Rich Ciufo
Recapping A Busy Week
Typically mid-December does not feature much in the way of college or high school baseball news, but this was an atypical week. There was some college commitments, some announcements and great news for a Long Island native. Let’s start with the college commitments… Ryan Schechner (Bellmore JFK 2020) commits to Division-I Towson University. He is a LHP that works in the low 80s. We named him to our Preseason All-Long Island list back in March and followed it up with a great season. Had a 15-K, 1-hit shutout in his best start of the season. Justin Doskoez (Eastport-South Manor 2020) commits to Division-III SUNY Purchase. He’s a RHP and the younger brother of Alex, who had an incredible 2018 season for ESM in which they appeared in the Suffolk AA Finals. Charlie O’Brie...
Rich Ciufo’s Road To Recovery
by P.J. Potter It’s Opening Night at Historic Hicks Field in Edenton, North Carolina. The fans are still filing into the grandstands as the Steamers are coming up to bat for the first time of the Coastal Plain League season. While people were still getting settled, Rich Ciufo was already locked in. On his very first swing, everyone in the ballpark stopped what they were doing. They looked up as Ciufo crushed the ball over the double deck of advertisement signs in left field, and he was met by a roaring ovation while rounding the bases. And just like that, crossing home plate with a huge smile, Ciufo became a star in the CPL. “It was a great way to open the summer. It felt like a lot of hard work paid off,” Ciufo said, a Medford, NY native attending Brown University. Jumping into the summer...
Andrew Garcia Throw CG, Malm and Codispoti Smack 2-R HR in Win over Northport
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz08fO5U7RE]If there was any question whether Pat-Med would have a letdown in the first round of the playoffs, that notion was dispelled quickly with a 5-1 victory over Northport.Brett Malm made a Major League-caliber diving play up the middle on the first batter of the game and in the bottom half of the first, Albany-bound Matt Codispoti deposited a long home run to left center field to give the Raiders a 2-0 three batters into the game. That was all Andrew Garcia would need–he struck out four in a complete game victory for his sixth victory of the season. In the third inning, the Raiders added to the lead when Adelphi-bound Brett Malm drove in Codispoti with a home run to the same spot the catcher hit it to in the first inning.In the fifth in...
