2010 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament explained

Year:2010
Conference:Mountain West Conference
Teams:6
Format:Double-elimination
Ballpark:Tony Gwynn Stadium
City:San Diego, CA
Champions:TCU
Mvp:Bryan Holaday
Mvpteam:TCU
Television:Mountain/CBS Sports Network

The 2010 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 25 through 29. The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at San Diego State's Tony Gwynn Stadium. Top seeded TCU won their fourth Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 2–0 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1] [2]

Seeding

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field.

Team W L Pct. GB Seed
21 5 .808
14 8 .636
13 11 .542
12 12 .500
11 13 .458
10 13 .435
3 20 .130

Results

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All-Tournament Team

Name Team
Sean McNaughton BYU
Justin Howard New Mexico
Ryan Honeycutt New Mexico
Mike Lachapelle New Mexico
Taylor Featherton TCU
Bryan Holaday (MVP) TCU
TCU
Kyle Winkler TCU
Jarred Frierson UNLV
Tanner Peters UNLV
Utah
Nick Kuroczko Utah

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2010 Mountain West Conference Baseball Conference Championship Central. themwc.com. 2012-07-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20111226032918/http://www.themwc.com/champ/basebl-champ-2010.html. 2011-12-26. dead.
  2. Web site: TCU Punches NCAA Tournament Ticket with 2–0 Win over New Mexico. https://archive.today/20130204115034/http://www.themwc.com/sports/m-basebl/recaps/052910aab.html. dead. February 4, 2013. themwc.com. 2012-07-04.
  3. Web site: 2010 Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship. themwc.com. 2012-07-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20100601202034/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mwc/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/mwc-10-champ-bracket.pdf. 2010-06-01. dead.