2009 America East Conference baseball tournament

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]

2009 America East Conference
baseball tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsBinghamton (1st title)
Winning coachTim Sinicki (1st title)
MVPJim Calderone (Binghamton)

Seeding

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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

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Upper round 1Upper finalFinal
1Binghamton10
4Vermont7
1Binghamton11
2Albany7
2Albany8
3Stony Brook1
1Binghamton
2Albany
Lower round 1Lower final
2Albany10
4Vermont134Vermont9
3Stony Brook11

All-Tournament Team

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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

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Binghamton second baseman Jim Calderone was named Most Outstanding Player.

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "2009 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. 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 March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2013.