2013 Conference USA Tournament

The 2013 Conference USA baseball tournament was held at Reckling Park in Houston, TX. The tournament field was broken into 2 4-team brackets that played a round robin schedule. The winner of each bracket met in a 1 game championship. #1 Rice University defeated #4 University of Southern Mississippi for the title. Christian Stringer of Rice was named MVP.

Participating Teams

Bracket 1

Seed	School	Conf. Record	Head Coach
1	Rice University	15-9	Wayne Graham
4	University of Memphis	14-10	Daron Schoenrock
5	University of Central Florida	13-11	Terry Rooney
8	University of Alabama at Birmingham	7-17	Brian Shoop

Bracket 2

Seed	School	Conf. Record	Head Coach
2	University of Southern Mississippi	15-9	Scott Berry
3	East Carolina University	14-10	Billy Godwin
6	University of Houston	13-11	Todd Whitting
7	Tulane University	11-13	Rick Jones

Game Results

Game	Winner	Score	Loser	Notes
May 23
Game 1	University of Memphis	6-1	University of Central Florida
Game 2	University of Southern Mississippi	10-7	Tulane University
Game 3	Rice University	3-1	University of Alabama at Birmingham
May 24
Game 4	University of Houston	9-4	East Carolina University
Game 5	University of Memphis	6-5	University of Alabama at Birmingham
Game 6	Rice University	5-1	University of Central Florida
May 25
Game 7	Tulane University	6-5	East Carolina University
Game 8	University of Southern Mississippi	4-2	University of Houston
Game 9	University of Alabama at Birmingham	5-1	University of Central Florida
May 26
Game 10	Rice University	10-1	University of Memphis	Rice wins bracket with 3-0 record
Game 11	Tulane University	3-2	University of Houston
Game 12	East Carolina University	8-7	University of Southern Mississippi	Southern Mississippi wins bracket with 2-1 record
May 27
Game 13	Rice University	5-4 (11)	University of Southern Mississippi	Rice advances to NCAA tournament

All-Tournament Team

• C Keaton Aldridge, Memphis
• IF Shane Hoelscher, Rice
• IF Zach Houchins, East Carolina
• IF Justin Montemayor, Houston
• IF Christian Stringer, Rice
• OF Blake Brown, Southern Miss
• OF Leon Byrd, Rice
• OF Dillon Day, Southern Miss
• DH Drew Reynolds, East Carolina
• P Jake Drehoff, Southern Miss
• P Austin Kubitza, Rice
• P John Simms, Rice
• P Jordan Stephens, Rice