The 2009 America East Conference baseball tournament took place from May 21 through 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]
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site |
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| Champions | Binghamton (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Tim Sinicki (1st title) |
| MVP | Jim Calderone (Binghamton) |
Seeding
editThe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton | 13 | 7 | .650 | – |
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| Albany | 15 | 9 | .625 | – |
2
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| Stony Brook | 14 | 10 | .583 | 1 |
3
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| Vermont | 14 | 10 | .583 | 1 |
4
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| Maine | 13 | 11 | .542 | 2 |
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| Hartford | 7 | 15 | .318 | 7 |
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| UMBC | 4 | 18 | .182 | 10 |
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Results
edit| 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
editThe following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[1]
| Player | Team |
|---|---|
| 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
editBinghamton second baseman Jim Calderone was named Most Outstanding Player.
References
edit- ^ a b "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 24, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ^ "2009 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ "2009 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ Sorenson, Eric. "Taking a Look at the America East". CollegeBaseballToday.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2013.