2005 SEC Baseball - College World Series Release

SEC STANDINGS

School SEC Pct. GB ALL Pct. H A N vs. Div. vs. Top 25 Last 10 Streak
EASTERN DIVISION
#Florida 20-10 .667 -- 45-20 .692 32-11 11-7 2-2 11-4 19-13 8-2 W5
Tennessee 18-11 .621 1.5 46-19 .708 28-8 13-7 5-4 10-5 16-9 7-3 W5
S. Carolina 16-14 .533 4.0 41-23 .641 27-7 10-13 4-3 8-7 11-15 6-4 L1
Vanderbilt 13-17 .433 7.0 34-21 .618 23-11 11-10 0-0 7-8 8-16 5-5 L3
Georgia 12-17 .414 7.5 30-25 .545 18-10 9-14 3-1 6-8 7-16 5-5 W1
Kentucky 7-22 .241 12.5 29-27 .518 21-10 3-15 5-2 2-12 5-10 5-5 L3
WESTERN DIVISION
&LSU 18-12 .600 -- 40-22 .645 23-13 15-6 2-3 9-6 13-11 5-5 L1
&Ole Miss 18-12 .600 -- 48-20 .706 30-9 10-9 8-2 9-6 16-12 7-3 L2
Alabama 17-13 .567 1.0 40-23 .635 28-7 9-14 3-2 8-7 12-13 5-5 L1
%Miss. State 13-16 .448 4.5 42-22 .656 27-7 6-14 9-1 7-8 15-16 7-3 L1
Auburn 13-17 .433 5.0 34-26 .567 21-14 11-12 2-0 8-7 14-20 4-6 L1
Arkansas 13-17 .433 5.0 39-22 .639 19-9 18-11 2-2 4-11 13-19 3-7 L2
#Overall SEC Champion & Eastern Division Champion; Western Division Co-Champions; % - SEC Tournament Champions


Upcoming Schedule/Results

NCAA College World Series
June 17-27 • Omaha, Neb.
Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium (25,000)

Friday, June 17
Game No. 1 - Tennessee vs. Florida 1:00 pm (CST) ESPN2
Game No. 2 - Arizona State vs. Nebraska 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN2

Saturday, June 18
Game No. 3 - Oregon State vs. Tulane 1:30 pm (CST) ESPN
Game No. 4 - Texas vs. Baylor 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN

Sunday, June 19
Game No. 5 - Losers of game 1 & 2 1:00 pm (CST) ESPN
Game No. 6 - Winners of game 1 & 2 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN2

Monday, June 20
Game No. 7 - Losers of game 3 & 4 1:00 pm (CST) ESPN
Game No. 8 - Winners of game 3 & 4 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN

Tuesday, June 21
Game No. 9 - Winner game 5 vs Loser game 6 1:00 pm (CST) ESPN
Game No. 10 - Winner game 7 vs Loser game 8 0 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN

Wednesday, June 22
Game No. 11 - Winner game 6 vs Winner game 9 1:00 pm (CST) ESPN
Game No. 12 - Winner game 8 vs Winner game 10 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN2

Thursday, June 23
Game No. 13 - Winner game 6 vs Winner game 11 Noon (CST) ESPN (If necessary)
Game No. 14 - Winner game 8 vs Winner game 10 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN (If necessary)

Championship Series
Saturday 6/25 #1 6:00 pm (CST) ESPN
Sunday 6/26 #2 2:00 pm (CST) ESPN
Monday 6/27 #3 6:00 pm (CST) (If necessary) ESPN


TWO SEC TEAMS ADVANCE TO COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

Gainesville, Fla., Super Regional
Florida 8, Florida State 1
Florida 8, Florida State 5

Atlanta, Ga., Super Regional
Tennessee 3, Georgia Tech 2
Tennessee 13, Georgia Tech 3

Oxford, Miss., Super Regional
Ole Miss 6, Texas 4
Texas 3, Ole Miss 1
Texas 6, Ole Miss 4


TEAM-BY-TEAM NOTES

ALABAMA Crimson Tide
The No. 16 University of Alabama baseball team's season ended with another hard fought loss to the No. 1 ranked Tulane Green Wave at Turchin Stadium on a rainy Monday night in New Orleans.Mark Hamilton, who was named the New Orleans Regional MVP, and Greg Dini went 4-for-8 with three doubles, one home run and six RBI to lead the Green Wave to a 7-4 win over Crimson Tide in the championship game. Dini's two-run home run in the seventh inning off sophomore lefty Wade LeBlanc, who made his first relief appearance of the season, extended Tulane's lead to 7-4 and all but put the Green Wave into next week's Super Regional matchup against Rice, who won the Baton Rouge Regional with a 5-4 win over LSU on Monday. The Crimson Tide played two tight games against the nation's top ranked team in the New Orleans Regional and had several chances, particularly on Monday, to take the lead and win the game in the late innings. The game was delayed four times by rain and finally ended just after 11 p.m. local time. The the two teams were originally scheduled to play Sunday night but after a heavy thunderstorm made the field unplayable, the game was postponed until Monday afternoon. After two more delays, the teams finally took the field shortly after 7 p.m. for the championship game. There was a one-hour rain delay in the bottom of the seventh inning. Alabama has played in eight NCAA Regional championship games in nine post-season appearances under head coach Jim Wells. The Crimson Tide's championship appearances have come in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2005. Alabama won NCAA Regional championships in 1996, 1997 and 1999. Alabama has not won an NCAA Regional championship on the road since beating Florida State in the title game of the South Regional in 1983 at Dick Howser Stadium in Tallahassee. Alabama is now 5-8 (.386) all-time in its 13 NCAA Regional championship game appearances.

ARKANSAS Razorbacks
Arkansas finished the Austin Regional with a 2-2 record and a 30-26 over all record in NCAA Regional play. The Hogs have a 40-38 all-time record in NCAA postseason play. Arkansas is now 27-54 in 81 games against the Longhorns in school history. The Razorbacks banged out 12 doubles, two triples and a home run for 15 extra bases hits in the four regional games. Today's start by Charley Boyce is the 45th of his career, moving him into sole possession of third place in school history. Today's appearance (11 starts, 18 relief) is his 29th of the season, tying him with Ryan Whitaker (1993), Bobby Edwards (1988) and Tim Peters (1997) for the ninth-most single-season appearances in school history. Boyce also set a new career high for innings pitched with 122.1 and that is good for the second most inning pitched in a single season in school history. His 115.1 innings last season was tied for the 7th most single-season innings. Boyce became the ninth pitcher in school history to strikeout 200 batters in his career. His six Ks on Monday tied his season high and moved him into eighth place in career strikeouts at Arkansas. Nick Schmidt and Scott Hode were the only Razorbacks afforded all-tournament team honors by the media at the Austin Regional. DH Ben Tschepikow and RHP Charley Boyce were left off the team. Tschepikow hit .417 with a team-high five RBI and Boyce pitched 15 innings with a 1-1 record, 11 strikeouts. Texas placed six on the all-tournament team. Catcher Brian Walker had an outstanding tournament, batting .438 with four RBI. He raised his season average to .251 after it dipped as low as .177 in mid-April.

AUBURN Tigers
Auburn's postseason run ended with a 10-4 defeat at the hands of Florida State on Sunday night at Dick Howser Stadium. Auburn finished the inaugural season under the direction of Head Coach Tom Slater 34-26. Florida State jumped on top quickly, scoring a single run in the top of the first and another four in the top of the second, three on a Shane Robinson blast that hit the scoreboard in left, knocking out Auburn starter sophomore Jared Shore (1-2) after just 1 1/3 innings of work. Auburn narrowed the gap to a run with four in the bottom of the fourth inning as Josh Donaldson sent a laser over the fence in right, his seventh of the season, bringing home Jeff Boutwell and Clete Thomas. Tyler Johnstone had scored Auburn's first run in the frame as he lead off with a single, moved to third on Thomas' double and scored on Josh Bell's RBI groundout. The Seminoles tacked three runs on in the fifth off of Auburn's first man out of the bullpen, Michael Nix, with two lead-off walks and a pair of singles to right. Nix went a solid three full innings, allowing three runs on two hits with three walks and two strikeouts in his second-longest outing of the season. John Madden, working for the third time in three days, limited the damage as the senior entered with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth and allowed just one run to score. The Tigers are now 16-9 all-time in Tallahassee in regional action and 36-27 all-time in NCAA Regional play … The Tigers are also 4-8 against FSU in NCAA Regional action and are 1-4 against the Seminoles in elimination games in regional play … The Tigers have hit 13 home runs in their last six games this season … Auburn's eight NCAA Regional home runs marks the second time that AU has hit at least eight in NCAA Regional play (1998 – 11 HR).

FLORIDA Gators
Florida advanced to the College World Series for the first time since 1998 by sweeping the NCAA Gainesville Super Regional against Florida State, 8-1 and 8-5. The Gators will next meet SEC rival Tennessee on Friday to begin the squad's fifth trip to Omaha. Senior Tommy Boss (8-4, 4.17) claimed the opener with the Seminoles by tossing his second-straight complete game in NCAA play. The right-hander scattered seven hits and was supported by four home runs. UF belted back-to-back-to-back homers in the fifth inning by sophomore Brian Jeroloman, freshman Brandon McArthur and sophomore Brian Leclerc. The Gators had not socked three in a row since March 25, 1998, when David Ross, Derek Nicholson and Jason Dill accomplished the feat against Charleston Southern. In front of a McKethan Stadium record crowd of 5,698 on Saturday night, junior Alan Horne (9-2, 4.15) worked 8.1 innings to collect his eighth-straight decision. With the potential tying run at the plate, senior Connor Falkenbach picked up his ninth save to close out FSU. Sophomore Gavin Dickey led the Orange and Blue with a .571 (4-for-7) effort against the Seminoles, while Leclerc is hitting .524 (11-for-21) with 13 RBI during the postseason. Jeroloman (.421) has gunned down three of the five runners who have tried to steal on him in NCAA action. Florida completed its home schedule with a 32-11 (.744) record and was perfect in both Regionals and Super Regionals. Tennessee defeated the Gators twice in three meetings in Gainesville this year. Junior Stephen Barton was 5-for-8 (.625) in the series and sophomore Adam Davis had a school-record 10 RBI on April 30 versus the Vols. UT registered a .372 (42-for-113) average over the three games, compared to a .265 (27-for-102) performance by Florida.

GEORGIA Bulldogs
At 30-25 overall and 12-17 in league play, Georgia missed the Southeastern Conference eight-team tournament by a half game. The Bulldogs end the year with their third best fielding percentage ever at .969. Offenisvely, Georgia's .265 team batting average ranked 12th in the SEC while the 4.88 team ERA was 11th. Georgia played one of its most ambitious schedules ever with an SEC-high 27 road games in 2005 going 12-15. Georgia dropped six SEC games when it had leads in the eighth inning or later. The Bulldogs played better down the stretch, going 9-9 in their final 18 SEC games including winning series over Auburn, Miss. State and Vanderbilt. Junior LHP Will Startup (6-4, 3.21 ERA, 6 Saves) led the Bulldogs in Wins, ERA and Saves. He made 25 appearances with four starts and one complete game. Howver, he had five blown saves too. For the second year in a row, Startup was named to the SEC Good Works Team for his community service. Junior OF Kyle Keen (.320-0-17) went 4-for-5 in the regular season finale to raise his SEC batting average to a team-best .375. Keen also led the team in batting overall at .320. Keen passed junior OF Bobby Felmy on the final day of the regular season. Felmy was the most consistent hitter at .307-6-31 overall and .339-4-18 in the SEC. Sophomore 1B Josh Morris (.273-12-45) led the team in home runs and RBI for the second year in a row and was the lone Bulldog to start all 55 games.

KENTUCKY Wildcats
The Wildcats finished 29-27 overall and 7-22 in the Southeastern Conference. The 29 wins are the second most for UK since the 1997 season and the most in five years. South Carolina ended the year 37-19 overall and 16-14 in the league. Kentucky sophomore John Shelby was one of 12 collegiate players invited to the 2005 USA Baseball National Team Trials this year, it was announced on Monday. Shelby, a Lexington native, will be one of 36 total players trying out for 20 spots on the national team. Monday's announcement was the second of three groups of 12 players each to be invited. USA Baseball will announce a final list of invitees to the trials in June. Team tryouts are held from June 27-30 at Raleigh, N.C. Wildcats skipper John Cohen has been named an assistant coach for the team. Kentucky sophomore John Shelby earned what should be the first of many postseason honors on Monday as he was named first-team All-Southeastern Conference by SEbaseball.com. Shelby was joined on the all-conference squads by freshman Antone DeJesus and junior Shaun Lehmann, who were each tabbed to the third team. DeJesus also earned Freshman All-SEC honors. This year, Shelby proved to be one of the biggest offensive weapons in the conference. He batted .344 overall while leading the team with 10 home runs and 52 RBIs. He also stole a team-best 23 bases and was one of just three SEC players with at least 10 homer and 10 steals. Shelby became the fifth player in Kentucky history to hit at least 10 home runs and steal 20 bases. Two of the previous four, Terry Shumpert and Chad Green, played major league baseball. Kentucky senior Jesse Barber was named to the Southeastern Conference Baseball Good Works Team, it was announced Monday. Barber, a Carmel, Ind., native, was recognized for his work in the community. As a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, he helped organize numerous events in the community, including a food drive.

LSU Tigers
Rice, the second seed from the Baton Rouge Regional, wins the championship and advances to the Super Regional Round against the winner of the New Orleans Region which is at Game 6 between Tulane and Alabama. Rice wins its seventh consecutive game, its longest streak of the season. Rice is 4-2 in the state of Louisiana this season. This is the fifth time Rice has advanced to the Super Regional (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005) LSU is 77-24 in NCAA Regional and Super Regional play, including 67-13 at Alex Box Stadium. Opponents have scored first in all four of LSU's games in the regional and 33 of LSU's 62 games this season. Nick Stavinoha, the MVP of the regional, ends his season with a seven game hit streak, the longest active streak by an LSU player. Stavinoha has hit safely in 27 of his last 29 games. Attendance for game five: paid, 6,891; actual, 3,765. Attendance through the first six games of the regional: paid, 41,127; actual, 23,093. This was the Tigers' 101st regional/super regional game and LSU is only the 10th school to reach the century mark in that category. Determann pitched a season high 7.1 innings in the first start of the season with a career strikeout total of nine (7, twice the previous).

OLE MISS Rebels
Ole Miss concluded its season with a 6-4 loss to Texas in game three of the NCAA Oxford Super Regional Monday night. The Rebels finished 48-20 to set a new school record for wins in a season. The NCAA Super Regional appearance was the Rebels' first-ever, and the 2005 season marked Ole Miss' third straight postseason appearance for the first time in school history. Junior outfielder Brian Pettway was a first team selection to the 15th annual National College Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) All-America team, while junior Stephen Head garnered second team honors as a utility player Tuesday. Pettway started all 68 games for Ole Miss, hitting .383 with 21 home runs and 67 RBI. He became the second player in school history to record 100 hits in a season, setting a new school season mark with 102. His 21 home runs tied the Ole Miss single-season record and he also established a new school mark with 184 total bases. Pettway was drafted in the third round of last week's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. He also earned first team All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball newspaper and was a second team selection by USA Today/Sports Weekly. Head also started all 68 games for the Rebels, making 61 starts at first base and drawing seven starts on the mound. At the plate, he posted a .331 batting average with 18 home runs and a team-high 68 RBI. On the mound, he made 24 appearances, going 7-3, with eight saves, and a 2.54 ERA, striking out 77 while walking 27 in 85 innings. He finished his junior season with 26 career saves to break the Ole Miss career record of 24 set by Justin Huisman from 1998-2000. This is the third straight year Head has earned All-America honors, making him the first three-time All-America selection in Ole Miss history. Head joins Jake Gibbs and Paul Husband as the only players in school history to earn All-America honors at least twice in a career. He also earned first team All-America honors this spring as a utility player by USA Today/Sports Weekly and was named a third team All-America by Collegiate Baseball newspaer. Head was selected in the second round by the Cleveland Indians in last week's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

MISSISSIPPI STATE Bulldogs
Mississippi State concluded its 115th season of baseball with a 42-22 record following competition in the 2005 NCAA Coral Gables Regional. MSU posted a 2-2 regional mark, topping Florida Atlantic twice (13-2, 8-4) and dropping a pair of games to the 11th-ranked and top-seeded tourney host University of Miami (4-1, 10-4) ... Junior outfielders JEFF BUTTS (5-for-11, 3 doubles, six RBI) and BRAD CORLEY (6x14, 2 home runs, seven RBI) represented Mississippi State on the regional's all-tournament team ... It was MSU's 16th championship round advancement in 22 regional tournaments, its 11th regional on the road and MSU's 28th NCAA postseason competition (regionals and district playoffs) overall since 1948 ... The 2005 Baseball Bulldogs played 38 of 66 games against teams in the 64-team field of the 2005 NCAA Baseball Tournament, posting a 19-19 record against tournament teams ... Junior outfielder JOSEPH HUNTER led MSU's regulars with a .348 batting average. Catcher/third baseman THOMAS BERKERY (.302) paced MSU with seven home runs and 55 RBI while junior outfielder BRAD CORLEY (.316) led MSU in hits (83), doubles (20) and extra-base hits (27) ... Senior right-hander ALAN JOHNSON (5-6, 4.15 ERA) led MSU's pitching corps in innings pitched (91.0) and strikeouts (70), sophomore righty JON CROSBY (5-3, 3.54 ERA) paced MSU's starters with the top earned run average, junior starter BROOKS DUNN (6-3, 4.50 ERA) sophomore relief man MIKE VALENTINE (6-0, 2.88 ERA, 3 saves) shared the team lead with six wins, and junior relief pitcher Brett Cleveland (2-1, 1.96 ERA) led the State bullpen staff with five saves ... MSU's 2,182 all-time wins ranks as the most in the Southeastern Conference ... Head coach RON POLK advanced his 32-year career coaching record to 1,275-624-2 in 2005, the 10th-highest all-time win total among NCAA Division I coaches and the sixth-highest among coaches currently active on the Division I level ... Including the three-session attendance (7,248) at the NCAA Coral Gables regional, Mississippi State eclipsed the 300,000 mark in total baseball attendance in 2005 with a paid attendance of 314,852. MSU had a paid average attendance of 6,320 for 33 home dates and recorded its 18th attendance of 10,000 or better at Dudy Noble Field (10,958 vs. Auburn, 4/9/05).

SOUTH CAROLINA Gamecocks
Number two national seed Georgia Tech shut out South Carolina 5-0 Monday night behind the five hit pitching of Tim Gustafson and Matt Wieters and the Yellow Jackets advanced to a super regional next weekend against the Tennessee Volunteers. Georgia Tech, 45-17, will host the best of three super regional at Russ Chandler Stadium with the winner advancing to the College World Series in Omaha. South Carolina, which advanced to the World Series each of the past three years, ended its 2005 season with a 41-23 record. The Gamecocks won three of five games in the Atlanta regional. The Gamecocks forced a Monday game by winning twice on Sunday. South Carolina eliminated Michigan 4-3 in a game delayed three hours and 32 minutes by rain and then downed Georgia Tech 8-3 to extend the regional tournament to Monday night. Weather again played a part with the start of the Monday game delayed an hour and 16 minutes by lightning. Aaron Rawl, attempting to pitch on just two days rest, was reached for seven hits and four runs in 2 1/3 innings to end his career with the loss. Rawl had a no decision in the regional opening game, a 4-3 win over Michigan, and ended his senior season 9-6. His career record of 35-15 places him third on South Carolina's all time win list. Sophomore left-hander Forrest Beverly relieved Rawl and allowed only four hits and one run over the final 6 2/3 innings for his most impressive outing of the year. The outing was also his longest of his career. South Carolina placed three players on the regional all-tournament team, Pearce at first base plus third baseman Neil Giesler and outfielder Michael Campbell. The three accounted for the four home runs that South Carolina hit in five games, two by Pearce and one each by Giesler and Campbell.

TENNESSEE Volunteers
Tennessee swept national No. 2 seed Georgia Tech at Tech's Russ Chandler Stadium last weekend to earn the school's fourth all-time berth in the College World Series ... The Vols tied a season-low with just four hits Friday but came through with a dramatic 3-2 victory ... Senior Rob Fitzgerald's two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning put UT ahead for good, marking the first time all season that the Vols had won when trailing at the end of the eighth inning ... Junior Kelly Edmundson led off the top of the ninth with a pinch-hit single to left field and was later driven on Fitzgerald's sixth long ball of the year ... Vols ace Luke Hochevar struck out 11 batters in seven innings of work while logging a no-decision ... Hochevar's 151 Ks on the year are a new UT single-season record ... Headley also set a UT single-season record by drawing his 62nd walk of the season, breaking Todd Helton's old mark of 61 walks in 1995 ... Sophomore right-hander Sean Watson worked two innings in relief and logged his seventh win of the year ... On Saturday, Tennessee's offense exploded for 16 hits while routing the Yellow Jackets 13-3 ... Junior second baseman Michael Rivera hit his first home run of the season - a three-run blast - on his way to a game-high four RBIs ... Headley went 4-for-6 with three runs scored ... All nine Vols starters logged hits, and seven recorded RBIs ... Freshman left-hander James Adkins struck out 11 batters while allowing three runs on seven hits in 7 2/3 innings ... Adkins picked up the win to improve to 10-4 on the year ... He is now a perfect 3-0 in the postseason with 38 strikeouts in three postseason appearances ... Tennessee's 770 hits are the most by any team in school history ... As a team, UT is batting .333 with a staff ERA of 3.59 ... This year's berth in the College World Series is Tennessee's third under 16th-year head coach Rod Delmonico ... The win over Georgia Tech Saturday moved Delmonico into a tie with former Auburn skipper Hal Baird for fifth place on the SEC's all-time coaching wins list with 634 victories.

VANDERBILT Commodores
The Commodores ended the regular season in a three-way tie for eighth place in league standings. Vanderbilt was one win shy of a berth in the SEC Tournament and a No. 7 seed - The Commodores had the same number of wins as Mississippi State and Arkansas who advanced to the SEC Tournament along with Auburn. Vanderbilt is 21-4 in non-conference games. Three of those losses were to Baylor which is nationally ranked and owns a #11 RPI VU owned a 13-1 record in mid-week games outscoring opponents 115-47 with a 2.90 team ERA. Vanderbilt struck out 18 Florida batters in the Saturday game, including 11 by starter David Price. Junior first baseman Mike Baxter received the Jeff Peeples Most Valuable Player Award (team MVP) prior to the final regular season game. The award is voted on by the players and coaching staff. In his first career start, freshman Ty Davis pitched a two-hit eight-inning shutout at Ohio. He numbered only 82 pitches, including four in the first inning and five in the seventh inning. He had pitched four total inning previously. The Commodores honored seniors Gil Kim, Tony Mansolino, Antoan Richardson, Ryan Rote, Jeff Sues and Matt Zeller over the weekend. Mansolino and Zeller were honored at a graduation ceremony May 23 since they missed commencement during the Kentucky series.


SEC IN THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

Since 1990, the Southeastern Conference has been the most successful baseball conference in the country. The SEC has won six of the last 15 NCAA titles (1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 2000) and has put more teams in the College World Series than any conference in the country. Take a look at the SEC's success in the last 15 years:


CONFERENCE RECORDS IN THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
Since 1990 (Using current conference alignments)

Conference      App.  Games  W-L    Pct.
SEC              30    106  56-50  .528
Pacific 10       20     70  37-33  .529
Big 12           20     56  23-33  .411
Atlantic Coast   14     47  18-28  .391
Big West         12     45  26-19  .578
Independents     10     36  21-15  .583
Missouri Valley   6     18   8-10  .444
Western Athletic  5     16   7-9   .438
Southern          2      5   1-4   .200
West Coast        1      4   4-0  1.000
Sun Belt          1      4   2-2   .500
Big East          1      3   1-2   .333


  • Not counting games against each other, the SEC has posted a 44-37 record in the College World Series since 1990, a 54.3 winning percentage.
  • Since 1990, an SEC team has played in 93 of the 208 games in the College World Series, an amazing 45 percent of games. SEC teams played in 12 of the 15 game sof the 2004 College World Series.
  • The SEC has sent nine of its 12 schools to the College World Series since 1990. The Big 12 and the Pac-10 are next with five each.
  • The SEC has played 21 games in the "Final Four" of the College World Series since 1990, an average of 1.5 per year.


SEC In The College World Series

Year  School           Finish
1950  Alabama          Sixth
1951  Tennessee        Second
1956  Ole Miss         Third
1964  Ole Miss         Eighth
1967  Auburn           Third
1969  Ole Miss         Fifth
1971  Miss. State      Eighth
1972  Ole Miss         Eighth
1976  Auburn           Eighth 
1979  Miss. State      Fifth
1981  Miss. State      Sixth
1983  Alabama          Second
1985  Miss. State      Fourth
1986  LSU              Fifth-tie
1987  LSU              Fourth
      Georgia          Seventh-tie
1988  Florida          Fifth-tie
1989  LSU              Fourth
1990  Georgia          First
      LSU              Third-tie
      Miss. State      Fifth-tie
1991  LSU              First
      Florida          Third-tie
1993  LSU              First
1994  Auburn           Seventh-tie
      LSU              Seventh-tie
1995  Tennessee        Third-tie
1996  LSU              First
      Florida          Third-tie
      Alabama          Fifth-tie
1997  LSU              First
      Alabama          Second
      Auburn           Fifth-tie
      Miss. State      Fifth-tie
1998  LSU              Third-tie
      Miss. State      Fifth-tie
      Florida          Seventh-tie
1999  Alabama          Third-tie
2000  LSU              First
2001  Georgia          Seventh-tie
      Tennessee        Third-tie
2002  South Carolina   Second
2003  LSU              Seventh-tie
      South Carolina   Fifth-tie
2004  South Carolina   Third-tie
      Georgia          Third-tie
      Arkansas         Seventh-tie
      LSU              Seventh-tie


College World Series Record
(1933-2004)

 Team                  App.  Won  Lost  Pct.  1st  2nd
 LSU                    13    29   17  .631    5    0
 South Carolina          3     8    6  .571    0    1
 Tennessee               3     8    6  .571    0    1
 Georgia                 4     6    7  .462    1    0
 Alabama                 5    11   10  .524    0    2
 Florida                 4     5    8  .385    0    0
 Miss. State             7     7   14  .333    0    0
 Ole Miss                4     3    8  .273    0    0
 Auburn                  4     3    8  .273    0    0
 Arkansas                1     0    2  .000    0    0
 TOTALS                 46    80   91  .473    6    4
*Prior to SEC Membership
 South Carolina          5     9   10  .474    0    2
 Arkansas                4     7    8  .467    0    1


Last Appearance/Highest Finish

Team      Last Appearance  Highest Finish
Alabama         1999       Second (1983; 1997)
Arkansas        2004       Second (1979)
Auburn          1997       Third (1967)
Florida         1998       Third-tied (1991; 1996)
Georgia         2004       First (1990)
Kentucky         N/A       N/A
LSU             2004       First (1991; 1993; 1996; 1997; 2000)
Ole Miss        1972       Third (1956)
Miss. State     1998       Third (1985)
South Carolina  2004       Second (1975, 1977, 2002)
Tennessee       2001       Second (1951)
Vanderbilt       N/A       N/A


Non-Conference Record
272-73 (.788) • As of June 14, 2005

America East          1-0   1.000
Atlantic Coast       19-14   .576
Atlantic Sun         17-1    .944
Atlantic 10           6-1    .857
Big East              6-3    .667
Big Sky               0-0    .000
Big South            24-4    .857
Big Ten              13-1    .929
Big 12                8-9    .471
Big West              0-0    .000
Colonial             10-0   1.000
Conference USA       16-15   .516
Horizon               4-0   1.000
Ivy League            1-0   1.000
Metro Atlantic Ath.   4-0   1.000
Mid-American         14-3    .824
Mid-Continent         7-1    .875
Mid-Eastern Ath.      4-1    .800
Midwestern Coll.      0-0    .000
Missouri Valley       8-1    .889
Northeast             0-0    .000
Ohio Valley          33-2    .943
Pacific-10            3-2    .600
Patriot               1-0   1.000
Southern             15-7    .682
Southland            21-1    .955
SWAC                  4-1    .800
Sun Belt             18-2    .900
Trans America Ath.    0-0    .000
West Coast            0-1    .000
Western Athletic      6-6    .500
Independents          0-0    .000
Non-Division I       13-0   1.000