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2008 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

2008 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 10
Format Double-elimination tournament
Site
Champions Elon (1st title)
Winning coach Mike Kennedy (1st title)
MVP Cory Harrilchak (Elon)
Attendance 15,144
2008 Southern Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Elon y 19 8   .704     44 18   .710
College of Charleston 18 9   .667     39 20   .661
Furman 17 10   .630     33 24   .579
Georgia Southern 16 11   .593     33 25   .569
UNC Greensboro 15 12   .556     33 27   .550
Appalachian State 14 13   .519     32 27   .542
Western Carolina 14 13   .519     29 28   .509
The Citadel 12 15   .444     28 28   .500
Wofford 6 21   .222     24 35   .407
Davidson 4 23   .148     12 38   .240
† – Conference champion
‡ – SoCon Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2008; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2008 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, SC from May 20 through May 24. Top seeded Elon won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Elon's first SoCon tournament win. Elon joined the conference beginning with the 2004 baseball season.

All ten baseball programs in the conference participated in the tournament, with the seventh through tenth place teams playing a single-elimination opening day prior to an 8-team, two bracket, double-elimination tournament.



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