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]
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site |
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| Champions | Albany (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Jon Mueller (1st title) |
| MVP | Cory 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]
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton | 17 | 5 | .773 | ||
| Stony Brook | 16 | 7 | .696 | ||
| Albany | 13 | 11 | .542 | ||
| Maine | 12 | 11 | .522 | ||
| Vermont | 10 | 13 | .435 | ||
| Hartford | 9 | 14 | .391 | ||
| UMBC | 4 | 20 | .167 |
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 Donovan | Albany |
| John Naples | Albany |
| Cory Warring | Albany |
| Steve Wyland | Albany |
| Ryan James | Binghamton |
| Henry Dunn | Binghamton |
| Matt Simek | Binghamton |
| Billy Cather | Maine |
| Curt Smith | Maine |
| Rob Leonard | Stony Brook |
References
- "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.
- "2007 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
- "Albany Captures Its First-Ever America East Baseball Championship". AmericaEast.com. Archived from the original on May 25, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
- "2007 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 25, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.