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2013 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division

Champions
  
UTSA (1st title)

Teams
  
8

Format
  
2 pool round-robin tournament with championship game

Site
  
QuikTrip Park Grand Prairie, TX

Winning coach
  
Jason Marshall (1st title)

The 2013 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held beginning May 22 and ending on May 26. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's ten teams met in the round-robin tournament held at QuikTrip Park in Grand Prairie, TX. UTSA won their first tournament championship and earned the Western Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. UTSA departed for Conference USA after the 2013 season, again leaving the conference with no team that had ever won the tournament for 2014.

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Seeding and format

The top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded based on conference winning percentage. They were divided into two groups of four, which played a round robin format. The winners of each group then played a single championship game.

Results

All times shown are US CDT. If 2 teams tie in pool play, the head-to-head winner advances to the final.

All-Tournament Team

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

Most Valuable Player

Matt Sims was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Sims was a pitcher for UTSA.

References

2013 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament Wikipedia