2011 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament

2011 Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2011
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site Tony Gwynn Stadium
San Diego, CA
Champions New Mexico (1st title)
MVP D.J. Peterson (New Mexico)
Television Mountiain/CBS Sports Network
Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2010  2012»

The 2011 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 24–28 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. Sixth seeded New Mexico won their first Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 4-2 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[1][2]

Seeding

2011 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#17 TCU y 20 3   .870     43 19   .694
Utah 16 7   .696     29 21   .580
BYU 11 12   .478     31 27   .534
San Diego State 11 13   .458     22 36   .379
UNLV 10 13   .435     33 25   .569
New Mexico y 10 14   .417     20 41   .328
Air Force 4 20   .167     19 36   .345
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
As of June 30, 2011[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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
TCU 20 3 .870
1
Utah 16 7 .696
4
2
BYU 11 12 .478
9
3
San Diego State 11 13 .458
9.5
4
UNLV 10 13 .435
10
5
New Mexico 10 14 .417
10.5
6
Air Force 4 20 .167
16.5

Results

  First round Second round Third Round Semi-Finals Finals
                                                 
Winner's Bracket
  3  BYU 4     1  TCU 3  
  6  New Mexico 5     6  New Mexico 4    
      6  New Mexico 6              
      2  Utah 5              
  4  San Diego State 4     2  Utah 7          
  5  UNLV 3     4  San Diego State 3        
        6  New Mexico 4  
Loser's Bracket       1  TCU 2  
  3  BYU 5        
  5  UNLV 1          
      4  San Diego State 2        
      3  BYU 8          
            1  TCU 12              
          3  BYU 5              
      2  Utah 1    
    1  TCU 14  

[4]

All-Tournament Team

Pos. Name Class Team
C Josh Elander SO TCU
1B Joe Weik SR TCU
2B Dane Nielsen SR BYU
3B D. J. Peterson (MVP) FR New Mexico
3B Troy Neilsen FR Utah
LF Luke Campbell JR New Mexico
CF Cody Smith FR San Diego State
CF Kyle Von Tungeln SO TCU
DH Jacob Nelson SO New Mexico
RHP Austin House SO New Mexico
RP Bobby Mares SO New Mexico

[2]

References

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