The 2019 Horizon League baseball tournament was held from May 22 through 25. All six of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at the home field of the regular season champion. The winner of the tournament, UIC, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[3]
| Teams | 6 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination |
| Champions | UIC (6th title) |
| Winning coach | Mike Dee (5th title) |
| MVP | Ryan Hampe (UIC[1]) |
| Television | ESPN+ |
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| Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wright State † | 22 | – | 8 | – | 0 | .733 | 42 | – | 17 | – | 0 | .712 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Milwaukee | 18 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .621 | 35 | – | 21 | – | 1 | .623 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UIC ‡y | 18 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .621 | 29 | – | 23 | – | 0 | .558 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Kentucky | 12 | – | 18 | – | 0 | .400 | 15 | – | 42 | – | 0 | .263 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oakland | 9 | – | 18 | – | 0 | .333 | 11 | – | 37 | – | 0 | .229 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youngstown State | 7 | – | 20 | – | 0 | .259 | 13 | – | 41 | – | 0 | .241 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 4, 2019[2] Rankings from D1Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeding and format
editThe league's teams were seeded one through six based on winning percentage, using conference games only. The bottom four seeds participated in a play-in round, with winners advancing to a double-elimination tournament also including the top two seeds.
Bracket
editPlay-In Round
edit| Team | R |
|---|---|
| #6 Youngstown State | 3 |
| #3 Milwaukee | 12 |
| Team | R |
|---|---|
| #5 Oakland | 8 |
| #4 Northern Kentucky | 9 |
Double-Elimination Rounds
edit| First round | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | Wright State | 15 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Northern Kentucky | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Wright State | 610 | |||||||||||
| 2 | UIC | 11 | |||||||||||
| 2 | UIC | 18 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Milwaukee | 10 | |||||||||||
| 2 | UIC | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Milwaukee | ||||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Wright State | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Northern Kentucky | 1 | 3 | Milwaukee | 10 | ||||||||
| 3 | Milwaukee | 9 | |||||||||||
Conference championship
edit| Horizon League Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| (3) Milwaukee Panthers | vs. | (2) UIC Flames |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (3) Milwaukee | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (2) UIC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 6 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Nick Oliff (1–0) LP: Jared Reklaitis (9–5) Sv: Alex Padilla (7) Attendance: 174 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "2019 Horizon League Baseball Championship - Horizon League". horizonleague.org. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ "Horizon League baseball standings, teams, and schedules". D1Baseball. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
- ^ "Horizon League Championships". Horizon League. Retrieved December 9, 2018.