2019 Southern Conference baseball tournament

2019 Southern Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	9
Format	two bracket Double-elimination tournament with championship game
Finals site	Fluor Field at the West End Greenville, SC
Champions	Mercer Bears (2nd title)
Winning coach	Craig Gibson
MVP	Trevor Austin ((Mercer))
Television	SoCon DN ESPN+ (Championship)

2019 Southern Conference baseball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Samford  ‍†‍‍	19	–	5		.792			41	–	19		.683
Wofford  ‍‍‍	14	–	9		.609			36	–	25		.590
UNC Greensboro  ‍‍‍	14	–	10		.583			34	–	20		.630
Mercer  ‍‍‡‍y	14	–	10		.583			35	–	29		.547
Furman  ‍‍‍	13	–	11		.542			26	–	31		.456
East Tennessee State  ‍‍‍	11	–	12		.478			34	–	21		.618
VMI  ‍‍‍	9	–	15		.375			17	–	41		.293
Western Carolina  ‍‍‍	8	–	16		.333			21	–	32		.396
The Citadel  ‍‍‍	5	–	19		.208			12	–	43		.218
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 5, 2019 Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2019 Southern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 21 through 26 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual event determined the conference champion of the Division I Southern Conference in college baseball. The tournament winner, Mercer Bears, earned the league's bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. This was the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2018–19 academic year.

The tournament was originally held from 1950–53, when the Southern Conference was a large conference composed of several small schools and several large schools, the latter of which would form the Atlantic Coast Conference after the 1953 season. The event was re-established in 1984 and has been held every year since. Western Carolina has claimed ten championships, the most of any school, with The Citadel close behind at eight tournament wins. Furman and defending champion Samford are the only other current schools with multiple championships, having each won two. East Tennessee State and VMI have never won a title, although they both returned to the conference in 2015 after over ten years in other conferences. Mercer claimed the conference championship in its first ever appearance in 2015.

The tournament was played in Greenville, which has hosted six of the past ten events.

Seeding and format

All nine teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom two seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams then played a double-elimination tournament.

Bracket

Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 21

Team	R
#9 The Citadel	3
#8 Western Carolina	7

Double-elimination round

	Upper round 1					Upper round 2					Upper final										Final
	1	Samford	5
	8	Western Carolina	410
						1	Samford	11
						4	Mercer	0
	4	Mercer	11
	5	Furman	2
											1	Samford	2
											2	Wofford	5
	2	Wofford	12
	7	VMI	7
						2	Wofford	2
						6	East Tennessee State	1
	3	UNC Greensboro	2
	6	East Tennessee State	4																		2	Wofford	8	5
																					4	Mercer	12	9
	Lower round 1					Lower round 2					Lower round 3					Lower final
						5	Furman	5
	8	Western Carolina	7			6	East Tennessee State	7								4	Mercer	4
	5	Furman	9								6	East Tennessee State	7			1	Samford	3
											4	Mercer	11
						3	UNC Greensboro	5
	7	VMI	2			4	Mercer	9
	3	UNC Greensboro	4

Conference championship

Southern Conference Championship
(2) Wofford Terriers	vs.	(4) Mercer Bears

May 26, 2019, 12:00 p.m. (EDT) at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
(4) Mercer	3	1	4	0	0	2	2	0	0	12	14	2
(2) Wofford	2	0	0	1	0	0	4	1	0	8	14	3
WP: Sawyer Gipson-Long (8–3)   LP: Austin Higginbotham (9–4) Home runs: MER: None WOFF: Andrew Orzel Attendance: 1,094

May 26, 2019, 4:40 p.m. (EDT) at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
(2) Wofford	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	5	10	3
(4) Mercer	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	3	X	9	12	0
WP: Taylor Lobus (2–0)   LP: Jake Hershman (2–3)   Sv: Tanner Hall (1) Home runs: WOFF: Brett Rodriguez MER: None Attendance: 774