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Photo Credit: Old Westbury Athletics Hofstra defeated NYIT by the score of 13-1. A 1-1 game entering the top of the eighth quickly became a blowout when the Pride scored 11 runs in the final two innings to improve to 14-13 on the season while the Bears drop to 1-30. John Schilt recorded the win with two shutout innings of relief for his first W. Robbie Cafiero went 4-for-4 with one RBI and one run scored and Eric Ferguson added three hits, four RBI and one run scored. The Pride will take on Delaware today in the first game of a three game set. Molloy shutout Bridgeport behind Max Schonfeld’s five-hitter. It was his fourth victory of the season. He allowed two walks and struck out two. The only run he needed came in on an RBI single by John Galanoudis in the first inning. For good mea...

Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics Stony Brook beat Rhode Island 5-4 to stay hot and improve to 21-11. The winning run came in the bottom of the eighth on a sac fly by Johnny Caputo. Nick Brass threw the final two innings to record his first win of the season. Kevin Krause and Keven Courtney both had two hits and scored three of the five runs. They will take on UMass-Lowell in a three-game series beginning Friday. NYIT lost a double header to Fairfield by the scores of 4-1 and 5-3. They are now 1-29 on the season and will take on Hofstra today. Hofstra got shut out 5-0 to Manhattan to drop to 13-13 on the season. Alec Eisenberg suffered the loss for the Pride with Shawn Kanwisher recording the victory for the Jaspers, who are now 8-23. The Pride were held to seven hits, TJ Ehrsam accounti...

Pitchers are throwing too frequently, not too many pitches. You’ll hear it from former Major League pitchers all the time. “Pitch counts are ruining the game! In my day we threw ’till our arms fell off..then we threw some more!” It’s no secret that pitchers are getting injured at a higher frequency than ever before. In Tom Verducci’s latest article on Sports Illustrated, he stated that five of the 16 high school pitchers that were selected in the first round of the drafts from 2010-2012 have already undergone Tommy John surgery. It’s remarkable that these pitchers are coddled as soon as they sign their contract, yet they are still getting injured. Verducci’s theory is that pitchers are overtaxed before they even graduate high school, which ma...

Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Sometimes it’s best to make a change in your life. It’s possible something was holding you back from reaching your potential. In the case of Cliff Brantley, he just needed a change of scenery. “Things were not working out for me at my previous school, baseball wise,” said the junior who played at Wagner College in Staten Island. “I was in a position where I needed somewhere to play and I remembered receiving a letter from Coach Dom Scala my junior year in high school. I took the chance in telling him I was interested in playing. I visited the school and came down with my parents. I am extremely grateful to Adelphi and Coach for giving me the opportunity to play.” Through 29 games, it has been a tremendous decision. In a ma...

Photo Credit: Farmingdale Athletics It doesn’t matter what their records are, the two teams will always find it in them to play two intense and entertaining games. The Farmingdale Rams and Old Westbury Panthers have met in the Skyline Conference finals in the past four seasons with the Rams winning all of them. Still, the Panthers give the Rams a hard-fought battle each time and that continued this weekend as the team’s split a double header. I was in attendance the first game and here are some of my observations of the two teams… After a rough first inning in which he allowed three hits and two runs (one earned), Alex Weingarten was dynamic. He possesses a great deal of toughness and composure on the mound. He attacked the zone and had command of his breaking ball. He ga...

Photo Credit: Farmingdale Athletics The Farmingdale Rams won three of four games this weekend. They swept NYU-Poly and split with Old Westbury. The first game against NYU-Poly was bizarre. Despite winning 19-6, they allowed 16 hits and needed five pitchers. Mike Dolce started and struggled through 1.2 innings. He was relieved by Kevin Martinez who fired three strong innings. Timmy Trimarchi went 2.1 shutout innings, allowing five hits. The Rams put up 17 hits and benefitted from eight errors. Tom Rydzewski led the way with four hits and four RBI, and Brendan Sullivan had three hits and four RBI. Anthony Alvino had three hits, four RBI and four runs scored. Ed Bergmann scored four runs and drove in one. They won the next game 19-8. They briefly got a scare by allowing a six-run fifth inning...

Photo Credit: St. Joseph’s Athletics St. Joseph’s split a double header on Saturday with Mount St. Vincent with an 8-0 victory in the nightcap. With the victory, they are now 10-14 overall and 5-4 in conference play. Steven Szobesky fired the completed game shutout, allowing three hits, walking one and striking out five. He is now 2-2 on the season. Anthony Andreani had three hits, drove in a run and scored one. Ryan Walsh and Josh Outsen both had two hits. The team compiled 12 hits total. They will take on St. Joseph’s of Brooklyn on Wednesday.

Photo Credit: CW Post Athletics The Pioneers of CW Post split a weekend series with St. Thomas Aquinas. In their 4-2 win on Saturday, Joey Arena was finally rewarded with a victory after a number of tough-luck outings this season. Arena went 8.1 innings, allowing two earned runs and now has an ERA of 0.89 through 40 innings. Jake DiCarli recorded his first save of the season. Vinny Iacono went 1-for-3 with two RBI. After losing the third game, they responded with a 5-4 win on Sunday. The go-ahead run scored in the top of the ninth on a sac fly by Thomas Asbaty (3-for-4, 2 RBI). Dan Jagiello relieved DeCarli who lasted just 0.2 innings in his start. Despite getting the no-decision, Jagiello’s 5.1 shutout innings were crucial.  Brian Tinney fired the last three innings for his second w...

Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics The Molloy Lions won all three this weekend, beginning with one against Dominican College on Saturday and followed it with a DH sweep of Nyack on Sunday. Max Schonfeld won his third game of the season by firing seven innings without an earned run against Dominican with six strikeouts. Matt Castaneda recorded his fourth save of the season by getting the last two outs, although he did yield two runs. Kevin Podell led the offense with three hits and scored a run. The Lions won the first game against Nyack 12-1. Alex Miden recorded the win with seven shutout innings allowing only three hits. The offense was lively, with Podell leading the way again with four hits and three RBI. Nick Gonchar also had four hits and three RBI. In the next game, they hung on 2-1 with...

The Golden Lions of Dowling are rolling. They just swept Queens College this weekend by the scores of 4-1, 10-4, 10-1 and 14-2. The first game I covered. You can read about it here. On Saturday they won the double header by a combined scored of 20-5. Tom Bammann won his seventh straight decision to start the year by firing eight innings with 11 strikeouts against zero walks. Andrew Abreu led the offense with three hits, two RBI and one run. In the nightcap of the double header, Kyle Demeo got the win to improve to 3-0 on the season. He went six innings and didn’t allow an earned run. Dowling got out to an early 5-0 lead and never looked back. Rob Veltre and Tyler Hardison each went 2-for-4 with two RBI. The final game was over before it started. The Golden Lions scored five in the fi...

The Adelphi Panthers lost two of three this weekend to the College of Saint Rose in Albany to fall to 15-14 on the season, but remain in the mix in the Northeast-10 conference with a 10-7 record. They were able to capture the series finale with an 8-7 win on Sunday. Chris Lemorocco started, but struggled in his 2.2 innings of work. He was relieved by Mike Cranston who took over in the third inning. The Panthers offense was able to come to life, led by Rich Mejia’s two-run single and Nick Zito following with a run-scoring single of his own. In the fourth inning, Mejia and Zito once again hit consecutive run-scoring hits to put the Panthers up 5-4. They added insurance runs with an RBI hit by Cliff Brantley (3-for-5) and a sac-fly by Brandon Stahl. St. Rose cut it close with two runs i...

Photo Credit: Hofstra Communication Department The Hofstra Pride won two of three this weekend over UNC-Wilmington to improve to 13-12 on the season. After losing the first game, they responded with an 11-5 win on Saturday. David D’Errico made his first start since the opening night of the season and was victorious with a strong five inning start allowing one run. Graham Tebbit relieved him and tossed the final four innings. The offense backed them with a season-high 18 hits and scored 11 runs. Eric Ferguson, Matt Ford and Brian MacDonald recorded three hits. They took the rubber match on Sunday with a smooth 3-1 win. David Jesch started and went 6.2, allowing one run on six hits and one walk. Brett Schreiber fired the last 2.1 innings to record his sixth save of the season and progr...