2002 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

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2002 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
Champions Maine  (2nd title)
Winning coach Paul Kostacopoulos  (1st title)
MVPBrett Ouellette (Maine)

The 2002 America East Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 23-25 at Mahaney Diamond in Orono, Maine. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Maine defeated third-seeded Northeastern, 7-5, to win its second tournament championship (its first under head coach Paul Kostacopoulos). As a result, Maine received the America East's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Tournament. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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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]

TeamWLPct.GBSeed
Maine 166.7271
Vermont 148.63622
Northeastern 1111.50053
Stony Brook 1111.50054
Binghamton 812.4007
Albany 814.3648
Hartford 814.3648

Results

First round Semi-finals Finals
          
1 Maine 4
4 Stony Brook 16
4 Stony Brook 5
Winner's bracket
3Northeastern10
2 Vermont 2
3 Northeastern 5
2 Northeastern
1Maine
1Maine8
2 Vermont 2
4 Stony Brook 3
Loser's bracket
1Maine9

All-Tournament Team

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

PlayerTeam
Paul BruderMaine
Brett OuelletteMaine
Joe DrapeauMaine
Mike RossMaine
Mike LivulpiMaine
Aaron IzarykMaine
Devin MondsNortheastern
Luke Carlin Northeastern
Colin GaynorNortheastern
Omar PenaNortheastern
Dwayne WhitakerStony Brook

Most Outstanding Player

Maine second baseman Brett Ouellette was named Most Outstanding Player. [5]

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