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Photo Credit: Patrick E. McCarthy For the second straight week, a Nassau County high school pitcher has fired a perfect game. Last week, Mike Delio completed the swing-and-miss fest of 21 strikeouts, Papa–also a junior–struck out 17 in his team’s 8-0 win over Great Neck North. Papa, regarded as one of the better pitchers in the county, benefitted from the rare 9-3 putout on a would-be single to right field, but Francis Alexander came up firing and threw out the runner. He took care of the rest himself, allowing only three other balls to be put in play, with one of them being a groundball back to the mound. With the victory, Division improves to 5-1 on the season in Conference A-II. They are the class of the division but will be battling with Hewlett, Manhasset and Plained...

Stony Brook Athletics Kevin Krause made a diving catch in the bottom of the ninth with two outs to preserve a 6-4 lead for the Sea Wolves and move them to 16-11 on the season. Cameron Stone tossed three shutout innings in relief of Connor Doyle to record his first collegiate win and Bryan Tatelman recorded his second save. Anthony Italiano went 3-for-5 at the plate with two RBI and Toby Handley added two hits, two RBI and one run scored. The Sea Wolves left 11 men stranded on base but were fortunate to come up with the victory, as they have now won 16 of 21. They will begin a five-game homestand today against Manhattan at 3:30.

Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Stony Brook won two of three games this weekend. They defeated Bryant on Friday 8-5, Connecticut on Saturday 6-3, before losing to Bryant on Sunday 4-3. The Sealwolves improve to 15-11 on the season. They came back from a 4-0 first inning deficit on Friday. Vanderka struggled out of the game but hung on for seven innings while his offense got back in the game. Bryan Tatelman got his second victory of the season and Cameron Stone recorded his fifth save with a smooth ninth inning. Cole Peragine with 3-for-5 with four RBI and two runs scored. In the win over UCONN, Tim Knesnik threw five scoreless innings in relief of Ryley MacEachern. Bryan Tatelman recorded the save. Despite four errors, the Sea Wolves were victorious thanks to 10 hits, and two RBI from Kevi...

Photo Credit: St. Joseph’s Athletics The Golden Eagles of St. Joseph’s handled Merchant Marine 11-4 thanks to seven unanswered runs. They were able to put up double-digit runs despite only seven hits in large part to the patience at the plate which resulted in eight walks. Tom Rubenstein went 4-for-4 with two RBI and Joe Liberatore went 2-for-2 with four runs scored to give the pitching staff more than enough to work with. Matt Mills recorded his first win of the season, throwing 1.2 scoreless innings in relief of starter Matt Hess. The Golden Eagles have a crucial weekend, with double headers against Purchase and Maritime. They will have the opportunity to pull even at .500 if they win all four.

Photo Credit: Harris Rappel The Old Westbury Panthers thoroughly dominated Drew University by the score of 10-0. Braylin Perez fired eight shutout innings, allowing only three hits and striking out nine for his first win of the season. The offense erupted for 10 runs on 13 hits; John Angelino and Kevin Licul both had three hits and John Pagan stayed hot with two hits and three RBI. Alex Disanto came on for the ninth inning and recorded a spotless frame, striking out two. The Panthers remain under .500 at 7-13, but have double headers this weekend against Mount St. Vincent and NYU-Poly to creep back in contention for the conference title.

Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Adelphi swept a double header from AIC by the scores of 8-7 and 10-3, reaching .500 for the first time in five weeks. The first game was as wild as it gets. They overcame a two-run deficit in the ninth inning with the winning run coming in on a two-run double by Alex Zykoff, which gave Nick Batas his first win of the season after firing three strong innings. TJ Santiago started the game, having entered with a 1.99 ERA in his freshman season so far, but was touched up for nine hits and three runs in 5.2 innings. The Panthers did blow a three-run lead but benefitted from 16 hits; four from Eric Hassell, and three from Rich Mejia and Kevin Hutzel. The second game was a conventional blowout. Mike Ceperano fired the first seven innings, allowing three runs and wa...

Calling it a perfect game would be selling it short. Perhaps it could be called a Swing-and-a-Miss Fest. Carle Place’s junior pitcher Mike Delio tossed the rarest of no-hitters; 21 up, 21 down via strikeout in Tuesday’s 15-0 win over Hempstead.  “This is the first no-hitter at any level that I’ve thrown,” said Delio who was pitching in his first game at the varsity level after two seasons on JV. “Obviously nothing like this either,” he added. To put this is in perspective, no Major League pitcher has ever struck out more than 14 batters in a perfect game. That was done on two occasions; 1965 by Sandy Koufax and 2012 by Matt Cain. Those feats were accomplished against 27 batters, Delio was able to accomplish his 21 batters in two fewer innings. Delio noted that he enters every game with the...

Photo Credit: Dowling Athletics Stony Brook defeated Sacred Heart 7-1 to improve to 13-10 on the season. The offensive came alive, banging 12 hits with Kevin Krause and Kevin Courtney each accounting for two. The Sea Wolves got out to an early 4-0 lead and never looked back. Josh Barry recorded the victory with two innings of relief for his first win of the season. They have now won 13 of 17 and will return to action Saturday vs. Bryant. Hofstra defeated NYIT 3-2 on a walk-off home run by Robbie Cafiero, who previously played for the Bears. Ryan Donovan also had two hits and scored a run. The Pride marched out nine pitchers to the mound, with the final hurler, Chris Harkey, recording the victory with two spotless innings. Hofstra improves to 9-9 on the season and will return to action this...

The St. Joseph’s Golden Eagles may just be heating up. They shutout William Patterson 2-0 behind a dominant outing by Dan Diblasi. He fired 8.2 innings, scattering nine hits despite striking out zero batters. The offense was led by James Terry’s three hit, two-RBI day. Anthony Bonilla and Brian Godoy also compiled two hits. The Golden Eagles improve to 5-10 on the season and will take on Merchant Marine on Thursday.

Photo Credit: Farmingdale State Athletics The Farmingdale Rams have now lost back-to-back games to drop to 10-5 on the season. The latest setback was a 13-2 loss to Ramapo. They were down 11-0 before they got on the scoreboard. Freshman Daniel Tierney suffered the loss, tossing 2.1 innings and allowing four earned runs. The Rams mustered only four hits, with two of those coming from Sal Sanguini. Ramapo improves to 11-3 on the season, they are a perennial 30-win team. The Rams will return to action this weekend with two freebees against Yeshiva University.

Photo Credit: Dowling Athletics The Dowling Golden Lions took both games of a double header from Bridgeport by the scores of 5-3 and 10-0 to improve to 15-7. In the first game, they trailed the entire game but came up with four runs in the bottom of the eighth to steal the victory. JC Brandmeier hit the go-ahead RBI single to put them ahead. Tom Bamman tossed five scoreless innings but did not factor in the decision. Robert Rose threw four scoreless in the relief to record the win. John Cruz, RJ Going, and Ian Schneider recorded multi-hit games. In the 10-0 game, senior JJ Bessell fired a two-hit, 10 k, seven-inning shutout to improve to 2-1. The offense compiled 14 hits, with John Cruz, Rob Veltre, and JC Brandmeier accounting for nine of those. They will take on Bridgeport once again tod...

Photo Credit: CW Post Athletics CW Post split a double header with Mercy; losing 3-1 and winning 2-0. In the victory, Mike Eckerle tossed the seven-inning complete game shutout with 12 strikeouts, while allowing only three hits. He improves to 4-0 on the season. Tom Tolan had two hits for the Pioneers and also scored a run. Vinny Iacono recorded an RBI as well. The Pioneers are now 7-6 and will take on Mercy once again today.