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Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Due to the inclement weather, Adelphi’s coach Dom Scala has announced that the team has made some changes to their upcoming schedule. Their season-opening game for Wednesday, February 25 against Dowling has been rescheduled for March 10 at 3:00 pm. They have also cancelled their trip to Dinwiddle, VA. Rather than simply wait out the cold weather, Scala has scheduled five games for this weekend in Wilson, NC for the Panthers. They will play two seven-inning double headers and one nine-inning game. They will play Queens in a doubleheader starting Friday at 2:30. On Saturday they will play another doubleheader against University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown before closing the weekend with a single game against East Stroudsberg. We will have a season preview fo...

Photo Credit: Hofstra Athletic Communications University of Hawaii won three of five games this week from the Hofstra Pride. The Pride have gotten off to a 2-6 start on the season. In the first game of the series, the Pride got out to a 3-0 lead in the fifth inning. They were executing small ball and capitalizing on mistakes. Their first run came on an RBI groundout by Matt Anunziata. They also scored on an error as Steven Foster was attempting a steal of third base. Alec Eisenberg was virtually untouchable. He carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning, but his night was over after a walk and a single. Bowie Matteson came on and put out the fire to end the threat. The Rainbow Warriors then put a scare into the Pride. They scored two runs in the eighth inning on an RBI groundout and a wild ...

Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics Daniel Zamora has gotten off to a tremendous start The early season road trips to Louisiana have not gone as planned for the Sea Wolves of Stony Brook. Despite escaping the frigid northeast temperature, they lost two of three this week to University of Louisiana-Lafayette to drop to 2-4 on the season. In their lone victory on Saturday–they defeated the Ragin’ Cajuns 4-1 behind redshirt sophomore Daniel Zamora. We highlighted him as one of the keys to the Sea Wolves’ season. The hard-throwing lefty went six innings, allowing one run on four hits while striking out seven for his first win of the young season. He now has struck out 15 in 10 innings while compiling a 1.64 ERA. The Sea Wolves got out to a 3-0 lead early on, with a well-execu...

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Bryan Sabatella Returns to LI to Continue his Pro Career “After 11 years, it took a toll on me,” said Bryan Sabatella as he reflected on his minor league career, which has spanned the country. Now he’s heading back home to Long Island to play for the Ducks, close to where he played his high school ball, dominating for Shoreham-Wading River. “It will be different in a good way–my friends and family will be able to come to every game.” Sabatella played his collegiate ball at Quinnipiac University. He was drafted in the ninth round of the 2005 Rule IV draft by the Seattle Mariners. He has put together quite a resume–hitting .307 with a .378 OBP, 45 RBI, 59 R and a league-leading 40 SBs for the Kansas City T-Bones. Those numbers caught the eye of the D...

Photo Credit: Dowling Athletics Dowling has a rich pitching tradition. Among those who have dominated for the Golden Lions is Marc Rutledge, a 2012 graduate. On February 11, he signed a deal with the River City Rascals of the Frontier League. I had a chance to speak with him. Usually I take the most poignant quotes and incorporate them into an article. In this case, every answer was extremely well-thought out and eloquent so I will post the transcript of the conversation. When you look back on your career at Dowling, what was your fondest memory?Wow, as I was reading the question my mind drifted back to my freshman year, when we dropped game 1 to Adelphi in the Regionals. We won the next 3 to get us into the Championship, against Adelphi again. This same situation looked all too familiar t...

Photo Credit: Vinny Messana It has been nearly three years since the “shock the world” mantra was ubiquitous in the baseball community. Initially, it was confined to the northeast region, but after the 52-win season sent them to Omaha for the College World Series, everyone was familiar with the Sea Wolves from a small town in Long Island. After one lean year and one that featured a quick postseason exit, the Sea Wolves will be looking to get back to being the feared team that the 2012 squad was. The 2015 team will be forced to replace the production that have walked out the door when last year’s solid group of seniors graduated. Kevin Courtney, Kevin Krause and Anthony Italiano were all leaders that contributed to building the Stony Brook program to what it has become. Kr...

Photo Credit: Adrienne Daley PhotographyTom Tolan is the reigning ECC Player of the Year Coming off an 18-19 season with a first year Head Coach would generally signal for a rebuilding season. That is not the case, however, when you have a pitching staff that C.W. Post possess. Head Coach Mike Gaffney, who is taking over for his father knows that the team will rely on their strong rotation. “Definitely,” said Gaffney when asked if pitching will be their key. “In a wood bat conference with our arms, it will be our strength,” he added. Gaffney will be leaning on the combination of Joey Arena and Jake DeCarli to pitch deep into games and dominate. DeCarli led the team in ERA last season with a microscopic 1.03 in 43.2 innings. He held the opposition to only 27 hits and...

Photo Credit: Adam Rubin One week before actual games are scheduled to be played outside, the thermometer reads 1 degree fahrenheit. Pitching injuries are at an all-time high in Major League Baseball, and that’s even with optimal conditions. Expecting 18-22 arms to be prepared for the polar vortex is irrational and ludicrous. There appears to be an easy fix, and it doesn’t involve spending $634 million on a venue. Football is a sport that is not dependent upon ideal weather conditions. A playoff game was once played with a wind chill of -48 degrees. By the way, it was a sellout of over 50,000 fans. Simply put, football is meant to be played in the cold. During a college season, however, the practices begin in the suffocating summer heat. The opening weekend is the last week of ...

Photo Credit: Vinny MessanaDowling Will be Looking to Duplicate Last Year’s terrific season 2014 was a banner year for Dowling. In addition to winning 36 games, they were one victory away from heading to Carey, N.C. to compete in the Div. II College World Series. With their pitching staff–that ranked No. 1 in all of the country–they would’ve had a decent chance to win it all, too. Now that the dust has settled on the year, Head Coach Tom Caputo is ready to move on and is not concerned about the class of graduating seniors that are not with the team anymore . “Success breeds success,” said the fourth year Head Coach. “We have a group of guys that have been waiting for their opportunity the past couple of years. Now it’s their turn,” he a...

Photo Credit: Hofstra Athletic Communications The Hofstra Pride have begun their season with the dreaded cross-country sweep. They were outscored 43-10 by the 2013 Div. I champion UCLA Bruins. The third game was certainly the most competitive. Down 10-0 in the seventh, the Pride mounted a furious rally and scored five runs to cut the lead in half. Mat Anunziata, Eastport-South Manor ’14, drove in a run with an RBI single. Jake Fallon followed suit with an RBI single. Steven Foster, Sachem North ’14, drew a walk with the bases loaded. Shortstop Dalton Rouleau drove in two runs with a single. They also scored two in the ninth on a two-run single by Anunziata, but that was the closest they would come. They lost 11-7 to drop to 0-3 on the season. Often times when east coast teams o...

Photo Credit: Stony Brook AthleticsTyler Honahan began his sseason in style. While the entire east coast has been blanketed with a foot of snow and sub-zero temperatures, Stony Brook was able to escape the cold and head to Louisiana to kick off their 2015 campaign. After winning the first game 6-0, the bats went ice cold and they dropped the final two games of the series. In their victory on Friday night, junior Tyler Honahan tossed a gem–six innings of one-hit ball, striking out three and walking two. The offense sprung to life in the fifth inning, scoring three runs to open up a 5-0 lead–which was more than enough for Honahan and the relief corp. Shortstop Cole Peragine drove in two runs, knocked two hits and scored a run for the Sea Wolves. Freshman Andruw Gazzola, Longwood ...