2009 NCBA Division II World Series

The 2009 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) Division II World Series was played at Pullman Park in Butler, PA from May 15 to May 19. The second tournament's champion was the University of Kentucky, who won their second consecutive Division II title.[1]

As of 2014, Kentucky is the only school to repeat as NCBA Division II National Champions. The only other school to repeat as NCBA World Series Champions in any division is Colorado State, who won three straight titles from 2004 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2010 in Division I.

Format edit

The format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets with a couple differences. One being that in the NCBA, there is only one game that decides the national championship rather than a best-of-3 like the NCAA. Another difference which is between NCBA Division I and II is that Division II games are 7 innings while Division I games are 9 innings.

Participants edit

†-denotes school also fields an NCBA Division I team

Results edit

[2]

Bracket edit

Game Results edit

Date Game Time Winner Score Loser Notes
May 15 Game 1 10:00 AM Coastal Carolina 3-1 Penn State
Game 2 1:00 PM LSC-Kingwood 3-2 (8 innings) Kentucky
Game 3 4:00 PM Wyoming 8-3 Southern Illinois
Game 4 7:00 PM VCU 20-2 Hofstra
May 16 Game 5 10:00 AM Kentucky 11-3 Southern Illinois Southern Illinois eliminated
Game 6 1:00 PM Hofstra 9-6 Penn State Penn State eliminated
Game 7 4:00 PM Wyoming 4-3 LSC-Kingwood
May 17 Game 8 1:00 PM Coastal Carolina 17-12 VCU
Game 9 4:00 PM Kentucky 9-8 LSC-Kingwood LSC-Kingwood eliminated
Game 10 7:00 PM VCU 6-5 Hofstra Hofstra eliminated
May 18 Game 11 10:00 AM Kentucky 8-1 Wyoming
Game 12 1:00 PM Coastal Carolina 8-5 VCU VCU eliminated
Game 13 4:00 PM Kentucky 12-6 Wyoming Wyoming eliminated
Game 14 7:00 PM Game not needed
May 19 Game 15 7:00 PM Kentucky 3-2 Coastal Carolina Kentucky wins the NCBA Division II World Series

Championship Game edit

Tuesday, May 19 7:00 PM at Bulter, PA
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Kentucky 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 7 3
Coastal Carolina 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 2
Starting pitchers:
UK: Mike Berry
CC: Jeff Richard
WP: Mike Berry   LP: Jeff Richard   Sv: None
Home runs:
UK: None
CC: None
Attendance: N/A
Boxscore

See also edit

Notes edit

  • VCU's victory of Hofstra in the first round set NCBA Division II World Series records for most runs scored by a single team in one game (20) and the largest margin of victory (18) in a NCBA Division II World Series game. Those records still stand as of 2014.
  • Kentucky became the first and currently only school to repeat as NCBA Division II National Champions. Unless a team wins a title that fields both a Division I and II team, Kentucky will likely be the only repeat champion for quite a while because of new rules regarding automatic promotion to Division I for Division II teams that began on 7/1/13 which includes a team winning the NCBA Division II World Series.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ "Kentucky wins Division II World Series". kykernel.com. Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  2. ^ "2009 NCBA Division II World Series Results". dakstats.com. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  3. ^ "2014 NCBA Division II Rules". clubbaseball.org. Retrieved 2014-05-20.