1995 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

1995 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Central Michigan (2nd title)
Winning coach Dean Kreiner (2nd title)
MVP Pat Mahoney (Central Michigan)
1995 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
Bowling Green † 22 – 8 – 0   .733     34 – 20 – 0   .630
Kent State 19 – 10 – 0   .655     40 – 19 – 0   .678
Central Michigan ‡y 19 – 12 – 0   .613     41 – 19 – 0   .683
Akron 18 – 12 – 0   .600     26 – 22 – 0   .542
Western Michigan 19 – 13 – 0   .594     31 – 22 – 1   .583
Eastern Michigan 18 – 13 – 0   .581     22 – 31 – 0   .415
Ohio 15 – 17 – 0   .469     31 – 25 – 0   .554
Toledo 9 – 21 – 0   .300     21 – 32 – 0   .396
Miami 8 – 23 – 0   .258     21 – 35 – 0   .375
Ball State 7 – 25 – 0   .219     15 – 41 – 0   .268
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1995[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1995 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 1995. The top four regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Warren E. Steller Field on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. This was the seventh Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Second seeded Central Michigan won their second consecutive, and second overall, tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1995 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
Bowling Green 22 8 .733
–
1
Kent State 19 10 .655
2.5
2
Central Michigan 19 12 .613
3.5
3
Akron 18 12 .600
4
4
Western Michigan 19 13 .594
4
–
Eastern Michigan 18 13 .581
4.5
–
Ohio 15 17 .469
8
–
Toledo 9 21 .300
13
–
Miami 8 23 .258
14.5
–
Ball State 7 25 .219
16
–

Results

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 Bowling Green 5  
4 Akron 6  
  4 Akron 8  
  3 Central Michigan 16  
2 Kent State 0
3 Central Michigan 3  
  3 Central Michigan 6 7
  2 Kent State 11 4
1 Bowling Green 2  
2 Kent State 5  
  4 Akron 3
  2 Kent State 16  

All-Tournament Team

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

Name School
Lee Gardner Central Michigan
Pat Mahoney Central Michigan
Steve Smetana Kent State
E.J. Eckert Akron
Tim Fails Kent State
Mike Combs Bowling Green
Toby Kominek Central Michigan
Art Mighton Kent State
Jerome Kynard Bowling Green
Ted Rose Kent State

Most Valuable Player

Pat Mahoney won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Mahoney played for Central Michigan.[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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.