2003 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

The 2003 America East Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22-24 at Centennial Field in Burlington, Vermont. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, fourth-seeded Northeastern defeated third-seeded Stony Brook, 11-0, to win its third tournament championship. As a result, Northeastern received the America East's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Tournament.[1][2][3][4]

2003 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsNortheastern (3rd title)
Winning coachNeil McPhee (3rd title)
MVPMiguel Paquette, Northeastern

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
Vermont175.773
–
1
Maine177.708
1
2
Stony Brook159.625
3
3
Northeastern1210.545
5
4
Albany1014.417
8
–
Hartford715.318
10
–
Binghamton220.091
15
–

Results
  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 Vermont 1  
4 Northeastern 2  
  4 Northeastern 5  
  3 Stony Brook 4  
2 Maine 2
3 Stony Brook 4  
  4 Northeastern 10 11
  3 Stony Brook 11 0
1 Vermont 1  
2 Maine 5  
  3 Stony Brook 6
  2 Maine 3  

All-Tournament Team

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

Player Team
Justin HedrickNortheastern
Jordan ThompsonNortheastern
Miguel PaquetteNortheastern
Arman SidhuNortheastern
Brad CzarnowskiNortheastern
Mike SteinbergNortheastern
Jim McCurdyStony Brook
Andrew LarsenStony Brook
Lee LipschutzStony Brook
Aaron IzarykMaine
Joe DrapeauMaine

Most Outstanding Player

Northeastern first baseman Miguel Paquette was named Most Outstanding Player.

References
  1. "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  2. "2003 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  3. "Huskies Hustle into NCAAs". Boston Globe. May 25, 2003. p. C16. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  4. "At Baton Rouge, 3 of 4 Teams Advanced with At-Large Berths". Star-News. Associated Press. May 30, 2003. p. 3C. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
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