College baseball is returning to ForeFront Field.<\/p>\n
On March 6, the Lake Erie Crushers announced they will once again host the MAC baseball tournament.<\/p>\n
From May 20-24, the MAC tournament will feature six teams. The MAC champion will have an automatic bid to the Division I NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
Last year, Miami (Ohio) took home the MAC championship, defeating Toledo, 6-3, at ForeFront Field.<\/p>\n
Returning for Toledo is Avon grad Troy Sudbrook.\u00a0Sudbrook was one of two Rockets to play in every game last year, hitting .297, with seven home runs and 50 RBI (18th most in the MAC).<\/p>\n
His younger brother and former Eagle Ryan Sudbrook is beginning his freshman season.<\/p>\n
2026 MAC baseball\u00a0 tournament schedule
\n(subject to change)
\nWednesday, May 20<\/p>\n
Game 1 \u2013 12:30 p.m.: No. 3 seed vs. No. 6 seed<\/p>\n
Game 2 \u2013 6:00 p.m.: No. 4 seed vs. No. 5 seed<\/p>\n
Thursday, May 21<\/p>\n
Game 3 \u2013 10 a.m.: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser<\/p>\n
Game 4 \u2013 2 p.m.: No. 1 seed vs. TBA<\/p>\n
Game 5 \u2013 6 p.m.: No. 2 seed vs. TBA<\/p>\n
Friday, May 22<\/p>\n
Game 6 \u2013 10 a.m.: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 or 5 loser<\/p>\n
Game 7 \u2013 2 p.m.: Game 6 winner vs. Game 4 or 5 loser<\/p>\n
Game 8 \u2013 6 p.m.: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner<\/p>\n
Saturday, May 23<\/p>\n
Game 9 \u2013 12:30 p.m.: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 loser<\/p>\n
Game 10 \u2013 6 p.m.: Championship game<\/p>\n
Sunday, May 24<\/p>\n
Game 11 \u2013 12 p.m. (if necessary): Replay of Game 10<\/p>\n
NOTE: The No. 1 seed will play the lowest seed to advance from the first round of the tournament games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College baseball is returning to ForeFront Field. On March 6, the Lake Erie Crushers announced they will once…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32585,2300,19154,136,138,137,19155,293,726],"class_list":["post-131685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-avon","tag-college-sports","tag-crushers","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lorain-county","tag-ohio","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}