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Garden City Captures Class AA Long Island Championship with 10-5 Win Over East Islip
by Tucker Terranova Jack Murphy discusses his base-clearing triple which gave Garden City a lead they wouldn’t relinquish, as well as what was working for his squad today and what an LIC means for the program. pic.twitter.com/zMzYcQoMhC — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 5, 2025 The typical approach against a sub-1.00 ERA Division-I arm? Scratch out a run or two and lean on your pitching to do the rest. Garden City had other plans. Facing League IV MVP Thomas Costarelli and the top statistical pitching staff on Long Island, the Trojans erupted for nine runs across the fourth and fifth innings, storming past Suffolk Class AA champion East Islip, 10-5, to capture the Class AA Long Island Championship Thursday at Farmingdale State College. The win delivered Garden City its first LIC ...
GAME RECAP: East Islip Captures Suffolk Class A Championship Over East Hampton
East Islip LHP Lucas Patton fires a complete game 2-hit shutout against East Hampton to capture the Suffolk Class AA Championship! 🏆 They will face Garden City in the Long Island Championship on Thursday at Farmingdale State College pic.twitter.com/ch6RRKlVVK — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 31, 2025 Statistically speaking, once East Islip scores 1 run, the game is over. The Redmen’s historically dominant pitching staff entered Saturday’s County Finals allowing less than one run per game and recorded 10 shutouts on the season. Once Mike Tramaglini hit a two-run single through the middle in the bottom of the first, the game was pretty much decided. They sent junior LHP Lucas Patton to the mound, who entered with a 0.50 ERA. The southpaw, who relies on craft and not ove...
Sunday Spotlight: Thomas Costarelli
Back in 2021, East Islip captured the Conference IV Long Island Championship with a convincing 14-2 win over the Nassau Champions, Bethpage, at Mitchel Field. While the Long Island baseball community saw that up close, there was another dominant team that quietly dominated on the same field. It was East Islip’s JV team who posted an undefeated record (18-0). The bulk of that team was comprise of not 10th graders, or even 9th graders, but 8th grader. In fact, had the 2020 season not been cancelled, they would’ve been called up as 7th graders. That core group of players, Thomas Costarelli, Alex Ciampi, Chris LaMacchia, Jaden Schmidt, Billy Mahoney and John Talt, are now anchoring the latest iteration of East Islip varsity baseball. They enter Monday’s Suffolk AA playoff mat...
GAME RECAP: Seven-Run 4th Inning Powers West Babylon to 9-5 Victory
Andrew Mandelbaum had 2 hits including a 2-R HR that capped a 7-run inning for West Babylon in a 9-5 win over East Islip @GetGameChanger pic.twitter.com/Zb4IOgz8Is — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 23, 2025 For a brief period, this game resembled all of East Islip‘s previous games this season – allowing no runs and taking a 3-0 lead with an ace pitcher on the mound. Then came a nightmare fourth inning in which they allowed West Babylon to send 13 batters to the plate, 7 to score punctuated by a two-run homer to Andrew Mandelbaum. It was a complete surprise, as East Islip had thrown an incredible seven shutouts through their first 8 league games. The pitching match up was a great one – Anthony Gerbasio for West Babylon against Albany-commit Jaden Schmidt for the...
On the Back of a Deep Pitching Staff, East Islip Aspires to Claim Championship
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by George Caratzas Coming off a regular season that saw the East Islip Redmen go 13-5 in league play, before eventually losing in the playoffs, head coach Sal Ciampi Jr. has much of his dominant pitching core returning for 2025. In 2024, the Redmen were carried by their pitching staff, having five pitchers with earned run averages under three. Of their five regular-season losses, four of them were by one run or were games that were decided in the final at bat. This year, all five of East Islip’s big arms are back as they look to claim a championship. “It was disappointing from the standpoint of it ending where it ended,” Ciampi said in an interview with Axcess Baseball. “But, we set ourselves up to b...
GAME RECAP: Hauppauge Breaks Through Late, Defeats East Islip 4-2
Final: East Islip 2 | Hauppauge 4 W: Matt Neglia L: Lucas Patton SV: John Margolies pic.twitter.com/uuWAFHGOOv — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 17, 2024 by Tucker Terranova After wrapping up a stellar regular season with a commanding 15-3 record in conference play and clinching the No. 1 seed in the Suffolk County AA playoffs, Hauppauge began their journey for a championship against No. 5 East Islip. In the two squad’s regular season matchup, Mike Oliveto emerged as the hero by hitting a walk-off grand slam, capping off a storybook 10-7 victory. Today, he played the hero again. Spearheaded by standout performances from Oliveto and Matt Neglia, Hauppauge’s seasoned squad, boasting 13 seniors, showed their experience in a hard-fought 4-2 win this afternoon. Hauppauge’s offens...
Ken Kortright State Farm Game of the Week: Walk-Off Grand Slam Wins It for Hauppauge !
🚨 WALK OFF GRAND SLAM 🚨 Hauppauge junior Mike Oliveto crushes a walk-off grand slam as the Eagles overcame a late 7-2 deficit to win 10-7 and improve to 7-0 pic.twitter.com/aFHDWjUBaF — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 8, 2024 As far as endings go, it doesn’t get any more dramatic than a walk-off grand slam. Hauppauge junior Mike Oliveto was able to experience the pure jubilation of turning a deficit into a victory for the Eagles against rival East Islip, in the first game of a crucial three-game set which could determine Suffolk County League 5. “It’s feels great…it feels amazing,” said Oliveto, in the moments following his heroics. Clearly at a loss for words, the junior was overcome with excitement after getting mobbed at home plate by his teammat...
East Islip Enters Season With Dominant Pitching Staff
by Max Edelman Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s season preview series. East Islip 4, Hills West 3 (9innings) WP: Jaden Schmidt Nick Rizzo (8 innings, 8k’s, 3 earned, 3 walks) Rizzo: walkoff single in the 9th Thomas Costarelli: 2-3, RBI triple pic.twitter.com/Q0JXJu5sje — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 8, 2023 Whenever a varsity roster is dominated by freshmen and sophomores, it means that a bright future is ahead. And for the East Islip Redmen, the future is now. Despite only having two seniors on their roster last season, head coach Sal Ciampi was encouraged by the team’s season last year, as well as the progress he saw in many of his younger players. “Last year went pretty good.” Ciampi said. “We were a very young team. By ...
Q & A With SUNY Old Westbury-commit Jonathan Kortright
This week, Jonathan Kortright was the recipient of the Spirit Award issued by the Kortright Kares Foundation. Jonathan just graduated from East Islip HS where he played for Coach Sal Ciampi on the Redmen team that reached the postseason each of the past two seasons and prior to him being on varsity, they won the Conference IV Long Island Championship in 2021 over Bethpage. Jonathan will be headed to SUNY Old Westbury in the fall to play for Rod Stephan on the Panthers. I had a chance to speak with him and here’s what he had to say… Who are your biggest influences in life? My dad because he taught me how to play baseball and he taught me how to play hard, work hard and always make sure to control my emotions on and off the field. What was your experience like picking which colle...
Offense Powers East Islip Over the Top Against Hauppauge
by Andy Smith East Islip 11 Hauppauge 6 WP Nick Rizzo Veltman and Kneisel both had 3RBIs for East Islip pic.twitter.com/vbD8CTeub5 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 1, 2023 It was a cold, windy day but the offenses were hot and tallied a combined seventeen runs by a score of 11-6 with East Islip as the victor. The Eagles got to Nick Rizzo in the first inning and scored three runs off a two-run triple by first baseman Mike Oliveto, who was able to round home plate off a throwing error. The Redmen responded in the bottom half of the frame by putting up four runs to give them a one-run lead. Left fielder Thomas Costarelli got things started with a lead-off single. Then, Alex Johnston reached first, which was followed by a base on balls to Rizzo which loaded the bases. Then following...
Kings Park Clinches Postseason Berth for First Time Since 2018
Hunter Colagrande fired a 2-hit CG shutout in a 1-0 win to clinch a playoff spot for Kings Park pic.twitter.com/jMSOiy3pCY — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 24, 2023 It’s tough to get a better pitching matchup than the one we had today at East Islip. The 2021 Long Island Champs hosted Kings Park, who entered with a record of 9-3 and looking to clinch their first postseason berth since 2018. The pitching match up was a pair of Stony Brook-commits – RHP Hunter Colagrande (Kings Park) and LHP Nick Rizzo (East Islip). Stony Brook HC Matt Senk was in attendance to get a glimpse of two of his future pitchers. For those in attendance, you just got the sense that offense would be at a premium. Both pitchers were at their best today and one run would be enough – the que...
Led by One of Top Pitchers on Long Island, East Islip Hungry to Make Playoff Run
Stony Brook-commit Nick Rizzo (East Islip 2023) pounding the zone, T86. Command of CH and 11-5 breaking ball. Pro potential pic.twitter.com/UM76wEV7Sv — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) February 6, 2022 In 2021, East Islip absolutely dominated and captured the Long Island Championship over Bethpage in a blowout. Many of the starters from that team went on to play in college and have established themselves as legitimate college players – RHP John Rizzo, catcher Ryan Thompson, SS Ryan Ferremi, to name a few. Entering 2023, only 2 players remain from that team and it’s Stony Brook-commit Nick Rizzo and Adelphi-commit CF Anthony Rigogliosi. Last year’s team was senior-laden as well, but they did not have the necessary pieces to make a return to the County Championship, as...
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