Author: Vinny Messana
Sea Wolves Roll Past Manhattan
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5aCzo7zqA]The Stony Brook Sea Wolves took advantage of some porous defense by Manhattan to roll to a 10-3 victory and improve their record to 13-11.The offense wasted no time in taking a 2-0 lead in the first inning when an error by the second baseman brought home Toby Handley, and Johnny Caputo followed with a laser beam of a double to get out to a 2-0 le...
Adelphi Mounts Four-Run Comeback Against St. Thomas Aquinas
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Adelphi certainly seems to have turned a corner. They mounted an impressive four-run comeback against the reigning ECC champion St. Thomas Aquinas and won 6- in 11 innings.Mike Stack reached on a fielder’s choice to score pinch-runner John Cuttitta, who ran for Camden Orologio.The Panther bullpen threw nine dominant innings, allowing just two ER and Mike Cranston ...
Hofstra Cruises Past NYIT
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana In the battle of ‘516’ Division-I teams, the Hofstra Pride soared past NYIT for the ninth consecutive time by the score of 7-3 to improve. With the victory, the Pride improve to 10-16 on the season.The offense wasted no time in building a 1-0 lead on an RBI single by Brian MacDonald to score Eric Ferguson.They broke it open in the fourth inning, Ferguson hit...
Baseball Players React to Duke’s National Championship
Photo Credit: ESPN The Duke Blue Devils knocked off Wisconsin last night by the score of 68-63, behind Tyus Jones clutch shooting, for their fifth National Championship.There are some baseball players with Long Island connections that either attended, or root unabashedly, for Duke University and they were justifiably excited after that victory. Game over. My TEAM wins. Back to campus in 3 weeks! @...
April 6 Recap
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana MLB wasn’t the only place to find action on the diamond today. There was some crucial games being played by Long Island teams. Division-II:Dowling defeated Queens by the score of 9-2, which means they took three of four in the series against the ECC foes. Dominick Danetti started and dominated–he threw seven shutout innings, allowed only two hits and four wa...
St. Joseph’s Sweeps Farmingdale to Push Record over .500
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Farmingdale-St. Joseph’s rivalry has lost some luster in the past two seasons as the Golden Eagles suffered through some lean years, but they have gotten the momentum back in their direction with a DH sweep today by the scores of 5-3 and 7-3. In the first game, Ryan Aloise started for the Golden Eagles and he was terrific–he allowed one ER over seven inn...
What’s On Tap for the Week
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana We’re starting to see the cream rise to the top as we head into the middle of April, while others are in danger of falling into obscurity. This will be crucial, as there are many conference double headers that will go a long way in determining the standings. Here’s what’s going on this week. Division-I: Stony Brook: They will travel to Iona tomorrow fo...
Hofstra Offense Sputters; Lose Fourth in a Row
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The power has suddenly gone out for the Hofstra offense. They were swept this weekend in South Carolina and have now lost four in a row.They have scored five runs in their past four games. After getting shutout in consecutive games to Fairfield and College of Charleston, they were able to put up four runs today, but they couldn’t capitalize when they had runners i...
Molloy Sweeps Nyack With Epic Slugfest
Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics Last weekend the Molloy Lions showcased their power arms in a great four-game series against LIU Post. Yesterday, they turned the clock back to 1998 and won two slug fests against Nyack by the scores of 18-17 and 13-8. In Game One, they led 12-7 entering the top of the sixth when Nyack erupted for eight runs to open up a three-run lead. Nyack added two in the seventh...
St. Joseph’s Splits With CCNY
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana St. Joseph’s cruised past CCNY in the first game of their DH by the score of 11-4. The offense compiled 11 hits, with Nick Girardi, Joe Calabrese, Dennis McAllister and James Terry all driving in two runs to lead the Golden Eagles. Frank Ziegler started and went five innings, allowing one run on one hit and four walks to record his first win of the season.Chris Ba...
Adelphi Sweeps LeMoyne
Photo Credit: Michael Parchinsky By winning both ends of the DH today against LeMoyne, the Adelphi Panthers have swept the series from LeMoyne and have gotten back on track. They won the first game 4-1 behind Jonathon Mulford‘s stellar outing–seven innings, zero ER, eight hits, one walk and two strikeouts to improve his record to 3-0. The Dolphins took an early 1-0 lead on an RBI doubl...
Brendan Butler’s 11 K’s Keeps Dowling Rolling
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq5ZTfUH9Kc]It’s safe to say Brendan Butler made a sound decision in transferring to Dowling from Farleigh Dickinson. He led Dowling to another victory, this time a 9-4 rout of Queens. After three seasons marred with high walk totals, the 6’4″ graduate of Sayville HS is making it easily to forget about the starting rotation of last season. ...
