2012 NECBL season
| 2012 NECBL season | ||||
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| Regular season | ||||
| Duration | June 7th – August 1st | |||
| Playoffs | ||||
| Start date | August 3rd | |||
| West Semifinal 1 | Keene over Vermont | |||
| West Semifinal 2 | Danbury over North Adams | |||
| East Semifinal 1 | Newport over Sanford | |||
| East Semifinal 2 | New Bedford over Laconia | |||
| West Final | Danbury over Keene | |||
| East Final | Newport over New Bedford | |||
| NECBL Championship Series | ||||
| Date | August 9–11 | |||
| Site | Cardines Field, Rogers Park | |||
| Champions | Newport Gulls | |||
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The 2012 NECBL season was the 19th season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league. Changes for 2012 included two of the league's East Division franchises from the 2011 season, the Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide and one of the NECBL's charter franchises, the North Shore Navigators leaving the NECBL to join the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. As a result, the league has been reduced to 10 teams, with the Mystic Schooners moving to the East Division.
In the postseason, eight teams (4 from the NECBL East and West Divisions) qualified for the playoffs. In the quarterfinals, Newport defeated Sanford (2 games to 1), New Bedford defeated Laconia (2 games to 0), Keene defeated Vermont (2 games to 0), and Danbury defeated North Adams. In the semifinals, Newport defeated New Bedford (2 games to 0) to advance to their eighth championship series in Newport (9 overall). Also, the Danbury Westerners defeated the Keene Swamp Bats (2 games to 0) to advance to their fourth championship series. In 2 games, the Newport Gulls defeated the Westerners (G1: 9-2, G2: 8-1) to win their fifth Fay Vincent Sr. Cup.
Each team plays their other divisional teams 8 times (4 home, 4 away) and their non-division opponents twice (1 home, 1 away).
As of August 8, 2012.
The NECBL's 2012 All-Star Game will be hosted by the West Division's Vermont Mountaineers at Montpelier Recreation Field in Montpelier, Vermont.
Seedings:
EAST
(1) Newport Gulls (31-10)
(2) New Bedford Bay Sox (25-16)
(3) Laconia Muskrats (17-24)
(4) Sanford Mainers (16-25)
WEST
(1) Keene Swamp Bats (29-13)
(2) Danbury Westerners (23-18)
(3) North Adams SteepleCats (22-20)
(4) Vermont Mountaineers (18-23)
As of August 8, 2012.
Batting Average: Jeff Melillo (Newport Gulls) .404
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