2021 Summit League baseball tournament
Collegiate baseball tournament
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The 2021 Summit League baseball tournament took place from May 27 through 29. The top four regular-season finishers of the league's six teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Tal Anderson Field on the campus of the University of Nebraska Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska. The winner of the tournament, North Dakota State, earned the Summit League's automatic bid to the 2021 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2]
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | North Dakota State (2nd title) |
| Runner-up | Oral Roberts |
| Winning coach | Tod Brown (2nd title) |
| MVP | Jake Malec (North Dakota State) |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oral Roberts † | 19 | – | 7 | .731 | 31 | – | 23 | .574 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota State ‡y | 20 | – | 11 | .645 | 42 | – | 19 | .689 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Omaha | 14 | – | 12 | .538 | 22 | – | 25 | .468 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota State | 9 | – | 19 | .321 | 15 | – | 32 | .319 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Illinois | 7 | – | 20 | .259 | 11 | – | 29 | .275 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 6, 2021[1] Rankings from D1Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage during the double round-robin regular season. The teams then played a double-elimination tournament.
Results
| First round May 27 MidcoSN | Semi-finals May 28 MidcoSN | Finals May 29 MidcoSN | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | South Dakota State | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota State | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota State | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Omaha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 15 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2 | North Dakota State | 5 | 11 | |||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts (11) | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | South Dakota State | 7 | 4 | South Dakota State | 3 | |||||||||
| 3 | Omaha | 0 | ||||||||||||
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the all-tournament team:[3]
| Player | School |
|---|---|
| Jake Malec (MVP) | North Dakota State |
| Nick Emanuel | North Dakota State |
| Max Loven | North Dakota State |
| Cade Feeney | North Dakota State |
| Parker Harm | North Dakota State |
| Bennett Hostetler | North Dakota State |
| Anthony Martinez | Oral Roberts |
| Ryan Cash | Oral Roberts |
| Blake Hall | Oral Roberts |
| Matt Gaskins | Oral Roberts |
| Adam Scoggins | Oral Roberts |
| Reece Anderson | South Dakota State |
| Drew Beazley | South Dakota State |
| Richie Holetz | Omaha |