Michael Ceparano
Scouting Report: Michael Ceparano
Player Name: Michael Ceparano School: Adelphi Position: LHP Michael is a 6’0″ graduate of Half Hollow Hills East HS. He threw 38.1 IP last season with 31 strikeouts and a 3-4 record. From the stretch position he gets set with his back leg bent. He keeps his glove parallel to the ground. He keeps his eyes locked on the target through out the delivery. He has a legkick that is just above the belt. He keeps his body closed with his leg tucked towards second base and his foot pointed down. Michael gets great drive from his back leg as it drops and drives towards home plate. The front leg goes directly towards home and his arm circle is pretty long. He lands on line with home plate and throws directly over the top. He is max-effort pitcher, and lands off to third base as many southp...
Adelphi Shuts Out Caldwell in Non-Conference Game
Written by Michael Parchinsky The Adelphi Panthers got back to .500 with a 12-0 non-conference win against Caldwell University. They smacked 19 hits in this affair–with three each by Steven Withers, Zach Levinson and Alex Zykoff. The latter drove in five runs. “It was a great confidence booster before playoffs.” said freshman catcher, John Lusardi. “It was a nice day to work on things before a very important weekend coming up.” The Panthers have a two game set this weekend against the College of Saint Rose, before the playoffs start The day started on a funny note when there were technical difficulties that caused the National Anthem to not play over the loud speakers. This prompted the players from both teams to engage in their own rendition of the song, which was possibly better th...
Adelphi Smacks 24 Hits in Blow Out Win over Dominican
Photo Credit: Michael Parchinsky The Adelphi Panthers broke out the bats in a 15-5 rout of Dominican College. They smacked 24 hits on their way to improving to 15-14 on the season.The offense got going early and often. They opened up a 15-0 lead after five innings before Dominican began to wake up.Among the 24 hits was two home runs–one each by Donato Signore and Nick Zito. Tyler Murphy went 4-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored. Alex Zykoff went 3-for-5 with three RBI. Signore had three hits, two runs and two RBI. Zach Levinson had three hits as well. Photo Credit: Jesse Borek Robert Vani and Kory Cassara each had two hits as well.Michael Tarpey got the start and went 2.2 shutout innings. Michael Ceparano went 1.1 shutout innings. John Thompson received the victory by throwing 1....
Long Island Native Jack Zagaja Wins It Against Adelphi
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The New Haven Chargers came back from a 2-0 deficit against Adelphi and won it on a walk-off single by St. Dominic’s graduate Jack Zagaja.“I had a long at bat,” said Zagaja. “I fouled off curveballs and fastballs. Saw a changeup, smacked it up the middle,” he added.The victory, plus the second game of the double header put Adelphi further in a hole. They now stand at 4-9 on the season.The Panthers got off to a 2-0 lead in the second inning on a single by Alex Zykoff which scored Donato Signore and Robert Vani.Starter Jonathon Mulford was solid as usual–six innings, two ER, two BB, four K’s. He gave way to Nick Batas after allowing a leadoff double in the seventh inning. Batas got an out in the seventh inning. Ricky Van A...
Pace Uses Two Huge Innings to Down Adelphi 11-1
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHko9YOIjxs]The good news is the Adelphi pitching staff held Pace scoreless in the final seven innings. The bad news is they allowed 11 in the first two innings for the team’s second consecutive blowout loss.Pace put up five in the first against Panther’s starter Kyle Garrison and six in the second off a combination of him and Michael Ceparano. They got outplayed in all three facets of the game, with the offense putting up one run on seven hits while the defense committed three costly errors–a huge one on a pop fly in the first inning by Tyler Murphy and another one a botched ground ball by Mike Stack. Pace batted around in the first two innings and Cf Andrew Coffey had three hits, scored two runs and drove in two. John Kukura also ...
