2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament

2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	8
Format	Double-elimination tournament
Finals site	Jackie Robinson Ballpark Daytona Beach, FL
Champions	Florida A&M (2nd title)
Winning coach	Jamey Shouppe (2nd title)
MVP	Kaycee Reese ((Florida A&M))
Television	FloSports

2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball standings

	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Northern
Norfolk State  x‍‍‍	17	–	7	–	0		.708			24	–	26	–	0		.480
Coppin State  ‍‍‍	15	–	9	–	0		.625			24	–	24	–	0		.500
Delaware State  ‍‍‍	12	–	12	–	0		.500			20	–	25	–	0		.444
Maryland Eastern Shore  ‍‍‍	4	–	20	–	0		.167			10	–	44	–	0		.185
Southern
North Carolina A&T  x‍‍‍	16	–	8	–	0		.667			29	–	24	–	0		.547
Florida A&M  ‍‍‡‍y	14	–	10	–	0		.583			27	–	34	–	0		.443
North Carolina Central  ‍‍‍	10	–	14	–	0		.417			21	–	28	–	0		.429
Savannah State  ‍‍‍	10	–	14	–	0		.417			13	–	27	–	1		.329
Bethune-Cookman  ‍‍‍	10	–	14	–	0		.417			17	–	38	–	0		.309
x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 4, 2019 Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament began on May 15 and ended on May 18 at Jackie Robinson Ballpark on the campus of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, FL. It was a six-team double elimination tournament. The winner, Florida A&M, claimed the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Bethune-Cookman had claimed sixteen of the prior twenty tournament championships, with North Carolina A&T earning the 2005 and 2018 titles, Florida A&M winning in 2015, and Savannah State in 2013.

Format and seeding

The top three teams in the North and South Division were seeded one through three based on regular season records, with first round matchups of the second seed from the North and the third seed from the South, and the second seed from the South and the third seed from the North. The winners advanced in the winners' bracket, while first round losers played elimination games. The top seed from each division earned a first round bye.

Bracket

Upper round 1

Upper round 2

Upper final

Final

1N

Norfolk State

7

2S

Florida A&M

13

2S

Florida A&M

2

3N

Delaware State

3

1N

Norfolk State

4

1S

North Carolina A&T

2

1S

North Carolina A&T

5

2N

Coppin State

3

3S

Savannah State

4

3S

Savannah State

7

1N

Norfolk State

4

1

2S

Florida A&M

5

8

Lower round 1

Lower round 2

Lower round 3

Lower final

2S

Florida A&M

6

3N

Delaware State

8

1S

North Carolina A&T

2

3N

Delaware State

5

2S

Florida A&M

9

3N

Delaware State

6

3S

Savannah State

4

2N

Coppin State

5

Game summaries

Conference championship

MEAC Championship
(2S) Florida A&M Rattlers	vs.	(1N) Norfolk State Spartans

May 18, 2019, 1:00 pm EDT, at Jackie Robinson Park in Daytona Beach, Florida, 81 °F (27 °C), clear

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
(2S) Florida A&M	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	5	7	1
(1N) Norfolk State	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	4	10	2
WP: Jeremiah McCollum (5–2)   LP: Trey Hanchey (3–1)   Sv: None Home runs: FAMU: None NSU: Alsander Womack (3); Caleb Ward (5) Attendance: 300

May 18, 2019, 5:00 pm EDT, at Jackie Robinson Park in Daytona Beach, Florida, 80 °F (27 °C), clear

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
(2S) Florida A&M	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	8	11	1
(1N) Norfolk State	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	4
WP: Kyle Coleman (6–5)   LP: Kevin Alicea (2–5)   Sv: None Home runs: FAMU: None NSU: None Attendance: 250