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Dowling Clinches Playoff Spot With Three of Four Against St. Thomas Aquinas
Photo Credit: Dowling Athletics Dowling will return to postseason baseball in 2015. That became official with their 1-0 victory in the second game of a DH today against St. Thomas Aquinas. Neither team could get much going on offense. Entering the bottom of the sixth, it was a scoreless pitcher’s duel between Kyle DeMeo and Matt Kostalos. Jon Cruz got the Golden Lions on the board with a bunt single to score Michael Richter to break the scoreless tie.That proved to be the only offense needed for DeMeo, who threw 6.1 shutout innings, allowing five hits, four walks while striking out five. He improved to 3-1 on the season.He was relieved by freshman Dennis Buckstein, who has been lights-out from the bullpen this season. He threw 2.2 shutout innings with one strikeout to record his thir...
Dowling Sweeps St. Thomas Aquinas, Improves to 23-9
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana It was a huge double header against the reigning ECC Champion St. Thomas Aquinas, and Dowling responded to the challenge by sweeping the twinbill by the scores of 10-7 and 10-2.The first game was a 3:25 slog that featured 337 total pitches but Dowling persevered. Brendan Butler got the start and went six innings, allowing three ER while striking out two. Dennis Buckstein, Jon Parisi and Andrew Sesto combined for three strong innings of relief allowing just one ER.The Golden Lions were down to their last three outs but mounted an incredible rally–scoring five runs. Dan Parisi scored RJ Going with an RBI single to get them within two runs. Tyler Piccolo hit a game-tying two-run double down the left field line to score Tim Going and Michael Richter. Tyler Har...
April 15 Recap
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana We provided coverage of three games yesterday, but here is the results from the rest of the college programs on the island. Division-I: Hofstra shutout Manhattan 7-0, behind Adam Seibert and four relievers. Seibert started and went five innings, Adam Heidenfelder threw the sixth inning. Kevin Weissheier and his brother, Matt, both pitched one inning and Chris Weiss closed it out. Together, they allowed four hits and three walks while striking out 10. The offense got going early on Brad Witkowski’s RBI triple to drive in Steven Foster. In the third inning, Dalton Rouleau hit a sac fly to score Witkowski to make it 2-0. David Leiderman stayed red-hot, and increased it to 4-0 with a two-run single. In the seventh inning, Eric Ferguson scored on a wild pitch f...
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 ...
April 6 Recap
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana MLB wasn’t the only place to find action on the diamond today. There was some crucial games being played by Long Island teams. Division-II:Dowling defeated Queens by the score of 9-2, which means they took three of four in the series against the ECC foes. Dominick Danetti started and dominated–he threw seven shutout innings, allowed only two hits and four walks while striking out nine. He was relieved by Robert Rose, David DeJesus and David Montiverdi.They wasted no time in opening up a 1-0 first inning lead on a sac fly by Jon Cruz. They added two in the third on Cruz’s two-run single to score Anthony Ferrante and Adam Schuster. After being held scoreless for four innings, they broke it open with a five-spot in the eighth inning on a two-run d...
Brendan Butler’s 11 K’s Keeps Dowling Rolling
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq5ZTfUH9Kc]It’s safe to say Brendan Butler made a sound decision in transferring to Dowling from Farleigh Dickinson. He led Dowling to another victory, this time a 9-4 rout of Queens. After three seasons marred with high walk totals, the 6’4″ graduate of Sayville HS is making it easily to forget about the starting rotation of last season. “Those guys were great last year,” said Butler. “I’m just trying to win, you know. If I could do what they did last year that would be great. If not, as long as we keep winning, I’ll take it any way I can get it,” he added.They certainly have been winning. With their victory over Queens in the first game of the double header, they improved to 13-4 on the season....
Brendan Butler Dominates Bloomfield to Push Dowling’s Streak to Six Games
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana You don’t usually win when the offense musters only four hits. But, when your starting pitcher needs only 94 pitches to breeze through a complete game then it’s possible.Brendan Butler won his second game of the month for the Golden Lions who have now won six consecutive games and pushed their win streak to six with a 2-0 victory over Bloomfield College. Butler allowed only three hits, walked one while striking out five in the seven inning complete game.The offense was stagnant, but didn’t need to produce much. Senior Jon Cruz hit a two-run double to score Matthew Moschovas and Dylan Piscitelli in the fourth inning. That was all the action in the game.The Golden Lions will now travel to Delaware to take on Wilmington University in a double head...
Dowling Rolls Over Adelphi
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Dowling did some spring cleaning at their home field today in the form of a 12-1 victory over fellow Division-II Long Island program Adelphi. The Golden Lions wasted no time putting up a three spot in the first. Dan Parisi singled home Jon Cruz, executed a double steal which scored RJ Going and then came around on a wild pitch by Michael Tarpey (4 IP, 6 R, 4 ER, 1 K). They added one in the second on an RBI ground by Adam Schuster. He also sparked another rally in the fifth inning when he drove in Cruz with an RBI triple. He came around to score on Going’s RBI single and he scored when Tyler Piccolo grounded out to 3b. Adelphi got on the board in the sixth inning with a sac fly by Tyler Murphy to cut the lead to 7-1. The Golden Lions broke it wide open wit...
