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Photo Credit: St. Joseph’s Athletics NYIT decided the turn their season around a tad too late. After halting their 19-game losing streak, they have now won two in a row to improve to 3-33. They defeated Iona 6-5. The winning run scored in the bottom of the eighth on a throwing error by the shortstop. In a strange pitching box score, Elias Martinez came in relief in the third inning after Matt Diaz struggled and he proceeded to throw seven shutout innings and record his first win of the season. The offense benefitted from three unearned runs but Frank ore led the way with three hits and a run scored. They will take on Maine this weekend. Adelphi beat Dowling 7-4 to improve to 19-17 and drop the Golden Lions to 25-11. John Mulford out dueled Tom Bammann to hand him his first loss of th...

Photo Credit: Old Westbury Athletics Hofstra beat LIU-Brooklyn 11-3 to get back on the winning track and improve to 16-15. It was a 3-3 game in the seventh until the Pride broke it open with home runs from Brian MacDonald, Ryan Donovan and Eric Peterson. MacDonald scored four runs and drove in two. Peterson drove in four runs and scored one. The Pride threw seven pitchers, with Cody Normand winning his first game of the season. They will take on Willam & Mary this weekend in a three-game set. CW Post lost 12-8 to Mercy College to fall to 15-13. The game was tied 4-4 in the eighth until Mercy exploded with a seven-run eighth. Joey Arena threw 7.1 innings, gave up 4 er while suffering his fourth loss of the season. Brian Tinney had three hits, drove in a run and scored one. Tom Tolan had...

Stony Brook lost their first home game of the season after 15 consecutive wins. They were edged 4-1 by Central Connecticut. They are now 22-14 on the season. I was at the game, but it was not the type of game to evaluate a team on. They did not get anything going offensively–they only had eight hits–and no player had multiple. The opposing pitcher, Nick Boyd, was very stocky but stifled them for six innings. He had some good velocity on his pitches, but I didn’t think it was anything that the Sea Wolves couldn’t handle. Their lone run came in the fourth inning on a HBP, and they stranded bases loaded after that. The starting pitcher for Stony Brook, Josh Barry, lasted two innings. He allowed four hits and two walks, and hurt himself by throwing away a potential doub...

Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics CW Post beat Dowling 5-3, with Tyler Badamo suffering the loss in relief. The Golden Lions drop to 24-10 on the season, while the Pioneers improve to 14-12.  Dowling led 3-2 in the top of the eighth. JJ Bessell exited after 7.1 innings, allowing three runs (one earned). Badamo came in relief  and allowed an RBI single by Anthony Brunetti. In the ninth, Tom Tolan drove in two runs with a single to give the Pioneers a 5-3 lead. Brian Tinney fired two shutout innings in relief for the victory. He came in relief of Jake DeCarli who went the first seven innings and allowed three runs. The teams combined for only 12 hits; the pitchers kept them uncomfortable all day. Tolan and Brunetti for the only players with multi-hit games. The runs charged to Badamo were unea...

Stony Brook lost two of three to UMass-Lowell to drop to 22-13 on the season. They won the first game of the series, 9-3, behind a strong offensive attack. They put the game away with a five-run fifth inning, which broke a 1-1 tie. They compiled 12 hits; three by Kevin Krause (three runs, two RBI), two each by Jack Parenty, Robert Chavarria, Kevin Courtney and Casey Baker. Bryan Tatelman improved his record to 3-0 with 4.2 innings, allowing two earned runs in relief of Tim Knesnik who was taken out after 3.2 innings despite not allowing a run. They will play Central Connecticut tomorrow at home. Hofstra also lost two of three, theirs coming at the hands of the University of Delaware. They are now 15-15 on the season. They won the first game on Friday 3-2. The Pride overcame a 2-0 deficit, ...

Photo Credit: Old Westbury Athletics Hofstra defeated NYIT by the score of 13-1. A 1-1 game entering the top of the eighth quickly became a blowout when the Pride scored 11 runs in the final two innings to improve to 14-13 on the season while the Bears drop to 1-30. John Schilt recorded the win with two shutout innings of relief for his first W. Robbie Cafiero went 4-for-4 with one RBI and one run scored and Eric Ferguson added three hits, four RBI and one run scored. The Pride will take on Delaware today in the first game of a three game set. Molloy shutout Bridgeport behind Max Schonfeld’s five-hitter. It was his fourth victory of the season. He allowed two walks and struck out two. The only run he needed came in on an RBI single by John Galanoudis in the first inning. For good mea...

Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics Stony Brook beat Rhode Island 5-4 to stay hot and improve to 21-11. The winning run came in the bottom of the eighth on a sac fly by Johnny Caputo. Nick Brass threw the final two innings to record his first win of the season. Kevin Krause and Keven Courtney both had two hits and scored three of the five runs. They will take on UMass-Lowell in a three-game series beginning Friday. NYIT lost a double header to Fairfield by the scores of 4-1 and 5-3. They are now 1-29 on the season and will take on Hofstra today. Hofstra got shut out 5-0 to Manhattan to drop to 13-13 on the season. Alec Eisenberg suffered the loss for the Pride with Shawn Kanwisher recording the victory for the Jaspers, who are now 8-23. The Pride were held to seven hits, TJ Ehrsam accounti...

Pitchers are throwing too frequently, not too many pitches. You’ll hear it from former Major League pitchers all the time. “Pitch counts are ruining the game! In my day we threw ’till our arms fell off..then we threw some more!” It’s no secret that pitchers are getting injured at a higher frequency than ever before. In Tom Verducci’s latest article on Sports Illustrated, he stated that five of the 16 high school pitchers that were selected in the first round of the drafts from 2010-2012 have already undergone Tommy John surgery. It’s remarkable that these pitchers are coddled as soon as they sign their contract, yet they are still getting injured. Verducci’s theory is that pitchers are overtaxed before they even graduate high school, which ma...

Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Sometimes it’s best to make a change in your life. It’s possible something was holding you back from reaching your potential. In the case of Cliff Brantley, he just needed a change of scenery. “Things were not working out for me at my previous school, baseball wise,” said the junior who played at Wagner College in Staten Island. “I was in a position where I needed somewhere to play and I remembered receiving a letter from Coach Dom Scala my junior year in high school. I took the chance in telling him I was interested in playing. I visited the school and came down with my parents. I am extremely grateful to Adelphi and Coach for giving me the opportunity to play.” Through 29 games, it has been a tremendous decision. In a ma...

Photo Credit: Farmingdale Athletics It doesn’t matter what their records are, the two teams will always find it in them to play two intense and entertaining games. The Farmingdale Rams and Old Westbury Panthers have met in the Skyline Conference finals in the past four seasons with the Rams winning all of them. Still, the Panthers give the Rams a hard-fought battle each time and that continued this weekend as the team’s split a double header. I was in attendance the first game and here are some of my observations of the two teams… After a rough first inning in which he allowed three hits and two runs (one earned), Alex Weingarten was dynamic. He possesses a great deal of toughness and composure on the mound. He attacked the zone and had command of his breaking ball. He ga...

Photo Credit: Farmingdale Athletics The Farmingdale Rams won three of four games this weekend. They swept NYU-Poly and split with Old Westbury. The first game against NYU-Poly was bizarre. Despite winning 19-6, they allowed 16 hits and needed five pitchers. Mike Dolce started and struggled through 1.2 innings. He was relieved by Kevin Martinez who fired three strong innings. Timmy Trimarchi went 2.1 shutout innings, allowing five hits. The Rams put up 17 hits and benefitted from eight errors. Tom Rydzewski led the way with four hits and four RBI, and Brendan Sullivan had three hits and four RBI. Anthony Alvino had three hits, four RBI and four runs scored. Ed Bergmann scored four runs and drove in one. They won the next game 19-8. They briefly got a scare by allowing a six-run fifth inning...

Photo Credit: St. Joseph’s Athletics St. Joseph’s split a double header on Saturday with Mount St. Vincent with an 8-0 victory in the nightcap. With the victory, they are now 10-14 overall and 5-4 in conference play. Steven Szobesky fired the completed game shutout, allowing three hits, walking one and striking out five. He is now 2-2 on the season. Anthony Andreani had three hits, drove in a run and scored one. Ryan Walsh and Josh Outsen both had two hits. The team compiled 12 hits total. They will take on St. Joseph’s of Brooklyn on Wednesday.