1992 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1992 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Southeastern Louisiana Diamond on the campus of Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. This was the fourteenth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its fourteenth year of existence. Southeastern Louisiana won their first tournament championship in their first year in the league and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1992 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2]
| Teams | 4 |
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| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Southeastern Louisiana (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Greg Marten (1st title) |
| MVP | Kirk Bullinger, Southeastern Louisiana |
| 1992 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stetson xy | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 38 | – | 21 | .644 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIU x | 13 | – | 5 | .722 | 36 | – | 23 | .610 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mercer | 8 | – | 10 | .444 | 29 | – | 20 | .592 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College of Charleston | 2 | – | 16 | .111 | 16 | – | 29 | .356 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southeastern Louisiana x†‡y | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 38 | – | 22 | .633 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Centenary x† | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 31 | – | 27 | .534 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Samford | 0 | – | 16 | .000 | 13 | – | 43 | .232 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia State | 0 | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | 30 | .063 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1992[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format and seeding
The 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. Georgia State was ineligible and did not play games that counted in the conference standings, having restarted their program for the 1992 season.[2] Both top seeds were claimed by tiebreaker.
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Bracket
| First Round | Semi-Finals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1E | Stetson | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 2W | Centenary | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 2W | Centenary | 16 | ||||||||||||
| 1W | Southeastern Louisiana | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 1W | Southeastern Louisiana | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 2E | FIU | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2W | Centenary | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 1W | Southeastern Louisiana | 9 | 12 | |||||||||||
| 1E | Stetson | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2E | FIU | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1W | Southeastern Louisiana | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 2E | FIU | 7 | ||||||||||||
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[2]
| POS | Player | School |
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| P | Kirk Bullinger | Southeastern Louisiana |
| Steve Jiminez | Southeastern Louisiana | |
| C | David Wyss | Centenary |
| 1B | Chris Finley | Southeastern Louisiana |
| 2B | Johnny Castanon | Southeastern Louisiana |
| 3B | Greg Elliott | Southeastern Louisiana |
| Deron Thornton | FIU | |
| SS | Kiley Hughes | Southeastern Louisiana |
| DH | Brian Stier | Centenary |
| OF | Troy Melancon | Southeastern Louisiana |
| Ray Ferrand | Southeastern Louisiana | |
| Jason Parker | Centenary |
Most Valuable Player
Kirk Bullinger was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Bullinger was a pitcher for Southeastern Louisiana.[2]
References
- Atlantic Sun Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic Sun Conference. p. 5. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic Sun Conference. Retrieved December 2, 2019.