2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

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2009 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
  • Pete Sylvester Field
  • Endicott, NY
ChampionsBinghamton (1st title)
Winning coachTim Sinicki (1st title)
MVPJim Calderone (Binghamton)

The 2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 21-23 at 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
Binghamton 13 7 .650
–
1
Albany 15 9 .625
–
2
Stony Brook 14 10 .583
1
3
Vermont 14 10 .583
1
4
Maine 13 11 .542
2
–
Hartford 7 15 .318
7
–
UMBC 4 18 .182
10
–

Results[]

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 Binghamton 10  
4 Vermont 7  
  1 Binghamton 11  
  2 Albany 7  
2 Albany 8
3 Stony Brook 1  
  1 Binghamton 16 —
  2 Albany 6 —
4 Vermont 13  
3 Stony Brook 11  
  2 Albany 10
  4 Vermont 9  

All-Tournament Team[]

The 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[]

Binghamton second baseman Jim Calderone was named Most Outstanding Player.

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "2009 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  3. ^ "2009 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  4. ^ Sorenson, Eric. "Taking a Look at the America East". CollegeBaseballToday.com. Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
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