2019 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament
Appearance
Teams | 4 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | Fresno State (1st title) |
Winning coach | Mike Batesole (1st title) |
Television | Stadium (Gms 1-4, 6-7) MW Net (Gm 5) |
Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 25 Fresno State †‡y | 20 | – | 8 | – | 1 | .707 | 40 | – | 16 | – | 1 | .711 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
San Diego State | 16 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .552 | 32 | – | 25 | – | 0 | .561 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nevada | 14 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .467 | 30 | – | 26 | – | 0 | .536 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UNLV | 14 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .467 | 29 | – | 29 | – | 0 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Air Force | 12 | – | 14 | – | 0 | .462 | 26 | – | 26 | – | 0 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
San Jose State | 13 | – | 17 | – | 0 | .433 | 20 | – | 34 | – | 0 | .370 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Mexico | 11 | – | 16 | – | 1 | .411 | 23 | – | 28 | – | 1 | .452 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of July 16, 2019[1] Rankings from D1Baseball |
The 2019 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 23 through 26. The top four of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at William Peccole Park in Reno, Nevada.[2] The winner of the tournament, Fresno State, earned the Mountain West Conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[3]
Format and seeding
[edit]The conference's top four teams were seeded based on winning percentage during the round robin regular season schedule. They then played a double-elimination tournament with the top seed playing the fourth seeded team and the second seeded team playing the third seed.
Bracket
[edit]First round | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
1 | Fresno State | 4 | |||||||||||
4 | Nevada | 3 | |||||||||||
1 | Fresno State | 11 | |||||||||||
3 | UNLV | 1 | |||||||||||
2 | San Diego State | 3 | |||||||||||
3 | UNLV | 9 | |||||||||||
1 | Fresno State | ||||||||||||
3 | UNLV | ||||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
4 | Nevada | 5 | |||||||||||
4 | Nevada | 6 | 3 | UNLV | 6 | ||||||||
2 | San Diego State | 4 | |||||||||||
Conference championship
[edit]Mountain West Championship | ||
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(3) UNLV Rebels | vs. | (1) Fresno State Bulldogs |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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(3) UNLV | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
(1) Fresno State | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Ryan Sullivan (1–2) LP: Bradley Spooner (2–2) Attendance: 712 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Mountain West Conference baseball standings, teams, and schedules". D1Baseball. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
- ^ Jim Krajewski (December 7, 2018). "Nevada will host Mountain West baseball championship in 2019". Reno Gazette-Journal. Reno, NV. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
- ^ "2018-19 MW Championships Schedule". themwc.com. Retrieved December 17, 2018.