As the baseball regular-season comes to an end this weekend, here are the scenarios for each of the eligible America East baseball teams for getting into the conference tournament. All of this weekend's games will be available LIVE for FREE on AmericaEast.TV. The America East Championship will be held May 21-24 at LeLacheur Park in Lowell, Mass., hope to UMass Lowell and the Lowell Spinners, Single A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.
Conference Standings
Stony Brook, 16-4
UMBC, 13-8
UMass Lowell, 10-10
Maine, 8-9
Hartford, 8-11
Albany, 6-11
Binghamton, 6-14
Remaining Schedule
Hartford vs. UMBC 
Maine vs. Albany
Stony Brook vs. Binghamton
Scenarios
Stony Brook
UMBC
- Clinches No. 2 seed with 1 win or 1 loss by Maine
Maine
- Clinches a tournament spot with 1 win
- Can reach No. 2 seed with a sweep of Albany AND UMBC being swept by Hartford
Hartford
- Clinches a spot with 1 win OR 1 loss by both Albany and Binghamton
- Can be No. 3 seed…
- with a sweep of UMBC AND Maine losing 2 of 3 to Albany
- by winning 2 of 3 versus UMBC and Maine being swept by Albany
- with a sweep of UMBC AND Maine winning 2 of 3 to Albany due to 3-way tiebreak (see below)
Albany
- Can clinch by sweeping Maine OR winning 2 of 3 and Hartford being swept by UMBC
- Can be No. 3 seed with a sweep AND Hartford losing at-least 2 of 3
Binghamton
- Needs to sweep Stony Brook AND needs Hartford to be swept by UMBC AND at-least two losses by Albany
- Would be No. 4 seed
3-Way Tiebreak
UMass Lowell, Maine & Hartford
- Can happen if Maine wins 2 of 3 and Hartford sweeps UMBC
- All teams would have .500 records
Record vs. each other
- UMass Lowell – 5-1
- Hartford – 2-5
- Maine – 3-4
- UMass Lowell comes out of the 1st tiebreak
- Goes back to head-to-head
- Hartford and Maine went 2-2 vs. each other
- Record vs. conference teams in descending rank order
- Hartford went 2-1 vs. Stony Brook, Maine went 0-2
- Hartford comes out of 2nd tiebreak
- Hartford would be No. 3 seed, Maine would be No. 4