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2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

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Classification
  
Division

Format
  
Double-elimination

Teams
  
4

Champions
  
Binghamton (1st title)

Site
  
Pete Sylvester Field Endicott, NY

Winning coach
  
Tim Sinicki (1st title)

The 2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 21-23 at Pete Sylvester Field in Endicott, New York. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Binghamton defeated second-seeded Albany, 16-6, to win its first tournament championship. As a result, Binghamton received the America East's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament, the program's first.

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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.

All-Tournament Team

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

Most Outstanding Player

Binghamton second baseman Jim Calderone was named Most Outstanding Player.

References

2009 America East Conference Baseball Tournament Wikipedia