LOCH SHELDRAKE--The Northeast Pride Collegiate travel team has opened their inaugural year competing in the Hudson Valley Collegiate Baseball League (HVCBL) with back to back league wins.
On May 31 they defeated the Wappinger Yankees at Wappingers Falls 4-1 with Livingston Manor's and SCCC graduate Mike Mills pitching a three-hitter and last Sunday at Loch Sheldrake they blasted the visiting Putnam A's 13-1 with the win going to Will Ortez.
Long time HVCBL member, The Sullivan Spartans, have merged with the Pennsylvania based Northeast Pride (NP) and is comprised of players primarily from New York and Pennsylvania.
The majority of home games will still be played at the SUNY Sullivan "Generals Diamond" in Loch Sheldrake with three double headers to be played at Wallenpaupack High School in Hawley, Pa.
The manager of the Pride team is Orange County Community College assistant coach Stephen Cabarcas and the general manager is Joe Curreri. Jared Carrier, assistant manager of the Sullivan County Community College Generals and Director of Player Development at the Monticello based Pro Prospects Training Center is an advisory member.
Present college players on the NP team include Joshua Slocum, Wilkes University, Kevin Klatt, Wilkes University, Peter Kelly, King College, James Goetz Thiel College, Nate Packer Penn State Harrisburg and Rodney Jester Tompkins-Cortland TC3.
NP players committed to colleges include Bray Curreri, Eldred, committed to St. Rose, Chris Introcaso, Newburgh, committed to St. Rose, Patrick Pierce, Sullivan West, committed to Misericordia University, Mike Blazaskie, Hanover, committed to Misericordia, Jacson Signit, Marboro, committed to Cazenovia College, Jon Harned, Monticello, committed to Labanon Valley College, Dale Weidner, Honesdale, committed to College of St. Joseph, Alec Babyak, Wallenpaupack, committed to College of St. Joseph, Brandon Loran, Lakeland, committed to East Nazarene College and Jake Schilling, Honesdale and SCCC, committed to Keystone College.
Sunday's game on the SUNY Sullivan diamond went three scoreless innings until the bottom of the fourth when NP's Matthew Lehay led off with a walk. Pepe Vincenzo bunted Lehay over to second but was out at first. Segnit Jackson pinch hit for Sullivan West's Patrick Pierce and drove a single to left field scoring Lehay.
Second baseman Rodney Jester, last year's Tri-Valley MVP and freshman at TC3 who finished his first year of collegiate ball batting .333 then singled to left field followed by a single by Jeremy Degori scoring Jackson giving NP a 2-0 lead.
The Putnam A's scored their lone run in the top of the sixth on singles by Cody Perotti and Steve Nicholais, a bunt moving runners to second and third by Stephen Zalys, a walk by Sal Palmiero loading the bases and a sacrifice fly out scoring the one run by Jason Zaboris.
A change of pitchers for Putnam in the bottom of the sixth proved disasterous for the visitors from Dutchess County as NP scored 11 runs on 10 walks, a passed ball, several singles, a double, errors on dropped balls by outfielders all resulting in a 13-1 lead.
A's coach Joe Salumn in talking about the pitching change noted, "our starter went very well and our second pitcher came in and did OK but we extended him a little bit further then we wanted as he didn't pitch too much in college and we just wanted to get him some work."
"Once the game got out of hand we left him in so that he could work on some stuff and basically it just came down to the fact that we had to save some of our pitchers for the second game," coach Salumn noted.
Coach Jed Currier, filling in for coach Cabarcas noted that Putnam's starting pitcher, Tyler Kardos, "is a freshman pitcher at George Mason in Virginia and he had good stuff and kept us off balance for a number of innings."
Currier added, "on our side winning pitcher Ortiz Will threw a great game, he battled and kept the ball down, he changed speeds and was real composed." Ortiz is from Warwick and just completed his freshman year at Orange County Community College.
Currier also gave praise to his defense.
This game was called after the sixth inning on the 12 runs after five innings league rule.
NP's overall record is 2-2 and 2-0 in league play.
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