Seedings Set for 2018 MEAC Baseball Championship

2018 MEAC Baseball Championship Bracket | Championship Central

NORFOLK, Virginia —The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) has announced the seedings for the 2018 Baseball Championship. Coppin State has claimed the top seed out of the Northern Division, while North Carolina A&T State will be the top seed out of the Southern Division.
 
The 2018 MEAC Baseball Championship will be held Wednesday-Saturday, May 16-19, at Embry-Riddle’s Sliwa Stadium in Daytona Beach, Fla.
 
Despite being picked to finish third in the Northern Division this season, Coppin State will come into the tournament as the division’s top seed after going 18-4 in MEAC play. This marks the Eagles’ first Northern Division regular-season title since 1996, and Coppin State’s first tournament appearance since 2016.
 
Norfolk State, which had won the Northern Division each of the last three seasons before 2018, will be the North’s No. 2 seed in this year’s tournament after going 13-10 in conference play.
 
Maryland Eastern Shore used a late-season push to make the tournament for the second straight season, sweeping rival Delaware State on May 4-5 to clinch the division’s last spot.
 
In the Southern Division, North Carolina A&T State claimed the top spot this past weekend by taking two out of three games from Florida A&M in Tallahassee, Fla. – including a 25-15 win on Saturday in the regular-season finale. The Aggies, who went 16-8 in MEAC play, won five of six games this season against the Rattlers.
 
FAMU went 15-9 in MEAC play this season to take the No. 2 seed, and Bethune-Cookman – the two-time defending MEAC champion – will be the Southern Division’s No. 3 seed after going 14-10 in conference.
 
Only the top three teams in each division compete in the double-elimination tournament. Delaware State out of the Northern Division, as well as North Carolina Central and Savannah State out of the Southern Division, were eliminated.
 
The 2018 MEAC Baseball Championship will begin on Wednesday at 12 p.m. with South No. 2 Florida A&M taking on North No. 3 Maryland Eastern Shore. That will be followed at 3:30 p.m. by a game pitting North No. 2 Norfolk State and South No. 3 Bethune-Cookman.
 
The losers of those two games will square off at 7 p.m. in an elimination game. Wednesday’s winners will advance to Thursday to take on the top seeds, both of which earned byes and will not play on Wednesday.
 
Thursday and Friday will also feature three games each at 12 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday’s championship game will begin at 1 p.m., with an if-necessary game taking place later that afternoon should the team out of the elimination bracket win the first game.
 
The tournament champion will earn the MEAC’s automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, which will begin with regional play. The selection show will air on Monday, May 28 at 12 p.m. on ESPNU.
 
Tickets to the 2018 MEAC Baseball Championship are $7 per day or $20 for all four days. Visit www.BCUathletics.com for more ticket information.

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