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Photo is credited to goseawolves.org California native Daniel Zamora of Stony Brook has been named America East Rookie of the Week for his performance this past weekend. In Saturday’s victory of UMBC the freshman tossed 6.1 innings, allowing five hits, two walks, one run while striking out nine. The Seawolves won both games of the double header with Frankie Vanderka winning the first game. For the season, Zamora had gotten off to a difficult start losing his first five decisions but he may have turned his season around with that victory. Stony Brook is currently 4-5 in the America East and 9-17 overall. They take on Marist tomorrow.

Hofstra: The Pride hosted George Mason University today, with a 6-3 victory. Senior southpaw, Joe Burg improved to 3-2 by tossing 7 solid innings, scattering 9 hits, 0 walks and allowing 3 earned runs. Shortstop Joe Perez had a good day at the dish, going 2-4 with 3 RBI’s, including a bases-loaded, 2 run single. Hofstra is 10-16 and have won 5 in a row. StonyBrook:The Seawolves took on UMBC today at Joe Nathan Field in a double header. Game 1 was all StonyBrook with an 8-0 victory. Junior Frankie Vanderka was on his game today, tossing a complete game shutout, allowing just 3 hits, walking 1 and whiffing 7 in 7 innings. Anthony Italiano provided the offense going 1-2 with a 3 run home run. In Game 2, StonyBrook held on to a 5-2 lead for the sweep of the double header. First Basemen K...

Photo is credited to Oldwestburypanthers.com The Old Westbury Panthers dropped both games of the double header to Oneonta State by scores of 4-2 and 6-3. Their record falls to 7-11 on the season. In Game 1 Frank DiMaria lost his no-hit bid in the seventh inning, but ended up allowing three runs as Oneonta came from behind to turn a 2-0 deficit into a 4-2 lead. The Panthers totaled only two hits in the game which were by Steve Mare and Brandon Stein. DiMaria suffered the hard luck loss to fall to 1-1 on the season. The second game was a bit more wild with a number of lead changes. The Panthers got out to a quick 1-0 lead in the first on a wild pitch which scored Paul Valerio. Oneonta scored three times in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead. Old Westbury tied it up in the sixth on an RBI single b...

Photo is credited to AUPanthers.com The Adelphi Panthers won a slugfest over LeMoyne by a score  of 9-7. They got out to a 9-0 lead after three innings on the strength of a seven-run third. They were held scoreless after that and nearly saw their lead slip away. LeMoyne posted three runs in the fourth and four runs in the seventh. Closer Dillon McNamara came on to put out the fire for his fifth save, this time tossing 1.1 spotless innings while striking out three. Chris Pabisch was the winner for the Panthers as he threw five innings while allowing three runs to improve to 3-1 on the season. The Panthers compiled 16 hits, with senior Anthony Zarrella leading the way with a 4-5 effort knocking in three runs. Kevin Hutzel, Nick Zito and Chad Houghton each had three hits of their own. Their r...

Photo is credited to Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke In one of the most anticipated games in recent memory, Ward Melville’s ace Anthony Kay tossed the first no-hitter in school history since 1991. Four years ago, two aces matched up against each other in arguably the most anticipated high school baseball game in Long Island history. Steve Matz and Marcus Stroman were clearly the two best pitchers that season. Every Major League club had a representative in attendance. The pitchers did not disappoint as the game finished 1-0 in favor of Ward Melville on an RBI groundout in the seventh. Both pitchers recorded double-digit strikeouts. Today the same two teams matched up and sent pitchers to the hill who have already committed to well-respected Division-I schools. Matt Vogel of Pat-Med has comm...

Photo is credited to AUPanthers.com The Adelphi Panthers won a hard-fought game 1-0 over the Owls of Southern Connecticut State. Senior Jimmy Milani made the most of his first start of the season by tossing 5.1 scoreless innings, allowing only two hits, although he did not factor in the decision. Unfortunately, the Panthers offense was unable to scrape across a run to get Milani the victory. Chris Pabisch came in to relieve him, as he threw 1.2 scoreless innings. In the bottom of the seventh, shortstop Brandon Stahl hit an RBI groundout to drive in the lone run of the game. Head Coach Dom Scala chose to use closer Dillon McNamara in the eighth inning. The decision paid off as the 6’5″ closer retired all five batters he faced to record his fourth save of the young season. With t...

Stony Brook: The Seawolves took on St. John’s at Citi Field and it was a fantastic game through 11 innings. The score was deadlocked at 1-1. Unfortunately a hit by pitch with the bases loaded followed by a three-run double broke the game open as St. John’s scored six in the 12th to win 7-1. It was the first time Stony Brook played a game at Citi Field. Adelphi: Freshman Jonathon Mulford continued his terrific beginning to his collegiate career by tossing eight shutout innings allowing only three hits against Dominican as the Panthers won by a score of 7-0. Mulford moves to 2-0 on the season. The offense was led by Brandon Stahl who stayed hot and added two hits hits and two RBI from the leadoff spot. Nick Zito, Vincent Sharkey and Donato Signore all added RBI hits as the Panthe...

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Photo is credited to Farmingdalesports.com One of the more underrated players on Long Island the past four seasons has been David Zilnicki of Farmingdale State. The 22-year-old outfielder has quietly been the catalyst on four-straight conference winning clubs. I had the chance to play with him in 2010-’11 and he is a hard-working individual and a pesky hitter atop the order. He is already the program leader in stolen bases, and ranks in the top-10 in AVG, OBP, runs, hits, triples, RBI, total bases, walks and HBP. That is not even including his .426 beginning to the season thus far with 20 hits already. Here is a conversation I had with him regarding some aspects of the game.  1) Is there any pressure to win one more Skyline title to finish what you started? Theres always going to be ...

Sunday featured some huge match ups for Long Island teams. Here is everything that happened. Farmingdale vs Old Westbury: Two bitter rivals matched up in a Skyline Conference double header which was a rematch of the 2012 conference finals. The Rams won the first game by the score of 8-4. Mike Dolce was the winning pitcher as he improves his record to 2-0 on the season. He relieved Anthony Eilers who labored through 1.2 innings allowing 2 ER on 4 hits and 2 walks. The remainder of the game was controlled by Farmingdale who scored three runs in the second and fifth innings. Tom Rydzewski recorded three hits and scored three times. In Game 2, the Panthers obliterated the Rams pitching as they built up a 13-0 lead through five innings. They ultimately added six more as they captured the second...

Adelphi: In their first conference games of the season, the Panthers were swept by St. Thomas Acquinas. In Game 1, despite issuing 12 walks the Panthers came back from a 7-5 deficit thanks to a home run from Anthony Zarrella. Unfortunately in extra innings they allowed two runs to score on wild pitches which was the difference. In Game 2, sophomore Mike Cranston (5-0 in 2012) had a rough day allowed 9 ER in 3.1 innings. The Panthers fought back and took a 4-3 lead but gave it back. They were defeated 9-6 and move to 7-7-1 on the season. St. Joseph’s: The Golden Eagles got on the right track as they won both games against Mt. St. Mary’s by scores of 15-6 and 9-4. An oddity occurred as Kenny Willms was hit by a pitch on five different at bats which appears to be a record. Beekman...

Photo is credited to DowlingAthletics.com Dowling fell to St. Thomas Aquinas (STAC) in their conference opener by a score of 6-4. The loss drops the Golden Lions to an overall record of 4-9. In the fourth, Dowling took a 2-1 lead thanks to an RBI hit by junior Andrew Abreu. Unfortunately, Tyler Badamo was unable to hold the fort as he surrendered three runs to STAC on an RBI double and single.  Dowling temporarily got the game to within a run on a suicide squeeze by Kyle Demeo. That was as close as it got, STAC opened the game up with a two-run single by Stanley Susa in the seventh inning. Badamo suffered the luck and falls to 1-2 on the season. For Dowling, the bright spots were JC Brandmaier recording a four hit day and Ryan Aloise throwing two shutout innings while striking out three. T...