Bryan Bonin
Commack Takes the Field With Heavy Hearts in 2022
Commack captures the Conference I Long Island Championship with a 3-1 victory over Massapequa ! pic.twitter.com/QCz1prESnG — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 21, 2021 Commack will take the field with heavy hearts in 2022 following the passing of their Head Coach Bryan Bonin in January. Bonin was an incredible person and coach – who led the Cougars to the County Championship during his first year in 2017 and also their first Long Island Championship in program history in 2021. Incumbent coach, Matt Salmon, had the following to say: “Since Bryan passed away, I’ve been in constant contact with the guys. The kids really loved him. It’s almost taken on a natural feel the way Bryan would’ve wanted it. Everybody is locked in on baseball. During tryouts, from...
Commack head coach Bryan Bonin Passes Away
Commack head coach Bryan Bonin passed away last night after a battle with cancer. He was just 33 years old. It is a truly devastating loss for the baseball community, his family and loved ones. Bryan led the Commack Cougars to the Long Island Championship in 2021 with a hard-fought victory over Nassau Champion Massapequa. It was really inspiring that his team knew about his diagnosis and was able to rally behind him and capture their first LIC in program history. We named Bryan the Coach of the Year and he was the no-brainer selection. He also led them to the Class AA County Championship in 2017, which was his first season at the helm and it broke a drought of 20 years. He began having more difficulties in the time since the season ended and unfortunately the situation became more grim in ...
Commack Poised For a Postseason Run in 2021
by Eric Belyea Commack baseball is one of the most touted programs on Long Island, and that does not change going into the 2021 shortened season. Head coach Bryan Bonin, a former CW Post Pioneer, is heading into his fourth season with Commack, after leading the Cougars to a Suffolk County championship in his first season. Although this year has been different in terms of preparation, Bonin has been able to put trust in his upperclassmen leadership when getting physically prepared for the season; “the kids have taken it upon themselves to work out together a few times a week. We do meet via Zoom but as far as getting physically ready they have been working really hard and mirroring workouts that the guys who have been around for a while are familiar with”, Bonin explains. With the COVID-1...
Commack Is Motivated To Avenge Last Season’s Postseason Exit
by Joseph Langan Joe Pellegrino gives Commack a 6-5 lead in the fifth ! pic.twitter.com/BtXySTeslf — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 25, 2019 Despite another successful season, Commack had their title hopes dashed late in the postseason at the hands of a rival. In a hard fought 8-6 battle against Ward Melville, Commack was knocked out of the playoffs in a contentious back-and-forth affair. Coach Bonin and his team are out for revenge this season, knowing that last season’s abrupt ending doesn’t show how good Commack really is. “The way our season ended last year, who we lost to and when we lost to them is still something myself, Coach Salmon and the returning guys haven’t gotten over.” With the bad taste left in his mouth Coach Bonin is pushing his players to be the best v...
