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2004 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

2004 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Kent State (5th title)
Winning coach Rick Rembielak (3rd title)
MVP Ryan Ford Eastern Michigan
Andy Sonnanstine (Kent State)
2004 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East
Miami x 14 8   .636     36 21   .632
Kent State y 14 10   .583     36 27   .571
Ohio 12 12   .500     25 29   .463
Akron 11 12   .478     26 27   .491
Marshall 10 13   .435     27 27   .500
Buffalo 4 18   .182     15 39   .278
West
Central Michigan x 18 6   .750     33 24   .579
Eastern Michigan 14 10   .583     32 27   .542
Northern Illinois 14 10   .583     31 28   .525
Ball State 14 10   .583     28 28   .500
Bowling Green 13 11   .542     28 19   .596
Toledo 8 16   .333     20 34   .370
Western Michigan 7 17   .292     21 35   .375
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2004; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2004 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 2004. The top six regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Bill Theunissen Stadium on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. This was the sixteenth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Fourth seed Kent State won their fifth tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The winner of each division claimed the top two seeds, while the next four finishers based on conference winning percentage only, regardless of division, participated in the tournament. The teams played double-elimination tournament. This was the seventh year of the six team tournament.

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Ryan Ford and Andy Sonnanstine were named co-Most Valuable Players. Ford played for Eastern Michigan while Sonnanstine was a pitcher for Kent State.


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