2003 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

2003 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2003
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site Centennial Field
Burlington, VT
Champions Northeastern (3rd title)
Winning coach Neil McPhee (3rd title)
MVP Miguel Paquette (Northeastern)
America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2002  2004»

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]

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]

Team W L Pct. GB Seed
Vermont 17 5 .773
1
Maine 17 7 .708
1
2
Stony Brook 15 9 .625
3
3
Northeastern 12 10 .545
5
4
Albany 10 14 .417
8
Hartford 7 15 .318
10
Binghamton 2 20 .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 Hedrick Northeastern
Jordan Thompson Northeastern
Miguel Paquette Northeastern
Arman Sidhu Northeastern
Brad Czarnowski Northeastern
Mike Steinberg Northeastern
Jim McCurdy Stony Brook
Andrew Larsen Stony Brook
Lee Lipschutz Stony Brook
Aaron Izaryk Maine
Joe Drapeau Maine

Most Outstanding Player

Northeastern first baseman Miguel Paquette was named Most Outstanding Player.

References

  1. 1 2 "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book". AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 20, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "2003 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  3. "Huskies Hustle into NCAAs". Boston Globe. May 25, 2003. p. C16. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. 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. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
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