Great pitching silenced great hitting when some of the top high school senior baseball players from Nassau and Suffolk Counties got together for the Ryan T. Caufield Grand Slam Challenge last Monday evening at Farmingdale State College.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/19/13
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After Valley Stream North split its first six baseball games this spring, coach Phil Sanfilippo felt the lineup needed a little shakeup to get things headed in a positive direction.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/19/13
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Dreams of a trip to the county baseball finals came to an end for No. 3 Carey as it fell to Massapequa, 9-6, in Game 2 of a best-of-three Nassau Class AA semifinal series on May 21.
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By Andrew McClure
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5/28/13
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After dropping the opening game of last week’s best-of-three Nassau Class A baseball quarterfinal playoff series to Valley Stream North in extra innings, Clarke turned up the heat at the plate and on the mound to advance.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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5/21/13
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Junior Erick Vilchez went the distance, and senior Darren Rodriguez was 3-for-5 with a home run as No. 3 Carey knocked off No. 6 Calhoun, 9-4, on May 15 to sweep the best-of-three Nassau Class AA quarterfinal series. Freshman Anthony Catapano added a home run and knocked in three runs.
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By Andrew McClure
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5/21/13
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Senior Erick Vilchez struck out a career-high 12 batters over 6 1/3 innings, and senior James Harrison came on to earn his second save in as many games, to lead Carey to a 4-2 victory over Herricks in the 12th annual Bob Walpole Classic.
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By Andrew McClure
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5/2/13
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New York Life’s offices on Long Island collected thousands of dollars’ worth of lightly used and brand-new baseball equipment for Pitch In For Baseball, a nonprofit organization that supplies baseball equipment and other assistance to young people in underprivileged communities.
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3/27/13
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Coming off a breakthrough campaign that saw it register a school-record 34 wins, including a program-best 20 against Colonial Athletic Association rivals, Hofstra’s baseball club entered 2013 with high expectations.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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3/19/13
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“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric — not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball."
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9/13/12
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After playing some level of professional baseball for his entire adult life soon following his selection by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 13th round of the 2002 Major League Draft, Reid Gorecki took some time off last year.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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7/26/12
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