Zach Epley
Southampton Expects A Competitive Season With Youthful Squad
by Mike Merolle Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s season preview series. RHP Daniel McDonnell (Southampton 2025) @christianmcc23 throws a 4-seam, Sinker, Slider, changeup. FB sits between 81-83, top 85. Holds a 92 grade average. A player to watch. @axcessbaseball @TopTierBaseball @SethKenny @TopTier_HQ #TierBoys pic.twitter.com/61emfzbxRL — Top Tier Aviators LI NY (@TopTierAviators) February 13, 2024 It was an up-and-down season for Southampton as they finished 2023 with a 6-14 record. However, the season did end on a high note with a 2-0 victory over Center Moriches. In his fifth season, head coach Zach Epley is confident in his team’s competitiveness and believes they’re a threat this season. “We are playing in a competitive league this ye...
Southampton Ready to Begin New Era Under Zach Epley
Final: Southampton 9, Babylon 8 Here’s the go-ahead home run by Andrew Smith (3-for-3, 2 HR) pic.twitter.com/4oyXqgo5sK — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) July 12, 2020 Zach Epley was set to begin his varsity head coaching career with Southampton last year before the shutdown. There will be the added challenge this season of facing a step up in competition as their league consists of Shoreham-Wading River, Center Moriches and Mount Sinai. Regardless, pitching and defense has always been the recipe to success in baseball and Epley in confident in theirs. “I think we really have a good 1-2 punch atop the rotation with Ethan Walker and Steven Kraszewski,” said Epley. Those two were slated to be in the rotation last year along with LHP Sam Schneider, who graduated in 2020...
Southampton Enters 2020 In a New League With New Head Coach
(Photo Credit: Michelle Malone) Southampton has enjoyed a fair amount of success in the past decade winning two New York State Class B Championships and regularly qualifying for the postseason. Now they enter a new decade with a new challenge of moving up to Class A (League 7) and doing so with a new Head Coach. Zach Epley, who is a Southampton graduate and spent four of the past six years as the JV coach was promoted to varsity this season when Scott Johnson stepped down after a successful tenure. When discussing the season, Epley noted that pitching will be “pretty strong.” They will be returning three starting pitchers with experience at the varsity level. Sam Schneider, who impressed at our showcase back in January with a fastball that sat 79-80 MPH with a great 12-6 breaki...
