2008 NCAA Division II baseball tournament
| Season | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Mount Olive (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Ouachita Baptist (1st CWS Appearance) |
| Winning coach | Carl Lancaster (1st title) |
| MOP | Steve Smith, P (Ouachita Baptist) |
| Attendance | 16,555 |
The 2008 NCAA Division II baseball tournament was the postseason tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of baseball among its Division II members at the end of the 2008 NCAA Division II baseball season.[1]
The final, eight-team double elimination tournament, also known as the College World Series, was played at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, Illinois from May 24–31, 2008. This was the first Division II College World Series since 1984 to not be played in Montgomery, Alabama.
Mount Olive defeated Ouachita Baptist in the championship game, 6–2, to claim the Trojans' first Division II national title.
Bracket
[edit]College World Series
[edit]- Note: Losers of each round are shifted to the opposing bracket.
| First Rounds May 24–27, 2008 | Second Rounds May 26–May 28, 2008 | Semifinals May 29, 2008 | Championship May 30–31, 2008 | |||||||||||||
| Sonoma State | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Shippensburg | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Sonoma State | 619 | |||||||||||||||
| Central Missouri | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Central Missouri | 1311 | |||||||||||||||
| Franklin Pierce | 12 | |||||||||||||||
| Sonoma State | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Bracket One | ||||||||||||||||
| Ouachita Baptist | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Ouachita Baptist | 12 | |||||||||||||||
| Tampa | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Ashland | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Ouachita Baptist | 12 | |||||||||||||||
| Ouachita Baptist | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Mount Olive | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Ouachita Baptist | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Mount Olive | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Mount Olive | 18 | |||||||||||||||
| Ashland | 7 | |||||||||||||||
| Tampa | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Ashland | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Mount Olive | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Bracket Two | ||||||||||||||||
| Central Missouri | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Shippensburg | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| Franklin Pierce | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Central Missouri | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Shippensburg | 1 | |||||||||||||||
See also
[edit]- 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
- 2008 NCAA Division III baseball tournament
- 2008 NAIA World Series
References
[edit]- ^ "DIVISION II BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS RECORDS BOOK" (PDF). NCAA.org. NCAA. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
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