2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament

2009 Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2009
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site Lupton Stadium
Fort Worth, TX
Champions Utah (1st title)
MVP Tyler Yagi (Utah)
Television Mountiain/CBS Sports Network
Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2008  2010»
2009 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#17 TCU †y 15 – 5   .750     40 – 18   .690
New Mexico 15 – 8   .652     37 – 20   .649
BYU 14 – 8   .636     30 – 24   .556
San Diego State y 15 – 9   .625     41 – 23   .641
UNLV 9 – 15   .375     26 – 32   .448
Utah ‡y 8 – 16   .333     28 – 31   .475
Air Force 3 – 18   .143     14 – 37   .275
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
As of June 8, 2009[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 19–23. The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Texas Christian University's Lupton Stadium. Sixth seeded Utah won their first and only Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 9-3 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2][3] Utah joined the Pac-12 Conference after the 2011 season without winning another title.

Seeding

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field.

Team W L Pct. GB Seed
TCU 15 5 .750
–
1
New Mexico 15 8 .652
1.5
2
BYU 14 8 .636
2
3
San Diego State 15 9 .625
2
4
UNLV 9 15 .375
8
5
Utah 8 16 .333
9
6
Air Force 3 18 .143
12.5
–

Results

  First round Second round Third Round Semi-Finals Finals
                                                 
Winner's Bracket
  3  BYU 1     1  TCU 7  
  6  Utah 2     6  Utah 9    
      6  Utah 8              
      4  San Diego State 9              
  4  San Diego State 12     2  New Mexico 1          
  5  UNLV 1     4  San Diego State 2        
        6  Utah 4 9
Loser's Bracket       4  San Diego State 1 3
  3  BYU 5        
  5  UNLV 4          
      2  New Mexico 1        
      3  BYU 5          
            1  TCU 9              
          3  BYU 2              
      6  Utah 6    
    1  TCU 4  

[4]

All-Tournament Team

Name POS Team
Marc Oslund RHP BYU
Matt Vern 1B TCU
Kyle Winkler RHP TCU
Erik Castro 3B/C San Diego State
Stephen Strasburg RHP San Diego State
C. J. Cron C/DH Utah
Corey Shimada 2B Utah
Jordan Whatcott RHP Utah
Tyler Yagi OF Utah
Devin Walker DH Utah
Greg Krause RP Utah

Most Valuable Player

Tyler Yagi, an outfielder for the champion Utah Utes, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Mountain West Conference Baseball Final Standings". themwc.com. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ "2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Conference Championship Central". themwc.com. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Sixth-Seeded Utah Wins First-Ever MWC Baseball Tournament Title With a 9-3 Victory over Fourth-Seeded San Diego State". themwc.com. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  4. ↑ "2009 Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship" (PDF). themwc.com. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
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