Jacob Perlman
Talented Hills East Returns Core of Last Year’s Playoff Team
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman After an 11-7 season that ended in his team dropping their first two playoff games, head coach of the Half Hollow Hills East RedHawks Tim Belz looked back on what was an up and down season for his team. “We were a young team.” Belz said. “Where we started only one senior and had four ninth graders in the lineup and at times two or three sophomores and the rest were juniors.” While the RedHawks will be full of youth this upcoming season, they did lose four seniors to graduation. Including Matt LeRose, who is attending Alvernia University, where he is continuing his baseball career. Among returning players, Belz is looking for a big season from Nate Greene. Greene is committed to Rollins...
GAME RECAP: Ryan Camier Fires CG in North Babylon’s 5-2 Victory
Final: North Babylon 5, Hills East 2 WP: Ryan Camier (CG, 6 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 7 Ks) Jordan Konig: 2-3, 3B, RBI, run TJ Oppedisano: 2-3, RBI pic.twitter.com/fiCt7PygSX — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 2, 2025 North Babylon knew they needed this series. The Bulldogs finish their regular season against first-place Smithtown East, and it behooved them to only need one win in the final three games to clinch a playoff berth. They were able put themselves in a position to do so by winning two of three against a talented Hills East team, winning today by the score of 5-2. Their offense wasted little time getting on the board in this one. After the first two batters were retired, Jordan Konig continued his torrid season with a triple to right center field. He is now batting .500 on the ...
Coming Off .500 Season, Hills East Poised to Make Postseason
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In his 18th season in charge of the Hills East Thunderbirds, head coach Tim Belz’s team got off to a scorching start to the year. However, they were unable to continue their 7-2 success, as they ended up finishing 9-9. However, with many of his players returning this season, Belz believes that his team will only continue to improve. “We started off the season 7-2 and finished 2-7.” Belz said. “Things didn’t go right for us towards the end of the season. We lost the last four. But we were a very young team last year.” While most of the team from 2024 is returning, there were four graduating seniors on the team last year. Of those four, three are currently playing college baseball. Three t...
