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Photo Credit: Old Westbury Athletics Kean stayed unbeaten with a 6-1 win over Old Westbury. The Cougars are now 5-0 on the season. They received a tremendous effort from starting pitcher Emilio Calderon–who threw eight innings, allowing just one run on five hits and no walks. The Panthers actually got on top 1-0 in the first inning on an RBI single by Eddie Hernandez. The lead was short lived, however, when the Cougars responded with two runs in their half of the first. They scored on an RBI single by Tom McGuckin and a sac fly by Ryan Reitmeyer. They never looked back, with Calderon settling down and dominating in the meantime. The Panthers were held to five hits–with Hernandez accounting for two of them. Nick Schoen was the losing pitcher. He lasted three innings, allowed thr...

Photo Credit: Todd MontgomeryUniversity of Tampa is the No. 1 ranked Div. II team in the nation The University of Tampa can smack the baseball. They are the No.1 ranked team in the country and they showed LIU Post  why with a 20-9 victory. They entered the game with a .341 AVG as a team, and boosted that with a 20-hit performance. Aside from the bottom of the first, Tampa scored in every inning–including four in the third, five in the fifth and six in the eighth. Ian Townsend went 4-for-5 with seven RBI to lead the Spartans. He hit a sac fly in the third inning, RBI single in the fourth, bases clearing triple in the fifth and a two-run triple in the eighth. He had 19 RBI already this season. The Pioneers did put up a fight on two separate occasions. They put up a four-spot in the fou...

Screenshot from SNY Broadcast Long Island native and Adelphi graduate Keith Couch recorded the six-out save in yesterday’s matinee matchup against the Mets. Couch fired two shutout innings with two strikeouts. The play-by-play went as follows Bottom 8 Danny Muno singles to CF Brandon Allen grounds into 6-6-3 DP Kirk Nieuwenhuis singles to RF Anthony Recker strikes out swinging Bottom 9 Gavin Cecchini grounds out 6-3 Johnny Monell pops out to 3b. Wilfredo Tovar strikes out swinging. Most impressively, he threw all strikes. Couch is right on the verge of a big league promotion. He compiled a 2.78 ERA last season over 106.2 innings with a 1.22 WHIP. Keep an eye on Couch’s progress this year with the Pawtucket Sox as he chases his dream to play with the big league club.

Photo Credit: SUNY Old Westbury Athletics Kean wasn’t content beating just one Long Island team. After coming back to beat St. Joseph’s, they beat Old Westbury 12-4. Ace Tim Ingram struggled mightily with his command. In his 4.2 innings of work, he walked six and threw three wild pitches–very uncharacteristic from the reigning Skyline Pitcher of the Year. He allowed four earned runs while striking out four. “It was the first time we’ve been out of the gym as a while so there was some kinks that needed to be worked out,” said Ingram. “The mound wasn’t terrible but it definitely wasn’t good and a real tight zone wasn’t much help,” he added. He was relieved by Caleb Olsen, who allowed five runs in 0.2 innings of work. In total,...

Photo Credit: St. Joseph’s Athletics After five cancellations, the St. Joseph’s Golden Eagles were able to kick off their 2015 campaign against Kean University. They dropped a close one 5-4 to the perennial powerhouse. Entering the bottom of the ninth, the Golden Eagles actually held a 4-2 lead with Nick Girardi on the hill. After a single and a walk to begin the frame, Kean executed a sacrifice bunt to get the tieing run in scoring position. Pinch-hitter Anthony Fischetti came through with a two-run single to tie the game. He also stole second and third. The following batter walked and stole second to get in scoring position with one out. Scott Durkin ended the game with a single to send St. Joseph’s home on a sour note. Starting Pitching Ryan Aloise threw a terrific gam...

Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Stony Brook split their double header today with Fordham in a set of games that was closed to the public. They won the first game 6-1 behind Tyler Honahan, but were defeated 9-6 in the night cap. In the first game, Honahan received the victory by throwing six strong innings, allowing only three hits, walking one, allowing one ER and striking out five. Fordham got out to an early 1-0 in the third inning on a triple by Ryan McNally and an RBI single by Mark Donadio. The Sea Wolves responded promptly with three runs of their own in the bottom of the inning. Robert Chaverria drove in two with a single and it was followed by Cole Peragine’s run-scoring hit. That was all Honahan would need. The southpaw was dominant in his six innings. Stony Brook added one in t...

Photo Credit: C.W. Post Athletics The C.W. Post Pioneers had the right idea by traveling to Florida to play some baseball. They dropped their season opener, however, 2-1 to Post University. The Pioneers bats did not warm up with the weather–they were held to four hits. Graduate student Rich Maccarone accounted for two of those. Their lone run came across in the fourth inning on a wild pitch that scored David Groeneveld. At that point, the Pioneers appeared to be in control, as Jake DeCarli was firing zeros and holding the opposition hitless. That changed in the bottom of the fifth when Post scored both of their runs on an RBI double by catcher Bryan McKenna (2-for-3). DeCarli hurled a tremendous game–six innings, two earned, three hits, two walks and four strikeouts. It was not...

Photo Credit: Newsday Watch the Throne isn’t just a classic album by Kanye West and Jay-Z.It’s also the game plan West Islip must employ if they plan on returning to the Long Island Championship once again.The Lions are coming off a banner year in which they captured the Suffolk County title for the first time since 2008–when Nick Tropeano was striking out everyone in sight.The difference is this year’s team will be returning their horse–James Kory, who went 10-0 (only pitcher in program history to do so) and took his game to an unprecedented level in the postseason when he was untouchable.Sixth year Head Coach Shawn Rush is confident that his team will be led by their rotation once again.“We have a lot of depth there–we’ll get a ton of quali...

Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics It’s always great to see local products succeed in fulfilling their dreams of playing professional baseball. Max Schonfeld, 2014 graduate of Molloy, recently signed with the Gateway Grizzlies of the Frontier League.The East Meadow native grabbed the attention of Baseball on the Island last year by dominating the ECC and ultimately setting Molloy’s program record for lowest career ERA for a single season (1.61) as well as career (2.19). In fact, if you glance through the record book you will find Schonfeld’s name virtually all over the place. He was just one out away from throwing the most innings in a single season (92.2) and is tied for first with 13 starts in a season. He’s third in career wins (15), complete games (8), shutouts (2) ...

Photo Credit: NY Times The nightmare Winter continues. The hope was that as the calendar flipped to March it would bring some better weather–that couldn’t be further from the truth. Between the snow this past Sunday, yesterday and the impending storm this week it has caused another flurry of cancellations. Stony Brook verse NYIT was cancelled yesterday. Adelphi cancelled its game verse Molloy today. Dowling also cancelled its games today and this weekend. It has been nothing short of a nightmare. Hopefully next week brings different news.

Photo Credit: Farmingdale Athletics Sitting out a year is always difficult–being forced to watch from the dugout, visiting doctors and attending physical therapy is all part of the struggles of enduring a season-ending injury. The silver lining is that if you weather the storm and heal properly, you are often a stronger person and possibly a better player because of it. Farmingdale’s Dalton McCarthy is coming off a torn hamstring that forced him to miss all of 2014, but he is healed and ready to have a huge 2015. The worst part was not being able to help my team. I always try to find the positives in every situation so I looked at last season as an opportunity to develop mentally as a player. I look at the game a little differently now that I had a chance to take a step back an...

This is a big week for Baseball on the Island If not for road trips down south, nobody would have played a game yet from Long Island. This week should change that. Now, there was snowfall last night but it’s expected to warm up this week and it should allow for actual games to take place on college campuses in Long Island.  Here is a breakdown of the scheduled games for this week. Division-I: Stony Brook: Tuesday vs NYIT, Saturday @ Fordham (DH), Sunday @ Fordham NYIT: Tuesday @ Stony Brook, Friday-Sunday @ George Mason Hofstra: Saturday @ Albany (DH), Sunday @ Albany Division-II: Adelphi: Wednesday vs Molloy, Saturday vs Bloomsburg (DH), Sunday vs Bloomsburg Dowling: Wednesday vs Pace, Saturday vs Franklin Pierce (DH), Sunday vs Franklin Pierce Molloy: Wednesday @ Adelphi, Saturday ...