2003 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

2003 Atlantic 10 Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
FormatSix-team double elimination
First-round byes for division winners
ChampionsRichmond (1st title)
Winning coachRon Atkins (1st title)
MVPVito Chairavalloti (Richmond)

The 2003 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, CT from May 15 through 17 (preliminaries) and at Pitt Field in Richmond, VA on May 22 and 24 (championship series). It featured the top two regular-season finishers of each six-team division, plus the next two best finishers. Top-seeded Richmond defeated Massachusetts in the title game to win the tournament for the first time, earning the Atlantic 10's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA tournament.[1]

Seeding and format

The league's top six teams, based on winning percentage in the 24-game regular season schedule, qualified for the field. The top two teams in each division qualified for the tournament automatically; the two division winners, Massachusetts in the East and Richmond in the West, received the top two seeds and byes through to the second round of the double elimination tournament. The tournament was different from most double-elimination formats in that after the two finalists were decided, losses were erased, and a best-of-three series was played at a new site the following weekend to decide the champion.

Team W L Pct. GB Seed
East Division
Massachusetts[a] 14 7 .667
–
2
Rhode Island 16 8 .667
–
3
St. Bonaventure 9 11 .450
4.5
–
Saint Joseph's 10 14 .417
5.5
–
Temple 10 14 .417
5.5
–
Fordham 8 15 .348
7
–
West Division
Richmond 19 4 .826
–
1
Duquesne 15 9 .625
4.5
4
Xavier 13 8 .619
5
5
George Washington 12 9 .571
6
6
La Salle 6 17 .261
13
–
Dayton 4 20 .167
15.5
–
  1. ^ Massachusetts's regular-season series win over Rhode Island gave it the higher seed within the East Division.[2]

Bracket

First round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
1 Richmond 1
5 Xavier 6 5 Xavier 2
4 Duquesne 3 5 Xavier 5
2 Massachusetts 8
2 Massachusetts 3
6 George Washington 7 6 George Washington 1
3 Rhode Island 2 2 Massachusetts 0 4 –
1 Richmond 8 7 –
5 Xavier 3
4 Duquesne 2 1 Richmond 6
3 Rhode Island 3 1 Richmond 8
6 George Washington 8 6 George Washington 2
3 Rhode Island 4

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Richmond's Vito Chairavalloti, one of six Spiders selected, was named Most Outstanding Player.[1]

Richmond's David Reaver and Tim Stauffer, who had both been selected in 2002, were named for the second time.

Pos. Name Team
OF Vito Chairavalloti Richmond
P Eric Chown Massachusetts
OF Frank Curreri Massachusetts
2B Bobby LeNoir Richmond
P Mike McGirr Richmond
P Matt McLoughlin Richmond
SS David Reaver Richmond
3B Matt Reynolds Massachusetts
1B Ryan Roberson George Washington
P Tim Stauffer Richmond
P Jarret Sues Xavier
P Dan Sullivan George Washington

References

  1. ^ a b "2014 Atlantic 10 Baseball Record Book" (PDF). Atlantic10.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 19, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  2. ^ "2014 UMass Baseball Record Book" (PDF). UMass Athletics Communications. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 28, 2014.