East Rockaway
East Rockaway Excited About 2024 Season Coming Off Postseason Appearance
by Aaron Diaz Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’ season preview series. The East Rockaway Rocks made a playoff appearance in the 2023 season after being absent from the postseason since 2019. The Rocks finished with a 8-14 overall record and 6-11 within B league games. East Rockaway was bounced in the first round of the playoffs by Wheatley to end 2023 but Head Coach James Hickey relishes his excitement for the upcoming season. “We’re very excited about the upcoming season.” Hickey said. “The guys that are returning worked very hard this winter, especially our pitching staff. That’s probably the thing we’re most excited about. We have a very small team this year but are excited about how athletic the team is.” The team turned small after East...
What’s Going On With Nassau Conference V
This year was bizarre from the jump – so I understand that a lot of decisions had to be made for the first time. That much is true. That still doesn’t mean that common sense doesn’t apply. So when Nassau and Suffolk each switched up their conference formats for this season, there was going to be a decision that needed to be made. At the most basic level, Nassau had five conference and Suffolk had six. That would be fine if there was no Long Island Championship involved, but once they decided that June 20th would be the Long Island Championship day – they needed a way to even it out. According to my source, the conventional wisdom would suggest that Nassau Conference V would play a playoff like the other leagues – top 2 get byes, 3 v 6 and 4 v 5 in the first ro...
Q & A With East Rockaway Coach James Hickey
East Rockaway is in the midst of an outstanding season, they are playing in the New York State Class C semifinals today. As is the case with many small schools on Long Island, the success is mostly gone under appreciated. Head Coach James Hickey spoke about their season and this is what he said: Can you tell our audience about your season and how unprecedented this is for the program? We are currently 15-7 this year. We finished 1 game behind Class B County Champion Wheatley in the BC League going 13-3. We tied the school baseball record for wins in a league season with the 2001 team of 13 league wins After a second place regular season finish we lost a 15 inning classic to Wheatley in the BC championship game. We were down to our last out in the Long Island Championship against Pierson ...
