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Garden City Looks to Defend the Long Island Class AA Crown
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series Garden City captures the Nassau Class AA Championship with an 8-5 win over Bellmore JFK! pic.twitter.com/uPmwi3gBIF — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 31, 2025 Garden City (24-5) was a wagon in the postseason, rattling off eight consecutive wins en route to their first Long Island Championship since 2021. In the beginning, it did not appear it was going to go that way. In their first playoff game against MacArthur, who entered coming off a loss to New Hyde Park, they fell behind 6-1 in the bottom of the 6th. MacArthur was flying high following a grand slam by Nick Albert. The tides seemed to turn after that, however. The Trojan bats went to work and their bullpen held the fort as they held on f...
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 ...
