Centereach
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...
OTD: Eddie Bassett, Centereach Shutout Franklin Parra, Copiague
Six strikeouts for Franklin Parra through two innings pic.twitter.com/9zwKhzkYW1 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 5, 2018 (Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on April 6, 2018) If today was meant to be a showcase of Franklin Parra, Centereach clearly did not get the memo. They defeated Copiague‘s highly-touted LHP by the score of 10-0, behind Eddie Bassett‘s arm and Ryan Mahnke and Brian Honka’s bats. Parra, who is committed to San Jacinto Community College, was far from disappointing. He struck out eight batters over three innings and touched 92 MPH with his heater in the first inning. He was overpowering, but Centereach did work his pitch count up early. He walked one in the first, and another in the second. The Centereach Cougars got on the board in the thi...
Centereach Hopes Improved Defense Will End Postseason Drought
It has been 10 years since Centereach‘s last postseason berth. They have come tantalizingly close the past two seasons, as they came up just one win shy of the mandatory 10 victories to clinch a berth. “Two years in a row we’ve needed to win just one game and I think about it everyday,” said Head Coach Pete Cammarata, who is entering his third year at the helm. He was previously the assistant since 2004. “I’m always thinking what kind of change or tweak we need to make to win one more game. That’s in my thought process all the time,” he added. One aspect of the team that he feels is upgraded is the team’s defense – which was their undoing the previous two seasons. “Defensively we will be a good team – we will catch the...
Brian Delaney, Christian Amoruso Lead Smithtown West to 2-0 Win Over Centereach
Final: Smithtown West 2, Centereach 0 WP: Brian Delaney S: Christian Amoruso Amoruso is the @BsbLifestyle101 Player of the Game he also had an RBI hit pic.twitter.com/fspanKo311 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 22, 2019 Centereach was unable to push a run across against Brian Delaney in the third, fourth or fifth innings when they had two runners on base each time. Smithtown West ace was able to escape unscathed each time, even with constant rain coming down at Centereach HS for a 2-0 win by the Bulls. “I think we played well today even though the conditions were not ideal,” said Delaney, who recorded the win with six shutout innings. “We were able to fight through that and we were successful today,” he added. He was opposed by Centereach ace Eddie Basse...
Centereach Leaning on Three Legit Arms
Not since 2009 has Head Coach Mike Herrschaft spoke this confidently about a pitching staff. Back in those days, I was in his office to discuss how we would be game planning for the opposition. “This might be the best staff we’ve had”, he told me with a smirk knowing that the 2009 staff might think otherwise. Regardless, the Centereach Cougars have a very good chance to shock League 4 this season with a legitimate pitching staff that has opposing coaching noticing. Eric Russo, Sean McGuinnes and Matt Hirsch are all pitchers that work in the low-to-mid 80s with command and have all had some degree of success at the varsity level. Sean McGuinnes (Centereach ’17, College of St Rose-commit) pic.twitter.com/BE4CTIGwPB aXcess Baseball (@axcessbaseball) Februar...
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