CONFERENCE USA 5201 N. O’Connor Blvd., Suite 300, Irving, TX 75039 (214) 774-1300 Contact: Russell Anderson ([email protected]) FINAL 2015 BASEBALL STANDINGS (Final) C-USA All Games W-L Pct. H A W-L Pct. H A N L-10 Streak x-Rice 22-8 .733 11-4 11-4 37-22 .627 21-8 15-9 1-5 5-5 L 1 Florida Atlantic 19-10 .655 8-7 11-3 42-19 .689 24-9 15-7 3-4 5-5 L 1 Southern Miss 19-10 .655 11-4 8-6 36-18-1 .664 19-9 14-7 2-2-1 8-2 L 1 Middle Tennessee 19-11 .633 11-3 8-7 32-27 .542 17-10 13-15 2-2 5-5 L 1 UTSA 17-13 .567 8-7 9-6 33-25 .569 20-10 12-13 1-2 5-5 L 2 UAB 15-15 .500 7-8 8-7 33-25 .569 17-11 14-12 2-2 6-4 L 1 Old Dominion 13-17 .433 9-6 4-11 27-29 .482 19-8 6-17 2-4 5-5 L 2 y-FIU 13-17 .433 7-8 6-9 30-31 .491 17-13 6-13 6-6 6-4 L 1 Marshall 12-18 .400 7-8 5-10 20-32 .385 8-10 8-19 4-3 5-5 W 1 Charlotte 11-19 .367 4-11 7-8 19-29 .395 9-20 8-9 2-0 2-8 L 2 WKU 10-19 .345 3-11 7-8 24-28 .462 10-13 14-12 0-3 3-7 L 2 Louisiana Tech 8-21 .276 6-8 2-13 25-27 .481 18-10 7-17 0-0 4-6 W 1 x-regular season champions y-tournament champions NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP C-USA CHAMPIONSHIP ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM C John Bormann, UTSA CORAL GABLES REGIONAL (Miami, Fla.) (Pete Taylor Park, Hattiesburg, Miss.) IF Josh Anderson, FIU Fri., May 29 IF Jesse Baker, UTSA (1) Miami (Fla.) 6, (4) FIU 2 Wed., May 20 IF Julius Gaines, FIU Game One IF Edwin Rios, FIU Sat., May 30 (5) UTSA 9, (4) Middle Tennessee 7 OF Chase Davis, UAB Game Two FIU 2, East Carolina 0 OF Brian Portelli, FIU (8) FIU 6, (1) Rice 5 Game Three OF Jeff Schalk, UAB Sun., May 31 DH Matt Durst, Southern Miss Columbia 4, FIU 3 (2) Florida Atlantic 6, (7) Old Dominion 4 Game Four P Drew Jackson, Florida Atlantic P Alex Luna, UAB (6) UAB 4, (3) Southern Miss 0 P Chris Mourelle, FIU GAINESVILLE REGIONAL (Gainesville, Fla.) Thu., May 21 P James McMahon, Southern Miss Fri., May 29 Game Five TOURNAMENT MVP: (3) South Florida 5, (2) Florida Atlantic 3 Middle Tennessee 6, Rice 5 Josh Anderson, FIU Game Six Sat., May 30 Southern Miss 2, Old Dominion 0 (12 inn.) CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES Florida Atlantic 8, Florida A&M 1 Game Seven *In its second year in the league, FIU earned its first FIU 15, UTSA 5 Conference USA Baseball Championship. It marks the Sun., May 31 Panthers first conference tournament title since 2010. Florida Atlantic 8, South Florida 4 Fri., May 22 Florida 2, Florida Atlantic 1 Game Eight *In its four championship wins, FIU batted .373 with UAB 2, Florida Atlantic 1 seven home runs, six doubles and 38 RBI, with a .451 Game Nine on-base percentage. HOUSTON REGIONAL (Houston, Texas) Middle Tennessee 5, UTSA 4 Game Ten *The Championship Game matchup between No. 6 Fri., May 29 Florida Atlantic 5, Southern Miss 4 seed UAB and No. 8 seed FIU represented the highest (3) Louisiana-Lafayette 7, (2) Rice 6 seeds to ever meet in the C-USA title tilt. Sat., May 23 Sun., May 31 Game Eleven *Nine of the 13 games saw the higher seeded team Rice 3, Houston Baptist 1 FIU 15, Middle Tennessee 3 upset the lower seed Rice 3, Houston 2 (20 innings) Game Twelve UAB 10, Florida Atlantic 0 *UAB was the first team to post multiple shutouts in a Mon., June 1 single Conference USA Championship, blanking Louisiana-Lafayette 5, Rice 2 Sun., May 24 Southern Miss and Florida Atlantic. Championship Game (CBS Sports Network) FIU 8, UAB 2 C-USA NOTEBOOK OLD DOMINION The Monarchs won six of their final nine conference games to enter the C-USA Championship as the No. 7 seed before losing a pair of two-run games to Florida Atlantic CHARLOTTE and Southern Miss. Sophomore RHP Sam Sinnen and sophomore LHP Adam The 49ers dropped two-of-three games against UTSA to finish the season at 19-29. Bainbridge each posted ERA’s below 3.00 to lead the team. Sinnen was 6-3 with a 2.84 Sophomore LHP Sean Geoghegan closed out a strong campaign with his sixth win of the ERA and 53 strikeouts with just 15 walks in 66.2 innings pitched. Bainbridge went 4-2 season in the series opener with UTSA. Geoghegan has a 2.46 ERA on the season with a 2.39 ERA and 33 K’s. Freshman IF Zach Rutherford had 11 hits in his last 20 at- (eighth in C-USA) with 58 strikeouts and just 22 walks. Freshman OF Brett Netzer bats vs. C-USA foes to finish fifth in batting in conference play at .355. He hit .317 overall reached base in the final 10 games of the season and finished the year batting .318, with 13 doubles. Junior 3B P.J. Higgins started every game for ODU this season, leading second only to junior OF Brad Elwood at .328. Netzer also led the team with three the team in hitting at .335 with a .452 slugging percentage, 19 doubles and .402 on base triples, finished tied for second in runs (25), third in hits (27) and tied for fourth in RBI (19). percentage. He had 25 multiple-hit games, including four outings with four hits. Sophomore 1B/RHP Logan Sherer registered a team-leading 17 multiple-hit games. (22) RICE FIU Rice made its 21st consecutive NCAA Regional appearance when it played across town The Panthers made their first NCAA appearance since 2011, competing in the Coral at the Houston Regional, hosted by the University of Houston. The Owls won a pair of Gables Regional where they posted a win over No. 25 East Carolina. FIU became the games, including a memorable 3-2 victory over No. 13 Houston in 20 innings, the second- first No. 8 seed to win the C-USA Championship, going 4-0 and defeating UAB in the title longest game in NCAA Regional history. For the ninth time in their 10 years as a member game, 8-2. For the tournament, the Panthers hit .370, scoring 44 runs on 51 hits to win of Conference USA, Rice won at least a share of the league’s regular season crown, their first conference tournament since 2010. In all, FIU had five All-C-USA Championship taking its seventh outright title. It marked the 20th consecutive season that the Owls have Team selections as junior 3B Josh Anderson (MVP), junior SS Julius Gaines, won a conference regular season or tournament championship, dating back to 1995, the sophomore RHP Chris Mourelle, junior 1B Edwin Rios and senior OF Brian Portelli final year of the Southwest Conference. Senior DH John Clay Reeves was third in C- earned tournament honors. Rios hit a league-leading 18 home runs on the season. That USA with 55 RBI, led Rice with eight homers and was second on the team with a .313 figure tied for fourth among all Division I players and represents the most homers by any average. Outfielder Ryan Chandler was named C-USA Freshman of the Year after C-USA player since UCF’s Jonathan Griffin in 2011. Rios also had 20 multiple-hit games leading the Owls with 22 multiple-hit games and batting .302 for the season. He topped this season. Senior OF Brian Portelli had 26 multiple-hit games, led the team in batting Rice and ranked eighth in the conference with 17 doubles. Chandler drew 25 walks to average (.343) and doubles (20), while driving in 46 runs. Junior OF Zac Soria reached give him a .382 on-base percentage, drove in 34 runs and scored 43 times. Junior base safely in each of his last 29 games. reliever Matt Ditman led C-USA with 11 saves this season, placing him second on the Owls all-time list. (24) FLORIDA ATLANTIC The Owls were the No. 2 seed in the Gainesville Regional and won a pair of games before SOUTHERN MISS being eliminated by No. 2 Florida, 2-1, to finish with a 42-19 overall record. Florida The Golden Eagles finished the season with a 36-18-1 overall record, tying for second Atlantic appeared in the NCAA Championship for the 11th time in program history. Junior place with a 19-10 C-USA record. Southern Miss has captured at least 30 victories for 14 OF Brendon Sanger was named Conference USA Player of the Year after he started all consecutive seasons as well as compiling its 14th-straight winning season and 29th in the 57 games for the Owls and finished the season leading C-USA in batting average (.370), last 30 years. The Golden Eagles closed the regular season by winning their final 13 runs scored (57), walks (56) and on-base percentage (.492). He was second in the games, tying the school record for most wins in a row and equaling the 1995 team’s feat league in total bases (137), third in hits (85) and triples (4) and sixth in RBI (48).