Massapequa Baseball Goes Undefeated on Weekend Trip to Albany

The Massapequa varsity baseball team has developed a reputation of being one of the top-rated high school programs in the state of New York. The Chiefs always look to challenge themselves year after year with some of the top competition the state has to offer.

Massapequa won the state title in 2006 with a win over Colonie followed by Long Island championships in 2007 through 2009 in addition to 2006. The team traveled up to Albany over this past weekend to take on Colonie again, but first played a non-conference game against the 2010 state runner-up, Guilderland.

Massapequa went from wrapping up a sweep of conference opponent Freeport on Thursday afternoon to taking the trip upstate to play Guilderland on Friday night at Dutchman Field. The Chiefs fell behind early, but came back to win, 6-3.

Pitcher Ryan McCormick won in his first start of the season, going 4 1/3 innings while striking out seven batters and giving up five hits. Ryan Van Buren pitched 2 2/3 innings of hitless relief to pick up the lengthy save.

James Nakashian broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the third inning with a two-out, two-run single to cap off a three-run frame. Massapequa held on the rest of the way with the aid of the stellar pitching to come out with the big win.

The next day, Massapequa traveled to Colonie in another challenging game, but the Chiefs took all drama out of the picture early as they cruised to a 14-0 win.

John Mulford won his first game of the season, pitching six shutout innings and giving up just two hits while striking out three batters.

Jeremy Baldwin led the offensive surge by going 3-for-5 with two RBI’s, two runs scored as well as two stolen bases. Steve Reisig hit a pair of doubles and collected three RBI’s. All but two Chiefs batters picked up at least one RBI in the dominating win.

Rob Wallace went a combined 5-for-7 over the weekend for Massapequa against the two non-Conference opponents.

Massapequa made a quick turnaround to start off a pivotal series at home against Hicksville on Monday morning, but suffered just their second loss of the season by a score of 11-5. Please check back with Massapequa Patch this week for a full recap of the Chiefs’ three-game series against the Comets.