Asa Grunenwald
Westhampton Beach Primed For A Better Season In 2024
By Mike Merolle Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s season preview series. Westhampton Beach 5, Hills West 4 WP: Ryan Knieriemen Ryan Knieriemen: 2 for 4, RBI single Frankie Noto: 1 for 3, RBI single Reilly Miller: 1 for 2 pic.twitter.com/6ppG0UZjlT — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 12, 2022 It was a tough season for Westhampton Beach in 2023, finishing the season with a record of 2-18. Sixth-year head coach Asa Grunenwald believes the team’s biggest struggle was finding consistency on the mound. After seasons of development, Grunenwald is excited for the talent this year’s Westhampton Beach brings. Grunenwald has a group of seniors that has been a part of the program for six years. Riley Miller, Nick Rizzo, Kevin Smith, Ethan Selt...
Westhampton Beach Looks to Return to Playoffs Following 1-0 Heartbreaker
By Thomas Cregan Despite the loss of many key players from 2021 Westhampton Beach coach Asa Grunenwald is looking for another strong season out of his group in 2022. Westhampton posted a 9-9 regular season record in 2021 which propelled them to the playoffs. They would lose to Hills West 1-0 which coach Grunenwald called a heartbreaking way to end the season. However, he said that overall, it was a good year in which his team kept themselves in many close games and even their losses were close and always thrilling. The 2021 team was driven both offensively and on the mound by seniors and this year coach Grunenwald is looking to his group to step up and fill in the production that was provided by those players that graduated. Grunenwald mentioned four major contributors from the previous...
