2004 America East Conference baseball tournament

2004 America East Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	4
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Mahaney Diamond Orono, ME
Champions	Stony Brook (1st title)
Winning coach	Matt Senk (1st title)
MVP	Isidro Fortuna (Stony Brook)

The 2004 America East Conference baseball tournament took place from May 27 through 29 at Mahaney Diamond in Orono, Maine. The top four regular season finishers of the league's eight teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, fourth-seeded Stony Brook defeated second-seeded Maine, 3–1, to win its first tournament championship. As a result, Stony Brook received the America East's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA tournament, the program's first in Division I.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

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
Northeastern	14	6	.700	–	1
Maine	14	7	.667	0.5	2
Albany	14	7	.667	0.5	3
Stony Brook	11	10	.524	3.5	4
Vermont	10	11	.476	4.5	–
Binghamton	9	11	.450	5	–
UMBC	6	15	.286	8.5	–
Hartford	5	16	.238	9.5	–

Results

	Upper round 1					Upper final					Final
	1	Northeastern	6
	4	Stony Brook	15
						4	Stony Brook	6
						2	Maine	3
	2	Maine	9
	3	Albany	3
											4	Stony Brook
											2	Maine
	Lower round 1					Lower final
						2	Maine	11
	1	Northeastern	1			3	Albany	5
	3	Albany	8

All-Tournament Team

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

Player	Team
Matt Devins	Stony Brook
Andrew Larsen	Stony Brook
Dave Mischo	Stony Brook
Matt Restivo	Stony Brook
Chris Sipp	Stony Brook
Nick Theoharis	Stony Brook
Mike MacDonald	Maine
Matt McGraw	Maine
Jason Martin	Albany
Jeff Heriot	Northeastern

Most Outstanding Player

Stony Brook outfielder Isidro Fortuna was named Most Outstanding Player.^[6]

References

1. "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 24, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
2. "2004 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
3. "2004 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on April 14, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
4. Mahoney, Larry (May 31, 2004). "Winning Weekend vs. NU Sparked Stony Brook". Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine, USA. p. C4. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
5. Stanton, Phil (January 30, 2012). "Stony Brook Making Name for Itself". CollegeBaseballInsider.com. Archived from the original on June 18, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
6. "Top Seeded ECU Takes on Stony Brook in First Round of Kinston Regional". ECUPirates.com. East Carolina Sports Information. June 3, 2004. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.