2007 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

The 2007 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 24-26 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, third-seeded Albany defeated first-seeded Binghamton, 1-0, to win its first tournament championship. As a result, Albany received the America East's automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Tournament, the program's first.[1][2][3]

2007 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsAlbany (1st title)
Winning coachJon Mueller (1st title)
MVPCory Warring, Albany

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.[4]

TeamWLPct.GBSeed
Binghamton175.773
1
Stony Brook167.696
1.5
2
Albany1311.542
5
3
Maine1211.522
5.5
4
Vermont1013.435
7.5
Hartford914.391
8.5
UMBC420.167
14

Results

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 Binghamton 9  
4 Maine 3  
  1 Binghamton 7  
  3 Albany 8  
2 Stony Brook 2
3 Albany 5  
  3 Albany 1
  1 Binghamton 0
4 Maine 13  
2 Stony Brook 8  
  1 Binghamton 13
  4 Maine 4  

All-Tournament Team

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

Player Team
Sean DonovanAlbany
John NaplesAlbany
Cory WarringAlbany
Steve WylandAlbany
Ryan JamesBinghamton
Henry DunnBinghamton
Matt SimekBinghamton
Billy CatherMaine
Curt SmithMaine
Rob LeonardStony Brook

Most Outstanding Player

Albany pitcher Cory Warring was named Most Outstanding Player.[3]

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. "2007 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  3. "Albany Captures Its First-Ever America East Baseball Championship". AmericaEast.com. Archived from the original on May 25, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  4. "2007 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 25, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
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