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The third and final installment of the weekly Power Rankings… 10. NYIT (14-30)They won 10 more games this year than last season, thanks in large part to the emergence of Louis Mele and Josh Canabal at the plate but the pitching compiled a 7.53 ERA and it was just not enough to creep towards .500. 9. Hofstra (19-29)Steven Foster, Chris Hardardt and Brad Witkowski all hit over .300 (with Foster compiling an impressive .891 OPS) and were the bright spots for the Pride. They also smacked an impressive 27 home runs, highlighted by Brett Johnson‘s eight dingers. Unfortunately, the pitching staff regressed from last season. The lowest ERA was by freshman Chris Weiss, who was brought in to be a catcher. 8. Molloy (22-23)Their downfall was the 10-14 conference record. They were 16-6 at ...

Hold your phone–it’s not over yet! For the second straight year the Dowling Golden Lions have earned a spot in the East Regional despite not winning the ECC Conference due to their strong 27-15 record. They will take on No. 2 Stonehill in the first round, who is currently 33-13. Last season, Dowling won the first three games of the tournament behind complete game by Tyler Badamo, Tom Bammann and JJ Bessell but were defeated in consecutive games by St. Thomas Aquinas. They will be the No. 6 seed despite winning the ECC Conference and will draw a tough Franklin Pierce team who is 46-2 and have not lost since March 25.

Today is the first round of the ECC tournament with No. 4 LIU Post taking on No. 1 Dowling. Those rankings can be thrown out in a match up like this. The team’s are very familiar with eachother, having played a four-game series less than one month ago. The Pioneers won three of four including a 7-2 victory with today’s starter, Jake DeCarli, on the mound. Here’s a quick rundown off the team’s statistics. LIU Post: 17-16 Offense: AVG: .255OBP: .338XBH: 58K: 266BB: 131 Pitching:ERA: 3.83Strikeouts/9: 7.27BB/9: 3.87H/9: 8.8 Defense: FLD %: .942 Dowling: 27-13 Offense: AVG: .294OBP: .383XBH: 88K: 220BB: 156 Pitching:ERA: 2.96Strikeouts/9: 7.07BB/9: 3.49H/9: 8.38 Defense: Fielding %: .959 Verdict: On paper, the Golden Lions are the much more balanced team. They really ha...

Debating awards will always be a hot topic. It’s just the nature of the beast. Does the player with the best statistics win, or do you consider the quality of opponents, conference stats, run support? This year was no different when Tim Ingram was named Pitcher of the Year by the coaches yesterday. While Ingram is a phenomenal pitcher that had great numbers, he was not the only deserving pitcher. Here’s a comparison between the two most deserving pitchers… The Case for Tim Ingram:Key Stats: Wins:7ERA: 1.37WHIP: 0.89CGs: 4IP: 59.1K/9: 11.5BB/9: 2.59AVG: .178XBH: 5 Conference ERA: 0.99Conference IP: 27.1Conference AVG: .147Conference K/9: 13 Ingram was dominant this season. He used a 90 MPH fastball to cruise through his Skyline opponents and strike out 11 batters per nine ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuduALfP5Rg]They say league games are the most intense, and this one lived up to the billing.Ward Melville clinched the League I title with a 10-3 win over Pat-Med in a wild and contentious game that featured both player and fan ejections from confrontations.Sophomore starter Ben Brown was above the chaos– he improved to 5-0 with a complete game victory, allowing three ER on 10 hits against a potent Raider offense.“We had a lot of intensity today,” said Brown. “We kept it going for seven innings. We’re not done yet–this is just the start,” he added.He was backed by an explosive offense that smacked 11 hits–including a monstrous grand slam to center field by catcher Jeff Towles to open up an 8-0 lead, he...

Pace will host Adelphi today at 1 pm in the first round of the Northeast-10 playoffs. The Setters (21-17, 12-8) are the No. 1 seed in the southwest division of the conference. The two teams met on March 25 and the Setters were victorious 11-1. Since then, the Panthers are a much improved team. Additionally, they are very dangerous team with Jonathon Mulford on the mound. He last pitched on Saturday, so this would be only three days rest for him. Coach Scala is opting to pitch sophomore T.J. Santiago. He’s had a tough year, he is currently 0-4 with a 5.28 ERA. He has allowed 67 hits in 46 innings. He is trending up, however. Over his past three starts he has gone six, five and 6.2 innings. He has allowed only six runs during that stretch with 13 strikeouts.  Pace hit .258 as a team th...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tz4mhtBrfY] It’s nice to have a stud pitcher that consistently fires fastballs by the opposition. Hauppauge has that luxury this year with LHP Nick Fanti–who continued his absurd season with a two-hit shutout of Kings Park with 14 strikeouts. He is now 6-0 on the season and will most likely get drafted in next month’s Rule IV MLB draft. “When Nick Fanti is throwing for you,” said Head Coach Josh Hutes, pausing at the end. “you just know you have a chance to win every baseball game that you play,” he added. “Nick just battled, he’s such a competitor, he gives you a chance to win every time,” he said. Fanti came out of the gate firing 88-89 MPH fastballs and struck out the first six batters h...

The Northeast-10 playoff field is set and the Adelphi Panthers have earned the No. 4 seed in the southwest division. They will take on No. 1 seed Pace on Tuesday at 2 pm. Jonathon Mulford is expected to be the starter for the Panthers and he is undefeated at 7-0. We will have more coverage tomorrow including a deeper look into the match up. Should the Panthers advance in the tournament, they will most likely face Franklin Pierce, who has been other-worldly. They are 42-2 with both losses coming by one run.

Dowling has been crowned co-regular season champions with a 15-9 record in conference play. They tied with Bridgeport. On Thursday, Dowling will be the home team against LIU Post in the first round of the playoffs, which will be held at Molloy College. On paper, it would seem the Golden Lions are the superior team, but on April 11 they faced Pioneers’ ace Jake DeCarli and were defeated 7-2. LIU Post took three of four games that series so it will certainly be an intriguing match up. Additionally, the Golden Lions are without ace Cody McPartland, who suffered a season-ending knee injury. Later in the week we will delve deeper into the game, previewing the offense, pitching and defense of both teams.

What a game! Trailing 4-3 in the 10th inning against likely Skyline Conference Pitcher of the Year, Tim Ingram, the Farmingdale Rams mounted a two-run rally and won on a walk off error to force a do-or-die championship game.It was a back-and-forth game that was ultimately decided on Old Westbury‘s third error of the game.Farmingdale took a 2-0 first inning lead on an RBI double sliced down the right field line by Nick Osburn to score Mike Marino and Tom Rydzewski.Old Westbury chipped away–they scored once in the third on an RBI single by Eddie Hernandez and tied it up in the fourth on a run-scoring single by Brandon Stein.Matteo Gaudio scored on an error in the seventh inning to give the Rams a 3-2 lead. The game would stay tied until the ninth when the Panthers loaded up the b...

The reign is over. After watching their Nassau County rivals, Farmingdale State own the conference for the previous seven seasons, Old Westbury has finally dethroned them.“AMAZING!!” said winning pitcher, and tournament MVP Tyler Kapela in regards to how it feels to be champs. “So happy we finally pulled it off for our coaches and seniors,” he added. It took getting to the elimination game, but the Panthers clobbered the Rams 11-4 behind Kapela’s complete game victory. He was far from perfect, he allowed four runs on 12 hits with two strikeouts but he got the big outs when he needed to and ended the drought.The Panthers were all over the Rams’ pitching–they smacked 17 hits and were up 4-0 in the top of the first after RBI singles by Christian Faust...