2012 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament

2012 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 8
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Coastal Carolina (13th title)
Winning coach Gary Gilmore (10th title)
MVP Aaron Burke/Ryan Connolly (Coastal Carolina)
2012 Big South Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
Coastal Carolina †‡y 18 – 5 – 0   .783     38 – 17 – 0   .691
Campbell 15 – 9 – 0   .625     40 – 16 – 0   .714
Liberty 14 – 10 – 0   .583     39 – 18 – 0   .684
Gardner–Webb 12 – 12 – 0   .500     30 – 27 – 0   .526
Radford 12 – 12 – 0   .500     29 – 26 – 1   .527
UNC Asheville 12 – 12 – 0   .500     25 – 29 – 0   .463
High Point 11 – 13 – 0   .458     26 – 29 – 0   .473
Charleston Southern 11 – 13 – 0   .458     20 – 35 – 0   .364
Presbyterian 10 – 14 – 0   .417     24 – 31 – 0   .436
Winthrop 9 – 14 – 0   .391     17 – 35 – 0   .327
VMI 7 – 17 – 0   .292     16 – 36 – 0   .308
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
As of May 22, 2012[1]; Rankings from Coaches' Poll

The 2012 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22–26. The top eight regular season finishers of the ten eligible teams met in the double-elimination tournament which was held at George S. Erath Field at Coy O. Williard Baseball Stadium on the campus of High Point University in High Point, NC. Presbyterian was not eligible for postseason play in any sport until the 2012–2013 academic year due to its transition to Division I. Top seeded Coastal Carolina won their thirteenth championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2][3]

Seeding

The top eight finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through eight.

Team W L Pct. GB Seed
Coastal Carolina 18 5 .783
–
1
Campbell 15 9 .625
3.5
2
Liberty 14 10 .583
4.5
3
Gardner–Webb 12 12 .500
6.5
4
Radford 12 12 .500
6.5
5
UNC Asheville 12 12 .500
6.5
6
High Point 11 13 .458
7.5
7
Charleston Southern 11 13 .458
7.5
8
Presbyterian 10 14 .417
8.5
–
Winthrop 9 14 .391
9.5
–
VMI 7 17 .292
11.5
–

Results

  First round Second round Semifinals Finals
                                       
5 Radford 8  
4 Gardner–Webb 2  
  1 Coastal Carolina 5  
  5 Radford 3  
8 Charleston Southern 8
1 Coastal Carolina 9  
  7 High Point 3    
  1 Coastal Carolina 4    
4 Gardner–Webb 4  
8 Charleston Southern 3  
  5 Radford 0
  4 Gardner–Webb 11  
  3 Liberty 1
  1 Coastal Carolina 4
6 UNC Asheville 2  
3 Liberty 9  
  3 Liberty 7
  2 Campbell 0  
7 High Point 4
2 Campbell 10  
  4 Gardner Webb 3  
  3 Liberty 4    
7 High Point 7  
6 UNC Asheville 1  
  2 Campbell 2
  7 High Point 9  

[2][3]

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[3]

POS Player Team
P Aaron Burke Coastal Carolina
P Ryan Connolly Coastal Carolina
P Patrick Eckelbarger Liberty
P Beau Hilton Gardner-Webb
DH Alex Buccilli Coastal Carolina
OF Daniel Bowman Coastal Carolina
OF Devin Bujnovsky High Point
OF Benji Jackson Gardner-Webb
INF Rich Witten Coastal Carolina
INF Alex Close Liberty
INF Ryan Retz High Point
INF Dusty Quattlebaum Gardner-Webb
C Trey Wimmer Liberty
UTL Spencer Angelis High Point

Most Valuable Player

Aaron Burke and Ryan Connolly were named co-Most Valuable Players. Burke and Connolly were both pitchers for Coastal Carolina.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Baseball standings". bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "2012 Big South Baseball Championship". bigsouthsports.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Coastal Carolina Wins Big South Baseball Championship". Big South Conference. May 26, 2012. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
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