Robert Vani
All-Long Island Team (College)
We are coming off another wildly entertaining season in Long Island college baseball. Here are my picks for the best player at each position. Italicized letters represent that the player led Long Island in that statistic. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/208630454″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=’450′ iframe=”true” /] MVP: Jack Parenty, SBUCy Young: Jake DeCarli, LIU PostRookie of the Year: Andruw Gazzola, SBUC: Dan Parisi, Dowling: .351 AVG, 27 R, 52 H, 26 RBI, .415 OBP, .446 SLG, 7-11 SB, .972 FLD % Rob Vani, Adelphi: .336 AVG, 29 R, 51 H, 2 HR, 23 RBI, .864 OPS, 6-8 SB, .986 FLD %1b: Brenda...
Disappointing Day for Three Division-II Teams
Photo Credit: Michael Parchinsky Friday was a bitter day for Adelphi, LIU Post and Dowling, who all had their seasons end prematurely in the conference tournament. After upsetting the No. 1 seed Pace, Adelphi was defeated on Thursday and faced elimination on Friday. They staved off elimination with a 7-2 victory against New Haven in which John Thompson threw 6.1 strong innings to record his second win of the season. John Fogarty had three hits and Rob Vani drove in two runs. They advanced to face Stonehill for the second time in as many days and it did not go well. They were defeated 14-3 with 13 of those runs coming in the third, fourth and fifth innings. Kyle Garrison suffered his fourth loss of the season, he threw two innings and allowed six ER. The offense smacked 10 hits but couldn&...
Adelphi Falls to Stonehill, 2-1, Face Elimination Tomorrow
Photo Credit: Stonehill University Just two days after pulling off an upset of No. 1 ranked Pace, Adelphi was defeated, 2-1, by Stonehill and now face elimination in the Northeast-10 conference playoffs.Staring pitcher Jonathon Mulford entered the game unblemished at 7-0 but allowed a first inning run on an RBI single. In the second inning, Stonehill increased their lead to 2-0 on a sac fly to right fielder Nick Zito.That was all that Mulford would allow, he went eight innings, allowing just two runs (one ER) on two hits while walking three and striking out six. He was tagged with his first loss of the season.The Panthers outhit Stonehill 5-3, but also committed three errors. In the second inning, Ray Triano‘s error led to Stonehill’s second run which was ultimately the differe...
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....
Three Crooked Numbers is the Formula For Adelphi
Photo Credit: Michael Parchinsky The Adelphi Panthers split with Felician in their DH on Sunday. It brings their record to 13-14 on the season.In the first game, they fell behind 1-0 in the bottom of the first on a double play that allowed the run to score. It didn’t last long, as they responded in the next half inning.John Fogarty hit a sac fly which scored Robert Vani. In the fourth inning, a wild pitch scored Donato Signore and advanced Eric Hassell to third. Later in the inning, Mike Stack hit a sac fly to score Hassell and increase the lead to 3-1.The Panthers added two more in the fifth inning on RBI hits by Signore and Fogarty.Felician scored two in the seventh to briefly put a scare in the Panthers, but Adelphi opened it up with three in the ninth on an RBI single, wild pit...
Zykoff’s Single Wins it for the Panthers
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Adelphi Panthers halted their three-game skid with a 10-inning victory over a strong Southern Connecticut team on Tuesday by the score of 5-4. Alex Zykoff, who came in as a pinch-runner drove in Nick Zito with an infield single to shortstop–which proved to be the game-winning run for the Panthers. After seven innings, the Panthers actually led 4-0 in this game. Starter John Thompson was terrific–throwing six shutout innings, striking out six while walking four and allowing five hits. The offense gave him some runs to work with. After the first run came in on an error, Nick Zito smacked a two-run double in the third to score Rob Vani and Kory Cassara.The Owls did all their damage in the eighth inning. Nick Batas allowed singles to the first two ...
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...
Tyler Murphy’s Two-Run Double Gets Adelphi Back on Track
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Down 3-0 in the seventh inning to NE-10 rival Southern Connecticut State and staring at a fifth consecutive loss, the Adelphi Panthers mounted a four-run comeback capped by a two-run eighth inning double by Tyler Murphy to turn disaster into triumph.Eric Hassell and Kory Cassara began the eighth-inning rally with consecutive singles to set the stage for a sac bunt. Ray Triano got it down, and the third baseman threw it away which allowed Hassell to score the Panther’s second run.Murphy came up as a pinch-hitter and he promptly ripped a double to right-center field to give the Panthers the lead. Senior Mike Cranston came on and immediately was faced with thwarting a rally. He allowed a lead off single and the next batter bunted him into scoring position. Th...
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...
Dowling Rolls Over Adelphi
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Dowling did some spring cleaning at their home field today in the form of a 12-1 victory over fellow Division-II Long Island program Adelphi. The Golden Lions wasted no time putting up a three spot in the first. Dan Parisi singled home Jon Cruz, executed a double steal which scored RJ Going and then came around on a wild pitch by Michael Tarpey (4 IP, 6 R, 4 ER, 1 K). They added one in the second on an RBI ground by Adam Schuster. He also sparked another rally in the fifth inning when he drove in Cruz with an RBI triple. He came around to score on Going’s RBI single and he scored when Tyler Piccolo grounded out to 3b. Adelphi got on the board in the sixth inning with a sac fly by Tyler Murphy to cut the lead to 7-1. The Golden Lions broke it wide open wit...
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