2019 Horizon League Baseball Tournament

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2019 Horizon League
Baseball Tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination
ChampionsUIC
Winning coachMike Dee (5th title)
MVPRyan Hampe (UIC[1])
TelevisionESPN+
2019 Horizon League baseball standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
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

The 2019 Horizon League Baseball Tournament was held from May 22–25. 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]

Seeding and format[]

The 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[]

Play-In Round[]

Team R
#6 Youngstown State 3
#3 Milwaukee 12
Team R
#5 Oakland 8
#4 Northern Kentucky 9

Double-Elimination Rounds[]

  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 6 –
  3 Milwaukee 5 –
4 Northern Kentucky 1  
3 Milwaukee 9  
  1 Wright State 9
  3 Milwaukee 10  

Conference championship[]

Horizon League Championship
(3) Milwaukee Panthers vs. (2) UIC Flames
May 25, 2019, 12:00 p.m. (EDT) at Nischwitz Stadium in Fairborn, Ohio
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[]

  1. ^ "2019 Horizon League Baseball Championship - Horizon League". horizonleague.org. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "Horizon League baseball standings, teams, and schedules". D1Baseball. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  3. ^ "Horizon League Championships". Horizon League. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
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