By Benito Vila
The Kaiser Division of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League–comprised of teams in Sag Harbor, Southampton, Westhampton, Mattituck (North Fork), Riverhead and Old Westbury (Long Island)–overwhelmed their Wolff Division counterparts 11-0 at St.John’s University on Monday. That win gives the Kaiser playoff winner home-field advantage in the best-of-three championship series to be played the [...]

No sport takes hold of the habits of the superstitious as much as baseball. Whether it’s stepping over baselines, wearing certain clothes or eating specific foods, throughout the history of the game, players, coaches and fans alike have all taken to ascribing mystical power to their preferences; doing things to ensure success which have nothing [...]

Crowley All-State
Pierson baseball MVP Casey Crowley was named to the Class C All-State fourth team, the announcement coming from the Suffolk County Baseball Coaches Association on Tuesday.
Primarily a pitcher and catcher for the Whalers this spring, Crowley helped the Whalers take the 2009 Suffolk County Class C baseball title. The team posted a 15-8 overall [...]

By Benito Vila
 Tomorrow night the softball field in Mashashimuet Park will be lit on a Friday night for the first time in many years. The recent rains have washed away five nights of play, leading the Sag Harbor Mens’ Fastpitch Softball League to add an extra night of games to the schedule the next two [...]

By Benito Vila
With so many storms this spring, it was only a matter of time before some sort of lightning would strike. There was tingling excitement in the air after last Thursday’s late game, the Sag Harbor Hysterical Society outscoring Beyel Plumbing and Heating, 18-17.
The win was the first for the Hysterical Society this spring [...]

By Benito Vila
 
The Sag Harbor Whalers of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League played five games this week, going 2-3 and giving the squad a 4-4 start on their 40-game schedule.
The three losses came in contests with the high-flying league-leaders, the Westhampton Aviators (4-2) and the North Fork Ospreys (6-3). The Whalers split their doubleheader with [...]

By Benito Vila
 
The toughest task for the middle school baseball and softball coaches was making teams, the seventh grade class having an abundance of players in each sport and the eighth grade class too few. In the end, each sport resolved their “numbers” dilemmas differently.
Baseball played a combined seventh and eighth grade schedule with two [...]

The Stelle Architect team, coached by Ted Schiavoni, John “Woody” Kneeland and Faith Diskin, took the 2009 majors softball title on Monday, outscoring JCP Landscaping, 13-3. The win concluded an undefeated 11-0 campaign for Stelle, the brilliant pitching of Sam Duchemin allowing the team to flourish in the field.
That confidence also carried into the team’s [...]

By Benito Vila
Tonight’s the night; one that all the players in the Sag Harbor Men’s Modified Fastpitch Softball League look forward to: it’s an early summer classic, defending champion Sag Harbor Liquor at arch-rival T & S Mott at 7 p.m. in the first of three regular-season meetings.
The two squads have met in the finals [...]

 
Breakwater YC has announced the winners of its 2009 May Cup Series. The May Cup consists of four weekly races where each yacht is allowed to “throw out” its worst performance, creating a three race series. In Division 1 (Spinnaker) first place honors went to Gossip (Captains Kenny and Ames). Scoot (Captain Jim Vos) took [...]