Riverhead baseball
Riverhead Prepares For New League, Unique Challenge
There are many inherent obstacles of playing in the northeast–namely the weather. Riverhead is one of the only teams that has a legitimate gripe with their travel. While most schools on the east end of Long Island are either Class A, B or C schools, they are the only AA. This is an issue in terms of travel because their shortest bus ride is 45 minutes. That’s the first problem. Secondly, the official start time for Suffolk County is 4 pm. The reality is that with school ending at 2pm and the baseball team needing to wait until the regular buses leave at 2:20, the earliest the bus can leave is at 2:30 pm. With most of their rides lasting over 1 hour, this means the team has roughly 20-30 minutes to get off the bus, get dressed, take infield/outfield or batting practice and have ...
Hills East Blanks Riverhead Behind Matt Hogan
by Frank Farnacci Vanderbilt-commit Matt Hogan led Half Hollow Hills East over Riverhead, 7-0, this afternoon with a dominating pitching performance. Hogan threw six innings of shutout ball striking out eleven while surrendering only three hits. “Another great effort from Matt today”, said Hills East Manager Tim Belz. “He had good command of his off speed and fastball. He got ahead. We made a couple of errors that could have resulted in runs, but he settled down and got us out of it each time”. Hills East set the pace with single runs in the second and third innings. In the second, John Son reached and advanced to second on an error. He scored on Vin Muraco’s single to left. In the third, Reis Henderson led off with a walk, stole second and advanced the third on Matt Hogan’s sac fly ...
