Year: | 1999 |
Conference: | Northeast Conference |
Teams: | 4 |
Format: | Double-elimination tournament |
Ballpark: | The Ballpark at Harbor Yard |
City: | Bridgeport, CT |
Titlecount: | 2nd |
Coach: | Dean Ehehalt |
Coachcount: | 2nd |
Mvp: | Mike Benfield |
Mvpteam: | Monmouth |
The 1999 Northeast Conference baseball tournament began on May 7 and ended on May 10, 1999, at The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The league's top four teams competed in the double elimination tournament. Top-seeded won their second consecutive, and second overall, tournament championship and earned the Northeast Conference's automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1]
The two division winners claimed the top two seeds, with the next two teams by conference winning percentage rounding out the field. They played a double-elimination tournament.
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Mike Benfield of Monmouth was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Benfield pitched in the opener and the final game for the Hawks, allowing 2 earned runs and striking out ten in 10 2/3 innings.