1998 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

1998 Southeastern Conference
Baseball TournamentTeams| 8

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Format| Two pools of four-team double elimination
Finals site|

* Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
* Hoover, Alabama

Champions| Auburn (3rd title)
Winning coach| Hal Baird (2nd title)
MVP| Rodney Nye (Arkansas)
Attendance| 87,295

* ← 1997
* SEC Baseball Tournament
* 1999 →

1998 Southeastern Conference baseball standings

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| Conf |  |  | Overall
Team | W |  | L |  | PCT |  |  | W |  | L |  | PCT
Eastern Division
No. 7 Florida x‍†‍‍y | 21 | - | 8 |  | .724 |  |  | 46 | - | 18 |  | .719
No. 19 South Carolina ‍‍‍y | 19 | - | 10 |  | .655 |  |  | 42 | - | 16 |  | .724
Kentucky ‍‍‍ | 12 | - | 18 |  | .400 |  |  | 26 | - | 31 |  | .456
Tennessee ‍‍‍ | 11 | - | 17 |  | .393 |  |  | 36 | - | 20 |  | .643
Georgia ‍‍‍ | 8 | - | 21 |  | .276 |  |  | 24 | - | 30 |  | .444
Vanderbilt ‍‍‍ | 6 | - | 24 |  | .200 |  |  | 25 | - | 28 |  | .472
Western Division
No. 3 LSU x‍‍‍y | 21 | - | 9 |  | .700 |  |  | 48 | - | 19 |  | .716
No. 16 Alabama ‍‍‍y | 19 | - | 10 |  | .655 |  |  | 43 | - | 16 |  | .729
No. 12 Auburn ‍‍‡‍y | 16 | - | 12 |  | .571 |  |  | 46 | - | 18 |  | .719
No. 6 Mississippi State ‍‍‍y | 14 | - | 15 |  | .483 |  |  | 37 | - | 20 |  | .649
Arkansas ‍‍‍y | 13 | - | 14 |  | .481 |  |  | 37 | - | 19 |  | .661
Ole Miss ‍‍‍ | 13 | - | 15 |  | .464 |  |  | 30 | - | 23 |  | .566
x - Division champion
† - Conference champion
‡ - Tournament champion
y - Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1998[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1998 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama from May 13th through May 17th. Auburn defeated Arkansas in the championship game, earning the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

## Contents

* 1 Regular Season Results
* 2 Tournament
* 3 All-Tournament Team
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Regular Season Results[edit]

The top four teams (based on conference results) from both the Eastern and Western Divisions earned invites to the tournament. The 12 teams played a 30-game conference schedule, playing 10 three-game series. Each team did not play one team from the opposite division.

For the first time, the SEC tournament used the Omaha format, which was first adopted at the College World Series in 1988. The eight teams were seeded and divided into two four-team brackets; seeds 2, 3, 6 and 7 made up bracket one and seeds 1, 4, 5 and 8 made up bracket two. Bracket play was double elimination. The two bracket winners met in a single championship game.

## Tournament[edit]

| First round | | | Second round | | | Semifinals | | | Finals |

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| 6 | Mississippi State | 9 | | | |
| 3 | South Carolina | 8 |
| | 6 | Mississippi State | 3 |
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| | | 7 | Arkansas | 10 |
| 7 | Arkansas | 8 |

| 2 | LSU | 4 |
| | 7 | Arkansas | 7 | \- |
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| | | 6 | Mississippi State | 3 | \- |
| 3 | South Carolina | 0 | |

| 2 | LSU | 6 |
| | 6 | Mississippi State | 7 |
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| | 7 | Arkansas | 5 |
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| | | 5 | Auburn | 7 |
| 5 | Auburn | 11 | | |

| 4 | Alabama | 8 |
| | 5 | Auburn |  |
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| | | 1 | Florida | 4 |
| 8 | Kentucky | 4 |

| 1 | Florida | 6 |
| | 5 | Auburn | 3 | 9 |
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| 5 | Alabama | 8 | |

| 8 | Kentucky | 3 |
| | 1 | Florida | 2 |
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| | | 4 | Alabama | 3 |

* Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt did not make the tournament.

## All-Tournament Team[edit]

Most Valuable Player Rodney Nye, Arkansas

Position  | Player  | School

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1B  | Rodney Nye | Arkansas
2B  | Heath Kelly | Auburn
3B  | Chad Wandall | Auburn
SS  | Joe Jester | Arkansas
C  | Brent Caldwell | Arkansas
OF  | Hayden Gliemmo | Auburn
OF  | Drew Bounds | Alabama
OF  | Jack Welsh  | Arkansas
DH  | Jayson Cox | Alabama
P  | Randy Keisler | Louisiana State
P  | Jarrod Kingrey | Alabama
MVP | Rodney Nye | Arkansas

## See also[edit]

* College World Series
* NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
* Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

## References[edit]

1. ^ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1998". Boyd's World. Retrieved May 3, 2015.

* SECSports.com All-Time Baseball Tournament Results
* SECSports.com All-Tourney Team Lists

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