2008 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

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2008 Atlantic 10 Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	6
Format	Six-team double elimination First-round byes for top two seeds
Finals site	Campbell's Field Camden, NJ
Champions	Charlotte (2nd title)
Winning coach	Loren Hibbs (2nd title)
MVP	Rob Lyerly (Charlotte)
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The 2008 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held from May 21 through 24 at Campbell's Field in Camden, New Jersey. It featured the top six regular-season finishers of the conference's 14 teams. Second-seeded Charlotte defeated Xavier in the title game to win the tournament for the second straight year, earning the A-10's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA tournament.^[1]

Seeding and format

The league's top six teams, based on winning percentage in the 27-game regular-season schedule, were seeded one through six. The top two seeds, Xavier and Charlotte, received byes into the second round of play in the double elimination tournament.^[1]

In the tie for first place, the conference's tiebreaking procedures gave Xavier the top seed.

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Seed
Xavier	19	8	.704	–	1
Charlotte	19	8	.704	–	2
Duquesne	16	10	.615	2.5	3
Temple	16	11	.593	3	4
Rhode Island	15	11	.574	3.5	5
St. Bonaventure	15	12	.556	4	6
Dayton	13	14	.481	6	–
Fordham	13	14	.481	6	–
George Washington	11	16	.407	8	–
La Salle	11	16	.407	8	–
Massachusetts	11	16	.407	8	–
Richmond	10	16	.389	8.5	–
Saint Louis	9	17	.346	9.5	–
Saint Joseph's	9	18	.333	10	–

Bracket


Round 1			Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Final



			1	Xavier	4

5	Rhode Island	7	5	Rhode Island	11

4	Temple	1				5	Rhode Island	1

						2	Charlotte	11

			2	Charlotte	13

6	St. Bonaventure	6	3	Duquesne	7

3	Duquesne	16
									2	Charlotte	4¹¹

									1	Xavier	3

Lower round 1			Lower round 2			Lower final



4	Temple	5
						5	Rhode Island	0
6	St. Bonaventure	2
			1	Xavier	9	1	Xavier	3

			3	Duquesne	5
3	Duquesne	10

4	Temple	7

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Charlotte's Rob Lyerly, one of four 49ers selected, was named Most Outstanding Player.^[1]^[2]

Duquesne's Bill Torre (2005) was a second-time selection.

Pos.	Name	Team
1B	Alex Burt	Charlotte
IF	Jordan Conley	Xavier
P	Mike Creevy	Xavier
IF	Rob Lyerly	Charlotte
C	Derek Mechling	Duquesne
P	Mike Mongiardini	Temple
OF	Stan Orzechowski	Temple
P	Brett Palanski	Rhode Island
P	Danny Rosenbaum	Xavier
P	Luke Stahl	Charlotte
OF	O'Brien Taylor	Charlotte
IF	Bill Torre	Duquesne

Notes

This was Duquesne's final appearance in the tournament as the baseball program folded in 2010 due to budget cuts.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "2014 Atlantic 10 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Atlantic10.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 19, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
^ Phillips, Duncan (February 4, 2009). "49ers Look to Lyerly". CollegeBaseballInsider.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2014.

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