2013 Summit League Baseball Tournament

2013 Summit League baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Nebraska–Omaha †	20	–	6	.769	27	–	22	.551
South Dakota State ‡^y	16	–	10	.615	35	–	24	.593
Oakland	15	–	13	.536	20	–	33	.377
North Dakota State	11	–	13	.458	24	–	25	.490
Western Illinois	9	–	17	.346	19	–	35	.352
IPFW	9	–	21	.300	22	–	32	.407

† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 2013^[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2013 Summit League Baseball Tournament took place from May 23–26. The top four regular season finishers of the league's five eligible teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Oakland University Baseball Field in Rochester, Michigan. Nebraska–Omaha was not eligible. South Dakota State claimed their first tournament championship and earned the Summit League's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Seeding

The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage. The teams then played a double elimination tournament. Nebraska–Omaha, in its first year in the Summit League and second at the Division I level, was not eligible for the tournament due to NCAA reclassification rules.

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Seed
Nebraska–Omaha	20	6	.769	–	–
South Dakota State	16	10	.615	4	1
Oakland	15	13	.536	6	2
North Dakota State	11	13	.458	8	3
Western Illinois	9	17	.346	11	4
IPFW	9	21	.300	13	–

Results

First Round			Semi-Finals			Finals

1	South Dakota State	2
4	Western Illinois	4
			4	Western Illinois	0

			3	North Dakota State	3
2	Oakland	0

3	North Dakota State	2
						3	North Dakota State	0	0

						1	South Dakota State	2	1
1	South Dakota State	8

2	Oakland	4
			1	South Dakota State	5

			4	Western Illinois	4

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.^[2]^[4]

Name	School
Stephen Bougher	South Dakota State
Dan Dispensa	Western Illinois
Kolton Emery	South Dakota State
David Ernst	North Dakota State
Tanner Glore	Western Illinois
Jason Hager	Oakland
Nolan Jacoby	Oakland
Kyle Kleinendorst	North Dakota State
Aaron Michel	Western Illinois
J. D. Moore	South Dakota State
Wes Satzinger	North Dakota State
Scott Splett	South Dakota State
John Straka	North Dakota State
Daniel Telford	South Dakota State

Most Valuable Player

Daniel Telford of South Dakota State was named Tournament Most Valuable Player, recording a pair of doubles and driving in the only run of the championship game.^[2]^[4]

References

↑ "2013 Baseball Standings". Summit League. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
1 2 3 "Conference Championship Central". NCAA.org. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
↑ "The 2013 Summit League Baseball Championship". The Summit League. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
1 2 3 "South Dakota State Captures League Baseball Championship". The Summit League. May 26, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2014.

Summit League Baseball Tournament

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2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournaments

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