2019 Southland Conference baseball tournament

The 2019 Southland Conference baseball tournament was held from May 23 through 25. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's thirteen teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas. The winner of the tournament, McNeese State, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[2]

2019 Southland Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	8
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Constellation Field Sugar Land, Texas
Champions	McNeese State (3rd title)
Winning coach	Justin Hill (1st title)
Television	ESPN+
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2019 Southland Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Sam Houston State  ‍†‍‍	20	–	10		.667			31	–	25		.554
Southeastern Louisiana  ‍‍‍	19	–	11		.633			33	–	27		.550
Central Arkansas  ‍‍‍	19	–	11		.633			32	–	27		.542
Incarnate Word  ‍‍‍	18	–	12		.600			37	–	22		.627
McNeese State  ‍‍‡‍y	16	–	14		.533			35	–	26		.574
Stephen F. Austin  ‍‍‍	16	–	14		.533			25	–	33		.431
Northwestern State  ‍‍‍	15	–	15		.500			30	–	25		.545
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi  ‍‍‍	14	–	16		.467			31	–	26		.544
New Orleans  ‍‍‍	13	–	17		.433			29	–	27		.518
Abilene Christian  ‍‍‍	13	–	17		.433			26	–	26		.500
Nicholls  ‍‍‍	13	–	17		.433			27	–	28		.491
Houston Baptist  ‍‍‍	10	–	20		.333			18	–	35		.340
Lamar  ‍‍‍	9	–	21		.300			18	–	36		.333
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 5, 2019[1] Rankings from D1Baseball

Seeding and format

The top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight. They played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament, with the winner of each bracket meeting in a single championship final.

Results

	First round					Second round					Semifinals						Finals
	1	Sam Houston State	1
	8	Texas A&M–Corpus Christi	2
						8	Texas A&M–Corpus Christi	2
						5	McNeese State	7
	4	Incarnate Word	1
	5	McNeese State	2
											5	McNeese State	5
											4	Incarnate Word	4
	1	Sam Houston State	2
	4	Incarnate Word	3
						4	Incarnate Word	5
						8	Texas A&M–Corpus Christi	4
																	5	McNeese State	4
																	2	Central Arkansas	2
	3	Southeastern Louisiana	0
	6	Stephen F. Austin	5
						6	Stephen F. Austin	0
						2	Central Arkansas	11
	2	Central Arkansas	2
	7	Northwestern State	0
											2	Central Arkansas	3	6
											3	Southeastern Louisiana	9	310
	3	Southeastern Louisiana	6
	7	Northwestern State	4
						3	Southeastern Louisiana	4
						6	Stephen F. Austin	3

Conference championship

Southland Conference Championship
(2) Central Arkansas Bears	vs.	(5) McNeese State Cowboys

May 25, 2019, 6:00 p.m. (CDT) at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
(2) Central Arkansas	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	6	2
(5) McNeese State	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	X	4	12	1
WP: Aidan Anderson (7–6)   LP: Tanner Wiley (1–2)   Sv: Will Dion (6) Attendance: 1,189