Green 1  
  2 Ohio 7
  1 Kent State 9  

* - Indicates game required 11 innings.

All-Tournament Team

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

Name School
Travis Miller Kent State
Mike Snopkowski Ohio
Tim Fails Kent State
Sean Freeman Kent State
Kevin Young Central Michigan
Kevin Zellers Kent State
Tony Carroll Central Michigan
Andy Kruger Central Michigan
Steve Smetana Kent State
Chris Mongriardo Kent 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 June 9, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ 2012 Record Book (PDF). Miami RedHawks. p. 11. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  4. 1 2 "All-Tournament Teams & Tournament MVP's" (PDF). Mid-American Sports. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
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