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By Nakeem Grant On a cold, damp Sunday afternoon in Uniondale, NY, Dowling showed plenty of grit against Molloy in the fourth game of their weekend series. After losing both games at home in their doubleheader on Saturday, Dowling bounced back on Sunday to win, 9-5. Dowling found themselves trailing early on when Molloy jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first. Angelo Navetta got things going in the first for Molloy with an RBI single to right. He then scored on a wild pitch later in the inning and Albert Alberghina followed up with an RBI single of his own. Molloy seemed to have Dowling’s freshman, Chris Cepeda, on the ropes to start the game but he responded to the adversity with great vigor. He gave up just one earned run after the first inning and went on pitch seven innings despite givin...

by Danny Gatta This is a full recap of today’s college baseball action. Division I: Stony Brook swept a double header against conference foe UMBC by the scores of 4-1 and 3-2. Chad Lee pitched eight great innings for the Seawolves, allowing only three hits and one run while striking out three. A leadoff triple by Handley in the first evened the score at one. Giles singled home Real in the fourth to put the Seawolves ahead 2-1. They would add two unearned runs in the sixth, extending their lead to 4-1. Lee pitched his way out a jam in the eighth, leaving two UMBC runners in scoring position. Rodliff would enter in the ninth and preserve the victory for Stony Brook. Game two featured Stony Brook freshman pitcher Bret Clarke and UMBC pitcher Conrad Wozniak. Clarke threw five innings of one ru...

by Vinny Messana Smithtown West has been knocking on the door for the past few seasons. Despite consistently being a 17, 18-win team, they have not been able to get over the hump and win the Suffolk County Class AA title. That may change this season. Their shortstop and ace, Nick Grande, has done everything in his power to make sure this is the year that the Bulls finish on top. The Stony Brook-commit is off to a scorching start to the 2016 season. Now in his fifth varsity season, he is the early favorite to win the coveted Carl Yastrzesmski Award. Only one other player in school history has won the award, and that was Brady Forseth way back in 1989. After his latest stellar outing–a CG win against another great team in Half Hollow Hills East, Grande is 4-0 on the season with 31 IP, ...

by Vinny Messana With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, Greg Tsouprakos scored on a wild pitch to give first-place West Islip a victory over a hungry North Babylon team, 4-3. Two innings prior, the Lions were down to their last out with a runner on third base when sophomore Jake Guercio hit a dribbler that the shortstop couldn’t handle and allowed West Islip to tie the game against Steven Burke–who hurled a gem in this one. There’s a lotta good guys on that team,” said West Islip’s winning pitcher, Ray Weber, in regards to North Babylon. “They fought, and we matched their intensity, I felt like, through out the duration of the game. They did a great job, gotta give credit to them for fighting,” said Weber–who now has six wins and wi...

by Vinny Messana When the two League I powerhouses clash, it’s not for the faint of heart. The first two games featured a win by each team (one in 10 innings), ejections from both sides and no love lost between the two schools. Today, Troy Davern, starting pitcher and cleanup hitter for Ward Melville, took matters into his own hands and dominated on both sides of the ball in the Patriots 10-2 win over Pat-Med. “The emotions of the first game was just ridiculous,” said the senior. ” This game I knew I had to come in, throw strikes, hit and do everything I could possible for my team.” He certainly did that. He went 3-for-3 at the plate, with three runs scored including a long two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to break the game open at 10-2. He a...

Here is a recap featuring today’s college action… Division I: Stony Brook dropped a high scoring game to Fairfield earlier today by the score of 14-9. Kevin Kernan started the game for the Sea Wolves going 2.2 innings surrendering just two hits, while giving up two earned runs. The rest of the staff faired about the same with each pitcher giving up two or more runs in their innings of work, besides Teddy Rodliff who threw a clean inning. Fairfield only out hit Stony Brook by one, 15 to 14, and also made two more errors on the day (3). The sixth inning was huge for Fairfield as they put together six hits for seven runs. The best inning offensively for Stony Brook came in the fifth as they scored five runs on four hits. Andruw Gazzola (4-for-4), Casey Baker (2-for-5), Johnny Caputo (2-for-5)...

by Vinny Messana If this game was any indication of how the Suffolk County Class AA playoffs will play out–we’re in store for some theatrics. Smithtown West overcame a 4-1 deficit in the top of the seventh inning and Nick Grande escaped a 2nd & 3rd, none out jam in the bottom of the seventh to lead the Bulls to a huge League III victory. “It was really just a battle of wits,” said the Stony Brook commit who battled and overcame some costly errors behind him to win his fourth game of the year and put himself in the early conversation for the League III MVP. “It was whoever was going to stay mentally tougher,” he added. The Bulls drew six walks in the first three innings against sophomore Joe Litchhult making his varsity debut. The southpaw was able to...

by Vinny Messana Tim Woodford was fooling around with a forkball grip before the  game and he liked it. Undeterred that he never threw it in a game, he decided to use it against East Islip, a team that had defeated Hauppauge five of the past six games, including twice in the postseason. He had the guts to not only use the pitch, but use it a majority of the time which allowed him to fire a complete game, allowing just one ER, five hits and one walk while striking out six in the Eagle’s 2-1 victory against League V rival East Islip. “Each pitch is a fight,” said the St. Joseph’s commit. “Especially in a 2-1 game like that. Each pitch is very important, there’s no room for complacency,” he added. East Islip actually took a 1-0 lead in the second inni...

(This article was submitted from the Hofstra Chronicle) by P.J. Potter First year pitchers typically do not step on the mound until the later innings of the game. But John Rooney has been given the chance not many first year pitchers get to experience: starting in a conference game. “I’m really happy the coaches have the confidence in me to go from reliever to starter,” John Rooney, a 6-foot-5-inch left-hander from Melrose, New York, said. Rooney began the season as one of the most relied on relievers of the Hofstra pitching staff, including opening day against Texas A&M, where he was the first relief pitcher to come out of the bullpen for the Pride. He was then penciled in as the long reliever for the time being, staying on the mound for up to four innings each outing. After tossing 2...