2009 America East Conference baseball tournament
Teams | 4 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site |
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Champions | Binghamton (1st title) |
Winning coach | Tim Sinicki (1st title) |
MVP | Jim Calderone (Binghamton) |
The 2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 21-23 at Pete Sylvester Field in Endicott, New York. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Binghamton defeated second-seeded Albany, 16-6, to win its first tournament championship. As a result, Binghamton received the America East's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament, the program's first.[1][2][3][4]
Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. They then played in a double-elimination format. In the first round, the one and four seeds were matched up in one game, while the two and three seeds were matched up in the other.
Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Seed |
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Binghamton | 13 | 7 | .650 | ||
Albany | 15 | 9 | .625 | ||
Stony Brook | 14 | 10 | .583 | ||
Vermont | 14 | 10 | .583 | ||
Maine | 13 | 11 | .542 | ||
Hartford | 7 | 15 | .318 | ||
UMBC | 4 | 18 | .182 |
Results
Upper round 1 | Upper final | Final | |||||||||||
1 | Binghamton | 10 | |||||||||||
4 | Vermont | 7 | |||||||||||
1 | Binghamton | 11 | |||||||||||
2 | Albany | 7 | |||||||||||
2 | Albany | 8 | |||||||||||
3 | Stony Brook | 1 | |||||||||||
1 | Binghamton | ||||||||||||
2 | Albany | ||||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
2 | Albany | 10 | |||||||||||
4 | Vermont | 13 | 4 | Vermont | 9 | ||||||||
3 | Stony Brook | 11 | |||||||||||
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[1]
Player | Team |
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Mike Augliera | Binghamton |
Jim Calderone | Binghamton |
Jeff Dennis | Binghamton |
CJ Lukaszewski | Binghamton |
David Kubiak | Albany |
Dave West | Albany |
Ryan Gugel | Albany |
Dave Soltis | Vermont |
Ethan Paquette | Vermont |
Chad Marshall | Stony Brook |
Most Outstanding Player
Binghamton second baseman Jim Calderone was named Most Outstanding Player.
References
- ^ a b "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book". AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 20, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
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