1991 Mid-Continent Conference baseball tournament

The 1991 Mid-Continent Conference Tournament took place from May 10 through 13. The top 4 regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held in Chicago, Illinois. Akron won the tournament for the first and only time.^[2]

1991 Mid-Continent Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Chicago
Champions	Akron (1st title)
Winning coach	Dave Fross (1st title)
MVP	Larry Rubin (UIC)
← 1990 Mid-Con baseball tournament 1992 →

1991 Mid-Continent Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf.									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Blue Division
Akron  x‍‍‡‍	12	–	5	–	0		.706			38	–	21	–	1		.642
UIC  ‍‍‍	11	–	6	–	0		.647			25	–	30	–	0		.455
Valparaiso  ‍‍‍	7	–	8	–	0		.467			20	–	39	–	2		.344
Cleveland State  ‍‍‍	2	–	10	–	0		.167			19	–	22	–	0		.463
Gray Division
Eastern Illinois  x‍‍‍	9	–	2	–	0		.818			27	–	32	–	0		.458
Western Illinois  ‍‍‍	5	–	5	–	0		.500			21	–	23	–	0		.477
Northern Iowa  ‍‍‍	1	–	9	–	0		.100			13	–	44	–	0		.228
‡ – Tournament champion As of June 30, 1991[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The top three teams from each division advanced to the tournament. With four teams in the Blue Division, only Cleveland State did not participate.

Blue Division Team W L Pct. GB Seed Akron 12 5 .706 — 1B UIC 11 6 .647 1 2B Valparaiso 7 8 .467 4 3B Cleveland State 2 10 .167 7.5 —

Gray Division Team W L Pct. GB Seed Eastern Illinois 9 2 .818 — 1G Western Illinois 5 5 .500 3.5 2G Northern Iowa 1 9 .100 7.5 3G

Tournament

Bracket to be included

Game-by-game results

Game	Winner	Score	Loser	Comment
1	(1B) Akron	4–0	(2G) Western Illinois
2	(2B) UIC	12–6	(3G) Northern Iowa
3	(1G) Eastern Illinois	11–7	(3B) Valparaiso
4	(2G) Western Illinois	12–4	(3G) Northern Iowa	Northern Iowa eliminated
5	(1B) Akron	3–2	(1G) Eastern Illinois
6	(3B) Valparaiso	12–11	(2B) UIC
7	(2G) Western Illinois	11–2	(3B) Valparaiso	Valparaiso eliminated
8	(2B) UIC	11–7	(1G) Eastern Illinois	Eastern Illinois eliminated
9	(1B) Akron	6–5	(2G) Western Illinois	Western Illinois eliminated
10	2B UIC	6–5	(1B) Akron
11	1B Akron	10–9	(2B) UIC	Akron wins Mid-Con Championship

All-Tournament Team

Name	School
Bob Bortz	Valparaiso
Steve Hall	Akron
Mike Kimler	Akron
Adam Kocik	Akron
Kelly Kropp	UIC
R.C. Lichtenstein	UIC
John Mallee	UIC
Ken Manning	Valparaiso
Steve Muller	Valparaiso
Ron Nuñez	Western Illinois
Brad Owens	Western Illinois
Larry Rubin	UIC

Tournament Most Valuable Player

Larry Rubin of UIC was named Tournament MVP.