Jonathon Mulford
Mike O’Reilly Working Hard At Driveline To Return To Pro Ball
It’s hard to fathom exactly how clutch Mike O’Reilly was during the 2012 Suffolk County Class A postseason run. The Shoreham-Wading River RHP/3B was a force of nature. He hit walk-off home runs against Rocky Point and Sayville, with the latter HR coming with the team trailing 1-0 in extra innings. He had another game in which he crushed a bases-clearing double to stave off elimination. On the mound, he was just as dominant. The hard-throwing righty fired 22 consecutive shutout innings including a 10 inning shutout in the Class A Long Island Championship against Tyler Manez and Plainedge. Their magic would finally run out in the 11th inning when Plainedge put up a three-spot to win 3-1 and head to the New York State tournament. He captured the 45th Carl Yastrzemski Award, becomi...
Recap of Sharks Baseball Academy Winter Workout
2010 Cleveland Indians draft pick Henry Dunn on what outfielders from the northeast can do to prepare for the season pic.twitter.com/01vEgEgZWq — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) February 3, 2019 If you’ve been one of our readers since the Baseball on the Island days, you are familiar with Jonathon Mulford, Rob Vani and Keith Couch. The trio, all graduates of Adelphi baseball, had outstanding collegiate careers. Mulford, who participated in our inaugural Battle of the Border in 2016 and was drafted shortly thereafter by the St. Louis Cardinals, had one of the most successful pitching in careers in program history. Same can be said for Couch, who was drafted in 2010 by the Boston Red Sox. Vani, who was not drafted, was twice named to our All-Long Island team, and was a standout 1B...
Jonathon Mulford on His Second Pro Season
(Editor’s Note: Jonathon is a 2012 graduate of Massapequa HS. He pitched four seasons at Adelphi University, where he was named to our All-Long Island team in 2015. He participated in our Battle of the Border in 2016, and he was drafted later that week by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 34th round. Over two seasons, he has compiled a 3.59 ERA. The following words are his own.) For the first time in four years, I wasn’t at Long Island Storm Academy giving ready for the beginning of the Adelphi season with my teammates. Even though I miss playing at Adelphi, I finally was preparing for my first spring training. Baseball was finally back and it was time to grind out the hot dog days of Florida spring training. Walking into the facility seeing Yadier “Yadi” Molina catchi...
2016 Year in Review
It was a very enjoyable year covering the Long Island baseball scene. We began the year with 1,400 twitter followers and are now at 3,220 which means many of you missed out on some of the top stories from this year. In this post, I will take you through the highlights of the year: January: -Mike Scioscia and Dr. Luga Podesta host “Injuries in Baseball” Symposium at Ward Melville HS. February: -BOTI travels with Hofstra to cover their season-opening at No. 4 ranked Texas A&M Aggies. April: -First episode of BOTI Weekly airs. We ultimately had 7 episodes in 2016. You can watch them all here. May: -We completed the Top 10 Long Island prospect series with a feature story on Matt Hogan of Hills East. You can see the entire list here. -Game-ending throw by...
All-Long Island Team (College)
We are coming off another wildly entertaining season in Long Island college baseball. Here are my picks for the best player at each position. Italicized letters represent that the player led Long Island in that statistic. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/208630454″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=’450′ iframe=”true” /] MVP: Jack Parenty, SBUCy Young: Jake DeCarli, LIU PostRookie of the Year: Andruw Gazzola, SBUC: Dan Parisi, Dowling: .351 AVG, 27 R, 52 H, 26 RBI, .415 OBP, .446 SLG, 7-11 SB, .972 FLD % Rob Vani, Adelphi: .336 AVG, 29 R, 51 H, 2 HR, 23 RBI, .864 OPS, 6-8 SB, .986 FLD %1b: Brenda...
Jonathon Mulford Improves to 6-0, Adelphi Moves Past So. Co.
Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics The Adelphi Panthers won a smooth 4-1 match up against the surprisingly mediocre Southern Connecticut State Owls.Ace Jonathon Mulford improved his draft stock with an eight inning outing, allowing one ER one three hits, three walks while striking out four. He is now 6-0 on the season with a 2.06 ERA. You can read a scouting report on him here.Senior closer Mike Cranston recorded his seventh save of the season. The program record for saves in a season is 13, which was set by All-American Dillon McNamara.The Panther offense didn’t get going until the eighth inning when they were trailing 1-0. Donato Signore lined an RBI single to center field to score John Cuttitta and John Fogarty.In the top of the ninth, a two-run error off the bat of Mike Stack scored...
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 ...
Adelphi Panthers Sweep Doubleheader in Home Opener against Assumption
Jesse Borek — Staff Writer GARDEN CITY, New York — It took Mother Nature long enough to relent and allow the Adelphi Panthers to have their home opener, but it was worth every waking moment as the club swept Assumption College to inch closer back to the .500 mark, now sitting at 4-5 on the year. In the opener, junior ace Jonathon Mulford took to the hill, and outside of a bumpy first inning, was brilliant. After serving up a three-run home run in the opening frame, Mulford would shut down the Greyhound offense up until his exit from the contest. Going seven innings strong, Mulford threw a whopping 121 pitches on Sunday afternoon. Yet, he never truly seemed to lose a lot of velocity on his fastball, only opting for more curveballs as the game progressed. Over those seven fram...
Adelphi Closes Out Florida Trip With Comeback Victory
Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Sometimes a win can represent more than just a single W in the standings. For a team that had lost five games in a row, a five-run comeback can mean turning a season around.The Panthers had ace Jonathon Mulford on the hill, but he was pulled with two outs in the third inning in favor of TJ Santiago with the Panthers trailing. The lead ended up getting extended to 6-0 when the Owls added two runs in the sixth inning.Freshman Kory Cassara got the Panthers on the board with his first career HR–a two-run shot to left field. They inched closer when Eric Hassell reached on an error by the 3b that scored their third run of the inning. The big blow came on a two-run double by Alex Zykoff to tie the game at 5.Ricky Van Allen came on relief in the seventh inning...
Adelphi Opens Up 2015 With Victory Over Nova
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana ‘Sorry 4 The Wait’ may have loosely been based on the 2015 baseball season. It only took halfway through March–and they had to travel to Fort Lauderdale, Fla to do so–but Adelphi finally was able to play their first game of the year. It was a surprising 8-3 victory over Nova Southeastern. It was surprising in the sense that northeast teams generally do no come out as sharp as the Panthers did against a 17-3 team that was in their home state. Of course, when you have a draft prospect like Jonathon Mulford, that makes the task more feasible. The Massapequa native fired five shutout innings, allowing only three hits, one walk while striking out five. The offense came out blazing, they compiled 15 hits–led by Vincent Sharkey‘s 4-f...
