The 2013 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament was held at M. L. Tigue Moore Field on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana, from May 22 to May 26, 2013. The tournament returned to the double-elimination format used prior to the two year experiment with pool play in 2011 and 2012. Florida Atlantic won their first tournament championship and earned the Sun Belt Conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Florida Atlantic joined the conference in 2006, and left for Conference USA after the 2013 season.
Seeding The top eight teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament. The teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage before playing a two bracket, double-elimination tournament. The winner of each bracket then played a championship final. Troy claimed the top seed over South Alabama and Louisiana–Lafayette earned the third seed over Western Kentucky by tiebreaker. Team W L Pct. GB Seed 20 10 .667 – 1 20 10 .667 – 2 Louisiana–Lafayette 19 11 .633 1 3 Florida Atlantic 19 11 .633 1 4 16 14 .533 4 5 14 17 .452 6.5 6 13 18 .419 7.5 7 12 18 .400 8 8 11 19 .366 9 – Louisiana–Monroe 7 23 .233 13 –
Results
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Name School Logan Pierce Troy Edwin Rios FIU John Koch Arkansas State Alex Potts Arkansas State Anthony Izzio South Alabama Nick Zaharion South Alabama Dex Kjerstad Louisiana–Lafayette Austin Robichaux Louisiana–Lafayette Jace Conrad Louisiana–Lafayette Ryan Wilson Louisiana–Lafayette Hugh Adams Florida Atlantic Mark Nelson Florida Atlantic Geoff Jimenez Florida Atlantic
Most Outstanding Player Brendon Sanger was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Sanger played for Florida Atlantic.
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