Kieran Kehoe
James Demsky Excited to Lead Mepham in His First Year at the Helm
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series. by Joe Bello James Demsky is heading into his first year as head coach at Wellington C. Mepham High School. He has been a part of the coaching staff for 7 seasons as an assistant coach to Eric Passman, but this year Demsky will be running the show. “The 2024 season was a strong season for the Pirates.” Demsky said. “We had a large senior class who all had strong performances. Great group of players who had a ton of fun playing together, and were a pleasure to coach.” Mepham finished with a record of 11-8 in the 2024 season. They made the playoffs and were knocked off in the first round by a strong Carey team. The Pirates will be without Kieran Kehoe in the 2025 season, as he graduated last year. The 6...
Led by the Reigning Diamond Award Winner, Mepham Looks to Rebound from Tough Semifinal Defeat
by Max Edelman No stranger to high school baseball, Mepham Pirates’ head coach Eric Passman is entering his 25th season as varsity coach and 7th with Mepham. They had a great season last year that ended in unbelievably heartbreaking fashion. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, a grand slam sent the Pirates home. Are you kidding !! Trailing 5-2 and down to their final out, Joey Goodman crushes a walk-off grand slam to send Calhoun into the Nassau Class A Finals against Division! Calhoun 6, Mepham 5 pic.twitter.com/zSdoxrlY4S — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 26, 2023 “Last season was unbelievably good, with an unbelievably heartbreaking ending.” Passman said. “We had two outs in the last inning. We were up by three runs, and they hit a grand slam. So you can imagine th...
GAME RECAP: Kieran Kehoe, Mepham Win 8-7 Thriller, Stay Undefeated
Kieran Kehoe and Mepham overcame a early 4-1 deficit and ultimately defeated MacArthur 8-7 to improve to 12-0 on the season. Kehoe went 3-for-4 with 4 RBIs including the game-tying hit in the sixth @GCsports pic.twitter.com/eLhQTz8zK2 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 25, 2023 You couldn’t have asked for a better game of baseball between two league rivals – one of which is pursuing an undefeated season. MacArthur and host Mepham squared off on Tuesday late afternoon, and by the time it was over, it was nearly dark but there was not one person in attendance that was not on the edge of their seat for the last two innings of the game. Even the last out of the game was recorded on a dropped third strike that required a long throw and close play at first base – but ...
LI Elite Sweeps Sunday DH at Mitchel Field
LI Elite swept a double header this afternoon. Here’s Kieran Kehoe following the games @liboysofsummer pic.twitter.com/0ISwX6HZLE — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 5, 2022 The LIB Voodoo faced off with the LI Elite Vallas in a double header between two impressive 16U teams in LI Boys of Summer action. The Voodoo started the game off with an RBI triple off the bat of their right fielder to take an early 1-0 lead. They quickly followed it up with another RBI single by their starting pitcher Tyler Anderson to make it a 2-run lead, another runner would be walked in and before he even stepped foot on the mound it was a 3-0 game. Anderson would go on to work around a walk and throw a scoreless first. In the second, Elite starting pitcher, Marino would throw a scoreless frame. An...
