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Photo Credit: Franklin Pierce Athletics Ideally, Dowling would’ve avoided playing No. 1 ranked Franklin Pierce until the championship game of the tournament. Instead they will be playing them in the loser’s bracket in just the second game. After getting shutout yesterday by St. Thomas Aquinas, they are now 46-3 on the season. It was their first loss since March 25–27 games ago. Where are they from? Franklin Pierce University is in Rindge, NH. They play in the Northeast-10 conference. How do they match up talent wise?They are pretty loaded to say the least. The team AVG is .320 with a .395 OBP and .463 SLG. That is essentially a team of Albert Pujols’ circa 2004. Four players have more than 60 hits and five players have scored more than 40 runs. Four players have dri...

Photo Credit: Old Westbury Athletics  After winning an emotionally charged game last night against Baldwin Wallace, today did not go as smooth for Old Westbury. They were defeated 12-2 despite RPI committing five errors in the field.Tyler Kapela, the winning pitcher in the do-or-die Skyline Conference title game, was not as sharp today. He pitched 4.1 innings, allowing eight hits and seven ER. He was tagged for his second loss of the season.With the score 3-0 after four innings, RPI broke it open with a five-spot in the fifth on four walks and three hits. The big blow was a two-run double by Shane Matthews.Nick Dorcean and Justin Mize contributed 4.2 innings of relief, allowing two ER. The offense compiled only seven hits with two of those off the bat of Jake Coners, who scored one run. Th...

Photo Credit: Dowling Athletics If Dowling had plans to advance through the East Regional, the route just got a bit harder. They were defeated 5-2 this afternoon by Stonehill College and now face elimination.Kyle DeMeo got the start for the Golden Lions and he was touched up in the first inning for a three spot. After allowing a double, issuing a walk and a hit by pitch, he walked in a run and then allowed a two-run single to open up a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first.The offense waited until the sixth to get on the board against freshman right hander Michael Young, who entered the game with a 0.59 ERA over 46 innings.  After Michael Richter reached on an error that advanced him to second, and a ground out that advanced him to third, Jon Cruz hit a sac fly to get them on the board.The S...

Photo Credit: Stonehill College Athletics Dowling will take on No. 2 seed Stonehill College today at 3 pm on the campus of Franklin Pierce University.They were defeated in their conference tournament last week by No. 1 nationally ranked Franklin Pierce but received a bid for their impressive 33-13-1 record. This is their first appearance in the regionals since 2010, while Dowling qualified last season.Where are they from?Stonehill is located in North Easton, MA. They play in the Northeast-10 conference, which is really a 15-team conference.They finished in third place in the northeast division of the NE-10, just behind Southern New Hampshire and light years behind Franklin Pierce, who is 46-2. Fourty-six wins and two losses. Two.How do they match up with Dowling talent-wise?They have four ...

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Brandon Bonnano delivering a pitch in the seventh inningPhoto Credit: Vinny Messana Trailing 2-0 in the fourth inning against Glenn, the Mt. Sinai Mustangs strung together four straight hits and eight hits in total against starter Tyler Arella to take a commanding 6-2 lead.It was a lead they would not relinquish.“We had a better approach at the plate,” said Mt. Sinai Head Coach Eric Reichenbach. “I think in the first couple of innings, with the lefty, we tried to pull off the ball a little–especially the right handers. After that inning, the guys let the ball get deep on them, drove the ball the other way,” he added.In that fourth inning, Jared Donnelly got it started with a single to right field. Jason Conti followed suit with a single to left field. Cleanup ...

The third and final installment of the weekly Power Rankings… 10. NYIT (14-30)They won 10 more games this year than last season, thanks in large part to the emergence of Louis Mele and Josh Canabal at the plate but the pitching compiled a 7.53 ERA and it was just not enough to creep towards .500. 9. Hofstra (19-29)Steven Foster, Chris Hardardt and Brad Witkowski all hit over .300 (with Foster compiling an impressive .891 OPS) and were the bright spots for the Pride. They also smacked an impressive 27 home runs, highlighted by Brett Johnson‘s eight dingers. Unfortunately, the pitching staff regressed from last season. The lowest ERA was by freshman Chris Weiss, who was brought in to be a catcher. 8. Molloy (22-23)Their downfall was the 10-14 conference record. They were 16-6 at ...

Hold your phone–it’s not over yet! For the second straight year the Dowling Golden Lions have earned a spot in the East Regional despite not winning the ECC Conference due to their strong 27-15 record. They will take on No. 2 Stonehill in the first round, who is currently 33-13. Last season, Dowling won the first three games of the tournament behind complete game by Tyler Badamo, Tom Bammann and JJ Bessell but were defeated in consecutive games by St. Thomas Aquinas. They will be the No. 6 seed despite winning the ECC Conference and will draw a tough Franklin Pierce team who is 46-2 and have not lost since March 25.

Today is the first round of the ECC tournament with No. 4 LIU Post taking on No. 1 Dowling. Those rankings can be thrown out in a match up like this. The team’s are very familiar with eachother, having played a four-game series less than one month ago. The Pioneers won three of four including a 7-2 victory with today’s starter, Jake DeCarli, on the mound. Here’s a quick rundown off the team’s statistics. LIU Post: 17-16 Offense: AVG: .255OBP: .338XBH: 58K: 266BB: 131 Pitching:ERA: 3.83Strikeouts/9: 7.27BB/9: 3.87H/9: 8.8 Defense: FLD %: .942 Dowling: 27-13 Offense: AVG: .294OBP: .383XBH: 88K: 220BB: 156 Pitching:ERA: 2.96Strikeouts/9: 7.07BB/9: 3.49H/9: 8.38 Defense: Fielding %: .959 Verdict: On paper, the Golden Lions are the much more balanced team. They really ha...

Debating awards will always be a hot topic. It’s just the nature of the beast. Does the player with the best statistics win, or do you consider the quality of opponents, conference stats, run support? This year was no different when Tim Ingram was named Pitcher of the Year by the coaches yesterday. While Ingram is a phenomenal pitcher that had great numbers, he was not the only deserving pitcher. Here’s a comparison between the two most deserving pitchers… The Case for Tim Ingram:Key Stats: Wins:7ERA: 1.37WHIP: 0.89CGs: 4IP: 59.1K/9: 11.5BB/9: 2.59AVG: .178XBH: 5 Conference ERA: 0.99Conference IP: 27.1Conference AVG: .147Conference K/9: 13 Ingram was dominant this season. He used a 90 MPH fastball to cruise through his Skyline opponents and strike out 11 batters per nine ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuduALfP5Rg]They say league games are the most intense, and this one lived up to the billing.Ward Melville clinched the League I title with a 10-3 win over Pat-Med in a wild and contentious game that featured both player and fan ejections from confrontations.Sophomore starter Ben Brown was above the chaos– he improved to 5-0 with a complete game victory, allowing three ER on 10 hits against a potent Raider offense.“We had a lot of intensity today,” said Brown. “We kept it going for seven innings. We’re not done yet–this is just the start,” he added.He was backed by an explosive offense that smacked 11 hits–including a monstrous grand slam to center field by catcher Jeff Towles to open up an 8-0 lead, he...

Pace will host Adelphi today at 1 pm in the first round of the Northeast-10 playoffs. The Setters (21-17, 12-8) are the No. 1 seed in the southwest division of the conference. The two teams met on March 25 and the Setters were victorious 11-1. Since then, the Panthers are a much improved team. Additionally, they are very dangerous team with Jonathon Mulford on the mound. He last pitched on Saturday, so this would be only three days rest for him. Coach Scala is opting to pitch sophomore T.J. Santiago. He’s had a tough year, he is currently 0-4 with a 5.28 ERA. He has allowed 67 hits in 46 innings. He is trending up, however. Over his past three starts he has gone six, five and 6.2 innings. He has allowed only six runs during that stretch with 13 strikeouts.  Pace hit .258 as a team th...