AJ Petraitis
Kings Park Looks to Take Next Step In Coach Abreu’s 4th Season
by Andy Smith Hunter Colagrande (Kings Park 2024) threw a no-hitter (1 walk) in the Elite 8 @ PG WWBA Upperclass Nationals. Pitching against players two years older pic.twitter.com/DyOMR26vkz — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 11, 2021 Kings Park made major improvements in 2022. The Kingsmen finished with a 9-10 overall record, which is a major improvement from winning just four games in 2021. Entering his fourth season as the head coach, Andrew Abreu reflected, “We put an emphasis on the ball in play, hard contact in offensive counts and team swings in 2 strike counts, as well as being aggressive on the bases to force defenses to make plays.” The Kingsmen saw their batting average jump by .55 points, scored 35 more runs and swiped 15 more bags in comparison to 2021. Abreu, ...
College Recruiting 101 Powered by 1 More Rep Athletics & Fitness: Glenn Petraitis
(Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of our “College Recruiting 101 Series Powered by 1MR Athletics & Fitness” in which we delve into the world of college baseball recruiting. In the first edition we spoke to five fathers who sent their sons to Division-I programs. In last week’s edition, we spoke to three fathers who are also coaches that had to navigate through the pandemic. Now we will talk with Glenn Petraitis, who had two sons go through the college recruiting process and is an Emmy-award winning Sports Producer for MSG and NBC Olympics. His younger son, AJ, is a freshman at Le Moyne College) At what point did you notice that your son was a special talent? How did his college recruiting experience play out? My youngest son, AJ, was always an awesom...
Led by Outstanding Pitching Staff, Kings Park Ready to Make Noise
By Michael Malaszczyk Final: Kings Park 14, Miller Place 11 WP: Declan Cumming S: Jason Sacks pic.twitter.com/bTNWXUyeXz — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 10, 2021 Coach Andrew Abreu is ready to take his team to new heights in 2022. Long Island baseball suffered immensely from the coronavirus pandemic. All sports did, of course, but baseball was in a uniquely unfortunate position as a premier spring sport. LI Baseball didn’t get a season in the 2019-2020 academic year, unlike fall and winter sports, and had to come back for the 2020-2021 season with all that time off the field. With all of these factors in consideration, Kings Park played a great season in 2021. Coach Abreu felt strongly about this in an interview with Axcess Baseball. “After losing the year prior due to the pand...
Kings Park Led By Talented Pitching Staff
AJ Petraitis (Kings Park 2022) pic.twitter.com/jcHtKCoRqS — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 3, 2020 It took a year but Andrew Abreu will soon coach his first game as Head Coach for Kings Park. The former All-Region 2B at Dowling is excited to get going and is leaning on a talented, young pitching staff that has a lot of promise. “We have a lot of quality arms,” said Abreu. “That’s our strength which we think is critical this year. We have five guys battling it out for rotation spots. With the possibility of playing four games per week, it’s going to be a little more tricky this year,” he added in regarding to navigating through 28 innings per week. @CoachSorgie | part of my pen from 1/24/21 pic.twitter.com/e20zH66r81 — aidan colagrande (@Aidan...
