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Matt Taurisani’s Sac-Fly is the Difference in Old Westbury’s 5-3 Win
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Playing against sub .500 teams has usually meant scoring 10+ runs for the Old Westbury Panthers. That was not the case on Tuesday, as they narrowly edged Drew University 5-3, and it took a seventh inning run to break the tie.The Panthers were down 2-1 in the fourth inning but tied it up on a sac fly by catcher Carlos Balmaceda to score Jacob Coners.Drew took the lead in the fifth inning on a bases loaded walk against Justin Mize. After the batter, Nick Schoen came in and relieved Mize. He put out the fire with two strikeouts to end the threat.In the bottom of the sixth, the Panthers tied up the game on a wild pitch that scored Coners.Schoen put up another goose egg in the top of the seventh to set the stage for a Panther rally. A walk and a single put runners on...
Zykoff’s Single Wins it for the Panthers
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Adelphi Panthers halted their three-game skid with a 10-inning victory over a strong Southern Connecticut team on Tuesday by the score of 5-4. Alex Zykoff, who came in as a pinch-runner drove in Nick Zito with an infield single to shortstop–which proved to be the game-winning run for the Panthers. After seven innings, the Panthers actually led 4-0 in this game. Starter John Thompson was terrific–throwing six shutout innings, striking out six while walking four and allowing five hits. The offense gave him some runs to work with. After the first run came in on an error, Nick Zito smacked a two-run double in the third to score Rob Vani and Kory Cassara.The Owls did all their damage in the eighth inning. Nick Batas allowed singles to the first two ...
Hofstra Steam Rolls NYIT
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Hofstra Pride easily took care of their Division-I Nassau neighbors, NYIT, by the score of 13-1 to improve to 12-19. Wake Forest transfer Patrick Bryant (Center Moriches ’14) threw 6 shutout innings, allowing five hits, walked one while striking out two. He needed only 65 pitches.The offense got it going early and often. David Leiderman smacked an RBI double in the first inning to score Matt Anunziata. In the second inning, Anunziata hit an RBI double to score Jake Fallon. He ended up advancing to third on an error and scoring on a wild pitch to make it 3-0.In the next inning, Brett Johnson hit an RBI single to score Leiderman.In the meantime, Bryant was mowing down the Bears hitters. Only Louis Mele and Robert Fiato compiled multi-hit games against th...
Jagiello Leads Pioneers to 5-3 Victory Over Dowling
Photo Credit: LIU Post Athletics In the battle for ECC supremacy, the LIU Post took down their Suffolk county rival Dowling Golden Eagles three games out of four.. The LIU Post earned the 5-3 victory on Tuesday, behind Dan Jagiello‘s seven strong innings. He allowed one ER, allowed seven hits, three walks while striking out seven. It was his second win of the season. The offense got it going in the third inning on an RBI single by DH Kyle Fagan (4-for-5, 3 RBI), which scored Tom Asbaty. In his next at bat, Fagan smacked another RBI single to score Vinny Iacono. Fagan ended up to score on a wild pitch by Dominic Danetti later in the inning. The Golden Lions finally got on the board in the eighth inning on an RBI ground out by Jon Cruz, to score Adam Schuster.In the top of the ninth, F...
Five-Run Sixth Allows DeCarli, LIU Post to Stay Hot
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana When there is a pitching match up such as Jake DeCarli verse Cody McPartland, it is expected to be a low-scoring affair. Through five innings at Golden Lions Field, it was just that–with Dowling leading 2-0 thanks to an RBI triple by Jon Cruz and RBI double by Dan Parisi.McPartland, who had cruised through five inning with only 60 pitches, suddenly began leaving pitches out over the plate and the Pioneers were crushing them.Lou Doria doubled off the right center field fence to score David Groeneveld which got McPartland removed from the game in favor of Andrew Sesto. After a walk, Rick Alessi followed with an RBI single to tie up the game at two. Rob Andreoli hit a parachute down the left-field line for a two-run single to give the Pioneers the lead. They ...
Mulford Improves to 4-0
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Adelphi Panthers might as well call it ‘win day’ when Jonathon Mulford takes the hill. He threw another 7.2 dominant innings today against New Haven in their 7-3 win to improve to 4-0 on the season. When anyone else takes the hill the Panthers are 6-11.The offense got going in the first inning on a two-run double by the resurgent Donato Signore. That was followed up by Alex Zykoff‘s RBI single to extend the lead to 3-0.The Panthers opened up the game in the next inning on a three-run home run by senior Nick ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Zito. Eric Hassell‘s RBI double extended the lead to 7-0.That was plenty for the Panther’s ace. He allowed five hits, walked three and struck out seven.Ricky Van Allen and Mike Cranston ...
St. Joseph’s stuns Old Westbury to remain undefeated in Skyline Conference play
By Jesse Borek PATCHOGUE, NY — Staying undefeated in Skyline Conference play thus far this season, the St. Joseph’s Golden Eagles stunned the Old Westbury Panthers to sweep the doubleheader on the back of a four-run, ninth-inning comeback in the opener. After the shock of scoring four runs in their final at-bat in the nine-inning opener, the Golden Eagles would finish off the Panthers 4-1 in the backend of the cap, moving to 5-0 in Conference play. Aided by two errors, timely hitting, and a ton of wind, St. Joseph’s stormed back in the bottom of the ninth to win on senior Anthony Andreani’s walk-off base hit. After the inning’s first error, junior James Nakashian made it hurt, bringing home two runs on a double and trimming the OW lead down to 4-3. Another outfield error would kno...
Dowling-LIU Post Game Postponed
Today’s Dowling verse LIU Post game has been postponed due to the threat of rain. The game will be made up on Monday for the fourth game of the series.Tomorrow Dowling will host the DH. It will begin at noon.The series will be crucial for each team, considering the ramifications in the ECC standings. Dowling is currently first in the conference with a 6-2 record. They are percentage points ahead of St. Thomas Aquinas, who currently sit at 9-3. LIU Post is just behind with a 6-3 record.Dowling will most likely throw Cody McPartland and Brendan Butler in tomorrow’s twinbill, while the Pioneers of LIU Post will probably throw ace Jake DeCarli and either Dan Jagiello or Connor McCarthy.Dowling has been led by their terrific pitching. They have a staff ERA of 2.33. Their contributio...
Six-Run Second Inning Propels Farmingdale Over Baruch
Photo Credit: Farmingdale State Athletics The Farmingdale Rams bounced back from their DH loss on Monday with a 9-5 win today over Baruch. They scored six runs in the second inning which provided all the runs they would need.Anthony McQuade got the scoring going with a sac fly that scored Richard Sullivan. Later in the inning, Anthony Alvino hit a two-run single, and Mike Marino followed with an RBI single of his own. Dalton McCarthy drove in two with a single to score both Alvino and Marino.They tacked on three insurance runs in the ninth on Marino’s sac fly and a two-run error.Matt Seelinger started and went 3.1 innings, allowing one ER. He was relieved by Matt Fick. He threw two innings, allowing one unearned run. He was awarded the victory.Four more relievers combined to finish t...
Sea Wolves Roll Past Manhattan
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5aCzo7zqA]The Stony Brook Sea Wolves took advantage of some porous defense by Manhattan to roll to a 10-3 victory and improve their record to 13-11.The offense wasted no time in taking a 2-0 lead in the first inning when an error by the second baseman brought home Toby Handley, and Johnny Caputo followed with a laser beam of a double to get out to a 2-0 lead.They opened it up with a three-spot in the second inning. Jeremy Giles started it off with a single and Andruw Gazzolla was hit by a pitch to advance him to second. After two ground outs, Handley reached on another error by the second baseman to score Giles and Jack Parenty followed with a long triple over the CF head. That was all the offense they needed. Starter Nick DiEva went three shutout ...
Adelphi Mounts Four-Run Comeback Against St. Thomas Aquinas
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Adelphi certainly seems to have turned a corner. They mounted an impressive four-run comeback against the reigning ECC champion St. Thomas Aquinas and won 6- in 11 innings.Mike Stack reached on a fielder’s choice to score pinch-runner John Cuttitta, who ran for Camden Orologio.The Panther bullpen threw nine dominant innings, allowing just two ER and Mike Cranston recorded the victory with a 1-2-3 inning in the 11th.“I feel like we are playing a lot better baseball in the past two weeks,” said the New Jersey native. “Our pitching has improved as a staff and hitting wise we are moving guys over and hitting better with runners in scoring position,” he said.The Spartans got out to an early 4-1 lead off Panther starter Will Hickey. The P...
Hofstra Cruises Past NYIT
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana In the battle of ‘516’ Division-I teams, the Hofstra Pride soared past NYIT for the ninth consecutive time by the score of 7-3 to improve. With the victory, the Pride improve to 10-16 on the season.The offense wasted no time in building a 1-0 lead on an RBI single by Brian MacDonald to score Eric Ferguson.They broke it open in the fourth inning, Ferguson hit a sac fly to left field to score Brad Witkowski. Ryan Donovan hit a sac fly to score Dalton Rouleau and MacDonald hit another RBI single to increase the lead to 4-0.NYIT got one back in their half of the inning on a solo home run by Joe Sebastian. The Pride answered with a run-scoring single by David Leiderman and a double steal later in the inning, in which Leiderman stole home. Adam Seibert won...
