The Florida Atlantic baseball season just ended on Sunday, marking the start of the offseason for most players on the team. For a select few members of the team, their focus will shift toward the next chapter of their lives with the potential to be selected in the MLB Amateur Draft.
Coming into the weekend, Florida Atlantic baseball needed all three wins against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers and a little help from other teams in the conference just for a chance at the Conference USA regular season championship.
In a series featuring the two Owls of Conference USA, Mother Nature ultimately stood out the most, as rain lead to a postponement of one game and the cancellation of Sunday’s finale between No. 13 Rice University and No. 16 Florida Atlantic baseball.
The University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles came to Boca Raton on Friday with a two-game lead over Florida Atlantic baseball and were one game ahead of Rice University, for the top spot of the Conference USA standings.
College baseball has reached the midway point of the season and Florida Atlantic’s team sits in a first-place tie for the Conference USA lead and is ranked No. 12 in the nation, according to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
The Florida Atlantic baseball team sat through a rain out on Friday and a rain delay on Saturday, but still managed to sweep the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers to stay at the top of the Conference USA standings.
