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Photo Credit: CW Post Athletics The Pioneers of CW Post split a weekend series with St. Thomas Aquinas. In their 4-2 win on Saturday, Joey Arena was finally rewarded with a victory after a number of tough-luck outings this season. Arena went 8.1 innings, allowing two earned runs and now has an ERA of 0.89 through 40 innings. Jake DiCarli recorded his first save of the season. Vinny Iacono went 1-for-3 with two RBI. After losing the third game, they responded with a 5-4 win on Sunday. The go-ahead run scored in the top of the ninth on a sac fly by Thomas Asbaty (3-for-4, 2 RBI). Dan Jagiello relieved DeCarli who lasted just 0.2 innings in his start. Despite getting the no-decision, Jagiello’s 5.1 shutout innings were crucial.  Brian Tinney fired the last three innings for his second w...

Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics The Molloy Lions won all three this weekend, beginning with one against Dominican College on Saturday and followed it with a DH sweep of Nyack on Sunday. Max Schonfeld won his third game of the season by firing seven innings without an earned run against Dominican with six strikeouts. Matt Castaneda recorded his fourth save of the season by getting the last two outs, although he did yield two runs. Kevin Podell led the offense with three hits and scored a run. The Lions won the first game against Nyack 12-1. Alex Miden recorded the win with seven shutout innings allowing only three hits. The offense was lively, with Podell leading the way again with four hits and three RBI. Nick Gonchar also had four hits and three RBI. In the next game, they hung on 2-1 with...

The Golden Lions of Dowling are rolling. They just swept Queens College this weekend by the scores of 4-1, 10-4, 10-1 and 14-2. The first game I covered. You can read about it here. On Saturday they won the double header by a combined scored of 20-5. Tom Bammann won his seventh straight decision to start the year by firing eight innings with 11 strikeouts against zero walks. Andrew Abreu led the offense with three hits, two RBI and one run. In the nightcap of the double header, Kyle Demeo got the win to improve to 3-0 on the season. He went six innings and didn’t allow an earned run. Dowling got out to an early 5-0 lead and never looked back. Rob Veltre and Tyler Hardison each went 2-for-4 with two RBI. The final game was over before it started. The Golden Lions scored five in the fi...

The Adelphi Panthers lost two of three this weekend to the College of Saint Rose in Albany to fall to 15-14 on the season, but remain in the mix in the Northeast-10 conference with a 10-7 record. They were able to capture the series finale with an 8-7 win on Sunday. Chris Lemorocco started, but struggled in his 2.2 innings of work. He was relieved by Mike Cranston who took over in the third inning. The Panthers offense was able to come to life, led by Rich Mejia’s two-run single and Nick Zito following with a run-scoring single of his own. In the fourth inning, Mejia and Zito once again hit consecutive run-scoring hits to put the Panthers up 5-4. They added insurance runs with an RBI hit by Cliff Brantley (3-for-5) and a sac-fly by Brandon Stahl. St. Rose cut it close with two runs i...

Photo Credit: Hofstra Communication Department The Hofstra Pride won two of three this weekend over UNC-Wilmington to improve to 13-12 on the season. After losing the first game, they responded with an 11-5 win on Saturday. David D’Errico made his first start since the opening night of the season and was victorious with a strong five inning start allowing one run. Graham Tebbit relieved him and tossed the final four innings. The offense backed them with a season-high 18 hits and scored 11 runs. Eric Ferguson, Matt Ford and Brian MacDonald recorded three hits. They took the rubber match on Sunday with a smooth 3-1 win. David Jesch started and went 6.2, allowing one run on six hits and one walk. Brett Schreiber fired the last 2.1 innings to record his sixth save of the season and progr...

Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics The 0-6 start is now a distant memory. The Stony Brook Sea Wolves have now won 20 of 25 after completing a weekend sweep of Binghamton at Joe Nathan Field. They won the first game 3-1, with Tim Knesnik winning his second game of the season. He tossed 5.1 shutout innings but walked five batters against one strikeout. Bryan Tatelman and Cameron Stone each threw  1.2 innings with the latter recording the save. Jack Parenty hit a two-run triple in the fifth which accounted for all the necessary runs. The middle game ended 5-4 in 10 innings. Brandon McNitt went the first five innings while allowing four runs. He was relieved by Ryley MacEachern fired the next five innings, shutdown the opposition and recorded the win when Kevin Courtney scored on a wild pitch...

 The Dowling Golden Lions defeated Queens College 4-1 in an ECC conference game to improve to 19-8 on the season. I was at the game and here are my takeaways.. Tyler Badamo can pitch for my team any day of the week. After allowing a run in the first inning on a wild pitch, he settled in and dominated an overmatched lineup. He fired a complete game for the fourth consecutive outing and set a career-high in strikeouts with 17 and walked none. He allowed six hits, with the lone extra base hit coming in the first inning.  He improved his record to 5-1 an lowered his ERA to 0.54. He threw 119 pitches and did it with remarkable efficiency (76 percent strikes) and showed the ability to throw four pitches for strikes. Early on, he was sticking to fastball-slider combination, but began mixing in cu...

Photo Credit: Farmingdale Athletics The Farmingdale State Rams ended their mini losing streak with an easy 11-4 victory over Baruch. They crushed 19 hits; including a huge 4-for-5 day with three runs scored for leadoff hitter Ed Bergmann. Mike Marino added three hits and three RBI. Freshman Daniel Tierney recorded the victory, as he fired 5.2 innings of two-run ball in relief of Kevin Martinez who started and was lifted after 0.2 innings. He struck out seven batters in his outing. Ambioris Veras, Kevin Cashman and Dominick Morelli combined to close the door with 2.2 shutout innings. For Baruch, the leadoff hitter, Nick Pomo-Roman went 4-for-5 with two runs scored but the rest of the lineup only had five hits. The Rams improve to 13-8 and have double headers this weekend against NYU-Poly an...

Photo Credit: NYIT Athletics The NYIT Bears nearly ended their long losing streak, but dropped a close one 12-10 to LIU Brooklyn to move to 1-24 on the season. They were down 6-0 after one and 8-1 after five but scratched and clawed back with eight runs in their last four innings. They outhit the opposition 17 to 15; Joe Daru and Tom Joannou both had four. Anthony Martelli also had three hits. Matt Diaz suffered the loss for the Bears, he lasted only 0.1 innings while allowing four earned runs. J.P Lipovac came in relief and tossed the next five innings, allowing five earned runs. The losing streak has now hit 10, and they will take on Seton Hall this weekend in a three-game set.

Adelphi improved to 14-12 with a 6-2 victory over Dominican. Rather than a normal game recap, I will write my observations from the game since I was in attendance… The starting pitcher, Mike Ceperano, was very impressive. The freshman faced some adversity in the first inning and allowed two runs to come in but settled in completely after that. I was impressed that he had command of three pitches on either side of the plate. He did benefit from an umpire that granted him roughly four or five inches off the plate inside to right-handed batters, but he still had to execute. He was 81-83 all day with his fastball, which had some cut action as opposed to typical tailing action from a lefty. His change-up was inconsistent, but that’s expected from a young pitcher. It sat at 75 mph, a...

Pitchers are the most unique breed in sports. They do not need to be psyched up to perform at their best like a linebacker. They do not need to be in peak physical shape to perform at their best like point guards. In fact, most pitchers are cerebral and perform their best if you just leave them alone. Or in the case of Dowling’s ace Tyler Badamo, he found he performs his best if he just leaves his arm alone. “For the first time in my career,” he said. “I had almost four months off of throwing. I took off the entire fall from throwing and did everything I could to be 100 percent by the time the season started,” he said. Following his 2013 season, in which he threw 83 innings and compiled a 2.60 ERA, Badamo decided to take a step back and prepare differently for...

Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics Stony Brook stayed hot with a 16-4 trouncing of Manhattan to improve to 17-11. The Sea Wolves were up 10-0 after two innings. Toby Handley went 3-for-3 with two RBI and Robert Chavarria, Cole Peragine, Casey Baker and Jack Parenty each had two hits. They also benefitted from sloppy defense by Manhattan–they committed five errors. Josh Barry got his second win of the season by throwing 5.1 strong innings, allowing one run. They will be back in action on Saturday when they begin a three-game set against Binghamton. NYIT lost both games of a double header to Siena  9-2 and 6-0 to drop to 1-24 on the season. They were down 6-0 early on in the first, but the pitching staff settled in after that. Nick Sebastian compiled two hits for the Bears. They will take ...