The 2023 Southern Conference baseball season was the baseball season for the Southern Conference as part of the 2023 NCAA Division I baseball season. was predicted to win the conference in the preseason poll. The conference tournament was scheduled for May 24–28 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina.

Regular season The Southern Conference began conference play on March 24. Each team was scheduled to play 21 conference games.

Standings

Conference Game Results

Tournament

The 2023 Southern Conference baseball tournament was held on May 24 through May 27 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The winner of the conference tournament received an automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

All eight SoCon baseball teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom four seeds having played a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams then played a six-team double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving byes into the third round, and the third and fourth placed teams playing the play-in round winners in the second round. The UNC Greensboro Spartans were the defending champions, but were eliminated by the Samford Bulldogs in the loser's bracket final. Wofford came out as the only team to not go through the loser's bracket, but lost two games to Samford, giving the Bulldogs their fourth SoCon baseball tournament title. Samford's Heath Clevenger was named the Tournament Most Outstanding Player.

Bracket Schedule GameTime*Matchup#Score Day 1 (Wednesday, May 24) 1 3:00 p.m. No. 5 VMI vs. No. 8 The Citadel 2-5 2 7:00 p.m. No. 6 UNC Greensboro vs. No. 7 Western Carolina 4-3 Day 2 (Thursday, May 25) 3 9:00 a.m. No. 8 The Citadel vs. No. 4 East Tennessee State 0-127 4 12:30 p.m. No. 6 UNC Greensboro vs. No. 3 Wofford 1-6 5 4:00 p.m. No. 4 East Tennessee State vs. No. 1 Samford 1-2 6 7:30 p.m. No. 3 Wofford vs. No. 2 Mercer 16-14 Day 3 (Friday, May 26) 7 9:00 a.m. No. 6 UNC Greensboro vs. No. 4 East Tennessee State 4-2 8 12:30 p.m. No. 8 The Citadel vs. No. 2 Mercer 1-8 9 4:00 p.m. No. 1 Samford vs. No. 3 Wofford 6-7 10 7:30 p.m. No. 6 UNC Greensboro vs. No. 2 Mercer 9-5 Day 4 (Saturday, May 27) 11 8:00 a.m. No. 1 Samford vs. No. 6 UNC Greensboro 9-5 12 10:30 a.m. No. 3 Wofford vs. No. 1 Samford 2-7 13 1:00 p.m. No. 3 Wofford vs. No. 1 Samford 2-5 *Game times are in EDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.

Conference leaders

+ Hitting leaders Stat Player Total AVG Justin Starke (VMI) .392 HR John Anderson (SAM) 22 RBI Ryan Galanie (WOF) 66 R Treyson Hughes (MER) 74 H Ryan Galanie (WOF) 88 SB Ty Swaim (VMI) 35

+ Pitching leaders Stat Player Total W Matthew Marchal (WOF) 11 L Jay Miller (UNCG) 8 ERA Lucas Mahlstedt (WOF) 2.69 K Jacob Cravey (SAM) 121 IP Jacob Cravey (SAM) 98.2 SV Ben Petschke (SAM) 14

See also 2023 in baseball

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