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South Side In the Mix To Be Top Team In Nassau County
by Mike Merolle Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s season preview series. South Side’s Sean Britt is the Axcess Baseball Player of the Game powered by @GCsports. He went 2-2 with 2 IB, an RBI double and a 3-run homer in the first that set the tone early for the Cyclones. pic.twitter.com/Bx5EpHUDGN — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 15, 2023 South Side finished another successful season last year with a record of 18-6, including the playoffs. Their season came to an end after a quarterfinals knockout by Garden City. Head coach Tom Smith looks to get across the finish line in his 11th year managing South Side. “There’s big shoes to fill,” said Smith. “For the last couple of years, I’ve had a [good] lineup. I graduated four All-County gu...
South Side Enters 2023 with Strong Senior Core and High Expectations
by Andy Smith Final: South Side 13, Manhasset 1 WP: TJ Maher Maher also hit a grand slam Game 3 tomorrow at Manhasset pic.twitter.com/qea8TMnybU — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 17, 2021 South Side had a very successful 2022 – which followed up winning the County Championship in 2021. The Cyclones finished with an outstanding 16-2 record, but their playoff run did not go as planned. They suffered a couple of big injuries that made them vulnerable, and it unfortunately ended their season. Entering his eleventh season as the head coach, Tom Smith reflected on how the campaign ended. “We were playing teams in our bracket in the round robin who were in our conference. The more you see a team the easier it is to find ways to beat them especially without key players.” Two rece...
South Side Ready to Protect their Title in 2022
by Mike Anderson Grand slam by TJ Maher breaks the game open – South Side leads 10-1 in the third pic.twitter.com/Gix5YrXLP3 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 17, 2021 After reaching the Long Island Championship last year, South Side High School varsity baseball enters the 2022 season as contenders to defend their league title. They finished 2021 14-8, and had a wild ride all the way to the end, before falling 3-1 to Newfield in the Conference III LIC. This year, they’ll look to do more of the same, and have a lot of guys coming back to help them do so. South Side will be without some of their impact players from a year ago, such as catcher Jack Temple, center fielder Paul Mata, and shortstop Kyle Aromiskis. Temple is now playing Div-III football at USMMA, and Mata is runni...
