Collegiate baseball tournament
2010 Conference USA baseball tournament Teams 6 Format Two groups of round robin followed by a championship game Finals site Champions Southern Mississippi (2nd title)Winning coach Scott Berry (1st title)MVP Scott Copeland (Southern Mississippi)
The 2010 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2010 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA , held at Cougar Field in Houston, Texas , from May 26–May 30, 2010. Southern Miss won the tournament and received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I baseball tournament .
The tournament format changed from that which had been used since the 2000 tournament . It consisted of six teams split into two three-team pods. Each team played a total of three preliminary games, two against its podmates and one against a team from the opposite pod. The team with the best record in each pod going advanced to a single-game final.[ 2]
Regular season results
Bracket
Houston vs. Marshall in the 2010 C-USA baseball tournament
Pod 1
Pos
Team
Pld
W
L
RF
RA
RD
PCT
Qualification
1
Rice
3
3
0
53
6
+47
1.000
Advance to Finals
2
Marshall
3
1
2
17
36
−19
.333
3
Houston
3
1
2
20
41
−21
.333
Pod 2
Finals
Rice
4
Southern Miss
7
Results
Game
Winning Team
Score
Losing Team
1
Southern Miss
8–2
Memphis
2
Rice
11–3
East Carolina
3
Houston
11–7
Marshall
4
East Carolina
8–1
Southern Miss
5
Marshall
10–7
Memphis
6
Rice
24–3
Houston
7
Memphis
3–2
East Carolina
8
Rice
18–0
Marshall
9
Southern Miss
10–6
Houston
10
Southern Miss
7–4
Rice
Finish order
† - Winner of the tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
# - Received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
All-Tournament Team
Position
Player
School
C
Diego Seastrunk
Rice
IF
Rick Hague
Rice
IF
Anthony Rendon
Rice
IF
B.A. Vollmuth
Southern Miss
IF
Taylor Walker
Southern Miss
OF
Michael Fuda
Rice
OF
Chad Mozingo
Rice
OF
Steven Sultzbaugh
Rice
DH
M.P. Cokinos
Houston
P
Scott Copeland
Southern Miss
P
Seth Maness
East Carolina
P
Brennon Martin
Memphis
P
Jared Rogers
Rice
MVP
Scott Copeland
Southern Miss
(*)Denotes Unanimous Selection
References
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