1983 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball championship series

1983 Atlantic 10 Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	2
Format	Best of 3 series
Finals site	Beaver Field; State College, PA;
Champions	Temple (1st title)
Winning coach	Skip Wilson (1st title)
	← 1982; A–10 baseball tournament; 1984 →;

1983 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
East
Temple ^x‍‍‡‍^y	9	–	1	.900	27	–	8	.771
Rutgers ‍‍‍	5	–	7	.417	13	–	22	.371
Saint Joseph's ‍‍‍	5	–	7	.417	19	–	12	.613
Rhode Island ‍‍‍	3	–	7	.300	15	–	22	.405
West
Penn State ^x‍‍‍	9	–	1	.900	16	–	23	.410
West Virginia ‍‍‍	6	–	4	.600	22	–	10	.688
George Washington ‍‍‍	5	–	6	.455	7	–	25	.219
Duquesne ‍‍‍	1	–	10	.091	9	–	12	.429

x – Division champion ‡ – Championship Series champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1983 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1983 Atlantic Conference Baseball Championship Series was held on May 6 and 7, 1983^[1] to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I the Atlantic 10 Conference, for the 1983 NCAA Division I baseball season. The conference rechristened itself for the 1983 season, recognizing membership changes. This was the fifth iteration of the event, and was held at Beaver Field on the campus of Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania. Temple won the championship two games to none and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1983 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[2]

Format and seeding

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

Game One

May 6, 1983
Team	R
Temple	10
Penn State	7

Game Two

May 7, 1983
Team	R
Penn State	1
Temple	6

^ 2014 Baseball Media Guide (PDF). Temple Owls. p. 48. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
^ Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic 10 Conference. p. 20. Retrieved June 8, 2017.