The 2015 baseball season for the Stetson Hatters comes down to the next few days at Swanson Stadium in Fort Myers.

For the Hatters, or any team not named North Florida, to secure an invitation to the NCAA Tournament next week, they will have to get hot this week and win the automatic bid that comes with winning the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament.

All of the games in the A-Sun Tournament will be broadcast online by ESPN3 and on the Watch ESPN app. Former UNF play-by-play man Robert Harper will be joined by Stetson's Ryan Rouse on the call for each of the games in the tournament.

Stetson (28-28) will open its quest for an 18^th trip to the NCAA Tournament, and first since 2011, on Wednesday afternoon against Jacksonville (26-28). The Hatters took two of three games from the Dolphins in Jacksonville in April, including a series opening victory that handed JU's freshman hurler – Michael Baumann – his only loss of the year.

So dominant against the rest of the league was Baumann (7-1, 2.35) that he not only was named the A-Sun Freshman of the Year, he was also selected as the league's Pitcher of the Year.

His fortunes against the Hatters, however, were not as good. Stetson recorded 10 hits in just 5.2 innings against the Minnesota native on April 24, scoring six runs against him in a 7-4 Hatters victory. In that game the trio of John Fussell, Patrick Mazeika and Will Mackenzie all had two hits against Baumann.

The Hatters will counter with sophomore right-hander Mitchell Jordan (5-2, 3.34), who also opposed Baumann in the first meeting. Jordan went 7.1 innings, allowing just three earned runs on eight hits in that outing to get the victory.

Like they did in taking two of three games from Florida Gulf Coast on the final weekend of the season, the Hatters will look to their seniors to lead the team into the conference tournament. Co-captains Josh Powers and Tyler Bocock both had strong offensive performances during the series against the Eagles and will be looking to continue swinging hot bats, as will classmate Garrett Russini.

The Hatters juniors, who have done much of the heavy lifting offensive all year, will also be counted on the continue producing. First team All-Conference performers Vance Vizcaino and Mazeika, along with Cory Reid, Will Mackenzie, Jack Machonis and Fussell, give the Hatters plenty of fire-power to carry through a conference tournament.

HATTERS QUICK HITTERS

• The Stetson baseball program will be participating in the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament for the 28th time in the Hatters' 29 seasons in the league. The only year Stetson did not advance to play in the championship was 1999.
• Stetson's 27 previous tournament appearances is the same number as the other five teams in this years' event have combined to make.
• Stetson owns six Atlantic Sun Tournament titles. The Hatters have won the tournament in Shreveport, La. (1988 & 90), in Jacksonville (2000) and in DeLand (1989, 2005, 2006). Those six titles equal the number won by the other five programs in the 2015 tournament.
• Stetson has had five players named MVP of the A-Sun Tournament over the years. Those MVPs were: OF Mike Sempeles (1988), 3B Mike Pinckes (1989), OF Jeff Christy (2000), OF Shayne Jordan (2005) and 2B Brandon Paritz (2006).
• The Hatters are 1-5 all-time in A-Sun Tournament games and have lost five consecutive tournament games to the Dolphins. Stetson is 0-3 against Kennesaw State, 1-1 against Lipscomb, 0-1 against FGCU and have never played UNF in the conference tournament.
• Stetson won five of seven league series during the 2015 season. The only series losses for the Hatters were to league champion North Florida and to USC Upstate.
• Stetson junior Patrick Mazeika was a unanimous selection to the 2015 Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference team. It is the second straight year he has been named Academic All-Conference, making him one of just two players from the 2014 team to be named again in 2015. North Florida's Garrick Ferguson is the other player to repeat in 2015.
• The Hatters had two players voted to the first team All-Conference squad - Patrick Mazeika and Vance Vizcaino.
• Three more Stetson players were selected to the second team All-Conference squad - Mitchell Jordan, Brooks Wilson and Tyler Warmoth. Wilson was also named to the All-Freshman team.
• When the Hatters and Dolphins met in April, Vance Vizcaino was the leader for Stetson in winning two of the three games. Vizcaino hit .538 in the series. Stetson also got strong performances from Cory Reid (.417, 5 RBI) and John Fussell (4 RBI).
• In the outing by Pitcher of the Year Michael Baumann for JU, Fussell, Patrick Mazeika and Will Mackenzie had two hits each as the Hatters scored six runs on 10 hits against him.
• The four starting pitchers who were named to the Atlantic Sun first team All-Conference squad - Baumann, Kennesaw State's Jordan Hillyer and Travis Bergen and Lipscomb's Ian Martinez-McGraw - were a combined 0-4 with a 6.57 ERA in four starts against Stetson. Against the rest of the league they were 12-2 with a 2.17 ERA.
• JU was led in the series against Stetson by Angelo Amendolare with a .538 (7-13) average.
• For the Hatters to secure a winning season in 2015 they need to win at least three games in the A-Sun Tournament.
• The Hatters' series win over FGCU on the final weekend of the season was the first series victory over the Eagles since the 2011 season.
• Only three players for Stetson have started all 56 games this year at the same position - Josh Powers at third, Tyler Bocock at short at Cory Reid in center field.
• Reid finished the season on a hot streak, having hit .727 (8-for-11) over the final weekend of the year against FGCU. He had a streak of reaching base in 11 consecutive plate appearances as a part of his weekend. It was a bounce-back performance for Reid, who had just two hits the previous weekend against Lipscomb.
• Seniors Josh Powers and Tyler Bocock also finished the season swinging hot bats. Bocock hit .500 (4-for-8) against FGCU while Powers hit .482 (6-for-13) with five RBI. Bocock enters the A-Sun Tournament with a four-game hit streak.
• Bocock's next hit will be the 150th in his Stetson career.
• Mazeika is five base on balls away from 100 in his career. He already owns the Stetson career record for times hit by a pitch with 48. He and Reid have both been hit 17 times this year, which is tied for the most in a season in Stetson history.
• Senior Garrett Russini is two RBI shy of 100 for his career.
• Junior Tyler Warmoth became just the fifth player in school history to record 20 career saves. With 22 saves he is now two shy of tying Andy Wilson for fourth on the Stetson career list.
• Warmoth's next save will tie him for eighth on the A-Sun career list with Sam Moore of the College of Charleston. Four of the eight players in front of him on that list played at Stetson.