The 1990 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament was held at Centenary Park on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana. This was the twelfth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its twelfth year of existence. Stetson won their third consecutive and overall tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2]
Teams | 4 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | Stetson (3rd title) |
Winning coach | Pete Dunn (3rd title) |
MVP | Todd Greene (Georgia Southern) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 8 Georgia Southern x†y | 17 | – | 1 | .944 | 50 | – | 19 | .725 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stetson ‡y | 10 | – | 8 | .556 | 33 | – | 31 | .516 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Samford | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 25 | – | 28 | .472 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mercer | 2 | – | 14 | .125 | 15 | – | 34 | .306 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Centenary x | 12 | – | 3 | .800 | 40 | – | 18 | .690 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arkansas–Little Rock | 8 | – | 7 | .533 | 33 | – | 20 | .623 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hardin–Simmons | 3 | – | 9 | .250 | 16 | – | 41 | .281 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1990[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
Format and seeding
editThe top two finishers from each division by conference winning percentage qualified for the tournament, with the top seed from one division playing the second seed from the opposite in the first round.
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Bracket
editFirst round | Semi-finals | Finals | ||||||||||||
1E | Georgia Southern | 6 | ||||||||||||
2W | Arkansas–Little Rock | 8 | ||||||||||||
2W | Arkansas–Little Rock | 8 | ||||||||||||
2E | Stetson | 11 | ||||||||||||
1W | Centenary | 10 | ||||||||||||
2E | Stetson | 14 | ||||||||||||
2E | Stetson | 2 | 15 | |||||||||||
1E | Georgia Southern | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | |||||||||||||
2W | Arkansas–Little Rock | 4 | ||||||||||||
1E | Georgia Southern | 14 | 1E | Georgia Southern | 14 | |||||||||
1W | Centenary | 5 | ||||||||||||
All-Tournament Team
editThe following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[2]
POS | Player | School |
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P | Jim Waring | Stetson |
Randall Clayton | Arkansas–Little Rock | |
C | Rick Murray | Stetson |
1B | Mike Yuro | Georgia Southern |
2B | Mike Ferreira | Stetson |
3B | Mike Pinckes | Stetson |
SS | Steven Booras | Centenary |
OF | Todd Greene | Georgia Southern |
Mike Sempeles | Stetson | |
Wes Sullivan | Arkansas–Little Rock | |
DH | Rob Fitzpatrick | Georgia Southern |
Most Valuable Player
editTodd Greene was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Greene was an outfielder for Georgia Southern.[2]
References
edit- ^ Atlantic Sun Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic Sun Conference. p. 5. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- ^ a b c Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic Sun Conference. Retrieved October 12, 2019.