2008 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

The 2008 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 22–24 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]

2008 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
  • Farmingdale State Baseball Stadium
  • Farmingdale, NY
ChampionsStony Brook (2nd title)
Winning coachMatt Senk (2nd title)
MVPSteve Mazzurco, Stony Brook

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
Binghamton158.652
–
1
Stony Brook1410.583
1.5
2
UMBC1311.542
2.5
3
Vermont1211.522
3
4
Hartford1013.435
5
–
Albany1014.417
5.5
–
Maine815.348
7
–

Results
  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 Binghamton 4  
4 Vermont 1  
  1 Binghamton 0  
  2 Stony Brook 1  
2 Stony Brook 4
3 UMBC 3  
  2 Stony Brook 6 —
  1 Binghamton 0 —
4 Vermont 5  
3 UMBC 1  
  1 Binghamton 4
  4 Vermont 0  

All-Tournament Team

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

Player Team
Gary NovakowskiStony Brook
Justin EcheverriaStony Brook
Steve MazzurcoStony Brook
Mike ErrigoStony Brook
Zach GrohBinghamton
Murphy SmithBinghamton
Ryan HolleyBinghamton
Eric ThompsonVermont
Matt DuffyVermont
Rich ConlonUMBC

Most Outstanding Player

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

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. "2008 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  3. "2008 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  4. Metcalfe, Jeff (May 26, 2008). "Sun Devils Seeded 3rd Nationally". AZCentral.com. The Arizona Republic. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  5. "#14 Steven Mazzurco". GoSeawolves.com. Stony Brook Sports Information. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
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