2006 America East Conference baseball tournament

2006 America East Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	4
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Centennial Field; Burlington, VT;
Champions	Maine (4th title)
Winning coach	Steve Trimper (1st title)
MVP	Mark Ostrander (Maine)
	← 2005; AEC baseball tournament; 2007 →;

The 2006 America East Conference baseball tournament took place from May 25 through 27 at Centennial Field in Burlington, Vermont. The top four regular season finishers of the league's seven teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, third-seeded Maine defeated first-seeded Stony Brook, 5-3, to win its fourth tournament championship (its first under head coach Steve Trimper). As a result, Maine received the America East's automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA tournament.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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
Vermont	16	8	.667	–	1
Stony Brook	13	8	.619	1.5	2
Maine	13	9	.591	2	3
Albany	12	10	.545	3	4
Binghamton	12	11	.522	3.5	–
Hartford	8	16	.333	8	–
UMBC	5	17	.227	10	–

Results


Upper round 1			Upper final			Final



1	Vermont	5^[a]

4	Albany	4
			1	Vermont	2

			3	Maine	5
2	Stony Brook	8

3	Maine	11
						3	Maine

						2	Stony Brook
Lower round 1			Lower final



			1	Vermont	1

4	Albany	3	2	Stony Brook	2

2	Stony Brook	5

All-Tournament Team

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

Player	Team
Mark Ostrander	Maine
AJ Balsinde	Maine
Joel Barrett	Maine
Sean Parker	Maine
Mike Powers	Maine
Jon Pasieka	Stony Brook
Andres Perez	Stony Brook
Matt Restivo	Stony Brook
Jason Carey	Vermont
Steve Wyland	Albany

Most Outstanding Player

Maine outfielder Mark Ostrander was named Most Outstanding Player.^[5]

Notes

^ 10 innings.

References

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "2006 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
^ Warner, Pete (September 15, 2006). "Bordick's Number Up at Black Bears Baseball Benefit". Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine, USA. p. C6. Retrieved May 25, 2013. ... said Trimper, who directed the Bears to the 2006 America East championship and a spot in the NCAA Chapel Hill regional.
^ "2006 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
^ Davidson, Art (March 20, 2007). "Ostrander Building Momentum". MetroWestDailyNews.com. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.

[10inn-5] 10 innings.

[aecrb-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.

[06tournies-2] "2006 Conference Tournaments". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.

[dailynews-3] Warner, Pete (September 15, 2006). "Bordick's Number Up at Black Bears Baseball Benefit". Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine, USA. p. C6. Retrieved May 25, 2013. ... said Trimper, who directed the Bears to the 2006 America East championship and a spot in the NCAA Chapel Hill regional.

[aecst06-4] "2006 America East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy Mills. Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2013.

[ostrandermop-6] Davidson, Art (March 20, 2007). "Ostrander Building Momentum". MetroWestDailyNews.com. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013.

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