LI Boys of Summer
Long Island Strong 14u Dominates Against Yeti Baseball
by Nicholas Cipolla RBI Double for Frankie Kentoffio to knock in two more runs. 9-0 lead for Long Island Strong in the bottom of the 4th pic.twitter.com/hETaN0lniR — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 23, 2021 Long Island Strong proved the old saying “you can’t win with just one guy” wrong today, as they went out and dominated as a team in their 9-1 mercy rule win today against Yeti Baseball. Offensively, the bats showed up in the first inning and didn’t cool off at all throughout the game. The first runs of the game were knocked in on a two out, two run RBI single between third and short by Jackson Vaccariello, who advanced to second on the throw to the plate. The next batter, A.J Giel, reached on a throwing error allowing Vaccariello to score from second. In the next inning, Long...
LoGiacco’s Two-Run Hit Helps LIB Tides Take Game 2 of Double Header
by Benjamin Diamond Post Game Interview with Anthony LoGiacco: pic.twitter.com/wK372CVGPV — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 19, 2021 Game 1: The first game of the Saturday two game set did not have a lot of fireworks. The pitching in this game took the spotlight. Tri-State Arsenal’s starter Chris Leavey had a day to remember, going 5.0 innings with only 2 walks, 2 strikeouts, no runs allowed and even better, no hits allowed. His start set up the bullpen to only need to take care of two innings to secure the no-hitter. Unfortunately, they were unable to do so when the Tides were able to get two hits in the bottom of the seventh inning while also knocking in the game-tying run locking the game at 1. The game would end in a tie but the pitching was undoubtedly the highlight. ...
Big First Inning Is All The Aviators, Schneider Need
by Nicholas Cipolla Interview with the winning pitcher of tonights game, John Schneider pic.twitter.com/uWj7ZsU0Mb — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 16, 2021 During today’s midweek battle at Stony Brook, the East End Aviators starting pitcher had one big thing on his mind that helped motivate him throughout the game, a test he has to take tomorrow morning. John Schneider told us postgame “I wanted to make it a quick game, I have a big test tomorrow.” and he did just that. Schneider had a great showing tonight, keeping it very quick as he allowed very few runners to reach base and was getting ahead of hitters early in the count. Schneider also received a lot of insurance runs early in the game with a big first inning. A two RBI single by Jackson Loper opened up the scoring for the...
Sacks and Strong Take Two from Beast Black
(Photo Credit: NSS Photography) by Nick Cipolla Interview with Game One winning pitcher Ben Sacks. pic.twitter.com/OaibzAZr7U — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 12, 2021 Game 1 Ben Sacks took the mound Saturday and made a statement that he can go out there and strike anyone out. Sacks was dominant from the moment he stepped out on the field in game 1. Striking out 6 batters in the first two innings of play. He was fired up and seemed to be extremely confident from that moment on. He ended up finishing his day after 5 innings striking out 12 batters and only allowing two runs to score on four hits. Offensively, Brad Sakellarides had himself a day. Sakellarides was 2-for-3 with a double, single and two RBIs. His teammate, Elian Pimentel, also hit an RBI triple later in the game and ...
Nick Piazza’s Bases-Clearing Hit the Difference in 3-2 Victory
by Ben Diamond Post Game Interview: Nick Piazza pic.twitter.com/btuVTDYDaQ — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 12, 2021 The Batting 1.000 Seminoles and the LIB Tides played a close low-scoring game. Both starting pitchers set the tone of the game early. For the Seminoles sending out right hander James Weedon to start the game and the Tides sending out Robert Wagner. To start, it looked as though both starters could go far into the game. Wagner started by striking out 4 of the first 5 batters to come to plate. But it didn’t last long, in the fourth inning Wagner got into a jam where he ended up surrendering an earned run on a Richie Apollo single. That was all he would give up as the Tides coach decided to bring reliever John O’Hannon. His final line was 3.1IP, 3 H, 1 BB, 4 K and 1 ...
South Shore Elite Captures 12u American Championship
by Ethan Berch Axcess Reporter Ethan Berch (@eberch5) speaks with the head coach of the South Shore Chiefs after their Fall Season Championship win! pic.twitter.com/MC2JgD2mmU — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 14, 2020 Fall baseball is one of the hardest seasons in all of sports. You go from sweating and playing baseball in the burning hot weather, to freezing cold early morning and late night games. Having success in the fall is a whole other story. Finally here in mid-November, the fall season is coming to an end. At Brentwood State Park, the South Shore Elite took on the LI Storm in a 12u Boys of Summer Championship game! Joe Farina got the start on the big stage for the Elite and was nothing short of electric. After surrendering a leadoff single, he struck out three batt...
LI Elite Venegas Captures 15U National Fall Championship
Mike Knapp throws a 3-hit shutout with 11 Ks to capture the @liboysofsummer Championship 15U National division pic.twitter.com/3ZfsGHB9lj — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 7, 2020 Mike Knapp was just about as dominant as you can be, in helping his team to not one – but two victories to capture the LI Boys of Summer 15u National Fall Championship. It was two distinctly different games. They won 7-6 in 9 innings over LI Elite Natale and then 2-0 over Tri-State Arsenal in the championship. Knapp threw the final inning in relief to slam the door in the semifinals and cruised to a 3-hit, 11 K shutout in the finals. “I felt good, man, my arm felt good. I came out in the semifinal closing the game – just felt really good out there,” said Knapp, a junior at Di...
Team Steel Captures LI Boys of Summer College Fall Championship
by Ethan Berch Axcess Reporter Ethan Berch (@eberch5) speaks with Joe Marino and Vinny Napolitano following Team Steels Boys of Summer League championship win! pic.twitter.com/Q9sInyiFnP — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) November 7, 2020 They do say that November baseball never fails to excite. The Boys of Summer College Championship may have agreed with that statement! The East End Aviators, representing majority of Suffolk Community College baseball players and Team Steel representing majority Farmingdale State College players went head-to-head at Brentwood State park. Coming off a dramatic win just minutes before, the Aviators came in with serious momentum after clobbering a walk-off homerun. They threw Ray Hoffman to start this game. Ray was solid in the first inning, finishing wi...
LIB Costanzo Takes 2 games from B1000 Seminoles (Mac)
by Jack McCluskey LIB Costanzo Doug Davies hit a walk off RBI single in the bottom of the 6th to win 6-5 pic.twitter.com/GM1on9tIBh — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 31, 2020 The 14u LIB Costanzo took on B1000 Seminoles (Mac) at Plainedge High School on Saturday afternoon. After the game, the LIB Costanzo’s Head Coach had this to say, “We have been getting a lot better offensively this season, the pitching kept us in the second game. Michael Duda and Michael Mollica both pitched good for us today. We had a couple of timely hits that helped us out and it was just a good double header”. When discussing the slow starts in both games the Head Coach said “All season we are a second half game kind of team. Once our top of our order sees a couple of pitches, they time the ball up bet...
LI Junior Ducks, Yeti Baseball Split Double Header
pic.twitter.com/v8EeWx46e5 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 29, 2020 The 13u LI Junior Ducks took on the 13u Yeti Baseball at Moriches Complex Wednesday night. Jr. Ducks took game one, 10-3, before Yeti Baseball bounced back in the second game with a 3-2 win. Following the games, coach Tyler Loft had the following to say: “the whole season we been a second game double header team and we talked about it after the game just now and we have to show up earlier for pregame to get our mind set right before the first game to figure it out. I told them that we are better than we showed right there and in the second game we were”. When discussing the job of the starting pitcher in Game 2, Loft said, “Zach Marsh was unbelievable this game, he ate up innings for most of the summer...
John Schneider’s One-Hitter Fuels Aviators Over Empire, 3-1
By Andrew Connors EastEnd Aviators winning pitcher John Schneider talks about his performance and what he plans on doing in order to keep elevating his level of play. pic.twitter.com/2wWYFvY2nm — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 24, 2020 They say that stars come out and perform best under the bright lights, and that was certainly the case in Friday night’s 16U matchup between the East End Aviators and the Long Island Empire. Despite some early scoring, it was evident after the first couple of innings that there wasn’t going to be much offense produced from either lineup, so it was on the pitchers and defense to step their games up. Danny DeBruin was on the mound to start the game for the Empire and he looked very sharp out of the gates. He racked up a pair of strikeouts and ret...
Lions Baseball Cruises Past North Shore
pic.twitter.com/LwdQ3C7LvN — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 14, 2020 The Lions Baseball offense came alive on Wednesday night in a LI Boys of Summer match up. They were able to get offense from their whole lineup. After the game, Lions Baseball pitcher Alex Czarnomski was asked about the performance of his teammates and he said, “We battled with good at-bats and got a lot of walks and got base runners on and good things will happen”. When asked how he was able to pitch in the middle of the game and shut the other team down, Alex said “I was just trying to throw strikes. My fastball was working and I decided to stay with my fastball. My defense did a good job behind me tonight”. The North Shore pitcher got the first out of the game but quickly ran into trouble. Bobby Marsh hi...
