2003 America East Conference Baseball Tournament
Teams | 4 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site |
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Champions | Northeastern (3rd title) |
Winning coach | Neil McPhee (3rd title) |
MVP | Miguel Paquette (Northeastern) |
The 2003 America East Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22–24 at Centennial Field in Burlington, Vermont. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, fourth-seeded Northeastern defeated third-seeded Stony Brook, 11–0, to win its third tournament championship. As a result, Northeastern received the America East's automatic bid to the 2003 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.[2]
Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Seed |
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Vermont | 17 | 5 | .773 | – |
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Maine | 17 | 7 | .708 | 1 |
2
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Stony Brook | 15 | 9 | .625 | 3 |
3
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Northeastern | 12 | 10 | .545 | 5 |
4
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Albany | 10 | 14 | .417 | 8 |
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Hartford | 7 | 15 | .318 | 10 |
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Binghamton | 2 | 20 | .091 | 15 |
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Results[]
First round | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
1 | Vermont | 1 | ||||||||||||
4 | Northeastern | 2 | ||||||||||||
4 | Northeastern | 5 | ||||||||||||
3 | Stony Brook | 4 | ||||||||||||
2 | Maine | 2 | ||||||||||||
3 | Stony Brook | 4 | ||||||||||||
4 | Northeastern | 10 | 11 | |||||||||||
3 | Stony Brook | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
1 | Vermont | 1 | ||||||||||||
2 | Maine | 5 | ||||||||||||
3 | Stony Brook | 6 | ||||||||||||
2 | Maine | 3 | ||||||||||||
All-Tournament Team[]
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[1]
Player | Team |
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Justin Hedrick | Northeastern |
Jordan Thompson | Northeastern |
Miguel Paquette | Northeastern |
Arman Sidhu | Northeastern |
Brad Czarnowski | Northeastern |
Mike Steinberg | Northeastern |
Jim McCurdy | Stony Brook |
Andrew Larsen | Stony Brook |
Lee Lipschutz | Stony Brook |
Aaron Izaryk | Maine |
Joe Drapeau | Maine |
Most Outstanding Player[]
Northeastern first baseman Miguel Paquette was named Most Outstanding Player.
References[]
- ^ a b "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ^ a b "2003 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
- ^ "Huskies Hustle into NCAAs". Boston Globe. May 25, 2003. p. C16. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
- ^ "At Baton Rouge, 3 of 4 Teams Advanced with At-Large Berths". Star-News. Associated Press. May 30, 2003. p. 3C. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
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