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Local Names Capture Minor League Championships

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If you’ve been following us for a while, you are familiar with the names Matt Seelinger, Dan Jagiello and Shea Spitzbarth. All three have local ties and they all wrapped up their minor league seasons with a championship. We’ll go through each individually. Dan Jagiello (LIU Post 2017) is a member of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and they captured the California League Championship. Jagiello was drafted in the 34th round of the 2017 draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers following the Pioneers ECC Championship in which he was on the mound to record the final out. He entered the season as a high draft follow as a starting pitcher but settled into a role as the closer. He compiled an ERA of 1.93 with 12 saves and 38 strikeouts over 23.1 IP. This year he compiled an ERA of 3.14 with 4 save...

Long Island Leaders

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Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics With the season winding down, we’ll occasionally post the Long Island leaders for some important statistics. Today we’ll start off with strikeouts for college pitchers. Strikeouts- 1.Shea Spitzbarth, Molloy-892. Tim Ingram, OW-783. Alex Brosnan, Molloy- 764. Daniel Zamora, SBU-655.Ron Bauer, Molloy-60

ECC Announces All-Conference Team

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Photo Credit: Dowling Athletics The ECC coaches have announced their All-Conference team and it includes a bevy of familiar names. From the first team; Dan Parisi, David Groenveld, Jon Cruz, RJ Going, Jake DeCarli, Shea Spitzbarth and P.J. Martino all have Long Island ties. Parisi was voted Baseball on the Island’s March MVP and has stayed hot–he is the second leading hitter on the Golden Lions, he is currently at .346, with 26 runs scored, 24 RBI, .414 OBP and .446 SLG as the backstop for the No. 1 seed. Groeneveld was voted Baseball on the Island’s April MVP. He is batting .305 in 95 at bats, He has compiled a .405 OBP with a .421 SLG percentage. He has committed only three errors in the field. Martino is a 2014 graduate of Patchogue Medford HS. He is a freshman at Univ...

Shea Spitzbarth Fans 13 in Rout of Queens

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Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics The formula for Molloy has been simply–pound the baseball or hope one of their two aces is on the hill. Today, they were fortunate enough to have both occur. They scored six runs in the fifth, five in the sixth and Shea Spitzbarth was dominant over six innings–with 13 strikeouts–in their 11-1 victory over Queens.Spitzbarth has been phenomenal all year, he now has 66 strikeouts in 45 innings and three wins. He allowed only two hits and walked four batters against an over matched Queens lineup that entered the game hitting .190. Combine those numbers with an All-Conference pitcher like Spitzbarth and you see numbers like that.Queens also committed five errors, which happened to be one more than the amount of hits they compiled. Molloy had nine...

Molloy Trounces Caldwell

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Photo Credit: Molloy Athletics Who says offense is dead? For the second time in a week, a Long Island team has eclipsed the 20-run mark in a game. This time it was Molloy making easy work of Caldwell.Granted, Caldwell committed six errors which led to nine unearned runs but still the Lions smacked 20 hits–four of which were by Jack McCarty and three were by John Galanoudis— to prove the cold and rainy weather can not stop them. Believe it or not, they actually trailed 3-0 early in this game. Lions starter Peter Bellina struggled mightily with his control. He walked seven in two innings of work while allowing five ER. The Lions responded with two runs in the first, five in the second, six in the third and four in the fourth to open up a 17-9 lead after just four innings. Relieve...

Jake DeCarli K’s 10 in Epic Pitching Duel At Molloy

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When two great pitchers are on their game, it’s a shame somebody has to lose. Jake DeCarli of LIU Post and Shea Spitzbarth of Molloy went toe-to-toe in an epic pitching dual at Molloy that the Pioneers won by the score of 2-1. The Molloy Lions took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI groundout by Anthony Alberghina that scored Deilyn Guzman.  Both pitchers settled into an unbelievable groove from that point on. DeCarli went seven innings, allowed three hits, four walks, one run while striking out 10 batters. The opposing start, Spitzbarth, went seven innings as well, allowed five hits, walked one, allowed zero runs and struck out 10. In the top of the eighth, Sean Gordon came on in relief. Vinny Iacono started the rally with a one-out double to CF. After the next batter g...

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