1982 Eastern 8 Conference baseball championship series

1982 Eastern 8 Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	2
Format	Best of 3 series
Finals site	Piscataway, New Jersey
Champions	West Virginia (1st title)
Winning coach	Dale Ramsburg (1st title)
MVP	Jeff Wilson (West Virginia)

1982 Eastern 8 Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
East
Rutgers  ^x‍‍‍	5	–	3		.625			17	–	11		.607
UMass  ‍‍‍	3	–	4		.429			15	–	20		.429
Rhode Island  ‍‍‍	3	–	4		.429			17	–	19		.472
West
No. 16 West Virginia  ^x‍‍‡‍^y	7	–	2		.778			24	–	23		.511
George Washington  ‍‍‍	4	–	4		.500			16	–	21		.432
Duquesne  ‍‍‍	3	–	5		.375			14	–	9		.609
Pittsburgh  ‍‍‍	3	–	6		.333			11	–	19		.367
x – Division champion ‡ – Championship Series champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1982 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1982 Eastern 8 Conference Baseball Championship Series was held on May 7 and 8, 1982^[1] to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I Eastern 8 Conference, renamed later in 1982 as the Atlantic 10 Conference, for the 1982 NCAA Division I baseball season. This was the fourth iteration of the event, and was held on the campus of Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey. West Virginia won the championship two games to one and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. For the first time, a Most Valuable Player was named, with Jeff Wilson of West Virginia earning the honor.^[2]

Format and seeding

The regular season winners of each of the conference's two divisions advanced to a best of three series.

Team W L Pct GB East Division Rutgers 5 3 .625 — UMass 3 4 .429 1.5 Rhode Island 3 4 .429 1.5

Team W L Pct GB Western Division West Virginia 7 2 .778 — George Washington 4 4 .500 2.5 Duquesne 3 5 .375 3.5 Pittsburgh 3 6 .333 4

Results

Game One

May 7, 1982

Team	R
Rutgers	2
West Virginia	8

Game Two

May 7, 1982

Team	R
West Virginia	5
Rutgers	6

Game Three

May 8, 1982

Team	R
Rutgers	5
West Virginia	7

References

1. Baseball Media Guide. West Virginia Mountaineers. p. 155. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
2. Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic 10 Conference. p. 20. Retrieved June 8, 2017.