2017 Patriot League baseball tournament
The 2017 Patriot League baseball tournament took place on consecutive weekends, with the semifinals held May 13–14 and the finals May 19–21. The higher seeded teams hosted each best of three series. Holy Cross won their first tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3][4]
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Best of three series |
| Champions | Holy Cross |
| Winning coach | Greg DiCenzo (1st title) |
| MVP | Brendan King (Holy Cross) |
| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Navy † | 16 | – | 4 | .800 | 37 | – | 17 | .685 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holy Cross ‡ | 12 | – | 8 | .600 | 24 | – | 29 | .453 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army | 10 | – | 10 | .500 | 25 | – | 31 | .446 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bucknell | 10 | – | 10 | .500 | 21 | – | 28 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 8 | – | 12 | .400 | 21 | – | 29 | .420 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 4 | – | 16 | .200 | 8 | – | 44 | .154 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion As of June 30, 2017[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeding
editThe top four finishers from the regular season are seeded one through four, with the top seed hosting the fourth seed and second seed hosting the third. The visiting team will be designated as the home team in the second game of each series.
Results
edit| Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Navy | 1 | 0 | — | |||||||||
| 4 | Bucknell | 4 | 5 | — | |||||||||
| 4 | Bucknell | 3 | 7 | — | |||||||||
| 2 | Holy Cross | 4 | 11 | — | |||||||||
| 2 | Holy Cross | 8 | 5 | — | |||||||||
| 3 | Army | 2 | 4 | — | |||||||||
All-Tournament team
editThe following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[4]
| POS | Name | Class | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | Mike Castellani | Sr. | Bucknell |
| Kyle Condry | Sr. | Navy | |
| Tyler Giovinco | So. | Army | |
| Noah Song | So. | Navy | |
| C | Jon Rosoff | Jr. | Army |
| 1B | Anthony Critelli | Sr. | Holy Cross |
| Danny Rafferty | Sr. | Bucknell | |
| 3B | Sam Clark | Sr. | Bucknell |
| OF | Josh Hassell | Sr. | Holy Cross |
| Bill Schlich | Sr. | Holy Cross |
Most Outstanding Player
editBrendan King was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player. King was a senior pitcher for Holy Cross who won two games in the tournament with 14.1 IP and a 1.88 ERA.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Conference Standings". D1Baseball.com. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
- ^ "2016-2017 Patriot League Championship Dates and Sites" (PDF). Patriot League. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
- ^ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^ a b c "2017 Baseball Championship". Patriot League. Retrieved April 17, 2018.