Max Edelman
Bethpage Expects Talented Youngsters to Benefit from Starting in 2024
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman Coming off a season with a very young team, head coach Rob Fisher, who is entering his 21st year in charge of the Bethpage Golden Eagles, is excited to follow up a growing season in 2024 with a year that will hopefully feature more on field success. “Last year we struggled, but we were very young.” Fisher said. “We started three freshmen and three sophomores and a bunch of other lower classmen got playing time. We struggled a little bit. We weren’t consistent on the mound. While we did have some good showings, we just didn’t have the consistency to be able to compete day in and day out.” Although much of the Golden Eagles core players last season weren’t seniors, there were a number of k...
Fueled by Final Game of 2024, Eastport-South Manor Hungry for Postseason Berth
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In a win-and-in game that either sent the Eastport-South Manor (ESM) Sharks to the playoffs or ended their season, the Sharks unfortunately were defeated, and saw their season end. Head coach Jim McGowan, who is entering his 11th season as head coach of the Sharks in 2025, looked back on the disappointing end of the season for his team. “It was extremely disappointing.” McGowan said. “We had to win the last game to get in, but we lost 5-4 and missed the playoffs on the last day. It was an extremely disappointing finish for us.” Although ESM graduated a large number of seniors following last season, not all were starters. However, there were a number of key players, including three that a...
Following Record Setting Season, Evan Cabral Looks to Lead Garden City Back to Postseason
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In his sixth season with Garden City, head coach Dave Izzo guided his team into one of the most challenging conferences that Long Island has to offer. Izzo was able to take his team to a regular season conference championship before falling to Division in the playoffs. “We played in arguably the toughest conference on Long Island in my opinion.” Izzo said. “With Division, Calhoun and Carey. We won the conference regular season, which was great. We went into the last three game series of the season against Division and whoever won the series was conference champs and we beat them two out of three. But we saw them in the quarterfinals of the playoffs and they smoked us.” Garden City junior...
After an Injury-Plagued Year, Bay Shore Focused on Improving in 2025
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In his third season as head coach of the Bay Shore Marauders, head coach Chris Schiro’s team struggled to a 5-15 record. While the record might not be the best, injuries played a large part in the team’s struggles. With the injuries came opportunities for younger players, who Schiro is hopeful can play larger roles in his fourth season in charge. “The last couple seasons we’ve definitely been a little bit down.” Schiro said. “We had a younger team last year which will lead to good leadership this year. We had the unfortunate injury bug last year where we had a lot of seniors go down before the season even started and during the year which led the way for a group of sophomores to co...
Mount Sinai Motivated by Last Year’s Finish
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...
MacArthur Returns Impressive Core Of Last Year’s League Champs
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...
Wantagh Looks to Return to the Top After County Finals Appearance
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series. by Max Edelman Final: Wantagh 0 | Clarke 5 Clarke wins the Nassau County Class A Championship for the first time since 2019! pic.twitter.com/AtGqvNDuAL — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 28, 2024 With decades of experience under his belt. head coach Keith Sachs is entering his 31st season as head coach of the Wantagh Warriors. In his 30th season in charge, Sachs led his group to a league championship before seeing their season end in game three of the County Championship. “We made a great run.” Sachs said. “We won the first game against Clarke and then lost a couple of tough games. It’s hard. Every year our goal is to win a County Championship and we don’t want to be negative when we fal...
Danny Walsh Focused on Returning to the Postseason in First Year as Newfield’s HC
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...
Coming Off .500 Season, Hills East Poised to Make Postseason
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...
Syosset Returns Strong Core From Last Year’s Playoff Team
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...
Coming Off First League Title in 14 Years, Centereach Confident They Can Surprise The League
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...
South Side Leans on Young, Talented Core
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...
