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T.J. Santiago Dominates in Adelphi’s 5-2 Win on Opening Day
More than one player referred to Opening Day as a holiday during pregame warmups. Adelphi’s starting pitcher, TJ Santiago, had the energy of a kid on Christmas morning but his splitter acted more like the Grinch. The senior RHP was lights out (7 IP, 9 K, 0 R, 2 H, 2 BB) in Adelphi’s 5-2 win over perennial powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas. It was a tremendous match up between a member of our 2016 All-Long Island team and Frankie Moscatiello (Rocky Point ’14), who hit 92-MPH with his first pitch of the game. Both pitchers have a chance to get drafted this year. “I was able to use all my pitches in various counts,” said the Panthers’ ace. “First game of the year is always a little more special,” he added. The offense got off to a slow start, but in...
Jonathon Mulford Improves to 6-0, Adelphi Moves Past So. Co.
Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics The Adelphi Panthers won a smooth 4-1 match up against the surprisingly mediocre Southern Connecticut State Owls.Ace Jonathon Mulford improved his draft stock with an eight inning outing, allowing one ER one three hits, three walks while striking out four. He is now 6-0 on the season with a 2.06 ERA. You can read a scouting report on him here.Senior closer Mike Cranston recorded his seventh save of the season. The program record for saves in a season is 13, which was set by All-American Dillon McNamara.The Panther offense didn’t get going until the eighth inning when they were trailing 1-0. Donato Signore lined an RBI single to center field to score John Cuttitta and John Fogarty.In the top of the ninth, a two-run error off the bat of Mike Stack scored...
Adelphi Mounts Four-Run Comeback Against St. Thomas Aquinas
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Adelphi certainly seems to have turned a corner. They mounted an impressive four-run comeback against the reigning ECC champion St. Thomas Aquinas and won 6- in 11 innings.Mike Stack reached on a fielder’s choice to score pinch-runner John Cuttitta, who ran for Camden Orologio.The Panther bullpen threw nine dominant innings, allowing just two ER and Mike Cranston recorded the victory with a 1-2-3 inning in the 11th.“I feel like we are playing a lot better baseball in the past two weeks,” said the New Jersey native. “Our pitching has improved as a staff and hitting wise we are moving guys over and hitting better with runners in scoring position,” he said.The Spartans got out to an early 4-1 lead off Panther starter Will Hickey. The P...
Adelphi Sweeps LeMoyne
Photo Credit: Michael Parchinsky By winning both ends of the DH today against LeMoyne, the Adelphi Panthers have swept the series from LeMoyne and have gotten back on track. They won the first game 4-1 behind Jonathon Mulford‘s stellar outing–seven innings, zero ER, eight hits, one walk and two strikeouts to improve his record to 3-0. The Dolphins took an early 1-0 lead on an RBI double, but it was an unearned run due to an error earlier in the inning by Mike Stack. That was all the Dolphins would muster, as Mulford kept them at bay all day. Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics John Fogarty hit a two-run homer in the second inning to give the Panthers the lead. They padded that lead with two more homers–a solo shot by Stack in the fifth inning and a solo bomb by Donato Signor...
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 ...
Adelphi Closes Out Florida Trip With Comeback Victory
Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Sometimes a win can represent more than just a single W in the standings. For a team that had lost five games in a row, a five-run comeback can mean turning a season around.The Panthers had ace Jonathon Mulford on the hill, but he was pulled with two outs in the third inning in favor of TJ Santiago with the Panthers trailing. The lead ended up getting extended to 6-0 when the Owls added two runs in the sixth inning.Freshman Kory Cassara got the Panthers on the board with his first career HR–a two-run shot to left field. They inched closer when Eric Hassell reached on an error by the 3b that scored their third run of the inning. The big blow came on a two-run double by Alex Zykoff to tie the game at 5.Ricky Van Allen came on relief in the seventh inning...
Adelphi Loses Despite Sharkey’s Torrid Streak
Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics When Adelphi lost Cliff Brantley and Rich Mejia to pro ball and graduation, respectively, it appeared they would have a hole in the lineup. Well, after two games Vincent Sharkey is making his case to fill those tremendous shoes. In Saturday’s 7-6 loss to Nova Southeastern, the Lynbrook native went 3-for-5 with three RBI to bring his season total to seven hits in just two games. He drove in two of those runs with a bases loaded single in the sixth inning to cut the deficit from 6-0 to 6-4. Unfortunately, the Panthers could not manufacture the runs to tie up the game. Nova, who improved to 18-4 with the victory, teed off on sophomore starter TJ Santiago. He lasted 3.2 inning, allowed seven hits, walked four and was responsible for six runs (5 ER). The bu...
