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Q & A with Long Island University OF Seth Surrett
A day to remember for Seth Surrett! pic.twitter.com/IFRsILJDNd — LIU Baseball (@LIU_Baseball) April 24, 2024 (Photo Credit: LIU Athletics) While injuries are certainly a part of sports, those injuries are rarely extremely serious. Baseball, not regarded as a contact sport, has made every effort to remove contact plays from the game such as plays at the plate and breaking up a double play. One instance that is impossible to prevent is instances of players on the same team colliding at full speed. During a game last spring at Stony Brook, LIU outfielder Seth Surrett was seriously injured while colliding with his teammate who was also pursuing a fly ball. Surrett broke his eye socket as well as parts of his jaw and cheekbone which caused him to miss 30 games. Incredibly, Surrett not only home...
Q & A With Long Island University LHP Jack VanDoran
Most Division-I college baseball players have similar stories as to how they got recruited and chose the school. They follow a similar trend of first getting noticed at a showcase or travel ball event. If they play in a lot of Perfect Game events, typically several other schools will notice them. That player will mull their options over with their parents and ultimately make their decision towards the end of the summer or early fall entering their senior season. And then there’s Jack VanDoran. Jack received three offers during his high school career. None were of the Division-I variety. He turned them all down. It wasn’t until after he graduated high school did he make a decision and it was to attend a Division-II school and he wasn’t even guaranteed a spot on the varsity...
Friday College Recap (2/17) Powered by Orlin & Cohen
by Andy Smith It’s the start of a new season ! And with the mild winter, it seems like it flew right by onto baseball season. The Division-Is opened up last night and Molloy will open up today. Without further ado, here’s how it went down… Division-I: St. John’s was the lone local team to get a W as they came out of the gate hot with an impressive 7-6 win in extra innings at Old Dominion. Paul Orbon‘s game-winning RBI single was the difference, as the Johnnies were able to erase a 4-run deficit. David Glancy picked up right where he left off last year, crushing a HR. Chuck Sanzio pitched two innings and earned the winning relief. Sony Fauci started and went four innings, allowing 4 runs (2 ER) and did not factor in the decision. He walked five and struck out 2...
Fall Ball Series Powered by Baseball Lifestyle: Long Island University
Time to hit the #RoadToOmaha! 🎥 @LIU_Baseball pic.twitter.com/GgocYVXXDj — NCAA Baseball (@NCAABaseball) June 1, 2022 Simply put, 2022 was one of the best seasons in program history for the LIU Sharks. They set a program record with 37 wins, they captured the NEC regular season title and the NEC Championship with a 7-0 win over Bryant. Their season came to an end in the NCAA Regional at College Park where they lost to No. 1 Maryland and No. 2 Wake Forest. They had a lot of standout individual performers as well. RHP Josh Loeschorn (11-3, 3.06 ERA) and E.J. Exposito (13 HRs, .864 OPS) were selected in the MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves, respectively. Both of those players were standout performers and also came over from LIU Post when they were a Division-II progr...
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by Michael Anderson After a long offseason, the 2022 NCAA Baseball season is officially underway, as Friday afternoon brought the first round of action for college baseball this year. However, it was a particularly quiet day for some of the New York schools. St. John’s, Stony Brook, Albany, LIU, Fordham, and Old Westbury all opened up the season with a road game somewhere down south, but only one team came out victorious. Division-I: Middle Tennessee played the role of the away team against St. John’s down in Wilmington, North Carolina, and was able to win an intense game that went into extra innings, 3-2. St. John’s struck early with a pair in the first, as catcher Tate Ballestero singled home the game’s first run. First baseman Nick Cirelli grounded out productively to first base, ...
Fall Ball Series Powered by East Coast S & P: Long Island University
Simulated intrasquad going on with dual pitching machines – one throwing curveballs the other throwing fastballs pic.twitter.com/tDwUmw7FzW — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 13, 2021 2020 and 2021 were not normal seasons for anyone – and you can look no further than LIU’s first round playoff game against No. 1 Bryant. The Sharks lost 17-13 in a nine inning game that took three hours, 40 minutes to complete and featured 11 pitchers and 32 hits. Sharks HC Dan Pirillo stated that “Bryant is a perennial top-of-the-conference team every year. You know you’re in for a battle against them. E.J (Exposito) hit a HR early and we had some momentum going. But around the fifth inning, the flood gates began to open. We were doing everything we could to stay in ...
Busy Day of Local Colleges in Action
While it might not be as fruitful as the 2019 season in which several teams were competing for conference championships and NYIT reached the Division-II World Series and LIU Post fell just short, we still were treated to a great – albeit shortened – 2021 collegiate season. Here we are on Memorial Day Weekend and we have two Division-I teams, one Division-II and one Division-III team still alive. Here’s what’s on tap: Division-I: –Stony Brook will host the America East tournament beginning this afternoon. The No. 1 Seawolves will host Maine beginning at 11am. The teams did not face each other this season, but Stony Brook has a 51-31 record against them all-time. Expect Sam Turcotte to get the start for the Seawolves. He has a 2.53 ERA on the season. Stony Brook...
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Division-I St. John’s lost the middle game of their three-game set against Villanova by the score of 7-3 to fall to 18-21 on the season. The game was tied 1-1 in the seventh before Villanova broke it open with a three-spot and then tacked on four in the 9th to open it up. Long Island-native Tyler Arella went 7 innings, allowing just 1 ER on six hits to earn his third win of the season. The Johnnies were held to just seven hits, with no player notching more than one. Tim Cunningham was tagged with the loss. They will look to avoid the sweep today at 1pm. Stony Brook stayed red-hot with a double header sweep over Binghamton. They clinched the America East Regular Season title. The Seawolves are now 28-16 on the season and 24-9 in America East play. In Game 1, Jared Milch was staked to ...
Saturday College Recap Powered by Orlin & Cohen
Division-I: St. John’s split a DH with Butler losing the first game, 4-1, but winning the second game, 9-4. In the win, the Johnnies trailed 2-0 entering the fourth inning, but Colin Wetterau tied it up with a two-run single and they took the lead on a two-run single by Chris Conniff. Marty Higgins‘ RBI single in the seventh was their 5th run and proved to be the winning run. Tim Cunningham earned the win in relief for the Johnnies. Joe Joe Rodriguez and Ethan Routzahn combined to lock down the final 2.1 IP. Brian Morrell led the offense with three hits. They will close out their regular season next weekend with a four-game series against Villanova. Fordham split their DH with La Salle, capturing the first game by the score of 4-2 but losing the second game, 8-4. In the win, ac...
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Division-I St. John’s lost to UCONN, 4-3, to open up their weekend series. They led 3-1 in the 7th, but the Huskies scored on a squeeze to cut the deficit to two and then in the 8th, a two-run go-ahead double by Kyler Fedko (3-for-5), gave them the lead. Carson Bartels drew a walk in the 9th but they were unable to get him around to score. Austin Peterson earned his sixth win of the season. Joe Joe Rodriguez was tagged with the loss. The Johnnies had 10 hits but struck out 13 times and stranded 8 runners on base. They fell to 14-16 on the season and will play a DH today beginning at 12. Hofstra lost to Northeastern, 13-1, as they have now allowed 35 runs over the past two games. Jack Jett was tagged with the loss, he allowed 7 ER over 6 IP, yielding 11 hits and 3 walks. Ryan Morash a...
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Division-I: Hofstra won an absolutely wild game, 14-11, against Delaware which featured 26 hits and 14 walks between the two teams. The Pride scored those 14 runs in just two of their innings with a five-spot in the second and nine in the seventh. The go-ahead run scored as part of that 9-run inning thanks to five bases loaded walks. Rob Weissheier further broke it open with a two-run single to left. Austin Gauthier drove in five runs including a second inning grand slam and he drew one of the bases loaded walks. Will Kennedy and Aidan Larkin each had two hits as well. Jack Jett had his first bad outing of the season for Hofstra – the grad student was tagged with 8 ER over 4.1 IP, he allowed nine hits and five walks. Michael O’Hanlon earned the win for the Pride, retiring two b...
Looking Back on an Insane 2019 Baseball Season
Here we are at the official beginning of the 2021 high school baseball season. But it’s a good time to look back at how far we’ve come over the past couple years. It’s easy to forget with all the negativity and uncertainty in 2020 that we were actually coming off one of the most remarkable seasons you can imagine. Forget about the incredible about of no-hitters, walk-offs, upsets and great performances of the high school season – let’s just look at the local college programs. Division-I: Stony Brook captured their sixth America East title with a come-from-behind 7-5 victory over Binghamton. Chris Hamilton had the go-ahead hit in the sixth inning. Reliever Brandon Bonanno fired the final 3.2 innings of relief with four strikeouts to slam the door on the victory...
