NEWS
St. John’s Takes Two From Maine
by Troy Mauriello The St. John’s Red Storm showed that they can win games in a number of ways with a sweep of a doubleheader over Maine Saturday in Queens. St. John’s home opener saw Red Storm starter Sean Mooney toss the program’s first complete game since 2015. The Johnnies used that effort to cruise to a 3-0 victory. “Pretty much all four pitches were working,” Mooney said on his afternoon. “Fastball on both sides was working, changeup down in the zone was working, curveball to my glove side was really moving and cutting, said the hurler. Mooney was masterful on the afternoon, allowing just four hits in nine innings of work. Although he struck out only three, Mooney did not walk a batter and threw just 99 pitches. He was frequently ahead in the count and pitched to contact, which ended ...
Stony Brook Shuts Out Hartford in a Commanding Win
In the final game of a three-game series with Hartford University, Stony Brook struck a decisive victory in their first conference series of the season with a 14-0 win. After splitting a doubleheader with the Hawks the day before SBU stood on their home turf and made a statement in with a dominant win. Seawolf starter Brian Herrmann earned his second win of the season with a spectacular performance. Herrmann hurled seven shut-out innings, allowing just three hits and three walks while striking out five and improving his already stellar ERA. After the game head coach Matt Senk praised the freshman starter saying, “He’s been terrific and he was terrific again today… The way he performed today is how he’s performed all year, and he’s done a great job for us.̶...
Harborfields Ready To Take the Next Step
It was a bitter ending to last year’s season for Harborfields as they needed one win to clinch a playoff berth but lost a one-run game to Comsewogue. They are returning a strong team and look poised to take the next step. Head Coach Casey Sturm spoke to Vinny Messana about the upcoming season.
Business as Usual For Massapequa
It takes a very strong-willed team to knock Massapequa out of the playoffs. Even after allowing five runs in the first inning against East Meadow in Nassau County Class AA finals, they fought back and got the tying runs on base in the last inning but was unable to get the clutch hit to tie it up. No. 3 seed East Meadow was crowned Class AA champions before losing to West Islip in the Long Island Championship. Massapequa Head Coach Tom Sheedy, now in his 14th year, will be going to battle in 2017 with another strong team–albeit without a couple of the key cogs from last year’s 19-win team. The big losses are two pitchers, Chris Keenan and Patrick Clyne. “Pat really developed into a super pitcher,” said Sheedy. “He came up as a sophomore and was All-State for us...
3/24 Recap
Conference play begins for several teams this weekend, many are hoping that the games they’ve missed due to the weather won’t be affecting them as the game really begin to count. Judging by today’s results most have no reason to worry. Division I Stony Brook Splits DH with Hartford : 8-7 & 10-5 Stony Brook was carrying a two run lead into the ninth when a two-out rally by Hartford cost the Seawolves the game. SBU had been up 7-2 after five innings, but Hartford came back with six unanswered to pull out the win. The Seawolves’ bats looked great for the first half of the game, capitalizing on mistakes made by Hartford’s pitchers and defense to score the first two runs of the game. They then put up three runs in third on singles from Brandon Janofsky and Ch...
Wantagh Will Be Tough to Beat Once Again
Head Coach Keith Sachs guided the Wantagh Warriors to their second New York State Class A championship in his 24-year tenure. They also won the Long Island championship in 2010. He will be returning the reigning Class A Player of the Year in Jimmy Joyce, first-team All-State SS Anthony D’Onofrio, All-State catcher Trevor Fagan and Furman-commit Anthony Fontana. He spoke with Vinny Messana and their championship run and what it will be like to have the targets on their back entering the season.
Mattituck Poised for Another Big Season
Mattituck won 19 games in 2016, losing in the playoffs to Babylon in a tightly contested game. Vinny Messana spoke with 15th-year Head Coach Steve DeCaro about how they will replace last year’s crop of seniors and what 2017 will have in store for them.
Shoreham-Wading River Loaded With High-End Talent
Coming off another stellar season, Shoreham-Wading River is hungry to avenge last year’s 12-inning playoff loss to Rocky Point. They are loaded with talent including the reigning Carl Yastrzemski Award winner in Brian Morrell, and Thomas Brady, Nick Manesis and Miles Kelly. Watch the video above as Vinny Messana spoke with Head Coach Kevin Willi previewing their 2017 season.
How Marcus Stroman Went From League I MVP to World Baseball Classic MVP
(Photo Credit: Bob Mitchell) Having coached him for five years on the diamond and one year on the gridiron, not many people know Marcus Stroman–who was just named Most Valuable Player of the 2017 World Baseball Classic–better than Patchogue-Medford HS Head Coach Anthony Frascogna. Prior to gaining national acclaim for taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning and leading Team USA to their first WBC championship, he was leading Pat-Med to league titles. But before that, he was the little guy that was turning everyone’s head no matter which sport he played. “I knew Marcus from when he was in elementary school because I knew Earl (his father), and I would see him on the fields,” said Frascogna. “I saw him throw a football 50 yards when he was eight-years-o...
Suffolk Class AA Predictions
We’ve given you the top story lines to follow this year. We’ve given you the top individuals that could get drafted. Now it’s time to take a stab at who will be the league champs when it’s all said and done. League play opens up on Monday. Class AA Player of the Year: Peter Theodorellis (Commack) Pitcher of the Year: Ben Brown (Ward Melville) League 1: There is a ton of parity in the league this year. With the emergence of Longwood last year, the expected improvement of Sachem East and the usual head-butting of Ward Melville and Pat-Med for the league title, things will get interesting. Brentwood could make some noise too with ace pitcher Justin Aviles getting rave reviews as a sleeper pick this year for All-County. Floyd has a pitching staff led by Robert Brust an...
Half Hollow Hills Little League Providing Unparalleled Experience for Young Ballplayers
Over the years, many elite ballplayers have graduated from the Half Hollow Hills high schools. Some recognizable names are John Mincone, Alex Aurricchio, T.J. Pecoraro, Tommy D’Alessandro, Adam Brown and Stephen Woods. They all played in the Half Hollow Hills little league program at one point, according to the President of the league, Steven Muraco. The league has been home to a tremendous amount of kids in general–peaking at 1,700 in 2000, but has since leveled out around 1,000 since that time. They have spring, summer and fall leagues. Despite many kids playing other sports through out the season, they have been able to maintain their numbers in the fall when football and soccer are in-season. A big reason for this, according to Muraco, is the league’s reputation for ...
Suffolk CC Crushes Tompkins Cortland
They called the game between Suffolk CC and Tompkins Cortland CC at nearly 11 P.M. last night after seven innings with Suffolk leading 11-3. This was the second game of a double header for Tompkins, and Suffolk’s fist game since March 4. Designated Hitter Nicholas Siragusa helped Suffolk jump ahead in the first inning when he drove a two-run opposite-field home run over the fence in right center field. They never looked back from there. TCC scored a few runs of their own, but with the way that Suffolk was hitting there was never any doubt in the outcome. It felt like Suffolk was loading the bases ever inning. In the third a run came in when Matthew Riselvate got plunked in the back, and a bad throw on an attempted double play caused two more runs to come in rather than get Tompkins ...
