# 2019 Southern Conference baseball tournament

The 2019 Southern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 21 through 26 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual event determined the conference champion of the Division I Southern Conference in college baseball. The tournament winner, Mercer Bears, earned the league's bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. This was the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2018–19 academic year.
The tournament was originally held from 1950–53, when the Southern Conference was a large conference composed of several small schools and several large schools, the latter of which would form the Atlantic Coast Conference after the 1953 season. The event was re-established in 1984 and has been held every year since. Western Carolina has claimed ten championships, the most of any school, with The Citadel close behind at eight tournament wins. Furman and defending champion Samford are the only other current schools with multiple championships, having each won two. East Tennessee State and VMI have never won a title, although they both returned to the conference in 2015 after over ten years in other conferences. Mercer claimed the conference championship in its first ever appearance in 2015.
The tournament was played in Greenville, which has hosted six of the past ten events.

## Seeding and format

All nine teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom two seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams then played a double-elimination tournament.

## Bracket
### Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 21 :
| Team | R |
| #9 The Citadel | 3 |
| #8 Western Carolina | 7 |

### Double-elimination round

| Upper round 1 | Upper round 1 | Upper round 1 | Upper round 2 | Upper round 2 | Upper round 2 | Upper final | Upper final | Upper final | | | | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | Samford | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | Western Carolina | 4$^{10}$ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | Western Carolina | 4$^{10}$ | 1 | Samford | 11 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | 4 | Mercer | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | Mercer | 11 | 4 | Mercer | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | Furman | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | Furman | 2 | | | | 1 | Samford | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 2 | Wofford | 5 | | | | | | | |
| 2 | Wofford | 12 | | | | 2 | Wofford | 5 | | | | | | | |
| 7 | VMI | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | VMI | 7 | 2 | Wofford | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | 6 | East Tennessee State | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | UNC Greensboro | 2 | 6 | East Tennessee State | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | East Tennessee State | 4 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | Wofford | 8 | 5 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | Mercer | 12 | 9 |
| Lower round 1 | Lower round 1 | Lower round 1 | Lower round 2 | Lower round 2 | Lower round 2 | Lower round 3 | Lower round 3 | Lower round 3 | Lower final | Lower final | Lower final | |
| | | | 5 | Furman | 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | Western Carolina | 7 | 6 | East Tennessee State | 7 | | | | 4 | Mercer | 4 | |
| 5 | Furman | 9 | | | | 6 | East Tennessee State | 7 | 1 | Samford | 3 | |
| | | | | | | 4 | Mercer | 11 | | | | | | |
| | | | 3 | UNC Greensboro | 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | VMI | 2 | 4 | Mercer | 9 | | | | | | | |
| 3 | UNC Greensboro | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Conference championship

Southern Conference Championship :
| (2) Wofford Terriers | vs. | (4) Mercer Bears |
May 26, 2019, 12:00 p.m. (EDT) at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| (4) Mercer | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 2 |
| (2) Wofford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 3 |
| WP: Sawyer Gipson-Long (8–3) LP: Austin Higginbotham (9–4) Home runs: MER: None WOFF: Andrew Orzel Attendance: 1,094 |||||||||||||
May 26, 2019, 4:40 p.m. (EDT) at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| (2) Wofford | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| (4) Mercer | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | X | 9 | 12 | 0 |
| WP: Taylor Lobus (2–0) LP: Jake Hershman (2–3) Sv: Tanner Hall (1) Home runs: WOFF: Brett Rodriguez MER: None Attendance: 774 |||||||||||||