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Old Westbury Wins Eleventh Straight
Photo Credit: Old Westbury Athletics It’s always good to be entering the postseason on a hot streak. The Old Westbury Panthers are on fire, having won their eleventh consecutive game today against United States Merchant Marines academy 6-1. They fell behind 1-0 in the first inning but responded with six unanswered runs over the next eight innings to improve to 22-8. Dean Sheridan drove in Matt Taurisani with an RBI double in the fifth inning to give the Panthers are 2-1 lead. They never looked back after that.They compiled 10 hits–Sheridan, Tommy Zeigen and Jacob Coners all had two hits.Vinny Bieniek recorded the victory with a shutout inning of relief, he is now 2-0 on the season. Nick Dorcean recorded the save with two shutout innings while compiling five strikeouts. The Pant...
Old Westbury Wins On Senior Night in 10 Innings
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Senior Night is supposed to be a nice, easy victory. Old Westbury‘s win Tuesday night over the City College of New York was anything but. It took 10 innings, and it included eight errors and 17 hits but the Panthers won 5-4 on an RBI single by the red-hot Tommy Zeigen. Old Westbury starter Tyler Kapela was terrific–he allowed one ER in six innings, struck out three and walked one. He did not factor in the decision. Nick Dorcean came on in relief in the seventh and struck out six in four shutout innings. He allowed only one hit while walking two.The offense compiled 10 hits–Nick Yip had three, Zeigen and Dean Sheridan both had two.In the 10th inning, Yip led off with a double down the right field line. Christian Faust was intentionally walked,...
Nick Yip Hits Two Home Runs to Lead Panthers in Rout of Lehman
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7sq4tpIBmI]It was an old-fashioned blowout in Baseball Heaven for the Old Westbury Panthers against Lehman. The game was 0-0 with two outs in the bottom of the second inning when the Panthers took advantage of four defensive errors to score 15 runs with two outs. They hit 3 three-run home runs–two by Nick Yip and one by Michael Cardino. The wind certainly contributed to the home runs, but so did the Lehman defense who dropped two outfield fly balls, and misplayed two groundballs in the infield that allowed the Panthers to blow the game wide open. Cardino had three hits and four RBI while Yip had two hits and six RBI. Nick Dorcean was the winning pitcher for the Panthers. He went six innings, allowed three ER with nine strikeouts for his first ...
