2014 Patriot League baseball tournament
Collegiate baseball tournament
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The 2014 Patriot League baseball tournament took place on consecutive weekends, with the semifinals held May 10–11 and the finals May 17–18. The higher seeded teams each hosted best of three series. Bucknell won their sixth Tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1][2]
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Best of three series |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Bucknell (6th title) |
| Winning coach | Scott Heather (1st title) |
| MVP | Joe Ogren (Bucknell) |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bucknell †‡y | 15 | – | 5 | – | 0 | .750 | 31 | – | 21 | – | 1 | .594 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army † | 15 | – | 5 | – | 0 | .750 | 33 | – | 18 | – | 0 | .647 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 10 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .500 | 25 | – | 24 | – | 0 | .510 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Navy | 9 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .450 | 23 | – | 28 | – | 0 | .451 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 5 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .278 | 15 | – | 26 | – | 0 | .366 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holy Cross | 4 | – | 14 | – | 0 | .222 | 13 | – | 31 | – | 0 | .295 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four, with the top seed hosting the fourth seed and second seed hosting the third. The visiting team was designated as the home team in the second game of each series. Top seeded Bucknell hosted fourth seeded Navy, while second seeded Army hosted third seeded Lehigh in the opening round. Bucknell claimed the top seed by tiebreaker over Army.[3]
Results
| Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Bucknell | 15 | 8 | — | |||||||||
| 4 | Navy | 6 | 4 | — | |||||||||
| 1 | Bucknell | 5 | 7 | — | |||||||||
| 3 | Lehigh | 4 | 2 | — | |||||||||
| 2 | Army | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 3 | Lehigh | 6 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
Semifinals
Bucknell vs. Navy
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Navy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Bucknell | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | X | 15 | 16 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Hough (7–3) LP: Parenti (8–3) Notes: Game 1 Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Army vs. Lehigh
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Lehigh | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 Army | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Gozton (5–1) LP: Dignacco (6–3) Attendance: 237 Notes: Game 1 Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Final
All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[2]
| Name | School |
|---|---|
| Tyler Brong | Lehigh |
| Nick Cassell | Lehigh |
| Robert Currie | Navy |
| Xavier Hammond | Bucknell |
| Bryson Hough | Bucknell |
| Kash Manzelli | Navy |
| Justin Meier | Bucknell |
| Joe Ogren | Bucknell |
| Justin Pacchioli | Lehigh |
| Jacob Page | Army |
| Alex Robinett | Army |
Most Valuable Player
Joe Ogren was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Ogren was an outfielder for Bucknell.[2]