1996 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1996 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament was held in May 1996 at Moody Park in Ewing Township, New Jersey. The league's top four teams competed in the double elimination tournament. Top-seeded Rider won their third consecutive, and final, tournament championship. They then lost a play-in series to Princeton for the right to play in the 1996 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[1]
Teams | 4 |
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Format | Double-elimination tournament |
Finals site |
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Champions | Rider (3rd title) |
Winning coach | Sonny Pittaro (3rd title) |
MVP | Jim Gordon, Rider |
1996 Northeast Conference baseball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider †‡ | 15 | – | 6 | – | 0 | .714 | 28 | – | 22 | – | 0 | .560 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monmouth † | 15 | – | 6 | – | 0 | .714 | 25 | – | 22 | – | 0 | .532 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
St. Francis | 12 | – | 8 | – | 0 | .600 | 21 | – | 20 | – | 1 | .512 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long Island | 12 | – | 9 | – | 0 | .571 | 21 | – | 19 | – | 0 | .525 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fairleigh Dickinson | 9 | – | 12 | – | 0 | .429 | 16 | – | 23 | – | 0 | .410 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wagner | 8 | – | 12 | – | 0 | .400 | 14 | – | 24 | – | 0 | .368 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marist | 8 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .381 | 16 | – | 24 | – | 1 | .402 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mount St. Mary's | 4 | – | 17 | – | 0 | .190 | 6 | – | 24 | – | 1 | .210 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
Seeding and format
The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular-season winning percentage. They played a double-elimination tournament.
Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Seed |
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Rider | 15 | 6 | .714 | — | 1 |
Monmouth | 15 | 6 | .714 | — | 2 |
St. Francis | 12 | 8 | .600 | 2.5 | 3 |
Long Island | 12 | 9 | .571 | 3 | 4 |
Fairleigh Dickinson | 9 | 12 | .429 | 6 | — |
Wagner | 8 | 12 | .400 | 6.5 | — |
Marist | 8 | 13 | .381 | 7 | — |
Mount St. Mary's | 4 | 17 | .190 | 11 | — |
Bracket
First Round | Semi-Finals | Finals | ||||||||||||
1 | Rider | 3 | ||||||||||||
4 | Long Island | 2 | ||||||||||||
1 | Rider | 1 | ||||||||||||
3 | St. Francis | 0 | ||||||||||||
3 | St. Francis | 5 | ||||||||||||
2 | Monmouth | 2 | ||||||||||||
1 | Rider | 14 | — | |||||||||||
4 | Long Island | 1 | — | |||||||||||
4 | Long Island | 2 | ||||||||||||
2 | Monmouth | 1 | ||||||||||||
3 | St. Francis | 4 | ||||||||||||
4 | Long Island | 9 | ||||||||||||
Most Valuable Player
Jim Gordon of Rider was named Tournament Most Valuable Player.[1]
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References
- "2018 Northeast Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Northeast Conference. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
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