1981 Eastern 8 Conference baseball championship series

1981 Eastern 8 Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	2
Format	Best of 3 series
Finals site	The Ellipse; Washington, D.C.;
Champions	Rutgers (1st title)
Winning coach	Matt Bolger (1st title)
	← 1980; Eastern 8 baseball tournament; 1982 →;

The 1981 Eastern 8 Conference Baseball Championship Series was held on May 8 and 9, 1981^[1] to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I Eastern 8 Conference, renamed in 1982 as the Atlantic 10 Conference, for the 1981 NCAA Division I baseball season. This was the third iteration of the event, and was held on the campus of George Mason in Fairfax, Virginia. Rutgers won the championship.^[2]

1981 Eastern 8 Conference baseball standings
v t e	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
East
Rutgers ^x‍‍‡‍	5	–	3	–	0	.625	18	–	19	–	1	.487
UMass ‍‍‍	4	–	4	–	0	.500	22	–	17	–	0	.564
Rhode Island ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	0	.375	14	–	18	–	0	.438
West
West Virginia ^x‍‍‍	6	–	2	–	0	.750	17	–	18	–	0	.486
Pittsburgh ‍‍‍	7	–	3	–	0	.700	25	–	8	–	0	.758
George Washington ‍‍‍	3	–	3	–	0	.500	18	–	20	–	0	.474
Duquesne ‍‍‍	0	–	8	–	0	.000	13	–	12	–	0	.520

x – Division champion ‡ – Championship Series champion As of June 30, 1981 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding edit

The regular season winners of each of the conference's two divisions advanced to a best of three series.

Game One

May 8, 1981
Team	R
Rutgers	25
West Virginia	13

Game Two

May 9, 1981
Team	R
West Virginia	5
Rutgers	7

^ Baseball Media Guide. West Virginia Mountaineers. July 7, 2016. p. 155. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
^ Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic 10 Conference. p. 20. Retrieved June 7, 2017.