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The Adelphi Panthers beat Pace 3-1, behind a strong outing by sophomore John Mulford. He has assumed the role of ace nicely, firing seven innings and allowing only one run while striking out six for his third victory of the season. Freshman TJ Santiago came on to record his first save. Kyle Ambury had the deciding two-run single in the fifth inning. The Panthers improve to 8-10 on the season. and will take on Stonehill on Saturday in a double header.

The Hofstra Pride got out to an early 6-0 lead and held on to win 8-2 against Manhattan. Ryan Donovan and TJ Ehrsam each compiled three hits and Robbie Cafiero drove in three runs. Nick Kozlowski was awarded with the victory, he improves to 4-1 on the season. Brett Schreiber earned the save for firing the final three innings, while striking out four batters. Hofstra will take on NYIT today at home at 3:00 and they will look to reach .500.

Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics The Sea Wolves topped Marist 9-3 to improve to 12-10 on the season. They received multi-RBI games from Kevin Courtney, Casey Baker and Johnny Caputo. Tyler Honahan improves to 4-0 with the victory. He tossed 5.2 innings, allowing only one run. Cameron Stone recorded his fourth save of the season. They will host Sacred Heart today at 3:30.

Photo Credit: Sports Illustrated Stony Brook just added a little more fire power to their lineup. After scoring only two runs in their past two games, the Sea Wolves tried an outside-the-box theory. According to sources close to Baseball on the Island, they have lured suspended MLB player and former superstar Alex Rodriguez back to school. Rodriguez, who was drafted out of Palmetto Bay Westminster Christian high school in 1993,  never attended college. He will apparently use his collegiate eligibility beginning this season. “We are glad to have him aboard,” said a high-ranking member of the program. “Even at his age and with his injury history, he would be the best player in the America East Conference. It’s just what we needed to get over the top,” he added. ...

Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics Division-IStony Brook played a rain-shortened two-game series against Hartford. Each team won a game 1-0. The Sea Wolves are now 11-10 on the season. In the loss, Frankie Vanderka followed up his no-hitter with eight strong innings, allowing only three hits and one run but was tagged with the loss. The offense was completely stifled and mustered only one hit by Kevin Krause. In the victory, Ryley MacEachern fired the seven inning complete game shutout, allowing three hits, he didn’t walk a batter and struck out seven. They scored their lone run in the fourth inning on an RBI suicide squeeze by Johnny Caputo. The Sea Wolves compiled six hits in this affair. Hofstra had their entire three-game series against Towson postponed due to the rain. NYIT had thei...

NYIT lost to LIU Brooklyn yesterday by the score of 12-10. They were in an early 6-0 deficit after one and 8-1 after five, but clawed back to make it a close game. Joe Daru had four hits and Nick Sebastian had three RBI. Matt Diaz suffered the loss for the Bears, who fall to 1-17 on the season. They will take on Farleigh Dickinson in a four-game series this weekend. Adelphi beat NE-10 rival Southern Connecticut by the score of 4-3. Captain Kevin Hutzel had two hits and three RBI including a triple which ultimately was the winning run. Mike Ceperano tossed 5.1 strong innings, but John Bivas was the winning pitcher. John Donnelly recorded the save with 1.1 hitless innings. The Panthers will play a double header on Sunday against AIC at home, in hopes to return to .500. St. Joseph’s los...

Yesterday the Stony Brook Sea Wolves defeated NYIT by the score of 3-2 to move to 10-9. They have now won 10 of 13 since their 0-6 start. The Sea Wolves received great pitching from starter Tim Knesnik and reliever Bryan Tatelman. The latter received the victory for four shutout innings with three strikeouts. The winning run came across in the sixth inning on a sac fly by Kevin Krause. The Hofstra Pride were defeated 12-4 by St. John’s. Graham Tebbit suffered the loss, he drops to 1-1 on the season. The Pride did compile 11 hits, led by Michael Friel but they committed four costly errors. Chris Kalica recorded the win for the Red Storm, he improves to 4-1. The Pride will take on Towson this weekend in a three-game set.

Suffolk County baseball opened up its regular season yesterday in a big way. Not one, not two, but three no-hitters were thrown. In League II, Dennis Buckstein of Sachem North fired a 14-k no-no against Whitman. It was the first no-hitter in 15 years for the program. The Flaming Arrows were victorious 2-0. The lone base runner was on an error. He only needed 81 pitches to accomplish the feat. In League III, Nick Arnold and Brent Baynon of West Islip combined to no-hit Smithtown West in a 12-0 shutout. Arnold pitched the first six innings with eight strikeouts and two walks and Baynon closed the door. It was the first no-hitter for West Islip since 2011. Not to be outdone, in League VI, James Groark and Nick LaBella of Glenn combined to no-hit Miller Place. Groark tossed the first six innin...

Stony Brook swept Albany and they are now back to .500 on the season at 9-9. Aside from the no-hitter, Brandon McNitt also fired a complete game in the 6-2 victory in the middle game. Kevin Courtney has three RBI in that game. In the third game, they won 7-3 with Tyler Honahan recording the victory with two innings of work. Cole Peragine broke a 3-3 tie in the eighth inning with an RBI double. NYIT recorded their first victory of the season on Saturday over LIU Brooklyn by the score of 10-6. They went on to lose 2 of 3 and their record drops to 1-15. In the victory, they pounded out 13 hits with multi-RBI games from Josh Canabal, Nick Sebastian and Matt Deblase.Evan Cohen recorded the win with three shutout innings. Hofstra had the weekend off, they will return to action tomorrow against S...

Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics There’s something about giving up base hits that Frankie Vanderka, Stony Brook ace, does not like. He tossed his third career no-hitter on Saturday against Albany in a 7-0 win. He walked two, hit one and struck out 10. “I started to notice around the seventh inning,” he said. “I realized I needed to get through the lineup one more time,” he added. Vanderka had no issue navigating through nine more outs. He didn’t allow the ball to leave the infield in the ninth inning and even struck out the final batter to cap it off.  His first no-hitter came in 2011 and he tossed another last season against Fordham. He now has three of the four in program history. Vanderka has a 2.48 ERA and is confident about the team moving forwar...

Photo Credit: James Escher Suffering one potentially career-ending injury is a lot for an athlete to compartmentalize and rehab from. But suffering a different one just as you are about to return to full strength? Well that’s just absolutely cruel. Connetquot’s senior and Stony Brook-bound pitcher Matt Buckshaw had to face just that. After being diagnosed with a torn UCL and facing Tommy John Surgery he faced an uphill recovery. He ultimately completed the rehab, returned to the mound only to…tear his ACL? “It’s hard to think I had two of the toughest injuries that an athlete could have,” said Buckshaw. “I think what was worse was the timing of my ACL because it was during an important recruiting summer for myself,” he added. Aside from the o...

It was a rough day on the island for local teams. Adelphi dropped a close one, 4-3, to Nyack College. They had a 3-2 lead in the fifth but Chris Lemorocco  allowed the go-ahead run and suffered the loss. The Panthers put together only six hits, compiled by six players. They will have a huge weekend with double headers on Saturday and Sunday against Franklin Pierce and Southern New Hampshire. St. Joseph’s finished a Florida trip they would like to forget with a 22-3 loss to John Hopkins. They committed five errors allowed eight runs in consecutive innings. Matt Hess suffered the loss for the Golden Eagles who drop to 2-8, have lost eight in a row, and travel back to LI for a Skyline Conference matchup against Yeshiva. Old Westbury suffered a 3-0 setback against New Jersey City. Brayli...