The 2017 Summit League baseball tournament took place from May 24 through 27. The top four regular season finishers of the league's six teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at J. L. Johnson Stadium on the campus of Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The winner of the tournament will earn the Summit League's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3][4]
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Oral Roberts (18th title) |
| Winning coach | Ryan Folmar (3rd title) |
| MVP | Miguel Ausua (Oral Roberts) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oral Roberts †‡y | 25 | – | 4 | .862 | 42 | – | 14 | .750 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota State | 19 | – | 11 | .633 | 31 | – | 25 | .554 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota State | 18 | – | 12 | .600 | 26 | – | 24 | .520 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Illinois | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | 18 | – | 32 | .360 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Omaha | 9 | – | 19 | .321 | 12 | – | 40 | .231 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fort Wayne | 4 | – | 26 | .133 | 9 | – | 43 | .173 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship As of May 27, 2017[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeding
editThe top four finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage during the double round robin regular season. The teams will then play a double elimination tournament.
Results
edit| First round | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Western Illinois | 2 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3 | South Dakota State | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | South Dakota State | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota State | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | ||||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota State | ||||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota State | 8 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Western Illinois | 4 | 3 | South Dakota State | 2 | ||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota State | 11 | |||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Conference Standings". D1Baseball.com. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
- ^ "2016-17 Summit League Championships Calendar". Summit League. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
- ^ "Summit League Announces 2017 Baseball/Softball League Schedules". Summit League. September 22, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
- ^ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.