Stars & Stripes
Long Island Thunder Capture 12U Stars & Stripes Tournament
by Chris Sacchi Walking into McClaren Stadium, the sight of this year’s Stars and Stripes tournament, the scene instantly brings back emotions of when baseball fans first fell in love with the game. Young ball players aged 8-12 flocked the two fields in the complex, competing in tournaments with laughs, cheers, and smiles ways only they can. The 12u championship between the Syosset Braves and the Long Island Thunder was no different, even with the title on the line. Parents on both sides were loud and added an intensity to the game, and the dugout chants were never stronger than normal. “We’ve been one of the only town teams playing against club teams, but we’ve stayed focused, played good defense, and we’ve been hitting the ball, jumping on pitches to hit,” said the Syosset Braves mana...
LI Titans Noe Capture 10U Stars & Stripes Tournament
There are not many 10U teams that can compete with them, but the Farmingdale Greendogs are one of them. “We always play this Farmingdale team and we know they can really play,” said LI Titans Head Coach Kenny Noe. “We know they have about 3 or 4 pitchers that can really throw so for us it’s just about grinding out at bats, getting pitch counts up and going deep into counts and it showed. We got their pitcher up over 100 pitches in four innings–he went to 107 pitches and it was after throwing 75 on Thursday so it really showed,” he added. That pitcher was Chris Parisi, one of Farmingdale’s power arms but pitching on 2-days rest after throwing a complete game, he certainly battled to find his command. The Titans took advantage of this by drawing five...
Farmingdale Greendogs Advance to 10U Championship
The Farmingdale Greendogs held off a late rally by Long Island Baseball in which they sent the tying run to the plate after trailing by six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to capture a 10-7 victory. With the victory, they advance to face the Long Island Titans in the 10U Stars & Stripes Tournament. LIB got off to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an error and a couple wild pitches to score Lorenzo D’Ambrosio. The lead did not last long as the Greendogs sent eight batters to the plate in the bottom of the first and crossed the plate three times highlighted by an RBI single by Thursday’s hero Chris Parisi, an error and an RBI single by William Herbert. After a scoreless top of the second, they added three more runs on an RBI single by Justin Ortiz and a two-run double ...
Andrew Noe Does It All in 10-0 Victory
You would never know it by watching him, but Andrew Noe had a blast in today’s 10-0 victory for the LI Titans in the Semifinals of the 10U Stars & Stripes Tournament. The stoic young man pitched four shutout innings allowing just one hit and one hit. He also hit a three-run home run, legged out an RBI single and scored three runs while acting like he’s been there before–rarely seen from a 10-year-old athlete. The game was delayed by nearly an hour but the Titans still were able to finish the victory in 1 hour and finish in less than if the game had started at the scheduled 11:15am time. The offense wasted no time getting on the board in the first inning. They got an RBI single by Shane Meehan to score Andrew Noe to give them a 1-0 lead. Two batters later, Luke Coates ...
11-Run Third Inning Propels Wolfpack to Run-Rule Victory
Vaughn Steinert clears the bases with a triple to right pic.twitter.com/Hg1BiFVNMk — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) July 5, 2019 They sent 16 batters to the plate and crossed the plate 11 times against two pitchers. That third inning was the reason the 12U 495 Wolfpack was able to complete a a four-inning rule-rule victory over the East End Aviators in a 4th of July Stars & Stripes Tournament game this afternoon. They got out to a quick start in this game, using three walks to load the bases for fifth-place hitter Andrew Chelius. He roped a two-run rule double to score Vaughn Steinert and Isaiah Gibbs to make it 2-0. They sent Kyle Lucas to the hill and he was in no rush to let that lead slip away. The power pitcher fired a harmless 1-2-3 first inning with two ground outs to seco...
