2003 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

2003 Atlantic 10 Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	6
Format	Six-team double elimination First-round byes for division winners
Champions	Richmond  (1st title)
Winning coach	Ron Atkins (1st title)
MVP	Vito Chairavalloti (Richmond)
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The 2003 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, CT from May 15 through 17 (preliminaries) and at Pitt Field in Richmond, VA on May 22 and 24 (championship series). It featured the top two regular-season finishers of each six-team division, plus the next two best finishers. Top-seeded Richmond defeated Massachusetts in the title game to win the tournament for the first time, earning the Atlantic 10's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA tournament. ^[1]

Seeding and format

The league's top six teams, based on winning percentage in the 24-game regular season schedule, qualified for the field. The top two teams in each division qualified for the tournament automatically; the two division winners, Massachusetts in the East and Richmond in the West, received the top two seeds and byes through to the second round of the double elimination tournament. The tournament was different from most double-elimination formats in that after the two finalists were decided, losses were erased, and a best-of-three series was played at a new site the following weekend to decide the champion.

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Seed
East Division
Massachusetts [a]	14	7	.667	–	2
Rhode Island	16	8	.667	–	3
St. Bonaventure	9	11	.450	4.5	–
Saint Joseph's	10	14	.417	5.5	–
Temple	10	14	.417	5.5	–
Fordham	8	15	.348	7	–
West Division
Richmond	19	4	.826	–	1
Duquesne	15	9	.625	4.5	4
Xavier	13	8	.619	5	5
George Washington	12	9	.571	6	6
La Salle	6	17	.261	13	–
Dayton	4	20	.167	15.5	–

1. Massachusetts's regular-season series win over Rhode Island gave it the higher seed within the East Division. ^[2]

Bracket

	First round					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						1	Richmond	1
	5	Xavier	6			5	Xavier	2
	4	Duquesne	3								5	Xavier	5
											2	Massachusetts	8
						2	Massachusetts	3
	6	George Washington	7			6	George Washington	1
	3	Rhode Island	2													2	Massachusetts	0	4	–
																1	Richmond	8	7	–
											5	Xavier	3
	4	Duquesne	2								1	Richmond	6
	3	Rhode Island	3			1	Richmond	8
	6	George Washington	8			6	George Washington	2
	3	Rhode Island	4

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Richmond's Vito Chairavalloti, one of six Spiders selected, was named Most Outstanding Player. ^[1]

Richmond's David Reaver and Tim Stauffer, who had both been selected in 2002, were named for the second time.

Pos.	Name	Team
OF	Vito Chairavalloti	Richmond
P	Eric Chown	Massachusetts
OF	Frank Curreri	Massachusetts
2B	Bobby LeNoir	Richmond
P	Mike McGirr	Richmond
P	Matt McLoughlin	Richmond
SS	David Reaver	Richmond
3B	Matt Reynolds	Massachusetts
1B	Ryan Roberson	George Washington
P	Tim Stauffer	Richmond
P	Jarret Sues	Xavier
P	Dan Sullivan	George Washington

References

1. "2014 Atlantic 10 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Atlantic10.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 19, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
2. "2014 UMass Baseball Record Book" (PDF). UMass Athletics Communications. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 28, 2014.