2020 Fall Ball
South Shore Elite Captures 12u American Championship
by Ethan Berch Axcess Reporter Ethan Berch (@eberch5) speaks with the head coach of the South Shore Chiefs after their Fall Season Championship win! pic.twitter.com/MC2JgD2mmU — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 14, 2020 Fall baseball is one of the hardest seasons in all of sports. You go from sweating and playing baseball in the burning hot weather, to freezing cold early morning and late night games. Having success in the fall is a whole other story. Finally here in mid-November, the fall season is coming to an end. At Brentwood State Park, the South Shore Elite took on the LI Storm in a 12u Boys of Summer Championship game! Joe Farina got the start on the big stage for the Elite and was nothing short of electric. After surrendering a leadoff single, he struck out three batt...
Seminoles High-Powered Offense Brings Them The 10u Championship
by Andrew Connors That’s the ballgame! The Seminoles are your 10u Champions!! pic.twitter.com/zRRuzlEiJx — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 8, 2020 Mother Nature must have known there were championship games on Sunday, as the temperature was near the 70s for most of the day. However, the Seminoles’ bats may have been even hotter as they put up a whopping 13 runs in 6 innings against the FS Tigers. Brody Kennedy was the starting pitcher for the Seminoles, and it turned out that he was the only pitcher for the Noles as he threw a complete game. Kennedy was settled in and rolling early on in the game, but the Tigers jumped on him when the third inning rolled around. He allowed three runs in the third inning, but these would be the only runs that Kennedy allowed all night. When al...
Black Diamonds Claw Out A Victory Over the Storm in the 11u Championship
by Andrew Connors Coach Tomasello talks with us about how proud he is in his team and their ability to fight all season long for the championship. pic.twitter.com/65p8r3MKsC — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 8, 2020 The sun was shining bright and the Black Diamonds and the Storm were ready to give it all they had for the 11u championship game on Sunday afternoon. Anyone in attendance for this championship game was in for a real treat, as it was a back-and-forth battle throughout the entirety of the game. Brian Bower started the game on the mound for the Black Diamonds and he put in a very strong performance, giving his team a complete game. Through his 7 innings of work, Bower struck out four Storm batters and walked four as well. His defense played a good game behind him, w...
South Shore Elite Defeat LI Titans 6-2
by Ethan Berch The Elite strike first, Alex Aramini rips an RBI single and it is joe 1-0 Elite after one! pic.twitter.com/NqU3ts4JD5 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 8, 2020 It’s rare to get a nice sunny and warm day in November, but when it happens, it’s something to savor. Here at MacArthur Highschool, the 12u LI Titans faced off against the South Shore Elite in a league matchup. This age group will continue play until next weekend before finishing up their fall season. Joe Farina got the start for the Elite. Joe is built strong and throws the ball with great velocity at such a young age. Titans hitters struggled to even catch up to fastball and he didn’t even allow a single hit until the fourth inning. Southpaw Logan Vogel was the starter for the Titans. Loga...
Yeti Baseball Captures 13u National Championship
by Jack McCluskey Yetis Baseball wins the 13u National Championship 4-0 pic.twitter.com/9sy3cQlOQJ — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 7, 2020 The 13u Yeti Baseball took on the Islip Owls in the LI Boys of Summer Fall Championship game. They came away with a clean 4-0 victory. After the game, Yeti’s Coach had this to say about their win, “We played two clean games back-to-back with both shutouts. Both of our pitchers pitched great for us today, they made all of their pitches and we made all the plays behind them and we were able to get runs in both games.“ When talking about their first season, he said “they were an outstanding group of guys. We had a 40-6 record this season, we won a tournament and they had an outstanding first year of Yeti Baseball and we are proud of t...
LI Elite Venegas Captures 15U National Fall Championship
Mike Knapp throws a 3-hit shutout with 11 Ks to capture the @liboysofsummer Championship 15U National division pic.twitter.com/3ZfsGHB9lj — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 7, 2020 Mike Knapp was just about as dominant as you can be, in helping his team to not one – but two victories to capture the LI Boys of Summer 15u National Fall Championship. It was two distinctly different games. They won 7-6 in 9 innings over LI Elite Natale and then 2-0 over Tri-State Arsenal in the championship. Knapp threw the final inning in relief to slam the door in the semifinals and cruised to a 3-hit, 11 K shutout in the finals. “I felt good, man, my arm felt good. I came out in the semifinal closing the game – just felt really good out there,” said Knapp, a junior at Di...
Team Steel Captures LI Boys of Summer College Fall Championship
by Ethan Berch Axcess Reporter Ethan Berch (@eberch5) speaks with Joe Marino and Vinny Napolitano following Team Steels Boys of Summer League championship win! pic.twitter.com/Q9sInyiFnP — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 7, 2020 They do say that November baseball never fails to excite. The Boys of Summer College Championship may have agreed with that statement! The East End Aviators, representing majority of Suffolk Community College baseball players and Team Steel representing majority Farmingdale State College players went head-to-head at Brentwood State park. Coming off a dramatic win just minutes before, the Aviators came in with serious momentum after clobbering a walk-off homerun. They threw Ray Hoffman to start this game. Ray was solid in the first inning, finishing wi...
LIB Costanzo Takes 2 games from B1000 Seminoles (Mac)
by Jack McCluskey LIB Costanzo Doug Davies hit a walk off RBI single in the bottom of the 6th to win 6-5 pic.twitter.com/GM1on9tIBh — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 31, 2020 The 14u LIB Costanzo took on B1000 Seminoles (Mac) at Plainedge High School on Saturday afternoon. After the game, the LIB Costanzo’s Head Coach had this to say, “We have been getting a lot better offensively this season, the pitching kept us in the second game. Michael Duda and Michael Mollica both pitched good for us today. We had a couple of timely hits that helped us out and it was just a good double header”. When discussing the slow starts in both games the Head Coach said “All season we are a second half game kind of team. Once our top of our order sees a couple of pitches, they time the ball up bet...
LI Junior Ducks, Yeti Baseball Split Double Header
pic.twitter.com/v8EeWx46e5 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 29, 2020 The 13u LI Junior Ducks took on the 13u Yeti Baseball at Moriches Complex Wednesday night. Jr. Ducks took game one, 10-3, before Yeti Baseball bounced back in the second game with a 3-2 win. Following the games, coach Tyler Loft had the following to say: “the whole season we been a second game double header team and we talked about it after the game just now and we have to show up earlier for pregame to get our mind set right before the first game to figure it out. I told them that we are better than we showed right there and in the second game we were”. When discussing the job of the starting pitcher in Game 2, Loft said, “Zach Marsh was unbelievable this game, he ate up innings for most of the summer...
John Schneider’s One-Hitter Fuels Aviators Over Empire, 3-1
By Andrew Connors EastEnd Aviators winning pitcher John Schneider talks about his performance and what he plans on doing in order to keep elevating his level of play. pic.twitter.com/2wWYFvY2nm — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 24, 2020 They say that stars come out and perform best under the bright lights, and that was certainly the case in Friday night’s 16U matchup between the East End Aviators and the Long Island Empire. Despite some early scoring, it was evident after the first couple of innings that there wasn’t going to be much offense produced from either lineup, so it was on the pitchers and defense to step their games up. Danny DeBruin was on the mound to start the game for the Empire and he looked very sharp out of the gates. He racked up a pair of strikeouts and ret...
West Islip Defeats Tru32, 6-3
by Jack McCluskey pic.twitter.com/GeVCg7sk1h — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) September 23, 2020 West Islip took on Tru32 this afternoon at Baseball Heaven. They sent Nick Veiga to the mound and he performed extremely well. He went 5+ innings with three strikeouts and gave up three runs on four hits with two walks. Tucker Schiavoni gave West Islip an early 2-0 on a 2 run HR in the top of the 2nd inning. I asked him about his HR and he told me “it felt great and it was the first 2 runs of the game. He knew it was gone “once it left his bat”. Then I asked him how his team prepared after giving up a 3-0 lead. He told me “that his pitcher Nick Veiga pitched 5 strong innings”. In the top of the 2nd inning Alex Czarnomski led off with a triple and he came around to score when ...
