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What’s On Tap for This Week
by BOTI Staff This week we add some more intrigue to the Long Island baseball scene with the addition of high school baseball to the landscape. We will have all the coverage you can handle, fulfilling our promise in December stating that 2016 would feature our best coverage yet–including Nassau high schools and CHSAA. It took a couple years to develop the infrastructure, but we are now equipped to cover games all over the island. For now, here’s the local college schedules for this week. Division-I: Stony Brook will have off until the weekend when they host America East rival Maine for a weekend series at Joe Nathan Field. They will play a double header on Saturday beginning at 12pm. They will wrap it up on Sunday at 12pm once again. NYIT will travel to Uniondale on Tuesday to ...
Power Rankings Volume 2
It has been a bizarre season in the sense that a couple of the teams we expected to take a massive step forward have actually regressed while some teams who we expected to tread water have vastly exceeded expectations. Last week, Molloy topped our first weekly Power Rankings of the season and here’s how everyone stands for our second installment. 1.Molloy Record: 14-6 (Stock UP) They are in the midst of a four-game series against rival LIU Post. They have already taken the first three games of the series and will look for the sweep tomorrow in Brookville. It is remarkable how soundly they have played. Coach Fucarino told our reporter Nakeem that they put a great deal of time into their situational hitting. It is pretty clear by the results. They have a team .312 AVG with .392 OBP. An...
Molloy Takes Both Games with Two Stellar Pitching Performances
By Nakeem Grant Conference play is in full swing in the East Coast Conference. Molloy won both games (Game 1: 5-1, Game 2: 3-0) in today’s doubleheader against their rivals, LIU Post. Both games were well-played and featured great pitching on both sides, but Molloy has been the better team so far in this series. In Game 1, Anthony Catinella (Molloy) pitched against Dan Jagiello (LIU) in what turned out to be an exciting head-to-head matchup. Catinella pitched eight innings, allowing one run and striking out eight batters with one walk, improving his record to 4-2. He induced a lot of groundballs during the game and his defense behind him scooped up everything that was hit their way. “The pitchers know who’s playing behind them,” said Molloy head coach Joe Fucarino. “That infield, that’s pr...
Dominant Pitching Earns Dowling Two Wins Over Concordia College
by Danny Gatta The Golden Lions of Dowling swept their double header against Concordia today thanks to some lights-out pitching. Outstanding starts by Cody McPartland and Dennis Buckstein along with relief appearances from Dominic Danetti and John Parisi allowed just two Clipper players to cross the plate all day. They won by the scores of 10-1 and 2-1. Dowling started the game with three straight hits to load the bases. With no outs, Bobby Morse laced a double down the first base line to drive in two, giving the Golden Lions an early 2-0 lead. After issuing back-to-back walks in the third, Clippers pitcher Doug Elser surrendered an RBI single up the middle to RJ Going, extending Dowling’s lead to 3-0. Elser would have more trouble in the fourth, allowing singles to Dwayne Page and Rob Cos...
Old Westbury Welcomes St. Joseph’s To Their House, Sweeps Double Header
by Vinny Messana When Flo Rida’s “My House” came blaring over the speakers it was almost a metaphor for how the Old Westbury Panthers were treating the day. From the first inning of the first game, they had the intensity and focus of a team that was hellbent on winning a double header from an up-and-coming team just beaming with confidence. That, plus two top-notch pitching performances helped the Panthers sweep the DH over St. Joseph’s by the scores of 9-2 and 4-0. Both starting pitchers, Jeremy Charles in Game One and Danny Aguilo in Game Two threw complete games, and controlled the tempo of the game. “He’s just a warrior out there,” said SS Tommy Zeigen in regards to Charles, who put himself in the conversation for Skyline Conference Player of t...
LeMoyne Gets to Mulford, Tops Adelphi 6-3
By Vinny Amodeo It’s not often that Jonathon Mulford is outdueled by an opposing hurler. Damian Powers, junior for LeMoyne did just that today at William J. Bonomo Field. He threw a complete game, surrendering nine hits in the Dolphins 6-3 victory, while blanking the Panthers for the final five innings. The Dolphins offense started early this afternoon as the first two batters reached base with singles. Mulford, senior pitcher on Adelphi, surrendered both runners on base as he got the next batter to ground into a double play and the following one to strikeout. After the Dolphins went down in order in the top of the second, Kory Cassara broke open the scoring with a solo home run over the left field wall. This lead would be short lived as it was wiped away within minutes. The third in...
Molloy Outlasts LIU Post 5-2
by Vinny Messana It was a marquee match up of aces between Jake DeCarli and Ron Bauer as the LIU Post Pioneers hosted the Molloy Lions in an ECC showdown. It was Bauer and the Lions who stayed hot and took down the Pioneers by the score of 5-2. “We’re just looking at winning series,” said Head Coach Joe Fucarino. “That’s our whole goal. Go into each series game-by-game,and try to win each series each weekend. Getting the win on the road to start the series off, that’s a big one,” he added. Bauer, who entered with a 0.33 ERA, did his best Houdini act through out this game. Despite walking the bases loaded in the first and allowing 1st + 3rd with none out in the third, he eluded damage in both innings. It did catch up to him in the fourth inning, how...
Dowling Wins Wild One Over Dominican 10-7
by Vinny Messana Dowling’s bats woke up in today’s matinee against Dominican College, winning by the score of 10-7. Dwayne Page, Timmy Going and Tyler Piccolo all had three hits for the Golden Lions who equaled the scoring output of their past six (!) games in this one. Chris Cepeda got the start for the Golden Lions. After allowing a first inning run on an RBI double, his offense backed him with a two-spot in the home half of the first. Robert Morse hit an RBI single and Piccolo smacked an RBI double. In the third, they added a run on Michael Richter‘s RBI single. Cepeda ran into trouble in the fourth, though. A two-run double down the left field line tied up the ballgame at 3-3. This one was far from over. In their half of the fourth, Dowling took a 5-3 lead thanks to a...
John Habyan Enjoying New Role
by P.J. Potter Bouncing from high school baseball to the MLB and back, pitching coach John Habyan has finally been given a chance at the college level. “It was the right place at the right time,” said Habyan, who was hired as the new assistant coach in July 2015 to manage the Hofstra pitching staff. Habyan was drafted in the third round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Baltimore Orioles in 1982 out of St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Islip. After a few years in the minor leagues, Habyan was called up in 1985 as a relief pitcher. He spent the next 11 seasons at the major league level, finishing with a career 26-24 record and 3.85 ERA in 348 appearances with the Orioles, Yankees, Royals, Cardinals, Angels and Rockies. “There’s not many college coaching staffs around...
IN-SEASON POWER TRAINING FOR BASEBALL
by Russell Taveras, DPT, CSCS Power development is of primary importance for athletes of virtually every sport. Power can be defined as the ability to generate force in a short amount of time in order to accelerate the body and/or an implement. Power, simply put, is speed-strength. Mention Baseball on the Island at Infiniti Performance and receive two free sessions in their state-of-the-art Recovery Lab! In-season power development can be a daunting task for the serious high school ballplayers and coaches. Implementing a productive training regimen becomes difficult secondary to hectic practice schedules, playing on multiple teams, homework, social activities, etc. The purpose of this article is to provide the ballplayer and/or coach with reliable and effective exercises to assi...
Late Rally Leads Monmouth to 5-4 Win over Hofstra
by Vinny Messana Monmouth put together a ninth inning rally against Adam Heidenfelder in the ninth inning to defeat Hofstra 5-4 this afternoon. It was the sixth consecutive loss for the Pride, and the third that was decided by one run. They led 4-2 in the seventh inning after Vito Friscia ripped an opposite field double to right center field to score Ryan Karl and increase their lead. Friscia also smacked a first inning home run to left field to give the Pride a 2-1 lead. It was the first of his collegiate career. Karl drove in Tom Archer with an RBI single in the fifth inning as well. Teddy Cillis got the start for the Pride. After allowing a leadoff double, throwing a wild pitch and allowing a sacrifice fly in the first inning, he was dominant over the next two innings. He was relieved b...
Announcement
Beginning on April 17, Baseball on the Island will host a weekly show filmed live from Mannings Pub & Grille in Carle Place. The show will be 30 minutes long and feature news regarding the Long Island baseball scene. Each week there will be a Player of the Week award given out. The player that is chosen will win a meal compliments of Manning’s Pub & Grille. Each week there will be a special guest to talk baseball. The focus will be college and high school until the completion of the Long Island Championship in June. From that point on, the focus will shift to the travel and showcase circuit, as well as college commitments and all news from that week. The episode will be posted on the website after the show. We look forward to it, and welcome players and parents to come down a...
