The thought began to cross Tyler Osik’s mind around the 20th round of the Major League Baseball Draft last week: He might need to start thinking about a real job. READ
Tag: Baseball
The Chicago White Sox selected Shoreham-Wading River graduate Tyler Osik (’14) in the 27th round of the Major League Baseball Draft Wednesday afternoon. READ
Tales of that “one bad inning” are well known. This, however, was one horrific inning that defied the odds and stunned the participants.
Two pitches into its Suffolk County Class A baseball playoff game Sunday, Shoreham-Wading River was already ahead, 2-0, at Rocky Point High School. The Wildcats went on to later take a 5-0 lead and looked firmly in control.
And then the fifth inning rolled around. READ
In the Shoreham-Wading River High School baseball team’s first scrimmage this year, Jared Sciarrino made quite an impression. The transfer from Longwood struck a laser of a line drive for a home run for his new team.
His new coach, Kevin Willi (a former Longwood player himself), liked what he saw. Willi recalled, “I said, ‘Oh, this kid’s going to hit some home runs this year. Look at his swing. Look at his pop.’ ”
Sciarrino, however, hasn’t made a name for himself as a home-run hitter. He had a homer against Bayport-Blue Point earlier this season, but that was it.
Until Saturday. READ
Two high school baseball teams stepped back in time Saturday and changed history.
It was a change Shoreham-Wading River could have done without.
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Play ball!
Riverhead Little League officially kicked off the 2019 season with its opening day ceremonies Saturday morning at Stotzky Park. Players on all the baseball and softball teams were introduced at Bob Burns Field.
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If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for yet another Aidan Crowley no-hitter.
That had been the pattern for much of April, but Crowley’s remarkable string of no-hitters has come to an end.
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Would you believe he did it again?
He did.
Aidan Crowley pitched his third successive no-hitter for the Shoreham-Wading River High School baseball team Tuesday. The junior righthander extended his string of hitless pitching to 25 innings with his latest no-no, a 6-0 non-league victory over Hauppauge at Medford Baseball Complex.
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