2015 Horizon League baseball tournament
Teams | 6 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site |
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Champions | Wright State (5th title) |
Winning coach | Greg Lovelady (1st title) |
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Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wright State | 16 | – | 7 | – | 0 | .696 | 32 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .711 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UIC | 16 | – | 8 | – | 0 | .667 | 22 | – | 20 | – | 1 | .523 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Valparaiso | 13 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .565 | 19 | – | 24 | – | 0 | .442 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Milwaukee | 12 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .522 | 29 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .644 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youngstown State | 8 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .333 | 15 | – | 27 | – | 0 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oakland | 5 | – | 18 | – | 0 | .217 | 10 | – | 31 | – | 0 | .244 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
‡ – Tournament champion As of May 5, 2015[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
The 2015 Horizon League baseball tournament was held from May 20 through 23. All six of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Oil City Stadium in Whiting, Indiana. Wright State earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3]
Seeding and format
The league's six teams will be seeded one through six based on winning percentage, using conference games only. They will then play a double-elimination tournament.
Bracket
Play-in games
Team | R |
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#5 Youngstown State | 0 |
#4 Valparaiso | 8 |
Team | R |
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#6 Oakland | 11 |
#3 Milwaukee | 15 |
Remaining bracket
First round | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
1 | UIC | 8 | |||||||||||
4 | Valparaiso | 5 | |||||||||||
1 | UIC | 5 | |||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 8 | |||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 10 | |||||||||||
3 | Milwaukee | 4 | |||||||||||
2 | Wright State | ||||||||||||
3 | Milwaukee | ||||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
3 | Milwaukee | 5 | |||||||||||
4 | Valparaiso | 2 | 1 | UIC | 4 | ||||||||
3 | Milwaukee | 14 | |||||||||||
All Tournament Team
P Dalton Lundeen - Valparaiso P E.J. Trapino - Wright State C Sean Murphy - Wright State 1B Sam Koenig - Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2B Tell Taylor - Wisconsin-Milwaukee SS Mitch Roman - Wright State 3B Nick Unes - Wisconsin Milwaukee OF Tyler Detmer - Illinois-Chicago OF Luke Meeteer - Wisconsin-Milwaukee OF Ryan Fucci - Wright State DH Weenie Krust - Wright State
Tourney MVP
Mark Fowler, Wright State
References
- ^ "Horizon League Standings" (PDF). horizonleague.org. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- ^ "2015 Horizon League Baseball Championship Bracket" (PDF). Horizon League. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
- ^ "Horizon League Championships". Horizon League. Archived from the original on December 22, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2015.