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2009 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

2009 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 8
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Kent State (7th title)
Winning coach Scott Stricklin (2nd title)
MVP Chris Tremblay (Kent State)
2009 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East Division
Bowling Green x 18 – 8   .692     28 – 22   .560
Ohio 18 – 9   .667     29 – 24   .547
Kent State ‡y 17 – 9   .654     43 – 17   .717
Miami 15 – 12   .556     30 – 25   .545
Akron 12 – 15   .444     19 – 33   .365
Buffalo 6 – 20   .231     20 – 35   .364
West Division
Ball State x 14 – 10   .583     26 – 25   .510
Toledo 14 – 12   .538     24 – 30   .444
Eastern Michigan 13 – 14   .481     25 – 35   .417
Central Michigan 12 – 15   .444     28 – 30   .483
Northern Illinois 10 – 16   .385     19 – 34   .358
Western Michigan 9 – 18   .333     14 – 35   .286
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
As of June 2, 2009; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2009 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 20–23. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams, regardless of division, met in the double-elimination tournament held at V.A. Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio. Kent State won their seventh tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The winners of each division claim the top two seeds, with the next six teams, based on conference winning percentage claim the third through eight seeds. Kent State claimed the second seed by tiebreaker over Bowling Green, while Toledo claimed the third seed over Ball State. The teams played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament leading to a final matching the winners of each bracket.

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Chris Tremblay won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Tremblay was an infielder for Kent State.


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