University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
The Quest for Trustmark
4/25/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
With the 2011 Conference USA Baseball Championship set to start a month from today, here is look at the happenings around the league as the nine league teams head into the final four weeks of league play. Below you will find updated league standings, upcoming league series and information on the tournament which is set for May 25-29 at Trustmark Park in Pearl, Miss.
C-USA All Games
| Team | W-L | Pct. | H | A | W-L | Pct. | H | A | N | L-10 | Streak |
| Southern Miss | 9-3 | .750 | 5-1 | 4-2 | 30-9 | .769 | 19-2 | 8-5 | 3-2 | 7-3 | W 3 |
| Rice | 9-6 | .600 | 6-3 | 3-3 | 28-16 | .636 | 18-9 | 7-4 | 3-3 | 6-4 | L 2 |
| Memphis | 7-5 | .583 | 3-3 | 4-2 | 24-17 | .585 | 17-8 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 5-5 | W 1 |
| Houstonn | 7-5 | .583 | 2-4 | 5-1 | 20-21 | .488 | 12-9 | 7-10 | 1-2 | 4-6 | L 1 |
| East Carolina | 8-7 | .533 | 5-4 | 3-3 | 27-13 | .675 | 20-6 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 6-4 | W 1 |
| UAB | 8-7 | .533 | 4-5 | 4-2 | 23-17 | .575 | 16-6 | 5-8 | 2-3 | 5-5 | W 2 |
| UCF | 6-9 | .400 | 1-5 | 5-4 | 26-15 | .634 | 17-8 | 8-6 | 1-1 | 6-4 | L 1 |
| Tulane | 4-8 | .333 | 0-3 | 4-5 | 23-17 | .575 | 17-10 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 4-6 | L 1 |
| Marshall | 2-10 | .167 | 2-4 | 0-6 | 15-23 | .395 | 3-4 | 2-15 | 10-4 | 4-6 | L 3 |
Last Week's Series
Southern Miss 3, Marshall 0
Southern Miss swept Marshall for the Golden Eagles second league sweep of the conference season. Tyler Koelling led the way with eight hits in the series, while Marc Bourgeois added seven.
UAB 2, Rice 1
The Blazers registered a doubleheader sweep of Rice on Saturday to win the series at Young Memorial Field in Birmingham. It was the second straight time that UAB has hosted Rice and won a twinbill as the Blazers also did it in 2009.
UCF 2, Memphis 1
D.J. Hicks went 10-for-13 for the Knights in winning the first two games of the series, but Jacob Wilson had two three-run homers in the series finale to help Memphis win game three. East Carolina 2, Houston 1: After losing the opener to the Cougars, ECU got a strong pitching performance from Jordan Lewis on Friday and then Trent Whitehead homered twice in Saturday's finale to give the Pirates the series win.
Utah 2, Tulane 1
Tulane hosted Utah during its open weekend in league play and captured the middle game of the series against the Utes. Blake Crohan doubled and scored twice in the Green Wave's victory.
This Week's Series (All Times Central)
Southern Miss at East Carolina (5 pm, 2 pm, 10 am)
UAB at Tulane (6:30 pm, 2 pm, 1 pm)
Marshall at Memphis (6:30 pm, 2 pm, 1 pm)
Houston at UCF (5:30 pm, 3 pm, 10 am)
Rice is idle
Trustmark Park
The 2011 Conference USA Championship will be played at Trustmark Park in Pearl, Miss. The stadium in suburban Jackson is the home of the Mississippi Braves, the AA club of the Atlanta Braves. The ballpark, which opened April 18, 2005, has capacity for nearly 7,500 fans. There are 5,500 chair-back seats in the reserved seating areas. The grass berm beyond the outfield walls has room for an additional 2,000 general admission customers.
The Farm Bureau Grill, beyond the right-field wall, is a full-service restaurant and there are nine concession stands that offer a wide variety of ballpark treats. Twenty-two luxury suites that seat between 16 and 20 fans are equipped with hardwood floors, a bar, flat screen TVs, refrigerator and sliding doors that open up to two rows of seats. The ballpark also includes the picnic pavilion, 150 closed-circuit monitors positioned around the park televising the game, two merchandise shops and a kids play area beyond the center-field wall.
The field dimensions are 330 feet down the left-field line, 332 feet down the right-field line, and 400 feet to center-field.
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Past C-USA Tournament Champions
2010 Southern Miss
2009 Rice
2008 Houston
2007 Rice
2006 Rice
2005 TCU/Tulane*
2004 TCU
2003 Southern Miss
2002 East Carolina
2001 Tulane
2000 Houston
1999 Tulane
1998 Tulane
1997 Houston
1996 Tulane
*declared co-champions after championship game was cancelled due to weather
New Championship Format
The 2011 Conference USA Championship will feature the top eight teams in regular-season league play. Those eight will be split into two four-team pools (or pods), with the winner of each pod playing in a single championship game. Teams will be assigned pods based on seed, which will be determined by the order of finish in regular-season conference play.
Each team will be guaranteed to play three games. Teams in each pod will play two teams in its pod and one team outside its pod. The team with the best composite record in each pod will advance to the championship game. Two-way ties in a pod will be broken by head-to-head play. In case of a three-way tie, the highest seed will advance. The higher seed will be the home team in games on Days 1 and 3 and in the Championship Game; teams that were the visitors on Day 1 will be the home team on Day 2.
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