Centereach
Ken Kortright State Farm Game of the Week: Centereach Clinches League 3 Title for First Time in 14 Years
For the first time since 2010, Centereach has captured the League 3 Title. They clinched a share, pending the results of Smithtown East-Hills East game pic.twitter.com/hEjY5eNbBz — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 8, 2024 All season long, Centereach has prided itself on never being out of games and being able to fight back and win games. They proved their mettle today against rival Newfield, as they overcame a 2-0 deficit in the sixth inning to win 7-3 in extra innings. With the victory, they guaranteed they will be at least Co-League Champs along with Smithtown East – as they are 1 game ahead with 2 games to go. It’s their first League Championship since 2010, but they did reach the postseason in 2022. It was really a tale of 2 games, with the first five innings absolu...
Centereach Hopes to Recapture Magic of 2022
by Aaron Diaz and Vin Messana (Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s season preview series.) Congratulations to Centereach who defeated Smithtown East in extra innings to clinch their first postseason berth since 2010 pic.twitter.com/xX8F8V0Ap1 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 4, 2022 Centereach looks to recapture their magical postseason run of 2022 and bounce back from a down season last year. They will aim to clinch a playoff berth in 2024. “Last season was very disappointing for us,” said Centereach Head Coach Pete Cammarata. “The season before that we got into bracket semifinals and we made a deep run into the playoffs. I didn’t think we were going to be as good but we were disappointed with where we were last year, we only ...
Where Are They Now Powered by The BK7 Brand: Greg Marino
(Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment of “Where Are They Now” Powered by the BK7 Brand. You can check out the previous seven by clicking here. In this edition, we catch up with Greg Marino, a former standout pitcher at Centereach HS and Stony Brook University.) Standing 6’6 and throwing in the low 90s, Greg Marino was an intimidating presence on the mound for Stony Brook University. The hard-throwing RHP pitched three seasons for Matt Senk including starting an NCAA Regional game in 2019 against LSU. Following his collegiate career, Marino followed in his brother’s footsteps and played in the Frontier League with the Southern Illinois Miners for the 2019 season. But just like that, he decided his professional baseball career was done at the age of 22. Could he have continued? Sure...
Jerry Suppa’s Arm and Bat Leads Smithtown East to 6-0 Win Over Centereach
Jerry Suppa was the winning pitcher for Smithtown East – throwing 4.1 innings of shutout ball and also driving in a run with an RBI double. He’s our Player of the Game Powered by @GCsports pic.twitter.com/vitxNSz2Ch — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) March 28, 2023 Last season was one to remember for Smithtown East, who reached the Suffolk County Class AA Finals in Head Coach Rob Christensen‘s first season where they lost to Commack. They graduated several impact players, but the experience that the returning players gained was invaluable. That was on display this afternoon as they defeated League rival Centereach, 6-0, behind a dominant performance by senior Jerry Suppa. These two teams squared off in the postseason last season, with Smithtown East coming out on top. The r...
Where Are They Now Powered by the BK7 Brand: Greg Marino
(Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment of “Where Are They Now” Powered by the BK7 Brand. You can check out the previous seven by clicking here. In this edition, we catch up with Greg Marino, a former standout pitcher at Centereach HS and Stony Brook University.) 6’6″ Greg Marino is coming off a great year and is up to 88-90 MPH with his heater. Certainly a potential draft candidate pic.twitter.com/d5UKWGTEoS — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 16, 2017 Standing 6’6 and throwing in the low 90s, Greg Marino was an intimidating presence on the mound for Stony Brook University. The hard-throwing RHP pitched three seasons for Matt Senk including starting an NCAA Regional game in 2019 against LSU. Following his collegiate career, Marino foll...
Centereach is Looking to Build on Last Year’s Success
by Andy Smith Congratulations to Centereach who defeated Smithtown East in extra innings to clinch their first postseason berth since 2010 pic.twitter.com/xX8F8V0Ap1 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 4, 2022 The Centereach Cougars had quite the notable run last season. The Cougars finished with a 10-8 league record and 2-2 in the playoffs. Head Coach Pete Cammarata reflected, “Last season for us at Centereach was special. It ended with a deep run in the playoffs, and got us back to the winning ways of the past – overcoming the pressure of making the playoffs after not making it in a few years.” This was the first time since 2010 that Centereach High School qualified for the playoffs. Not only did they qualify – but they defeated two rivals in the playoffs – at ...
Centereach Clinches First Postseason Berth in 12 Years
Congratulations to Centereach who defeated Smithtown East in extra innings to clinch their first postseason berth since 2010 pic.twitter.com/xX8F8V0Ap1 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 4, 2022 They’ve been waiting on this for a long time. Even the clinching game was spread out over 24 hours after Tuesday’s scheduled game lasted nearly 3 hours and was suspended due to darkness. Upon the continuation of the game on Wednesday at Centereach, the Cougars scored a run in the top of the eighth on a sac fly by Dom Persichilli to score Burke Sheehan. That was the pitching duo as well – but in reverse order. Sheehan started and went 5+ innings, before giving way to Persichilli who pitched the final 3 innings over the course of two days to seal the 6-5 victory. Centereach ...
Centereach Hopeful to Take Step Next and Reach Postseason
By Thomas Cregan Centereach head coach Pete Cammarata is looking to take the next step and reach the postseason in 2022. In his first two years with the program coach Cammarata and his Centereach team barely missed the playoffs by just one game in both years. However, in 2021 the team took a step back and won four games, but Cammarata is not discouraged and is looking to build off the experience his players have gained and continue to make strides toward success in 2022. He described the 2021 season as a “hiccup” and he further stated, “Having a four-win season hurts and it’s really not something that you want to see, but this team has always been gritty and competitive, and we will be looking to our core group of seniors to perform better in 2022.” Centereach saw two key players depart f...
Up Next Powered by the Yard Sports: Logan Norman
PG 2021 15U New England Elite Championship 🏆Champion: Eastcoast Lumberjacks 🥈Finalist: Vendetta Baseball 🏅MVP: Logan Norman 🏅MVPitcher: Josh Ossiander pic.twitter.com/bXIoKzRCKy — Perfect Game Tournaments (@PG_Tourney) July 6, 2021 It’s been six years since Centereach HS has produced a Division-I player. That was 6’6 RHP Greg Marino who went onto pitch at Stony Brook University, where he was a key cog for the Seawolves rotation before briefly playing pro ball in 2019. Before that, it was his brother in 2007 who went to play for Stony Brook and won an America East title before playing several years in the Frontier League. In between, Centereach did have back-to-back League III Championships in 2009 and 2010. It’s significant because it’s the last time the Cougars fin...
Pete Cammarata Excited to Compete in 2021
by Ben Diamond There is a lot of confidence coming out of Centereach baseball for this coming season. Centereach head coach Pete Cammarata, entering his fourth season, expects that his team will be competitive this season. They are looking to break a postseason drought which spans a decade, but have come tantalizing close in 2018 and 2019 – as they needed just one more win to qualify each year. “We are going to be a competitive baseball team. I think we are going to match up with the best of them,” Cammarata said. “I do think that when teams come play us this year they are going to realize we are competitive.” Cammarata was the assistant coach during Centereach’s last two postseason trips in 2009-2010, when they were League III Champs. This season, they will play in Conference...
OTD: Newfield Ends Postseason Drought Behind Kyle Johnson’s Gem
Our @DigmiNation Player of the Game is winning pitcher Kyle Johnson. He allowed only two hits and struck out 5 batters #TipYourCap pic.twitter.com/tPdfnquykC — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 20, 2018 In 2005, Kyle Johnson was five-years-old. That was the last time the Newfield Wolverines competed in a playoff game. Today, the Stony Brook-commit pitched like he has been waiting 13 years to make the playoffs. The past two years were fresh in their memory all winter as they came just one win away from a postseason berth in ’16 and two wins last season. In 2018, however, they won the necessary 10 games within the first 11 games. “It feels awesome,” he said following the game. “We are going to enjoy this today–it’s been 13 years–but tomorrow we get right back to work and get ready f...
The Shame In Losing Your Senior Year of High School
When it comes to being a student-athlete in high school, there is an endless amount of responsibilities and tasks on a daily basis just to have the privilege to step on a field. Looking back on it now, I’m not sure how I even did it. Thinking about waking up at 6 am, catching the bus, sitting through 7 hours of school work for five days per week, multiple nights of off-season workouts, a week of tryouts and two weeks of scrimmages just to get to Opening Day is pretty outrageous. For seniors who may not have gotten the chance to experience success as an 11th grader – and who are probably not playing after this season – this short window of 18 regular season games represented their last opportunity to taste success in an organized sport. And it breaks my heart that there...
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