This week represented the halfway point for the New York Baseball Academy at Hofstra University. The special guest this week was Pete Kurkovic, a Bronx native and former star at Fordham University that played professional baseball and has coached in the World Baseball Classic.
The recipient of Axcess Baseball’s Player of the Week was Matt Boyajian. Below he is pictured with NYBA Director John Russo.
As always, the players that best exemplified what it means to be a team player were the recipients of the Super Hustler Award. Below are the winners from each group.
Group 2: Coach Timmes
Grady Blina
Alex Klepther
Michael Urcicoli
Toby Young
Group 3: Coach Munro
Xander Arias
Luke Bernstein
Dean Geiger
Theo Altberger
Guy Courbois
Camden Marin
Group 4: Coach Duprey
Matthew Tomossonie
John Hastings
Brenden Martin
Chase Golberg
Evan Marks
Chris Parisi
Ben Heit
Jason Stoller
Group 5: Coach Corrado
Griffin Burke
Joseph Thomas
Gabe Schultz
Aidan Collins
Matt Waters
Greg McSweeney
Group 6: Coach Zarzyki
Jackson Powell
Jack Bellucci
Daniel Reynolds
Matteo Karcic
Group 7: Coach Lemanczyk
Bradley Rodriguez
Sean Lennell
Niel Dellaraffa
Nathan Sica
Group 8: Coach Harris
Josh Hurnstein
Emmit O’Brien
Dylan Cohen
Neal Jhaveri
Michael Klein
Trevor Yetkufski