2004 Mid-Continent Conference baseball tournament

2004 Mid-Continent Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	4
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Fair Grounds Field; Shreveport, Louisiana;
Champions	Oral Roberts (7th title)
Winning coach	Rob Walton (1st title)
MVP	Ricky Rivera (Oral Roberts)
	← 2003; Mid-Con baseball tournament; 2005 →;

The 2004 Mid-Continent Conference Tournament took place from May 27 through 29. The top four regular season finishers from the regular season met in the double-elimination tournament held at Fair Grounds Field in Shreveport, Louisiana. Oral Roberts won the tournament for the seventh consecutive time.^[2]

2004 Mid-Continent Conference baseball standings
v t e	Conf.				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 22 Oral Roberts ‍†‍‡‍^y	21	–	1	.955	50	–	11	.820
Western Illinois ‍‍‍	13	–	11	.542	29	–	36	.446
Centenary ‍‍‍	10	–	11	.476	23	–	31	.426
Southern Utah ‍‍‍	11	–	13	.458	19	–	30	.388
Valparaiso ‍‍‍	11	–	13	.458	20	–	34	.370
Oakland ‍‍‍	10	–	13	.435	20	–	34	.370
Chicago State ‍‍‍	5	–	19	.208	8	–	52	.133

‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2004^[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The top four finishers advanced to the tournament.

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Seed
Oral Roberts	21	1	.955	—	1
Western Illinois	13	11	.542	9	2
Centenary	10	11	.476	10.5	3
Southern Utah	11	13	.458	11	4
Valparaiso	11	13	.458	11	—
Oakland	10	13	.435	11.5	—
Chicago State	5	19	.208	17	—

Tournament


Upper round 1			Upper final			Final



1	Oral Roberts	28

4	Southern Utah	8
			1	Oral Roberts	8

			2	Western Illinois	5
3	Centenary	3

2	Western Illinois	5
						1	Oral Roberts	12

						4	Southern Utah	4
Lower round 1			Lower final



			2	Western Illinois	5

4	Southern Utah	7	4	Southern Utah	6

3	Centenary	4

Game-by-game results

Game	Winner	Score	Loser	Comment
1	(1) Oral Roberts	28–8	(4) Southern Utah
2	(2) Western Illinois	5–3	(3) Centenary Gentlemen baseball
3	(4) Southern Utah	7–4	(3) Centenary Gentlemen baseball	Centenary eliminated
4	(1) Oral Roberts	8–5	(2) Western Illinois
5	(4) Southern Utah	6–5	(2) Western Illinois	Western Illinois eliminated
6	(1) Oral Roberts	12–4	(4) Southern Utah	Oral Roberts wins Mid-Con Championship

All-Tournament Team

Name	School
Justin Abbott	Southern Utah
Amos Burgess	Southern Utah
Corey Ferger	Western Illinois
Shelby Guest	Southern Utah
Brian Hanson	Oral Roberts
David Kiefer	Centenary
Josh Lex	Oral Roberts
Kyle Malan	Western Illinois
Taylor McIntyre	Oral Roberts
Grant Plumley	Oral Roberts
Ricky Rivera	Oral Roberts
Ryan Schmidgall	Western Illinois
Blake Schultz	Western Illinois
Ryan Zimmerman	Southern Utah

Tournament Most Valuable Player

Ricky Rivera of Oral Roberts was named Tournament MVP.

References

↑ 2021 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Summit League. Retrieved May 24, 2025.
↑ "Summit League Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Summit League. Retrieved May 24, 2025.

[1] 2021 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Summit League. Retrieved May 24, 2025.

[2] "Summit League Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Summit League. Retrieved May 24, 2025.

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