2025 Big West Conference Tournament

The 2025 Big West Conference baseball tournament was held May 21-25 at Goodwin Field in Fullerton, CA. #2 California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo defeated #1 University of California, Irvine for the title. Ryan Fenn of Cal Poly was named MVP.

2025 was the 1st Big West Conference Tournament in 27 years after it was scrapped following the 1998 Big West Conference Tournament. Before 2025, the Big West was the last D-1 conference to not have a conference baseball tournament. Taking the top 5 teams from the conference, the 4 and 5 seed will play a single elimination game to decide who will proceed in the tournament.

Participating Teams

Seed	School	Conf. Record	Head Coach
1	University of California, Irvine	24-6	Ben Orloff
2	California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo	23-7	Larry Lee
3	California State University, Fullerton	19-11	Jason Dietrich
4	University of Hawaii	16-14	Rich Hill
5	University of California, Santa Barbara	16-14	Andrew Checketts

Results

Bracket

	First Round single elimination					Second Round					Third Round					Finals
						1	UC Irvine	7
	4	Hawaii	6			4	Hawaii	5
	5	UC Santa Barbara	2								1	UC Irvine	15
											2	Cal Poly SLO	3
						2	Cal Poly SLO	7
		xx				3	Cal State Fullerton	2
		xx														1	UC Irvine	5	4
																2	Cal Poly SLO	15	6
						Losers Bracket 2					Losers Bracket 3
											2	Cal Poly SLO	2
						4	Hawaii	16			4	Hawaii	1
						3	Cal State Fullerton	4

Game Results

Game	Winner	Score	Loser	Notes
May 21
Game 1	University of Hawaii	6-2	University of California, Santa Barbara	UC Santa Barbara eliminated
May 22
Game 2	University of California, Irvine	7-5	University of Hawaii
Game 3	California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo	7-2	California State University, Fullerton
May 23
Game 4	University of California, Irvine	15-3 (7)	California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
Game 5	University of Hawaii	16-4	California State University, Fullerton	CSU Fullerton eliminated
May 24
Game 6	California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo	2-1	University of Hawaii	Hawaii eliminated
Game 7	California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo	15-5 (8)	University of California, Irvine
May 25
Game 8	California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo	6-4	University of California, Irvine	Cal Poly advances to NCAA tournament

All-Tournament Team

• Matthew Bardowell, Cal State Fullerton
• Zach Daudet, Cal Poly
• Chris Downs, Cal Poly
• Ryan Fenn, Cal Poly
• Trevor Hansen, UC Irvine
• Maddox Latta, Cal State Fullerton
• Isaiah Magdaleno, Hawai‘i
• LeTrey McCollum, UC Santa Barbara
• Jacob McCombs, UC Irvine
• Griffin Naess, Cal Poly
• Blake Penso, UC Irvine
• Ben Zeigler-Namoa, Hawai‘i