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Baseball - Sun, May. 7, 2006
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2006 TranSouth Baseball Tournament Bracket      

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LEBANON, Tenn. - The 2006 TranSouth Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament will be decided on Saturday afternoon at Cumberland University's Ernest L. Stockton Field. #1 seed Cumberland University defeated #5 seed Lyon College for the 2006 TranSouth Athletic Conference Baseball Championship.

2006 TranSouth Champions: Cumberland University
2006 TranSouth All-Conference Awards


Game 1: #5 Lyon College defeated #4 Freed-Hardeman 12-6
Game 2: #2 Trevecca Nazarene defeated #7 Martin Methodist 7-1
Game 3: #3 Union University defeated. #6 Crichton College 11-6
Game 5: #1 Cumberland defeated #5 Lyon College 16-4
Game 4: #7 Martin Methodist defeated #6 Crichton 9-2 (Crichton eliminated)
Game 6: #2 Trevecca Nazarene defeated #3 Union University 2-1 (11 inning)
Game 7: #4 Freed defeated #7 Martin Methodist 5-3 (Martin eliminated)
Game 8: #5 Lyon College vs. #3 Union University 8-5 (Union eliminated)
Game 9: #5 Lyon College defeated #4 Freed 10-2 (Freed eliminated)
Game 10: #1 Cumberland defeated #2 Trevecca Nazarene 3-1
Game 11: #5 Lyon defeated #2 Trevecca Nazarene 11-3 (Trevecca eliminated)
2006 TranSouth Champions: Cumberland University
#1 Cumberland defeated #5 Lyon College 7-5

Media Coverage
 Tournament pairings:
Cumberland University earned the No. 1 seed in this weeks tournament with a 15-3 league record.  Trevecca Nazarene University finished second with a 13-5 record, Union University claimed the third seed with a 10-8 record, and Freed-Hardeman finished fourth with an 8-10 mark.  Lyon College and Crichton College tied for the fifth spot with a 6-12 record, with Lyon earning the No. 5 seed by way of the tiebreaker.  Martin Methodist finished seventh with a league record of 5-13.

Region XI Information:
Cumberland has already earned at automatic bid to next weeks NAIA Region XI Tournament.  The winner of the conference will tournament will earned the other automatic bid from the TranSouth Conference.  Should Cumberland win the tournament title, the runner-up team will received the automatic region bid.  The two automatic bids from the MidSouth Conference and then two at-large bids from the higher ranked teams in the region rankings, not already in the region, will complete the field of six region tournament