2025 Season Previews
John Romano’s Huntington Blue Devils Look to Improve in 2025
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Joe Bello After finishing with a 2-18 record in the 2024 season, Coach John Romano’s Huntington Blue Devils will look to improve in 2025. Romano is heading into his second year as head coach for the Blue Devils. He spoke to Axcess Baseball about his expectations for the 2025 season and the changes he is making to the organization since taking over. After facing tough competition in League 4 last year, Huntington will play their 2025 campaign in League 3. Romano anticipates that his team will perform much better this season. “This season, unlike last year, we have a foundation built and new expectations going into this year.” Romano said. “We changed leagues and expect to be much improved off of last...
North Babylon Returns Strong Core
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman With his 13th season as head coach of the North Babylon Bulldogs fast approaching, Steve Corrado looks to build upon an 11-11 season in 2024. Despite the tough ending to the season, Corrado believes that there were plenty of positives to take away from his up and coming Bulldogs squad. “We went into last season with a lot of questions with our pitching.” Corrado said. “We had graduated literally all of our pitching from the year before. But our younger guys stepped up, in our two playoff games we started two sophomore pitchers. 75% of the innings we pitched last season were by kids in either 10th or 11th grade.” While the majority of North Babylon’s key players will be returning in 202...
St. John the Baptist Looking to Take Next Step In CHSAA
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman Varsity baseball beat Kellenberg 6-5 in an elimination game. Aidan Casey earned the win striking out 6 over 4 2/3. Jacob Schmutz had the game winning 2 rbi double. Ethan Schmutz made a diving catch to end the game. They will play St. Dominic’s on Tuesday. Great team win! pic.twitter.com/XmXrBxdO9j — St. John the Baptist Cougars (@SJBDHSCougars) May 21, 2024 In the always competitive Catholic League, three separate teams lost at the hands of the St. John the Baptist Cougars during the 2024 playoffs. Head Coach Ryan Dalton, who is entering his third year in charge, looked back on what was a strong year for his program. “We were 13-11 overall and 11-11 in league play last season.” Dalton sa...
North Shore Looks To Build Off Last Season’s Playoff Appearance In Gates’ Second Season
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In his first year as head coach of the North Shore Vikings, Rob Gates accomplished his goal of getting his team back to the playoffs. Although the team suffered a first round defeat to Wantagh, Gates was happy with the effort his team showed, and is looking forward to hitting the ground running in 2025. “The goal last year was to get back into the playoffs after two years without.” Gates said. “So that part of the mission was definitely a success. I got hired a little late last winter, so this winter I’ve been able to get everything up and running. So that’s been a nice adjustment here in year two.” The major loss for the Vikings in 2025 is of star pitcher Garret Gates, who was both a fi...
Bridgehampton Looks to Claim Regional Title after Consecutive Trips
(Photo Credit: Mari Barnett) Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series Final: Bridgehampton 11, Amityville 1 WP: Kai Alversa (CG, 1 R, 1 R, 2 BB, 16 Ks) Foard: 2 hits, 2 R, 3 RBIs pic.twitter.com/EjVnK6mYHe — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 4, 2024 by George Caratzas Entering its fourth year since reviving its baseball program, the Bridgehampton Killer Bees have taken a 6-12 season in 2022 and turned it into consecutive Class D regional appearances. This year, they are hungry to get past a familiar foe. A year ago, the Killer Bees completed their second straight winning season under head coach Lou Liberatore but ultimately fell to Chapel Field in the regional round for the second straight year. While coming up short of the end goal, ...
St. Dominic Looks to Accomplish Ultimate Goal in Year Four Under Fusco
by George Caratzas Final: St. Dominic 8, St. John the Baptist 7 WP: Luke Lang (3.2 IP in relief, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 Ks) Victor Frederick: 3-4, 3 RBIs Ray Kim: walk-off sac fly Matt Cruz: 2-4, 2 R St. Dominic will face St. Anthony’s on Wednesday at Hofstra 4:30 pic.twitter.com/GfehEMfM9p — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 21, 2024 Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series. Since head coach Joe Fusco’s staff took the reins in 2022, St. Dominic has gone 51-25, including a 38-12 record over the past two seasons. In that same window the Bayhawks have won 27 of their 34 league games, but are yet to claim the ultimate end goal: a Catholic League championship. After losing to Holy Trinity and St. Anthony’s in last year’s postseason and losing ...
