Hamptons Collegiate Baseball

Through 8½ weeks, there have been a fair share of long balls, strikeouts, double plays and high fives. There have been two no-hitters, one All-Star Game rout, and thousands of fans. The first five-team summer of Hamptons Collegiate Baseball has just about concluded, only with a matter of days remaining, a regular season champion still hasn’t been decided.

A weekend’s worth of games couldn’t separate the top four in the standings, and although all four clinched playoff spots with victories and/or a Sag Harbor loss on Sunday, home field advantage is still at stake with a full slate of games beginning on Monday with North Fork visiting Southampton at Stony Brook Southampton.

Westhampton, Southampton, Riverhead and North Fork are all assured of a playoff spot when Sag Harbor was mathematically eliminated on Sunday with a doubleheader split with sixth-place Long Island. On Monday, the division playoff schedule was set as follows:

Semifinals (single game)
Saturday, August 1
No. 4 seed at No. 1 seed, 5 p.m.
No. 3 seed at No. 2 seed, 5 p.m.
Finals (best of three)
Game 1: Sunday, August 2, at higher seed, 2 p.m.
Game 2: Sunday, August 2, at higher seed, 5 p.m.
Game 3: Monday, August 3, at lower seed, 5 p.m.
August 4 and 5: make-up games if necessary
ACBL championship (single game)
Thursday, August 6, at Kaiser Division champion's field, 5 p.m.

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