Branden Falco

Branden Falco Delivers Go-Ahead Hit, Joe Sommer Fires CG to Advance

Final: Kings Park 5, Sachem North 2 WP: Joe Sommer Branden Falco go-ahead two-run single KP will face Commack tomorrow pic.twitter.com/gegR8kuOLR — aXcess Baseball (@axcessbaseball) May 15, 2017 When he was a freshman watching the Kings Park varsity team play, Branden Falco thought to himself “this is gonna be us someday.” As it turns out, it was three years later that he would be playing in front of a packed house with his team trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning against Sachem North in an elimination game. It was the same team that had eliminated them the previous year, with the same pitcher (Chris Lollo) who fired a no-hitter as Falco watched from the sideline due to injury. The LIU Post-commit ripped a two-run single up the middle to put the Kingsmen up 3-2,...

Branden Falco Discusses How He Persevered Through Injuries

(Editor’s Note: Branden is a 2017 graduate of Kings Park HS. Today he announced he has committed to LIU Post. His fastball sits in the low-to-mid 80s.) By Branden Falco My baseball career has been a bumpy flight. When I started playing baseball at 8-years-old, pitching was my first love. When I was 13, I started feeling tingling down my arm when I threw. I went to an orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Alpert and he sent me for an MRI. It came back showing a swollen rotator cuff and my labrum was very loose. After hearing that, the beginning of my freshman year I began training with Xceleration sports training. When I went there for my evaluation, the manager, Steve Wilk, stated that if I want to pitch in college, I need to shut it down until 11th grade and just play a position. This was to...

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