Sunday, September 30, 2012
District 10 American Legion baseball has long been known as the ultra-competitive hotbed of superlative high school-aged summer baseball talent and this week has announced its postseason accolades.
District 10 American Legion Baseball announced its postseason All-District Team today, as well as the establishment of postseason awards, as it strives to add to one of its most successful and competitive seasons in recent memory. In conjunction with its prior establishment of a postseason All-District team, the District 10 board of directors voted last week at its monthly meeting to establish an annual District 10 Most Valuable Player, Pitcher of the Year, Umpire of the Year, Executive of the Year and Coach of the Year. The establishment of the postseason accolades included a four-page ballot which included all District 10 All-District Team, 1st team Selections as the nominees for Most Valuable Player, all 1st team pitchers as the …
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
For the first time in the program's 82-year history, Barnstable Post 206 American Legion Baseball is heading today to the Northeast Regionals in Old Orchard Beach Maine to make a bid to get to the American Legion World Series in Shelby, NC.
"Inning by inning." That's been Barnstable Post 206 American Legion Baseball's motto all season long as it marched through the regular season toward its first-ever Massachusetts State Championship in Worcester two weeks ago. And it's the same motto the team will take with it this morning as it boards a coach bus en route to the 2012 American Legion Northeast Regionals in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, according to Manager Sean Walsh, now in his 25th year coaching baseball. "This has been an extraordinarily difficult two-week layoff," Walsh said. "We've done just about everything possible to keep the guys sharp, practicing and playing scrimmages. It's not an easy thing to do on the heels of the waning momentum of winning the state championship…
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Backed by superlative pitching in each game its played thus far this season, Barnstable Post 206 won its first four games to start the 2012 campaign with a monster-schedule ahead for the rest of the season.
Great pitching wins games, but gutsy, fluid defense wins championships. Barnstable Post 206 American Legion got off to its best start in 26 years this week by winning its first four games thanks to errorless defense in its first three, then capped things off last night with a 21-hit, 14-4 win over Rockland Post 147 at Elizabeth Lowell Park in Cotuit. If Barnstable was looking for an answer to its offense in its first three games, it found it last night with eight players hitting in the double-figures. Alex Pernick led the way with his best performance in recent memory, a 3-4, five-RBI effort with a two-run homer and a pair of RBI doubles. WIll Toffey went 3-3 with 4 RBI, Mark Brodd went 3-4 and Terrence Mudie went 3-3 in his first-ever …
Monday, June 11, 2012
The 2012 high school baseball season came to an end for the Barnstable Red Raiders Sunday afternoon on a gorgeous day at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton as the Taunton Tigers downed the Red & White, 3-0.
With Willie Nastasi on the mound, the Red Raiders perhaps thought little of their opponent the Taunton Tigers in Sunday afternoon's MIAA Division 1 South Sectional Semifinal. Perhaps too little. The feisty, spirited and lively Taunton squad (18-5) took advantage of a 1-0 lead and rode it all the way to victory yesterday afternoon at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, tacking two more runs on in the bottom of the eighth inning for a 3-0 finale. Taunton faces Xaverian today at 4:00 pm at Braintree High School in the MIAA Division 1 South Sectional Championship. Nastasi certainly pitched well enough to win his final high school baseball game, but the oft-silent Red Raider bats and perhaps a handful of squandered opportunities to produce runs …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Heading into the final week of its regular season, the 11-3 Barnstable High School baseball team rode quality starting and relief pitching en route to a 7-0 win over the visiting Bridgewater-Raynham Trojans yesterday afternoon at Barnstable High School.
It's pretty tough for an opponent to beat you when your pitchers allow just a handful of baserunners and those same pitchers strike out 14 batters. Senior starter Willie Nastasi turned in seven strong, shutout innings yesterday versus the visiting Bridgewater-Raynham Trojans, striking out 11 batters, scattering three basehits and walking just two batters. Senior righty Keegan Dellacona came on in the 8th and 9th frames and allowed one hit and fanned three batters. The 7-0 victory was Nastasi's 4th win of the 2012 campaign. He is now 4-0 as the Red Raiders ready to welcome D-Y on Monday. Nastasi and Dellacona got all the run support they would need in the bottom of the third inning thanks to a Luke Besse sacrifice fly. Sophomore Derek …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Hard-throwing senior righty Keegan Dellacona spun a masterful web yesterday afternoon at Dr. Paul F. Walsh Memorial Field in New Bedford, defeating the host New Bedford Whalers, 8-0, in a complete-game, one-hit outing.
If Barnstable High School has nothing else this season, it has pitching. Loads of it. Case and point: one Keegan Dellacona, a 6'4" senior righty who yesterday spun an 8-0 masterful web over the host New Bedford Whalers with a complete-game, one-hitter. He struck out nine batters, walked one and the sole basehit he allowed was a slow-rolling dribbler to third in the bottom of the first inning. When the dust finally settled, Dellacona had thrown 95 pitches in seven innings of work, 66 of those pitches were strikes. His best innings, arguably, were the bottom halves of the fourth and fifth innings as he struck out four, got one batter to ground out and another to foul out. In those two frames, he threw 22 pitches, 19 of which were strikes. "I…
Friday, March 2, 2012
Some things just weren't meant to be and last night proved that phrase to be true as the high-scoring Catholic Memorial Knights devoured the visiting Barnstable High School boys basketball team, 81-63, in the first round of the Division 1 South Sectionals
Never underestimate the adrenaline produced by an energetic home crowd. Add 20 turnovers to the mix and a debilitating first five minutes of the third quarter, and the Old Colony League champion Red Raiders soon found themselves on the back end of a rout as the host Catholic Memorial Knights ran away with last night's MIAA Division 1 South Sectional first-round affair, 81-63. Outrebounded by the likes of 6'8" junior center Gerard Adams and senior captain Dan Powers, the Red Raiders nevertheless did not lack for hustle; but intermittent spurts of the team chemistry seen earlier in the season, combined with a 43.64% shooting percentage from the field, proved ill-fated for the guests and uplifting to a host accustomed to performing in a …
Saturday, December 31, 2011
The unbeaten Red Raider boys basketball team met its match last night in Rhode Island's LaSalle Academy, falling 65-53. The 4-1 Barnstable High squad took the loss on the heels of a big, 67-47 win over the host Durfee Hilltoppers the evening before.
The holiday lay-off didn't seem to bother the Red Raiders one night, then the next night the tables were turned. On the heels of a 67-47 drubbing of the host B.M.C. Durfee High Hilltoppers on Thursday night, the Barnstable boys basketball team took a tough, 65-53 loss last night at the hands of LaSalle Academy, a private school in Rhode Island. The Red Raiders fell to 4-1 on the still young season with the loss in what was the championship game of the 2nd Annual Thomas "Skip" Karam Holiday Classic Tournament. But Barnstable came out with all cylinders clicking last night and held a 14-13 lead after the first quarter, only to watch that lead evaporate with just two minutes remaining in the first half as LaSalle rattled off 11 unanswered …
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11:35 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2012
In defense of the BHS head baseball coach, it's easy to second guess a guy when you're watching from the stands and there's no way of truly knowing all the details of what goes on with a team when we're looking from the outside in - truth is, it was the best record Barnstable's had in quite some time and the first league title in the same amount of time. The head coach gave it the best he could. … more ›