1998 America East Conference Baseball Tournament

1998 America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1998
Teams 4
Format Double-elimination
Site Frawley Stadium
Wilmington, DE
Champions Delaware (3rd title)
Winning coach Bob Hannah (3rd title)
MVP Chris Frey (Delaware)
America East Conference
Baseball Tournament
«1997  1999»

The 1998 America East Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware. The top four regular season finishers of the league's eight teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Delaware defeated second-seeded Northeastern, 10-4, to win its third tournament championship. As a result, Delaware received the America East's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Tournament.[1][2]

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
Delaware 22 2 .917
1
Northeastern 17 9 .654
6
2
Vermont 15 12 .556
8.5
3
Hofstra 14 14 .500
10
4
Maine 12 16 .429
12
Drexel 9 15 .375
14
Towson 9 18 .333
15.5
Hartford 7 19 .269
17

Results

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1  Delaware 8  
4  Hofstra 0  
  1  Delaware 4  
  2  Northeastern 2  
2  Northeastern 10
3  Vermont 8  
  1  Delaware 10
  2  Northeastern 4
4  Hofstra 6  
3  Vermont 7[lower-alpha 1]  
  2  Northeastern 12
  3  Vermont 7  

All-Tournament Team

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

Player Team
Matt Phillips Delaware
Chris Frey Delaware
Matt Ardizzone Delaware
Frank DiMaggio Delaware
Brad Eyman Delaware
Dan Trivits Delaware
Carlos Peña Northeastern
Kevin Kim Northeastern
Hernan Guerrero Northeastern
Wade Rikert Vermont
Pat Friel Hofstra

Most Outstanding Player

Delaware pitcher Chris Frey was named Most Outstanding Player.

Notes

  1. 10 innings.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book". AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 20, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1998". BoydsWorld.com. Boyd Nation. Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013.