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2013 IN REVIEW YEAR IN REVIEW ALABAMA ARKANSAS AUBURN FLORIDA GEORGIA KENTUCKY LSU OLE MISS 2013 SEC BASEBALL EASTERN DIVISION SEC Pct. GB All Pct. Home Away Neutral vs. Div. vs. Top 25 Last 10 Streak %Vanderbilt 26-3 .897 — 54-12 .818 34-7 17-3 3-2 15-2 15-4 6-4 L2 South Carolina 17-12 .586 9.0 43-20 .683 32-8 11-8 0-4 11-6 9-11 5-5 L1 Florida 14-16 .467 12.5 29-30 .492 20-16 9-10 0-4 10-8 12-14 3-7 L5 Kentucky 11-19 .367 15.5 30-25 .545 19-11 8-12 3-2 6-12 7-15 4-6 L1 Missouri 10-20 .333 16.5 18-32 .360 13-13 5-17 0-2 7-11 2-14 3-7 L2 Tennessee 8-20 .286 17.5 22-30 .423 13-14 7-14 2-2 5-11 5-18 4-6 W1 Georgia 7-20 .259 18.0 21-32 .396 12-19 8-13 1-0 6-10 4-11 5-5 W2 WESTERN DIVISION SEC Pct. GB All Pct. Home Away Neutral vs. Div. vs. Top 25 Last 10 Streak ^LSU 23-7 .767 — 57-11 .838 39-4 13-4 5-3 13-5 17-8 8-2 L2 Arkansas 18-11 .621 4.5 39-22 .639 24-9 10-7 5-6 9-9 11-10 5-5 L1 #Miss. State 16-14 .533 7.0 51-20 .718 33-8 10-9 8-3 11-7 16-14 7-3 L2 Ole Miss 15-15 .500 8.0 38-24 .613 22-9 14-9 2-6 10-8 12-11 3-7 L1 Alabama 14-15 .483 8.5 35-28 .556 22-9 10-13 3-6 6-11 6-17 4-6 L1 Texas A&M 13-16 .448 9.5 34-29 .540 22-10 6-14 5-5 5-12 7-17 5-5 L1 Auburn 13-17 .433 10.0 33-23 .589 22-12 9-10 2-1 8-10 8-12 6-4 L1 % - SEC Champions; ^ - Western Division Champions; SEC Tournament Champions; # - National Runner-Up MISSISSIPPI STATE FINISHES NATIONAL RUNNER-UP - SIXTH CONSECUTIVE FINALS APPEARANCE FOR SEC - Tallahassee Regional C. Arkansas 5, Miss. State 2 Chapel Hill Super Regional Troy 5, Alabama 2 Miss. State 6, C. Arkansas 1 N. Carolina 6, South Carolina 5 Alabama 3, Savannah State 2 Columbia Regional South Carolina 8, N. Carolina 0 Troy 9, Alabama 8 N. Carolina 5, South Carolina 4 S. Carolina 7, SE Louisiana 3 Manhattan Regional S. Carolina 19, Liberty 3 Nashville Super Regional Bryant 4, Arkansas 1 S. Carolina 6, Liberty 4 Louisville 5, Vanderbilt 3 Arkansas 3, Wright State 1 Corvallis Regional Louisville 2, Vanderbilt 1 Arkansas 12, Bryant 3 UCSB 6, Texas A&M 4 Kansas State 4, Arkansas 3 NCAA College World Series Texas A&M 6, UTSA 1 Miss. State 5, Oregon State 4 Bloomington Regional Texas A&M 5, UCSB 4 UCLA 2, LSU 1 Austin Peay 4, Florida 3 Oregon State 6, Texas A&M 1 Miss. State 5, Indiana 4 Valparaiso 5, Florida 4 Nashville Regional North Carolina 4, LSU 2 Miss. State 4, Oregon State 1 Baton Rouge Regional Vanderbilt 9, ETSU 1 LSU 11, Jackson State 7 Vanderbilt 10, Illinois 4 National Championship Series LSU 8, Sam Houston State 5 Georgia Tech 5, Vanderbilt 0 UCLA 3, Mississippi State 1 LSU 5, LA-Lafayette 1 Vanderbilt 7, Georgia Tech 1 UCLA 8, Mississippi State 0 Chapel Hill Regional Baton Rouge Super Regional William & Mary 4, Ole Miss 2 LSU 2, Oklahoma 0 Ole Miss 8, Binghamton 4 LSU 11, Oklahoma 1 William & Mary 4, Ole Miss 1 Charlottesville Super Regional Starkville Regional Mississippi State 11, Virginia 6 Miss. State 5, C. Arkansas 3 Mississippi State 6, Virginia 5 Miss. State 6, S. Alabama 2 100 VANDERBILTTEXAS A&M TENNESSEE SOUTH CAROLINA MISSOURI MISSISSIPPI STATE YEAR IN REVIEW MISSISSIPPI STATE MISSOURI SOUTH CAROLINA TENNESSEE TEXAS A&M VANDERBILT TEAM-BY-TEAM NOTES years. Arkansas had three players on the all-tournament team as Brett McAfee, ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE Ryne Stanek and Spoon were named to the team. McAfee hit .385 (5-for-13) The 2013 Alabama baseball season came to an end on Sunday with three doubles, four RBI and a run scored in the regional. Stanek worked 7.1 afternoon with a heartbreaking 9-8 loss to the 26th-ranked and innings on Saturday vs. Wichita State, allowing a run on two hits and striking out third seeded Troy Trojans in an elimination game of the Tallahas- three. Spoon finished the regional going 5-for-17 with four RBI and two runs see Regional from Mike Martin Field. Despite outhitting Troy 15-8 scored. The Southeastern Conference recently announced the 2014 SEC base- on the day, the Tide was unable to close out the game as the ball schedule and the Arkansas baseball team will play eight series against SEC Trojans scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to walk off with the win. With teams that advanced to the 2013 NCAA Tournament. The Razorbacks will play the Tide leading 8-5 heading into the bottom of the ninth, Alabama (35-28) 30 regular season games against league opponents with six series against turned the ball over to closer Ray Castillo. Castillo (2-3) blew his third save of the teams from the SEC Western Division and four series against teams from the season, allowing four runs on three walks, two hit batters and two hits in a third SEC East. Arkansas will host Alabama, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Auburn and of an inning. The game-winning run came when Castillo walked Brandon Brown Texas A&M in conference series at Baum Stadium. The Razorbacks will have with bases loaded to push across Josh McDorman to end the game. With the road SEC series at Florida, Mississippi State, LSU, Ole Miss and Missouri in win, Troy will take on Florida State tonight at 5 p.m. ET. Jeremy McGowan threw 2014. Arkansas will not face SEC East foes Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee the final 1.1 innings for the Trojans (42-19) to improve to 2-0 on the season. during the 2014 regular season. The full 2014 Arkansas baseball schedule will Alabama collected 15 hits as eight of the nine starters had at least one hit in the be announced later this year. game. Chance Vincent had a career-high three hits, going 3-for-4 with a run scored. Hitting leadoff for the first time in his career, Mikey White was 2-for-4 AUBURN TIGERS with an RBI and a run scored. Seven seniors played their final games for the Tide, as Brett Booth and Andrew Miller finished their career with two hits in the Auburn is in the market for a new baseball coach after relieving game. Booth was 2-for-5 with two RBI and a run scored and Miller was 2-for-4 John Pawlowski of his duties Monday after five years on the job. and scored twice. Kyle Overstreet was 2-for-5 and Austen Smith was 2-for-4 with Pawlowski had a 167-126 record at Auburn, including a 71-79 a double, an RBI and a run scored. Senior catcher Brett Booth and freshmen record in the SEC. His 2010 team won the SEC West, but the Ti- middle infielders Mikey White and Kyle Overstreet selected to the NCAA Talla- gers had losing conference records in each of his other four hassee Regional All-Tournament Team, which was announced on Monday. Brett years, including the last three. Pawlowski said before this season’s SEC Tourna- Booth paced the Crimson Tide with a .545 average in three games of the tour- ment, and again after a first-round loss, that he thought Auburn deserved an nament, recording six hits in 11 at-bats. He was also hit by a pitch, had a dou- NCAA bid. But the Tigers were not one of the nine SEC teams that made the ble, scored twice and tied for the team lead with three RBI. Following his perfor- NCAA field that was announced Monday. His 2010 team went 43-21 overall, mance in the regional, Booth finished the season with a team-high and won the West with a 20-10 conference record and hosted an NCAA regional. career-best .290 batting average. Mikey White hit .300 in the tournament, with But the Tigers couldn’t match that the last three years, going 14-16, 13-17 and two walks, two runs scored and an RBI and Kyle Overstreet hit .231 (3-for-13) 13-17 in league play. Pawlowski’s four SEC Tournament teams were seeded with a run scored and an RBI. White finished the year with a .287 average, sec- second, eighth, 10th and 10th, and compiled a 2-7 tourney record. Auburn was ond to Booth, and Overstreet ended his freshman campaign with a .271 aver- eliminated in the first round of this season’s tournament in a 6-3 loss to Ala- age and 37 RBI. The double play duo of White and Overstreet helped the Crim- bama. Pawlowski leaves Auburn as the third winningest coach in the program’s son Tide turn four double plays in the three games of the tournament, as history, trailing Hal Baird and Paul Nix. Pawlowski won his 500th college game Alabama finished the year with 80 double plays in 63 games.