2012_Atlantic_10_Conference_baseball_tournament

2012 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

2012 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

Collegiate baseball tournament


The 2012 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament was held from May 23 through 26. The top six regular season finishers of the league's thirteen teams met in the double-elimination tournament at Jim Houlihan Park at Jack Coffey Field on the campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. Second seed Dayton won their first tournament championship and claimed the conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3]

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Seeding and format

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage. The bottom four seeds played on the first day, with the losers of each game playing an elimination game in game 3. On day 2, the winners of games 1 and 2 played the top two seeds. Higher seeds were protected by playing lower seeds or playing later elimination games. Saint Louis claimed the top seed over Dayton and UMass claimed the fourth seed over Richmond by tiebreaker.[4]

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Results

Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
5Richmond6
5Richmond91Saint Louis0
4UMass42Dayton9
5Richmond5
6Saint Joseph's3
6Saint Joseph's32Dayton4
3Rhode Island0
2Dayton3
5Richmond0
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower final
3Rhode Island6
5Richmond3
4UMass5
6Saint Joseph's01Saint Louis2
1Saint Louis6
3Rhode Island2
6Saint Joseph's3

All-Tournament Team

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

Richmond's Jacob Mayers, also selected in 2011, was a second-time selection.

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Most Valuable Player

Burny Mitchem was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Mitchem was a senior pitcher for Dayton, who earned a pair of saves including in the 3–0 final over Richmond.[3]


References

  1. "Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Standings & Leaders". Atlantic 10 Conference. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  2. "Conference Championship Central". ncaa.org. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
  3. "Dayton Wins Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship". atlantic10.com. May 26, 2012. Archived from the original on April 23, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  4. "Atlantic 10 Conference Championships". atlantic10.com. Archived from the original on May 20, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2012.

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