2008 America East Conference baseball tournament

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2008 America East Conference
baseball tournament
Teams4
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
Champions Stony Brook  (2nd title)
Winning coach Matt Senk  (2nd title)
MVP Steve Mazzurco (Stony Brook)

The 2008 America East Conference baseball tournament took place from May 22 through 24 at Farmingdale State Baseball Stadium in Farmingdale, New York. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, second-seeded Stony Brook defeated first-seeded Binghamton, 6-0, to win its second tournament championship. As a result, Stony Brook received the America East's automatic bid to the 2008 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.

TeamWLPct.GBSeed
Binghamton 158.652
1
Stony Brook 1410.583
1.5
2
UMBC 1311.542
2.5
3
Vermont 1211.522
3
4
Hartford 1013.435
5
Albany 1014.417
5.5
Maine 815.348
7

Results

Upper round 1Upper finalFinal
1 Binghamton 4
4 Vermont 1
1Binghamton0
2Stony Brook1
2 Stony Brook 4
3 UMBC 3
2Stony Brook
1Binghamton
Lower round 1Lower final
1Binghamton4
4Vermont54Vermont0
3UMBC1

All-Tournament Team

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

PlayerTeam
Gary NovakowskiStony Brook
Justin EcheverriaStony Brook
Steve MazzurcoStony Brook
Mike ErrigoStony Brook
Zach GrohBinghamton
Murphy SmithBinghamton
Ryan HolleyBinghamton
Eric ThompsonVermont
Matt Duffy Vermont
Rich ConlonUMBC

Most Outstanding Player

Stony Brook outfielder Steve Mazzurco was named Most Outstanding Player. [5]

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