2009 Summit League baseball tournament

2009 Summit League
baseball tournament

Teams	4
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	J. L. Johnson Stadium Tulsa, Oklahoma
Champions	Oral Roberts (12th title)
Winning coach	Rob Walton (6th title)
MVP	Johnny Roberts (Oral Roberts)

2009 Summit League baseball standings

	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Oral Roberts  ‍†‍‡‍y	16	–	2		.889			33	–	15		.688
Southern Utah  ‍‍‍	15	–	7		.682			27	–	24		.529
South Dakota State  ‍‍‍	17	–	10		.630			26	–	30		.464
Centenary  ‍‍‍	16	–	10		.615			33	–	19		.635
North Dakota State  ‍‍‍	10	–	14		.417			16	–	28		.364
Oakland  ‍‍‍	10	–	18		.357			22	–	34		.393
Western Illinois  ‍‍‍	8	–	16		.333			13	–	33		.283
IPFW  ‍‍‍	6	–	21		.222			13	–	38		.255
‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2009 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2009 Summit League Tournament took place from May 21 through 23. The top four regular season finishers from the regular season met in the double-elimination tournament held at J. L. Johnson Stadium on the campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oral Roberts won the tournament for the twelfth consecutive time.

Format and seeding

The top four finishers advanced to the tournament.

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Seed
Oral Roberts	16	2	.889	—	1
Southern Utah	15	7	.682	3	2
South Dakota State	17	10	.630	3.5	3
Centenary	16	10	.615	4	4
North Dakota State	10	14	.417	9	—
Oakland	10	18	.357	11	—
Western Illinois	8	16	.333	11	—
IPFW	6	21	.222	14.5	—

Tournament

	Upper round 1					Upper final					Final
	1	Oral Roberts	8
	4	Centenary	1
						1	Oral Roberts	9
						2	Southern Utah	6
	3	South Dakota State	8
	2	Southern Utah	11
											1	Oral Roberts	6
											3	South Dakota State	2
	Lower round 1					Lower final
						2	Southern Utah	4
	4	Centenary	3			3	South Dakota State	9
	3	South Dakota State	710

Game-by-game results

Game	Winner	Score	Loser	Comment
1	(2) Southern Utah	11–8	(3) South Dakota State
2	(1) Oral Roberts	9–1	(4) Centenary
3	(3) South Dakota State	7–310	(4) Centenary	Centenary eliminated
4	(1) Oral Roberts	9–6	(2) Southern Utah
5	(3) South Dakota State	9–4	(2) Southern Utah	Southern Utah eliminated
6	(1) Oral Roberts	6–2	(3) South Dakota State	Oral Roberts wins Summit Championship

All-Tournament Team

Name	School
Bucky Aona	Southern Utah
Joel Blake	South Dakota State
Tyler Garewal	Oral Roberts
Andre Lamontagne	Oral Roberts
Juan Martinez	Oral Roberts
Kyle Melling	Southern Utah
Colby Price	Oral Roberts
Johnny Roberts	Oral Roberts
Jesse Sawyer	South Dakota State
Layne Somsen	South Dakota State
Billy Stitz	South Dakota State
Jerry Sullivan	Oral Roberts
Caleb Thielbar	South Dakota State
Boone Whiting	Centenary

Tournament Most Valuable Player

Johnny Roberts of Oral Roberts was named Tournament MVP.