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John Glenn Returning Six Players With Varsity Experience, Led by 2 Preseason All-Long Island Players
by Chris Sacchi The COVID-19 canceled 2020 high school season was a huge loss for seniors across the country. Many players had their final organized baseball game taken away from them. While this is a sad reality for thousands of young men, John Glenn head coach Matt Rocchio is doing a great job of finding the positive. He tell his guys, “give everything you got like it’s your last game. Those se...
Sean Mileti Commits to Molloy
One of the unfortunate truths about the pandemic is that it has hit the higher education industry hard. While the Harvards and Yales of the world will be fine since there’s no shortage of students eager to get an Ivy League degree, there will be a huge impact on the mid-tier colleges that will have a lower enrollment than they ever had. We have already seen colleges close in the pre-pandemic...
Fall Ball Series Powered by East Coast S & P: Stony Brook University
Redshirt senior Brian Herrmann (Northport 2016) is fully recovered from TJ surgery in April 2019. Fastball sitting 89-90 MPH. Has thrown 202.2 IP for the Seawolves in his career pic.twitter.com/MR9tR5MhEW — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 15, 2020 The pitching staff of the Seawolves was off to an outstanding start to the 2020 season. They compiled a 3.66 ERA – including holding ...
Bobby Molinaro, Babylon Defeat Center Moriches and Mike DeFilippo Outduels Ventimiglia
It was another entertaining day of baseball at Moriches Complex in day 3 of the Town of Brookhaven tournament. As I suspected, this quickly went from a recreational summer tournament to an intense revisiting of deeply rooted rivalries and I love it. The passion that was on display yesterday is not typical for a tournament in July that includes several players that have already graduated. So much s...
Breaking Down the Results of the Mock Draft
On Tuesday, I hosted a mock draft using players that played Long Island high school baseball between 2010-2020. It was a fun project and I solicited the help of three trusted baseball people that have watched Long Island baseball for the entire decade Tom Downey – Area Scout, Philadelphia Phillies/ Blue Chip Prospects Jon Mauchan – Area Scout, Minnesota Twins/Northeast Regional Sales, ...
Transcript from Instagram Live With Joey Savino
Here’s the transcript from last night’s Instagram Live with Joey Savino Vinny Messana (VM) : Joey Savino is a freshman at Elon University, graduated from Connetquot last year. He won the Paul Gibson Award which is given to the best pitcher in Suffolk County. Could have won it the year before too just looking at the numbers; 6-1 with a 0.67 ERA. But last year you went 8-1 with a 0.74 ER...
PODCAST: Matt Rocchio
Here’s A Rundown of some of the topics we discussed: State of the Team: Really moving in the right direction Graduated only one impact senior from 2019 He’s very pleased with the leadership of the seniors so far. They’ve been working out for the past three months in the gym He cannot wait for the season to start Impact Players LHP Matt Polestino will anchor the rotation. He’...
What Are The Biggest Storylines of 2020 (High School)
(If you haven’t registered for our upcoming Martin Luther King Day College Showcase, please do so by clicking here.) We spent much of the past week recapping the biggest stories of 2019 but now the calendar has flipped to January and that means no more looking back. College baseball is just 6 weeks away and high school baseball is right around the corner as well. Players are gearing up for t...
Are Hitters Making A Comeback on Long Island?
Steven Matz. Marcus Stroman. Nick Tropeano. Anthony Kay. Joe Palumbo. Kevin McCarthy. Kyle McGowin. Those are the Long Island natives that are in the Major Leagues right now. They are all pitchers. In fact, it’s been 10 years since a position player from Long Island has played in the big leagues and that was Reid Gorecki (Kellenberg) with the Atlanta Braves in 2009. Fourteen of the past 15 p...
Freedom Baseball Advances With 4-1 Win Over Nassau County Saints
Freedom Baseball defeat the Nassau County Saints 4-1. Here’s Ryan Shih who gave up one unearned run, struck out 9, and threw a complete game. pic.twitter.com/8dUjcqHF3w — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) August 14, 2019 Freedom Baseball defeated the Nassau County Saints 4-1 Wednesday night at Baseball Heaven in a 14u American League playoff match up. Behind a strong pitching performance by Rya...
Pre-Season All-Long Island Presented by Pro Game Athletics
Below is our Pre-Season selection of Top HS players on Long Island
John Glenn Ready for Bounce Back Season
It’s tough to bounce back when you lose 13 seniors from your team. The John Glenn Knights learned just how difficult that could be last year. The good news? In coach Matthew Rocchio’s third season, they’re now ready to take the next step, as many players were able to get invaluable experience playing last year. Just two years ago, they won eight games, including one over Shoreham-Wading River̵...
