Vinny Orlando
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&...
Dowling Wins Three of Four From Mercy
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Dowling stayed red-hot and won three of four games from Mercy College this weekend to improve to 21-9. We covered the win on Friday night, in which Cody McParland threw seven innings and the offense racked up 17 hits. They won the second game by the score of 10-5 on Saturday. Brendan Butler improved to 5-1, but it was not his most dominating effort of the season. He went 6.1 innings, allowing three ER on six hits and five walks while striking out five.Andrew Sesto came in and provided 2.2 perfect innings of relief, striking out four batters. Fortunately, the offense provided more than enough runs. They smacked 14 more hits–Tyler Piccolo had three while driving in two runs, while Vinny Orlando, RJ Going, Dan Parisi and Michael Richter all had two hits. Le...
Dowling Smacks 17 Hits En Route to 19th Win
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Golden Lions put up four crooked numbers and received another dominant outing from Cody McPartland as they cruised to a 12-4 victory over Mercy. They improved to 19-8 on the season.Dowling scored two in the first on an RBI triple by Michael Richter and a run-scoring single by Tyler Piccolo. Mercy got on the board in the third on a sac fly, but the Golden Lions responded with a huge fourth inning. Vinny Orlando singled home Richter. Adam Schuster drew a bases loaded walk for the second run of the inning. RJ Going hit a sac fly and Jon Cruz hit an RBI single to open up the game.They broke it open even more in the fifth on a steal of home by Tyler Hardison and a double by Chris Appell. Hardison led the offensive attack with four hits but Piccolo and Orlando als...
April 15 Recap
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana We provided coverage of three games yesterday, but here is the results from the rest of the college programs on the island. Division-I: Hofstra shutout Manhattan 7-0, behind Adam Seibert and four relievers. Seibert started and went five innings, Adam Heidenfelder threw the sixth inning. Kevin Weissheier and his brother, Matt, both pitched one inning and Chris Weiss closed it out. Together, they allowed four hits and three walks while striking out 10. The offense got going early on Brad Witkowski’s RBI triple to drive in Steven Foster. In the third inning, Dalton Rouleau hit a sac fly to score Witkowski to make it 2-0. David Leiderman stayed red-hot, and increased it to 4-0 with a two-run single. In the seventh inning, Eric Ferguson scored on a wild pitch f...
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...
