The 2011 NECBL playoffs is the postseason tournament of the New England Collegiate Baseball League for the 2011 season. It consists of eight teams competing in three rounds of best-of-three series. In the championship round, the West Division Keene Swamp Bats defeated the East Division Laconia Muskrats 2 games to 0.
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Format
The 2011 NECBL playoffs consists of three rounds, a Division Semifinal, Division Final, and Championship Series. Competing teams consist of the four best-record teams from both the West Division and the East Division. These teams are seeded #1 through #4 according to their regular season record. In each division, the #1 seed plays the #4 seed and the #2 seed plays the #3 seed in the Division Semifinal round. The two winners of these series will advance to the Division Finals. The winner of the round captures the Division Championship, one for both the East and West divisions. The two division champions will face each other in the Championship Series to decide the NECBL champion. All rounds consist of a best-of-three series in which the first game and third game (if necessary) of each series are played at the higher seed's home field and the second game was played at the lower seed's home field. If identically seeded teams from opposite divisions met in the Championship Series the NECBL tiebreaker rules would be utilized.
Division Semifinals
The Division Semifinals, the first playoff round, consisted of matchups between each division's #1 and #4 seeds and #2 and #3 seeds.
West Division
In the West Division, the Division Semifinal matchups were as follows: #1 Keene versus #4 Danbury, #2 Holyoke versus #3 Vermont.
Danbury vs. Keene
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Keene wins series 2-1.
Holyoke vs. Vermont
Game 1
Game 2
Holyoke wins series 2-0.
East Division
In the East Division, the Division Semifinal matchups were the same as last year: #1 Newport versus #4 Laconia, #2 North Shore versus #3 Sanford.
Newport vs. Laconia
Game 1
Game 2
Laconia wins series 2-0.
North Shore vs. Sanford
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Sanford wins series 2-1.
West Division
In the West Division, the Divisional Championship match up was as follows: #1 Keene versus #2 Holyoke,
Holyoke vs. Keene
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Keene wins series 2-1
East Division
In the East Division, the Divisional Championship match up was as follows: #3 Sanford versus #4 Laconia,
Laconia vs. Sanford
Game 1
Game 2
Laconia wins series 2-0
Championship Series
The NECBL Championship Series, the final playoff round, consists of a matchup of the West Division's #1 seed Keene against the East Division's #4 seed Laconia
Game 2
Keene wins championship 2-0