2012 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament

2012 Big South Conference
Baseball TournamentTeams| 8

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Format| Double-elimination
Finals site|

* George S. Erath Field at Coy O. Williard Baseball Stadium
* High Point, NC

Champions| Coastal Carolina (13th title)
Winning coach| Gary Gilmore (10th title)
MVP| Aaron Burke/Ryan Connolly (Coastal Carolina)

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2012 Big South Conference baseball standings

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| Conf |  |  | Overall
Team | W |  | L |  | T |  | PCT |  |  | W |  | L |  | T |  | PCT
Coastal Carolina ‍†‍‡‍y | 18 | - | 5 | - | 0 |  | .783 |  |  | 38 | - | 17 | - | 0 |  | .691
Campbell ‍‍‍ | 15 | - | 9 | - | 0 |  | .625 |  |  | 40 | - | 16 | - | 0 |  | .714
Liberty ‍‍‍ | 14 | - | 10 | - | 0 |  | .583 |  |  | 39 | - | 18 | - | 0 |  | .684
Gardner–Webb ‍‍‍ | 12 | - | 12 | - | 0 |  | .500 |  |  | 30 | - | 27 | - | 0 |  | .526
Radford ‍‍‍ | 12 | - | 12 | - | 0 |  | .500 |  |  | 29 | - | 26 | - | 1 |  | .527
UNC Asheville ‍‍‍ | 12 | - | 12 | - | 0 |  | .500 |  |  | 25 | - | 29 | - | 0 |  | .463
High Point ‍‍‍ | 11 | - | 13 | - | 0 |  | .458 |  |  | 26 | - | 29 | - | 0 |  | .473
Charleston Southern ‍‍‍ | 11 | - | 13 | - | 0 |  | .458 |  |  | 20 | - | 35 | - | 0 |  | .364
Presbyterian ‍‍‍ | 10 | - | 14 | - | 0 |  | .417 |  |  | 24 | - | 31 | - | 0 |  | .436
Winthrop ‍‍‍ | 9 | - | 14 | - | 0 |  | .391 |  |  | 17 | - | 35 | - | 0 |  | .327
VMI ‍‍‍ | 7 | - | 17 | - | 0 |  | .292 |  |  | 16 | - | 36 | - | 0 |  | .308
† - Conference champion
‡ - Tournament champion
y - Invited to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
As of May 22, 2012[1]; Rankings from Coaches' Poll

The 2012 Big South Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22–26. The top eight regular season finishers of the ten eligible teams met in the double-elimination tournament which was held at George S. Erath Field at Coy O. Williard Baseball Stadium on the campus of High Point University in High Point, NC. Presbyterian was not eligible for postseason play in any sport until the 2012–2013 academic year due to its transition to Division I. Top seeded Coastal Carolina won their thirteenth championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2][3]

## Contents

* 1 Seeding
* 2 Results
* 3 All-Tournament Team
* 3.1 Most Valuable Player
* 4 References

## Seeding[edit]

The top eight finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through eight.

Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Seed

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Coastal Carolina | 18 | 5 | .783 | – | 1
Campbell | 15 | 9 | .625 | 3.5 | 2
Liberty | 14 | 10 | .583 | 4.5 | 3
Gardner–Webb | 12 | 12 | .500 | 6.5 | 4
Radford | 12 | 12 | .500 | 6.5 | 5
UNC Asheville | 12 | 12 | .500 | 6.5 | 6
High Point | 11 | 13 | .458 | 7.5 | 7
Charleston Southern | 11 | 13 | .458 | 7.5 | 8
Presbyterian | 10 | 14 | .417 | 8.5 | –
Winthrop | 9 | 14 | .391 | 9.5 | –
VMI | 7 | 17 | .292 | 11.5 | –

## Results[edit]

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

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| 5 | Radford | 8 | | | |
| 4 | Gardner–Webb | 2 |
| | 1 | Coastal Carolina | 5 |
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| | | 5 | Radford | 3 |
| 8 | Charleston Southern | 8 |

| 1 | Coastal Carolina | 9 |
| | 7 | High Point | 3 |  |
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| | | 1 | Coastal Carolina | 4 |  |
| 4 | Gardner–Webb | 4 | |

| 8 | Charleston Southern | 3 |
| | 5 | Radford | 0 |
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| | | 4 | Gardner–Webb | 11 |
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| | 3 | Liberty | 1 |
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| | | 1 | Coastal Carolina | 4 |
| 6 | UNC Asheville | 2 | | |

| 3 | Liberty | 9 |
| | 3 | Liberty | 7 |
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| | | 2 | Campbell | 0 |
| 7 | High Point | 4 |

| 2 | Campbell | 10 |
| | 4 | Gardner Webb | 3 |  |
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| | | 3 | Liberty | 4 |  |
| 7 | High Point | 7 | |

| 6 | UNC Asheville | 1 |
| | 2 | Campbell | 2 |
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| | | 7 | High Point | 9 |

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## All-Tournament Team[edit]

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[3]

POS  | Player  | Team

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P | Aaron Burke | Coastal Carolina
P | Ryan Connolly | Coastal Carolina
P | Patrick Eckelbarger | Liberty
P | Beau Hilton | Gardner-Webb
DH | Alex Buccilli | Coastal Carolina
OF | Daniel Bowman | Coastal Carolina
OF | Devin Bujnovsky | High Point
OF | Benji Jackson | Gardner-Webb
INF | Rich Witten | Coastal Carolina
INF | Alex Close | Liberty
INF | Ryan Retz | High Point
INF | Dusty Quattlebaum | Gardner-Webb
C | Trey Wimmer | Liberty
UTL | Spencer Angelis | High Point

### Most Valuable Player[edit]

Aaron Burke and Ryan Connolly were named co-Most Valuable Players. Burke and Connolly were both pitchers for Coastal Carolina.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Baseball standings". bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
2. ^ a b "2012 Big South Baseball Championship". bigsouthsports.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
3. ^ a b c d "Coastal Carolina Wins Big South Baseball Championship". Big South Conference. May 26, 2012. Retrieved April 14, 2013.

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