The Austin Peay Governors baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States. The team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I and are members of the United Athletic Conference.
Austin Peay began play for baseball in 1931 as the fourth sport offered by the university. It stopped from 1940 to 1947 due to World War II. They played in the Volunteer State Athletic Conference until 1963, when they joined the NCAA and the Ohio Valley Conference. In 2023, they became a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Austin Peay has made the NCAA Division I baseball tournament six times. They have gone 6-12 in NCAA tournament games, reaching the Regional Final twice.
Major League Baseball (MLB) Austin Peay has had nine players play in Major League Baseball (MLB). A. J. Ellis2008–2018Ryne Harper2019–2021Shawn Kelley2009–2019Matt Reynolds2010–2016Tyler Rogers2019–presentGeorge Sherrill2004–2012Jimmy Stewart1963–1973Greg Tubbs1993Jamie Walker1997–2009 References