Father’s Day 2022
Knieriemen’s Complete Game Shutout Leads Titans To Blue Chip Father’s Day Tournament Championship
by Nick Cipolla Postgame interview with Ryan Knieriemen after he threw a complete game shutout in tonight’s championship game. pic.twitter.com/cxY3IKtReo — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 20, 2022 Ryan Knieriemen was a man on a mission last night against MVP Beast in the 17/18u Blue Chip Fathers Day Championship Game against MVP Beast. Knieriemen wasn’t necessarily blowing guys away with his fastball, but his great mix of his curveball, slider, fastball and attacking the strike zone early and often made him hard to figure out in this contest against an MVP Beast team that was hitting well all tournament. When MVP Beast did put runners on, they had a hard time capitalizing on it as Knieriemen picked off two runners from first base in first and third situations during this contest...
Next Level Mounts Comeback to Win, 6-3
by Blake Buscemi Paul Napolitano discusses his approach at the dish and Next Level’s goals for the rest of the season. pic.twitter.com/ZgwVC22tpI — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 18, 2022 The second game of the day was a matchup of two highly competitive organizations: MVP Beast and Next Level Baseball. The pitching matchup featured John Ruchalski of Next Level and Michael Lombardo of Team Beast. They both matched zeros in the first inning as Ruchalski induced three groundouts and Lombardo induced two fly outs as well as being helped out by catcher Wyatt Fritton, who threw out a runner stealing. Beast scored the first runs of the game in the top of the second by the means of a successful squeeze executed by Nicholas Columbano and a throwing error by the catcher the next batter ...
LI Elite Prospects Cruise to 10-2 Win in Father’s Day Tournament
By Blake Buscemi The Prospects absolutely blew the game open in the fourth and fifth, tacking on 6 runs leading to a mercy rule ending in the bottom of the fifth. Here’s an RBI double from Charlie Imhof from the bottom of the fourth. Final: Prospects 10, Crush 2 pic.twitter.com/44TNykgXlI — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 18, 2022 There were a pair of Blue Chip Prospect Father’s Day games in the 17u division being played Saturday afternoon at Moriches Athletic Complex. The first one was a slugfest, so it was an action-packed game to watch. James Sill took the hill for the Long Island Elite Prospects against the New York Crush. The Crush came out swinging early, starting with a Guerrero single followed by an Almonte RBI single two batters later. LaRussa then singled to righ...
Next Level Holds Off Late Rally for 4-3 Win
Final: Next Level 4, Team Francisco 3 WP: JJ Gatti @BCprospects pic.twitter.com/EJx8x4fS72 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 18, 2022 Familiar faces squared off in Saturday’s early morning match up between Next Level and Team Francisco Notorious 9 in the Blue Chip Prospect Father’s Day tournament. Despite a late rally by Team Francisco, it was Next Level who held on by the score of 4-3. Next Level sent JJ Gatti to the hill. He is coming off winning the first ever NYS CHSAA Championship with Chaminade last week and had one of the best seasons of any Long Island pitcher (7-1 record, 0.89 ERA, 54.2 IP, 70 Ks). Gatti fired a 1-2-3 inning against the impressive top of the lineup for Team Francisco of Dominick Carbone, Antonio D’Amore and Jason DeCaro. In the home hal...
O’Neill, MVP Beast Claim Victory over Team Steel Scout 17U
by Nick Cipolla Postgame interview with Brandon O’Neill after he helped MVP Beast secure an 8-1 victory over Team Steel Scout 17u pic.twitter.com/yFSnPwKzcj — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 17, 2022 MVP Beast made sure to kick off this weekend with a bang by beating Team Steel Scout 8-1 in 6 innings in the Blue Chip Prospect Father’s Day Tournament. Despite winning by 7 runs, it wasn’t easy for MVP Beast. They were down 1-0 in the bottom of the third inning before they erupted for 4 runs in the inning and scored 4 more runs throughout the rest of the game. Early on in this one, Nick Rizzo looked like he was on his A-Game for Team Steel Scout. As John Sterling would say, Nobody was beating the Riz early on as he struck out 5 batters in the first 2 innings while only allowin...
