Baseball Panthers Earn 4th Seed in CAA Tournament

Photo Courtesy: CAA

The Panthers ended the regular season on Saturday with a thrilling 10th inning walk-off win at home against George Mason. With the win they clinched a tournament spot but had to wait until play ended on Sunday to know the tournament seeding. At Sunday's end, the top four teams who made the tournament turned out to be James Madison at 21-9 (1st seed), Old Dominion at 19-11 (2nd seed), UNC Wilmington at 18-12 (3rd seed) and Georgia State at 17-13 (4th seed).

Complete final CAA standings here.


The 2011 CAA Baseball Championship will start Thursday, May 26th and a champion will be determined on Saturday, May 28th. The double elimination schedule is as follows:

May 26th
Game 1 - James Madison (1) vs. Georgia State (4), 3 PM
Game 2 - Old Dominion (2) vs. UNC Wilmington (3), 7 PM

May 27
Game 3 - Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2, 12 PM
Game 4 - Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2, 3:30 PM
Game 5 - Winner of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4, 7 PM

May 28
Game 6 - Winner of Game 4 vs. Winner of Game 5, 1 PM
Game 7 - Same two teams (if necessary), 30 minutes after end of Game 6

Georgia State won two of three games at James Madison back in April. The Panthers pitching staff held JMU below their season average of runs per game all weekend and the Panthers offense put up 31 runs on the Dukes pitching staff. As of now, I like Georgia State in this game as the pitching staff is coming off a great series against the 3rd best offense in the CAA (George Mason).

I'll have a more in depth look at how the tournament teams finished in the next couple days and as soon as pitching matchups are available I'll post them as well. Keep in mind these matchups may not be available until game day because the only games currently set in stone are Thursday's game 1 and 2.

GO PANTHERS!!!