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Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics The 0-6 start is now a distant memory. The Stony Brook Sea Wolves have now won 20 of 25 after completing a weekend sweep of Binghamton at Joe Nathan Field. They won the first game 3-1, with Tim Knesnik winning his second game of the season. He tossed 5.1 shutout innings but walked five batters against one strikeout. Bryan Tatelman and Cameron Stone each threw  1.2 innings with the latter recording the save. Jack Parenty hit a two-run triple in the fifth which accounted for all the necessary runs. The middle game ended 5-4 in 10 innings. Brandon McNitt went the first five innings while allowing four runs. He was relieved by Ryley MacEachern fired the next five innings, shutdown the opposition and recorded the win when Kevin Courtney scored on a wild pitch...

 The Dowling Golden Lions defeated Queens College 4-1 in an ECC conference game to improve to 19-8 on the season. I was at the game and here are my takeaways.. Tyler Badamo can pitch for my team any day of the week. After allowing a run in the first inning on a wild pitch, he settled in and dominated an overmatched lineup. He fired a complete game for the fourth consecutive outing and set a career-high in strikeouts with 17 and walked none. He allowed six hits, with the lone extra base hit coming in the first inning.  He improved his record to 5-1 an lowered his ERA to 0.54. He threw 119 pitches and did it with remarkable efficiency (76 percent strikes) and showed the ability to throw four pitches for strikes. Early on, he was sticking to fastball-slider combination, but began mixing in cu...

Photo Credit: Farmingdale Athletics The Farmingdale State Rams ended their mini losing streak with an easy 11-4 victory over Baruch. They crushed 19 hits; including a huge 4-for-5 day with three runs scored for leadoff hitter Ed Bergmann. Mike Marino added three hits and three RBI. Freshman Daniel Tierney recorded the victory, as he fired 5.2 innings of two-run ball in relief of Kevin Martinez who started and was lifted after 0.2 innings. He struck out seven batters in his outing. Ambioris Veras, Kevin Cashman and Dominick Morelli combined to close the door with 2.2 shutout innings. For Baruch, the leadoff hitter, Nick Pomo-Roman went 4-for-5 with two runs scored but the rest of the lineup only had five hits. The Rams improve to 13-8 and have double headers this weekend against NYU-Poly an...

Photo Credit: NYIT Athletics The NYIT Bears nearly ended their long losing streak, but dropped a close one 12-10 to LIU Brooklyn to move to 1-24 on the season. They were down 6-0 after one and 8-1 after five but scratched and clawed back with eight runs in their last four innings. They outhit the opposition 17 to 15; Joe Daru and Tom Joannou both had four. Anthony Martelli also had three hits. Matt Diaz suffered the loss for the Bears, he lasted only 0.1 innings while allowing four earned runs. J.P Lipovac came in relief and tossed the next five innings, allowing five earned runs. The losing streak has now hit 10, and they will take on Seton Hall this weekend in a three-game set.

Adelphi improved to 14-12 with a 6-2 victory over Dominican. Rather than a normal game recap, I will write my observations from the game since I was in attendance… The starting pitcher, Mike Ceperano, was very impressive. The freshman faced some adversity in the first inning and allowed two runs to come in but settled in completely after that. I was impressed that he had command of three pitches on either side of the plate. He did benefit from an umpire that granted him roughly four or five inches off the plate inside to right-handed batters, but he still had to execute. He was 81-83 all day with his fastball, which had some cut action as opposed to typical tailing action from a lefty. His change-up was inconsistent, but that’s expected from a young pitcher. It sat at 75 mph, a...

Pitchers are the most unique breed in sports. They do not need to be psyched up to perform at their best like a linebacker. They do not need to be in peak physical shape to perform at their best like point guards. In fact, most pitchers are cerebral and perform their best if you just leave them alone. Or in the case of Dowling’s ace Tyler Badamo, he found he performs his best if he just leaves his arm alone. “For the first time in my career,” he said. “I had almost four months off of throwing. I took off the entire fall from throwing and did everything I could to be 100 percent by the time the season started,” he said. Following his 2013 season, in which he threw 83 innings and compiled a 2.60 ERA, Badamo decided to take a step back and prepare differently for...

Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics Stony Brook stayed hot with a 16-4 trouncing of Manhattan to improve to 17-11. The Sea Wolves were up 10-0 after two innings. Toby Handley went 3-for-3 with two RBI and Robert Chavarria, Cole Peragine, Casey Baker and Jack Parenty each had two hits. They also benefitted from sloppy defense by Manhattan–they committed five errors. Josh Barry got his second win of the season by throwing 5.1 strong innings, allowing one run. They will be back in action on Saturday when they begin a three-game set against Binghamton. NYIT lost both games of a double header to Siena  9-2 and 6-0 to drop to 1-24 on the season. They were down 6-0 early on in the first, but the pitching staff settled in after that. Nick Sebastian compiled two hits for the Bears. They will take ...

Photo Credit: Patrick E. McCarthy For the second straight week, a Nassau County high school pitcher has fired a perfect game. Last week, Mike Delio completed the swing-and-miss fest of 21 strikeouts, Papa–also a junior–struck out 17 in his team’s 8-0 win over Great Neck North. Papa, regarded as one of the better pitchers in the county, benefitted from the rare 9-3 putout on a would-be single to right field, but Francis Alexander came up firing and threw out the runner. He took care of the rest himself, allowing only three other balls to be put in play, with one of them being a groundball back to the mound. With the victory, Division improves to 5-1 on the season in Conference A-II. They are the class of the division but will be battling with Hewlett, Manhasset and Plained...

Stony Brook Athletics Kevin Krause made a diving catch in the bottom of the ninth with two outs to preserve a 6-4 lead for the Sea Wolves and move them to 16-11 on the season. Cameron Stone tossed three shutout innings in relief of Connor Doyle to record his first collegiate win and Bryan Tatelman recorded his second save. Anthony Italiano went 3-for-5 at the plate with two RBI and Toby Handley added two hits, two RBI and one run scored. The Sea Wolves left 11 men stranded on base but were fortunate to come up with the victory, as they have now won 16 of 21. They will begin a five-game homestand today against Manhattan at 3:30.

Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Stony Brook won two of three games this weekend. They defeated Bryant on Friday 8-5, Connecticut on Saturday 6-3, before losing to Bryant on Sunday 4-3. The Sealwolves improve to 15-11 on the season. They came back from a 4-0 first inning deficit on Friday. Vanderka struggled out of the game but hung on for seven innings while his offense got back in the game. Bryan Tatelman got his second victory of the season and Cameron Stone recorded his fifth save with a smooth ninth inning. Cole Peragine with 3-for-5 with four RBI and two runs scored. In the win over UCONN, Tim Knesnik threw five scoreless innings in relief of Ryley MacEachern. Bryan Tatelman recorded the save. Despite four errors, the Sea Wolves were victorious thanks to 10 hits, and two RBI from Kevi...

Photo Credit: St. Joseph’s Athletics The Golden Eagles of St. Joseph’s handled Merchant Marine 11-4 thanks to seven unanswered runs. They were able to put up double-digit runs despite only seven hits in large part to the patience at the plate which resulted in eight walks. Tom Rubenstein went 4-for-4 with two RBI and Joe Liberatore went 2-for-2 with four runs scored to give the pitching staff more than enough to work with. Matt Mills recorded his first win of the season, throwing 1.2 scoreless innings in relief of starter Matt Hess. The Golden Eagles have a crucial weekend, with double headers against Purchase and Maritime. They will have the opportunity to pull even at .500 if they win all four.

Photo Credit: Harris Rappel The Old Westbury Panthers thoroughly dominated Drew University by the score of 10-0. Braylin Perez fired eight shutout innings, allowing only three hits and striking out nine for his first win of the season. The offense erupted for 10 runs on 13 hits; John Angelino and Kevin Licul both had three hits and John Pagan stayed hot with two hits and three RBI. Alex Disanto came on for the ninth inning and recorded a spotless frame, striking out two. The Panthers remain under .500 at 7-13, but have double headers this weekend against Mount St. Vincent and NYU-Poly to creep back in contention for the conference title.