2009 NECBL season

Regular season

Duration

June 6 – July 31

Playoffs

Start date

August 2

West Semifinal 1

Keene vs. Holyoke

West Semifinal 2

North Adams vs. Vermont

East Semifinal 1

Newport vs. New Bedford

East Semifinal 2

Sanford vs. North Shore

West Final

Vermont vs. Holyoke

East Final

Newport vs. Sanford

NECBL Championship Series

Date

August 8–10

Site

Montpelier Recreation Field, Cardines Field

Champions

Newport Gulls

2008 ←

NECBL seasons

→ 2010

The 2009 NECBL season is the 16th season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league. The league's Torrington, Connecticut franchise, the Torrington Twisters, moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts and became the New Bedford Bay Sox. Due to the move, the League realigned into the East and West Divisions with 6 teams each.

In the championship series, the East Division champion Newport Gulls defeated the West Division champion Vermont Mountaineers after each team advanced through the playoffs.

The NECBL's 2009 All-Star Game was hosted by the West Division's Holyoke Blue Sox. The event was held at Mackenzie Stadium in Holyoke, Massachusetts on July 18, 2009. The West Division won the game 6-5. The game was attended by 4,906, setting a new record for All-Star Game attendance. Holyoke's Jake Rosenbeck was named the game's MVP.

Eight teams qualified for the 2009 NECBL playoffs, which consisted of three rounds of best-of-three series. In the championship series, East Division champion Newport defeated West Division champion Vermont 2-1.

The following is a list of the NECBL's top 10 professional prospects for the 2009 season, as ranked by Baseball America.

The Newport Gulls led the league in attendance for the fourth consecutive season, while the Lowell All-Americans finished last in the league for the fifth straight year. New Bedford, Danbury, and Newport showed the greatest increase in average attendance, while Keene and Vermont showed the greatest decrease.

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