2006 FCSL season
| 2006 FCSL season | ||||
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| Regular season | ||||
| Duration | June 8, 2006 – July 29, 2006 | |||
| Playoffs | ||||
| Start date | August 1, 2006 | |||
| FCSL Championship Game | ||||
| Date | August 6, 2006 | |||
| Site | Tropicana Field | |||
| Champions | Winter Park Diamond Dawgs | |||
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The 2006 FCSL season was the third season in the history of the Florida Collegiate Summer League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league operating in the southeastern United States region of central Florida. The league's Winter Haven, Florida franchise, the Winter Haven Warthogs, moved to Winter Pines, Florida and became the Winter Pines Warthogs. The league's Zephyrhills, Florida franchise, the Zephyrhills Snappers, moved to Altamonte Springs, Florida and became the Zephyrhills Snappers. The league added a franchise in Orlando, Florida, the Orlando Hammers.
In the championship game, the Winter Park Diamond Dawgs defeated the Altamonte Springs Snappers 4-3 to win the FCSL title.
Playoff seeds were determined by the regular season standings, with clubs being seeded #1 through #6. The top two seeds, the Altamonte Springs Snappers and the Winter Park Diamond Dawgs, received byes into the double elimination playoff round. The bottom four seeds were required to play a play-in round to reach the double-elimination round. In the first matchup of the play-in round, the third-seeded Orlando Shockers defeated the sixth-seeded Orlando Hammers 7-1. In the second game, the fifth-seeded Sanford River Rats defeated the fourth-seeded Winter Pines Warthogs 6-0.
Four teams advanced to the double elimination playoff round, the first-seeded Altamonte Springs Snappers, the second-seeded Winter Park Diamond Dawgs, the third-seeded Orlando Shockers, and the fifth-seeded Sanford River Rats. After two teams had suffered two losses in this round, the remaining two teams moved on to the championship game.
Sunday, August 6, 2006 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida
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