The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament was the conference baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. In its final edition in 2022, all four MEAC baseball teams participated in the double elimination tournament at Marty L. Miller Field in Norfolk, Virginia. The winner of the tournament has received an automatic berth to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship since automatic bid was granted beginning in 1999.
From 1999 until leaving the conference after the 2021 season, Bethune-Cookman had claimed all but six tournament championships, as North Carolina A&T won the 2005 and 2018 tournaments, Savannah State won the 2013 tournament, Florida A&M won the 2015 and 2019 events, while Norfolk State won in 2021. Coppin State won the last MEAC tournament in 2022.
The MEAC merged its baseball league into that of the Northeast Conference (NEC) after the 2022 season, by which time it had only four baseball-sponsoring members—two short of the minimum required for a conference to maintain its automatic tournament bid. The remaining MEAC baseball schools became NEC affiliates at that time.
Champions By year The following is a list of conference champions and sites listed by year. Year Program Site Most Outstanding Performer Outstanding Coach 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978–1983 No Conference Competition Sponsored 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 Marquis Grissom, Florida A&M 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Moore-Kittles Field • Tallahassee, FL 1995 Moore-Kittles Field • Tallahassee, FL 1996 Moore-Kittles Field • Tallahassee, FL 1997 Moore-Kittles Field • Tallahassee, FL 1998 1999 2000 2001 Claudell Clark, Norfolk State Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2002 Carlos Geathers, North Carolina A&T Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2003 John Gragg, Bethune-Cookman Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2004 Cracker Jack Stadium • Lake Buena Vista, FL Jon Roberts, Bethune-Cookman Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2005 Cracker Jack Stadium • Lake Buena Vista, FL Joe McIntyre, North Carolina A&T Keith Shumate, North Carolina A&T 2006 Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Jose Rivera Ortiz, Bethune-Cookman Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2007 Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Angel Mercado, Bethune-Cookman Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2008 Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Jose Lozada, Bethune-Cookman Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2009 Jackie Robinson Ballpark • Daytona Beach, FL Marquis Riley, North Carolina A&T Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2010 Jackie Robinson Ballpark • Daytona Beach, FL DJ Leonard, Bethune-Cookman Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2011 Jackie Robinson Ballpark • Daytona Beach, FL Peter O'Brien, Bethune-Cookman Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman 2012 Bethune-Cookman Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA David Lee, Bethune-Cookman Jason Beverlin, Bethune-Cookman 2013 Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Kyle McGowin, Savannah State Carlton Hardy, Savannah State 2014 Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Montana DuRapau, Bethune-Cookman Jason Beverlin, Bethune-Cookman 2015 Florida A&M Arthur W. Perdue Stadium • Salisbury, MD Brandon Fleming, Florida A&M Jamey Shouppe, Florida A&M 2016 Arthur W. Perdue Stadium • Salisbury, MD Danny Rodriguez, Bethune-Cookman Jason Beverlin, Bethune-Cookman 2017 Arthur W. Perdue Stadium • Salisbury, MD Danny Rodriguez, Bethune-Cookman Jason Beverlin, Bethune-Cookman 2018 Sliwa Stadium • Daytona Beach, FL Zach McLean, North Carolina A&T Ben Hall, North Carolina A&T 2019 Jackie Robinson Ballpark • Daytona Beach, FL Kaycee Reese, Florida A&M Jamey Shouppe, Florida A&M 2020 Canceled due to COVID-19 2021 Norfolk State Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Alsander Womack, Norfolk State Keith Shumate, Norfolk State 2022 Coppin State Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Brian Nicolas, Coppin State Sherman Reed, Coppin State
By school The following is a list of conference champions listed by school, since 1972. Program No. of titles Title years Bethune-Cookman 19 1985, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 Florida A&M 8 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2015, 2019 Howard 7 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1998 North Carolina A&T 4 1974, 1993, 2005, 2018 Coppin State 2 1995, 2022 Delaware State 1 1989 Norfolk State 1 2021 Savannah State 1 2013 South Carolina State 1 1973 Italics indicate the school stopped fielding a baseball team in the MEAC before the conference's final baseball season in 2022.
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