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April 28, 2008-With wins on Sunday, the Emporia State baseball and softball teams each clinched MIAA Championships. It is just the third time in MIAA history the same school has won the league championship in baseball and softball in the same year. It is the second time in three years that ESU has accomplished the feat.

The Hornet baseball team clinched their title with a 10-8 win at Central Missouri that tied the MIAA record for conference wins in a season at 29. ESU holds a five game lead over UCM with only four games left for the Hornets.

The next action for the Hornet baseball team is a four game series with Washburn starting Friday at 5 p.m. at Glennen Field in the Trusler Sports Complex. The series moves to Falley Field in Topeka on Saturday for a double header beginning at 2 p.m. and closes out back in Emporia on Sunday with a 12 noon first pitch. The MIAA Tournament will be played at Community-America Ballpark in Kansas City, Kan. on May 9-11. ESU will play its first round game at 6 p.m. on Friday May 9 against the #4 seed that is yet to be determined.

The ESU softball team swept Washburn to 4-2 and 11-3 to secure their unprecedented fourth straight MIAA championship. The regular season is over for softball and the Hornets won the league race by three games over Central Missouri.

The Hornet softball team will begin play in the MIAA Tournament on Thursday, May 1 at 12 noon against either Ft. Hays State or Missouri Western. The MIAA Tournament will be played at the Mid-America West Sports Complex in Shawnee, Kan.

ESU MIAA Championships

Baseball: 2008, 2006, 1993 (also won 2007 MIAA Tournament Championship)

Softball: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 1996 (also won 2004 MIAA Tournament Championship)

Schools that have won MIAA Championships in baseball and softball in the same year

2008 Emporia State

2006 Emporia State

1992 Missouri Southern

How the MIAA champion was determined:
Baseball
1966-70 & 1979-83: Best-of-three series between Northern & Southern Division winners.
1971-78: Best regular season conference record.
1984: Top three teams in each division advanced to six-team double-elimination bracket (one of the teams, UMR, chose not to participate).
1985-93: Top two teams in each division advanced to a four-team, double-elimination bracket.
1994-96 & 1998-2000: Eight teams advanced to postseason, with four teams eliminated through best-of-three series. The series winners played a four-team, double-elimination tournament.
1997: Two four-team double-elimination brackets, with winners playing a best-of-three championship series.
2001-present: Best regular season conference record (Four-team, double-elimination tournament winner is recognized separately).

Softball
The MIAA softball champion was determined through the conference tournament from 1982-2000. After 2000, the team with the best regular season record was declared champion (Tournament winner is recognized separately).