Robbie Mascia
Up Next Powered by Ken Kortright State Farm: Robbie Mascia
(Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment of the Up Next series in which we highlight the top underclassmen on Long Island. Previously, we featured, Jack Mulligan, Alex Pagano, Quincy Gibbs, Michael Cotto, Charlie Edwards, Evan Picciano and Nick Lawrence. Special thanks to Ken Kortright State Farm Agency for sponsoring this year’s series.) (Class of 2028) Robbie Mascia leads the game off for @thecanesbb with a pull side hr to get the scoring going early in the 1st. 2028 GRAD | C/3B, MIF, OF | COMMACK, NY pic.twitter.com/1sLkv0Rtyy — Coachem Media (@Coachem_media) July 23, 2025 When we last spoke to Robbie Mascia, he was a 12-year-old coming off a mythical season in which he hit 24 homers in 53 games playing exclusively in PG events. His town team, the LI Rebels, ran roughs...
Game of the Week Powered by Ken Kortright State Farm: Defending Champion Commack Clinches Playoff Berth
by Trevor Dugan Commack punches their ticket to the playoffs with a gritty win against league champ Connetquot FINAL: Commack 4 – Connetquot 2 pic.twitter.com/9AbkHKrPUZ — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 13, 2025 The defending Long Island champion Commack Cougars punched their ticket to the playoffs Tuesday with a thrilling win over the League II regular season champion Connetquot Thunderbirds. Entering the game with a 9-6 record, the Cougars faced their toughest opponent yet in the 14-1 Thunderbirds. On the road at Connetquot High School, Commack started Chris Messina on the mound, his first game back on the hill after undergoing Tommy John surgery last year. Connetquot went with Dylan Wilkinson for this intra-division rivalry matchup, a RHP committed to Saint Thomas Aqui...
Commack Aims for an Unprecedented 5-Peat
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Vin Messana March 12, 2020 was five years ago today. It was the day most people remember when looking back on the craziness of the pandemic – citing things like the NCAA cancelling the men’s basketball tournament and professional sports being halted. There was no high school baseball season that year, but the Town of Brookhaven did host a Wood Bat tournament which featured almost all of the schools in the county. The winner of that was Commack, led by the late Bryan Bonin. Commack captures the Town of Brookhaven Varsity Wood Bat Championship with a 2-0 victory over Lindenhurst Drew Vincent fired a complete game shutout with 10 strikeouts. Commack went 6-0 in the tournament pic.twitter.co...
Tools of Intelligence: Talking with the Catchers of Long Island’s Recent Aces
by Pat Duryea Pitchers are unique animals. No one pitcher is the same. Each pitcher has a unique mix of pitches, movement, and velocity. To find those wrangling the pitchers, you look no further than right behind home plate. The catcher. Nobody knows a pitcher better than their catcher. Catching is far from a passive profession, they must strategize just as much as any pitcher and do a whole lot of dirty work. But as we examine the top pitchers in Suffolk County across the past two seasons there is no better perspective to hear from, than that of their catchers. Pat-Med 2, Sachem East 0 WP: Josh Knoth (6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 15 Ks) S: Jack Costello Jayden Kennedy: RBI double, bases loaded walk Pat-Med will face No. 1 Connetquot tomorrow pic.twitter.com/ORo94RMhrG — Axcess Baseball LI (@axc...
Evan Kay Strikes out 11, Leads Commack to Third Long Island Championship in 4 Years
by Jacob Infald (Photo: Adam Rubin/Commack School District) Kay does it again! 11 strikeouts on the day including striking out the side in the 7th. pic.twitter.com/HM7EGjJlrC — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 2, 2024 For the third time in four seasons and for the second consecutive one, the Commack Cougars are the Class AAA Long Island baseball champions. On the evening of June 1st at Middle Country Athletic Complex, the Cougars were once again led by their ace, Stony Brook-commit Evan Kay and they defeated the Farmingdale Dalers, 2-1. Kay was dominant out on the mound allowing only one unearned one in a seven inning complete game shutout. He struckout 11 batters and walked none. Kay attacked Dale hitters early in the count with a sharp slider, a nasty changeup and a powerful fa...
Q & A With Robbie Mascia
In most cases, stats at the 12u level are not indicators of future success. The fields are small, the competition is weak, the players are not physically mature and there’s simply too many variables to predict what’s real. On the flip side, sometimes players simply rise above and their play is impossible to ignore. In the case of 12-year-old Robbie Mascia out of Commack, NY – it just might be real. The catcher for the Long Island Rebels had a season that is hard to comprehend. This is just his Perfect Game tournaments, which is higher-end talent than any league. 12u Robert Mascia (Commack, NY) continues his hot weekend with this absolute 💣 to dead center. Line drive straight over the batters eye. @PGMidAtlantic #AllStateGames pic.twitter.com/QjRomX001A — Perfect Game Yout...
Season Recap of 12u Long Island Rebels
Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting the top travel teams from 2021. Next up is the 12u Long Island Rebels. This could really be extended back to 2019 as they team has done an incredible amount of winning since their inception in 2019. Here’s their records since then: 2019: 43-10 2020: 44-6 2021: 44-9 (spring/summer), 20-4 (fall) What makes their success more remarkable is two things They are a small program with just this one team. They lost half of their roster last winter and needed to replace all of those players This fall, they challenged the players by playing only tournaments. The boys responded in a huge way by winning most of those including one at Ripken and another at Lasorda Legacy Park where they overwhelmed their opponents and outscored them 31-2. They had o...
