baseball game story

COLTS NECK - Colts Neck coach Mike Yorke has seen his team - with all of three starters from last year's team back - develop a personality over the last two weeks and the guy setting the tone for the rest of the team is junior Anthony Galason...

TINTON FALLS - Wall High School baseball coach Todd Schmitt first watched sophomore pitcher Ryan Napolitano when the coach was in Cooperstown several summers ago and came across a Wall team playing in a tournament. The pitcher on the mound impressed Schmitt, not because he was throwing gas or flashed a sharp breaking ball, but because of his demeanor and obvious competitive nature...

ABERDEEN TWP. - Matawan senior Mike Trapani caught 12 full innings in Thursday's Monmouth County Tournament opening-round marathon game against Freehold Township and while that's actually a long time to be squatting behind the plate, it had to feel even longer for Trapani...

MANALAPAN - The win the Manalapan baseball team pulled out Saturday against Howell is the kind of win that might happen once in a season, but the Braves enjoyed coming back to win a rollercoaster game so much this past weekend that they decided to give it another try three days later - even though it meant nearly giving away a game that seemed well in hand...

TOMS RIVER - It's no surprise to junior T.J. Scuderi and his Toms River South baseball teammates that the Indians have started the season on a five-game winning streak, not many of the players - Scuderi included - envisioned the top-to-bottom offensive machine that Toms River South has been at the start of this season...

MIDDLETOWN - The Red Bank Catholic baseball team did not intend to have two losses this early in the season, but the silver lining for the Caseys has been how they have responded to those two losses. Two days after dropping a game to Wall, Red Bank Catholic - the No...

TOMS RIVER - Senior Jared Kwicinski is not one of the five returning starters in the field that made the Toms River South baseball team the No. 3 ranked team in the Shore Sports Network Preseason Top 10 but he has been a key ingredient in making sure the Indians have lived up to the lofty expectations in the early part of the season...

MANASQUAN - Scoring two first-inning runs against a Division I recruit on the mound with a smattering of Major League scouts on hand will get any team pumped up and unbeaten Monmouth Regional was no exception Tuesday. The Falcons - the No...

WEST LONG BRANCH - It took only a few innings for Raritan senior right-handed pitcher Matt Birdsall to walk more batters in 2017 than he walked during his entire junior year in 2016. In 45 1/3 innings last year, Birdsall walked merely one batter, so it's understandable that Birdsall could not keep that kind of control up this year...

LACEY TWP. - Most freshmen baseball players don't see a varsity field in their first high school season, let alone pitch in front of a throng of Major League scouts like current Pinelands sophomore Noah Dean did last year. The Wildcats southpaw squared off against current Red Sox prospect Jason Groome and Barnegat in last year's Ocean County Tournament first round and pitched a gem in a losing eff

FREEHOLD BOROUGH - The new pitch count rule is going to create plenty of situations like the one the Freehold Boro baseball team and head coach Jon Block faced Friday against Marlboro in an early-season Shore Conference Class A North game. Block had his No...

RED BANK - Red Bank Catholic junior right-handed pitcher Blaise Panzini did not know he was pitching a no-hitter until he was already told he would be coming out of the game following the top of the fifth inning. Caseys coach Buddy Hausmann didn't know he had a no-hitter going until after the game...