Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman Jacob Rentz earned his second win of the season and Bennie Franquiz continued his incredible start to the season with a 3-hit day including an RBI single to break a scoreless tie in the fourth. @GCsports pic.twitter.com/fQAazht5Tf — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 22, 2023 In his first season as head coach of the Mount Sinai Mustangs, falling short of the playoffs in the final game of the season was disappointing for Ryan Pembroke’s team. However, with plenty of talent returning, the Mustangs are primed to make it back to the playoffs in 2025. “We went 9-11 and missed the playoffs by one game.” Pembroke said. “We started off 1-10 in a very tough league with an inexperienced te...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In 32 years as the head coach of the MacArthur Generals, Steve Costello has compiled 570 wins in a tenure that has spanned four decades. And while last year’s team wasn’t able to accomplish the ultimate goal of a championship, only four seniors graduated from Costello’s program, leaving plenty of returning players in 2025. “We only had four returning seniors on the entire roster last year, which is very unusual.” Costello said. “All of those seniors did a great job. We were really unsure with how last year was going to go. We ended up winning the league before getting eliminated in the County Quarterfinals to Carey in a three-game series. We lost one game in the regular season.” Wh...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman Following a season in which the Newfield Wolverines didn’t make the playoffs, the Wolverines will be welcoming in a new head coach in the form of Danny Walsh. Walsh, who previously served as an assistant coach for Newfield, looked back on a bittersweet playoff-less season for his team. “We didn’t make the playoffs which is ultimately the goal going in.” Walsh said. “They stuck together and worked hard. Overall, I think it was a good year.” While the Wolverines did have a strong senior class last season, they will be without that core group. Of the seniors who played for Newfield last season, two of them are playing in college now. Matt Hesselbirg is playing at Mercy University and J.C. G...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In his 18th season in charge of the Hills East Thunderbirds, head coach Tim Belz’s team got off to a scorching start to the year. However, they were unable to continue their 7-2 success, as they ended up finishing 9-9. However, with many of his players returning this season, Belz believes that his team will only continue to improve. “We started off the season 7-2 and finished 2-7.” Belz said. “Things didn’t go right for us towards the end of the season. We lost the last four. But we were a very young team last year.” While most of the team from 2024 is returning, there were four graduating seniors on the team last year. Of those four, three are currently playing college baseball. Three t...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman A sacrifice fly for Eliane extends Syosset lead, 7-5 over Oceanside. Game now heads into the bottom of the sixth. pic.twitter.com/qRPyckycPH — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 24, 2024 In his sixth season as head coach of the Syosset Braves, Tom Morritt was happy with the season his young team put together in 2024, and looks to build upon it in 2025. Although the season didn’t end in a championship, Syosset was able to reach the third round before ultimately losing to Port Washington. “We had a young team with only a few graduating seniors last year.” Morritt said. “We only had a few seniors on the team. The season started out with some atypical performances, but we found a rhy...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman For the first time since 2010, Centereach has captured the League 3 Title. They clinched a share, pending the results of Smithtown East-Hills East game pic.twitter.com/hEjY5eNbBz — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 8, 2024 Eight years into his tenure as the head coach of the Centereach Cougars, head coach Pete Cammarata is prepared to lead his team into a year in which he believes his squad will shock people. This comes after a year in which Cammarata took a number of positives from. “Last year was one of the better years we’ve had in the last few seasons.” Cammarata said. “We were co-league champions with Smithtown East, and it was nice to finish on top. In the playoffs, I had to...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In a season that started red hot, the South Side Cyclones were unable to complete their goal of winning a championship. However, head coach Tom Smith, who is entering his 12th year in charge in 2025, believes that some of that blame falls on him. “Last season was up and down.” Smith said. “We came out of the gate in league play pretty hot but then we hit a road bump. I blame myself on that one, I needed to have a procedure done and I felt disconnected. We lost some really tight games down the stretch, finished second in the conference. We managed to get ourselves in as the number four seed. But we didn’t execute in some key moments and ultimately fell short of our goal.” While last seaso...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman 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 When you’re at the top, everyone is gunning for you. For the Calhoun Colts, they were unable to continue their domination that they enjoyed over the course of the 2022 and 2023 season. Head coach Art Canestro, reflected back on a 9-10-1 season that he wished had a better ending for his program. “Coming off the last two seasons, we won 49 combined games in 2022 and 2023.” Canestro said. We had been in the County Finals both y...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman Final: Center Moriches 10, Mattituck 1 WP: Max Rayburn (6 IP, 1 R, 3 H) Rayburn also scored 2 runs, had a hit and drew a walk Christian Meadows drove in 3 runs, Andrew Foster and Dan Gilroy drove in 2 each Center Moriches improves to 7-1 on the season. @GCsports pic.twitter.com/U64kgIbMZ9 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 10, 2024 Regarded as one of the powerhouse programs on Long Island – who won back-to-back New York State Class B Championships in 2018 and 2019, as well as a Long Island Championship in 2022, the Center Moriches Red Devils moved up to Class A in 2024. “Last season was our first as a Class A school.” head coach Paul Gibson, who is entering his sixth yea...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In his rookie season as head coach of the Pierson Whalers, Bob Manning led his team all the way to the regional final, before falling to the eventual champions Burke Catholic. “We kind of knew what we had going into the season.” Manning said. “We were a C school. We had a solid team, we took care of business during the regular season, but it was a short regular season. So we made it to the regional game in June, but from the beginning of May to June, We didn’t play any meaningful baseball. We played anyone that would play us, but we couldn’t replicate those real situations.” With a solid team, Manning’s Whalers are moving up to a B level school, and with plenty of talent, Pierson i...
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman Building a program in the Catholic League is anything but easy, and for St. Mary’s Gaels head coach Chris Estrada, his program took a big step forward in 2024. And entering his fourth season as head coach, Estrada looks to take yet another leap in 2025. “Last year was definitely an improvement from the past two years.” Estrada said. “We won more games than we ever had, we won a conference game, we had a couple close in conference games, we’re climbing the ladder to be a successful team like the other schools in our conference.” A testament to the quick success of the St. Mary’s baseball program, all six seniors who graduated from St. Mary’s last year continued their baseball careers. ...