by Ethan Marshall Dream Chasers head coach Danny Corona on his team’s championship-winning performance. pic.twitter.com/1BIUSSOTxm — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) August 23, 2020 The Dream Chasers Baseball Academy defeated the Batting 1000 Seminoles, 6-1, in the championship game of the Bring the Heat Tournament at Mitchel Field. Dream Chasers starting pitcher Cameron Lynch allowed just one run and two hits with six strikeouts over 5.2 innings and Julian Martinez’s 3-run homer in the third inning broke the game open. Dream Chasers coach Danny Corona credited the team’s performance both on the field and at the plate for their championship. “I’m a big believer that defense wins ballgames and our team stepped up to the plate this weekend and played some great defense,” Coach Coro...
It was a comeback for the ages on Saturday afternoon at Mitchel Field in the 11u division of the ‘Beat the Heat‘ tournament. This was a tale of two games. There was the first half of the game that was all Team Beast, and the second half that was all Oil City Bandits, as OCB came away with the incredible 14-13 victory – in a game that was only four innings due to the time limit. In the top of the first, the Bandits jumped out to an early 1-0 lead when Michael Amato got things going with a walk, stolen base and then came around to score on an RBI single by Aiden Perry to left field. This ballgame was far from over at this point – in fact it was just the appetizer. Beast Black responded with three runs in the home half of the first. Anthony Kotarski singled and scored ...
Final: Oil City Bandits 10, Three Village Patriots 5 WP: Tyler Donahui pic.twitter.com/RlxrUJ7LLE — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) August 21, 2020 The Oil City Bandits stayed true to their name and stole a victory this evening after trailing 4-0 entering the bottom of the third inning against the Three Village Patriots to open up the ‘Bring the Heat’ tournament at Plainedge Park. It was all Patriots early, as they jumped out to an early 4-0 lead against the Bandits in the top of the third inning. Their rally got started on a leadoff walk to Ryan Byrne. After an error and a hit by pitch, he scored on an RBI single to left field by Daniel Cornish. They added their second run on an RBI ground out by Ethan Honan. Anthony Boris followed with a routine grounder to second that w...
Final: Dodgers Nation 14, Oil City 1 WP: Zach Sisto pic.twitter.com/hZ7XR9FKVe — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) August 21, 2020 Dodgers Nation 10U opened up their Bring the Heat tournament with a dominating 14-1 victory over Oil City Bandits on Friday afternoon at Plainedge Park. The boys wasted no time getting the bats going into the top of the first when Ethan Sukalic led off with a single and advanced to second on an error. After a walk and a pair of strikeouts, Costa Papoutsakis drove him in with an RBI single. Johnny Bulone hit a grounder to third that appeared to end the inning, but the errant throw allowed two runs to score and extend the lead to 3-0. A single by pitcher Zach Sisto brought up Dylan Mannino who also singled, which opened up a 4-0 lead. Sisto went out and worked...