Author: Vinny Messana
TCU Ends Stony Brook’s Season With 8-3 Final
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Stony Brook Sea Wolves were primed to make a season-saving comeback against No. 1 seed TCU, but a three-run home run in the fifth inning by Evan Skoug broke the game open at 5-1 and effectively put a nail in the coffin of the 2015 season.The Sea Wolves mustered four hits in the game–two by Malcolm Nachmanoff and two by Toby Handley, very uncharacteristic for a...
Stony Brook Staves Off Elimination With 11-6 Victory
Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics Clearly, the Stony Brook Seawolves are not ready to end their season. They crushed No. 4 Sacred Heart 11-6, with the team compiling 17 hits–at least one by each starter.The Sea Wolves jumped all over Sacred Heart in the first inning with a five spot, then added two in the second and third innings. Casey Baker had two hits and drove in four runs. Toby Handl...
One Bad Pitch Hurts Zamora, Puts Stony Brook On Brink Of Elimination
Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics Daniel Zamora threw a very solid 6.2 innings, allowing two ER against the No. 24 ranked team in the county, N.C. State.If it wasn’t for one pitch, however, it would’ve been a magnificent outing. He allowed a two-run HR to the Wolfpack’s leading hitter, leadoff man Logan Ratledge–who entered hitting .330 on the day.The two-run HR broke a 0...
Who is NC State?
Catcher Andrew Knizner batted .322 over 53 games.Photo Credit: NC State Athletics Stony Brook will take on NC State today at 3:30 pm in the opening game of the Fort Worth, TX regionals. Background: NC State is currently 34-21 and they were just defeated by Florida State in the championship game of the ACC tournament by the score of 6-2. They have never won the College World Series but they did mak...
Gagliano Sends Connetquot Into the Suffolk County Championship
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana In what appeared to be a smooth 4-1 win in a monumental game, Smithtown East rallied off Connetquot starter John Hengge with two outs in the seventh inning on RBI singles by Matt DiPietro and Matt Milne to tie the game at 4.Yesterday’s starter, Travis Bruinsma, came on to record the final out of the seventh and allow the Thunderbirds bats to go to work.That’...
Photo of the Day
Travis Bruinsma, owner of nine wins for Connetquot, delivers a pitch to Pat Lagravinese of Smithtown East.
Anthony Gatto Named First Team All-Conference
Photo Credit: UMBC Athletics Anthony Gatto, who made a name for himself by winning the League IV MVP in 2009, 2010 and 2011, was recently named First Team All-Conference of the America East.The redshirt junior at UMBC bounced back strong from an injury shortened 2014 season to bat .297 over 46 games. In 158 at bats, he scored 35 runs, smacked four home runs, drove in 22 runs, drew 25 walks, was hi...
Stephen Woods Named Second Team All-Conference
Photo Credit: University of Abany Athletics Stephen Woods, a 2013 graduate of Half Hollow Hills East and a sixth round selection of the Tampa Bay Rays, was named second team All-Conference of the America East. Woods, a sophomore at the University of Albany, led the team in ERA at 3.98. He appeared in 11 games, starting nine, while compiling 54.1 IP, allowing only 39 hits while striking out 55. He ...
Mattituck Wins Class B Title
Photo Credit: Daniel De Mato No. 1 ranked Mattituck cruised past Babylon 11-6 to capture a consecutive Suffolk County Class B title. If someone asked who owns the best record in Suffolk County, it might not be your first guess to say a League 8 school, but they have done just that by improving to 23-1 on the season. Their only loss came on May 5 against this same Babylon team by the score of 3-2. ...
Long Island Native Wins National Championship
Photo Credit: Farmingdale State Athletics Cortland defeated Wisconsin-La Crosse 6-2 to win the 2015 Division-III National Championship for the first time in program history. They finished the season 45-4. Lynbrook native and former Farmingdale State pitcher Alex Weingarten was a part of it. He finished the season with a 9-1 record, 2.83 ERA over 60.1 innings. “Unbelievable!” He said in...
Greg Maitles, Smithtown East Force Deciding Game Three With 6-4 Win over Connetquot
Maitles striking out White to end the game. With Smithtown East‘s lead dwindling in the fourth inning, Head Coach Ken Klee called on senior Greg Maitles to preserve the lead. He went on to pitch the rest of the game, not allowing a run while striking out four to preserve Smithtown East’s 6-4 win to force a deciding third game in the semifinals. “It went exactly as planned,”...
Stony Brook Erases 7-0 Deficit, Storms Back to Win America East
Photo Credit: Greg M. Cooper For the first time since the magical run of 2012, the Stony Brook Sea Wolves have won the America East title.It took an amazing comeback on Saturday, too as they defeated UMBC 16-11. They trailed 7-0 in the first inning after the bats of UMBC roughed up Ryley MacEachern.In the ensuing inning they scored a tournament record 11 runs thanks to RBI hits by Malcolm Nachmano...
