Spring sports flew by… We had some athletes have great seasons… Im only updating the athletes that made it past the last update that I did in May…
Also, Congrats to Rob Kanniard (Rutgers bound) for winning the Asbury Park Press Wrestler of the Year!
On to the Spring Athletes…
College:
–Gene Napalitano – Baseball – SO- Marist (Marlboro) Catcher- Gene had a solid soph season for Marist as their starting catcher… He batted .234 and only had 3 errors the whole season.. He was about 50% throwing runners out…. On the other side he stole 16 bases on 19 attempts (pretty freaky for a catcher!)As a team they lost a heartbreaking game to Monmouth to get knocked out of the Conference Tournament in an 11 inning postponed game..
–Dylan Beyer- Baseball – FR – Ocean County (Howell)- Dylan had a great season hitting 5 HR’s (led team), 8 doubles (led team), and 41 RBI’s (lead team). They finished the season 23-18 knocked out of playoffs by the #1 team in the nation.
High School:
(Baseball)
-Vince Impressa – Baseball – SO – Howell-Vince had a great season starting Varsity and getting some pitching time.He had a 10 or 11 game hit streak!Vin batted .310 with 3 doubles and 1 HR.
-Tony Gatti- Baseball – SO – Howell-Gatti had a great soph season as well starting in right field and hitting the ball really well too… He finished batting .357 with 3 doubles and scoring 10 runs.
Howell had a good season over achieving as a team.They made it the sectional semis and lost a heartbreaker in the last inning.
–Frankie Dominici – Baseball – SO – Point Boro- Frankie transferred back to Point after being at Donovan freshman year so he had to sit out part of the season but when he came back he started at 3rd and was a pivotal part of the Point Boros best season in decades… They won the Ocean County Tournament, then the CJ Group 2 Sectional Championship and then they made it to the finals of the NJ Group 2and lost a close game.Frankie finished batting .250 with 3 doubles 7 runs and 10 RBI’s.
-Justin Kapuscinski- Baseball- SR- Marlboro-Justin had a great season making all division and maybe all shore.. hewill be attending Marist as well.Justing batted .380 with 9 doubles, 3 HR’s, and 22 RBI’s.
(LAX)
-Jake Shirley – LAX – JR – Shore-Jake had a great season he made 1st team all division for defense.As a team they were in the top few teams in the shore and lost the sectional championship to Manasquan.
-Logan Bianchi- LAX – SO – Ocean Twp-Logan had a good season play D for Ocean and made honorable mention all division.
-Max Pauwels- LAX- FR- Manasquan- Max had a great season playing Varsity as a freshman on the #1 LAX team in the Shore and one of NJs best.Max is a face off specialist.Squan won the Shore Conference championship and the sectional championship and lost in the Group 1 final.They will be ranked pretty high amongst NJ’s best teams this season.