2008 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

2008 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2008
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site Farmingdale State Baseball Stadium
Farmingdale, NY
Champions Stony Brook (2nd title)
Winning coach Matt Senk (2nd title)
MVP Steve Mazzurco (Stony Brook)
America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2007  2009»

The 2008 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 22-24 at Farmingdale State Baseball Stadium in Farmingdale, New York. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, second-seeded Stony Brook defeated first-seeded Binghamton, 6-0, to win its second tournament championship. As a result, Stony Brook received the America East's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Tournament.[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
Binghamton 15 8 .652
1
Stony Brook 14 10 .583
1.5
2
UMBC 13 11 .542
2.5
3
Vermont 12 11 .522
3
4
Hartford 10 13 .435
5
Albany 10 14 .417
5.5
Maine 8 15 .348
7

Results

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1  Binghamton 4  
4  Vermont 1  
  1  Binghamton 0  
  2  Stony Brook 1  
2  Stony Brook 4
3  UMBC 3  
  2  Stony Brook 6
  1  Binghamton 0
4  Vermont 5  
3  UMBC 1  
  1  Binghamton 4
  4  Vermont 0  

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[1]

Player Team
Gary Novakowski Stony Brook
Justin Echeverria Stony Brook
Steve Mazzurco Stony Brook
Mike Errigo Stony Brook
Zach Groh Binghamton
Murphy Smith Binghamton
Ryan Holley Binghamton
Eric Thompson Vermont
Matt Duffy Vermont
Rich Conlon UMBC

Most Outstanding Player

Stony Brook outfielder Steve Mazzurco was named Most Outstanding Player.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 20, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  2. "2008 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  3. "2008 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  4. Metcalfe, Jeff (May 26, 2008). "Sun Devils Seeded 3rd Nationally". AZCentral.com. The Arizona Republic. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  5. "#14 Steven Mazzurco". GoSeawolves.com. Stony Brook Sports Information. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
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