JC Kiss
Who Are Some College Freshmen/Transfers That Can Have An Immediate Impact This Year?
With the 2022 season right around the corner it’s time to start digging into some story lines regarding the season. As I mentioned in the last column, the 2021 graduating class on Long Island featured several players who have since moved onto college off of Long Island where they should thrive, but that doesn’t include the players that stayed on LI and can have an impact on local colleges. So this article we will dive deeper on five players that will help their teams win games in 2022. John Rizzo, Adelphi RHP Can’t look much better as a freshman than John Rizzo. The East Islip grad sits 86-90 T91 and spots his fastball and slider routinely pic.twitter.com/rNMEm0z4W6 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 27, 2021 Rizzo was an absolute steal for Adelphi. It was jus...
Hicksville Returns Three Talented Players
Uncommitted Will Stewart (Hicksville 2021) pic.twitter.com/SSMahgR1yO — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) September 9, 2020 If you’re going to have a young team built around three experienced players, a good place to start is at the top of the rotation and SS. Hicksville will be pretty inexperienced bunch after graduating 11 players in 2020 but they do have that working for them. Among the players that graduated – Anthony Pandolfi, Nick Kozerski, Jason Labrador and Sean Baker are playing at the collegiate level. Anchoring the rotation is Stony Brook-commit JC Kiss. The big lefty is the team captain and leader. He committed to Stony Brook last summer and coach Frank Ciaramitaro stated that he has “electric stuff.” JC Kiss (Hicksville 2021) up to 86 MPH at PBR NY S...
