Nassau Chromium 10, K's Auto Repair 7

In their second meeting of the week, Nassau Chromium motored past K's Auto Repair 10-7. K's got on the board first when Carmine Sarno and Vincent Campanale got aboard, stole two bases each and came home. K's Auto battery of Tommy Flynn and Carmine Sarno kept the Chomies in neutral gear, with Flynn whiffing eight Chrome kids. The Chromies plated one run when David Easton worked out a full-count walk, nabbed a pair of bases, and came home easily on Chris Brostek's triple. The Kaysters came back to score three more runs, sparked by long drives by Zack Chichi, Carmine Sarno, Michael Diglio and Tommy Flynn. Down by four runs, the Chrome Boys showed their polish by scoring seven runs with Michael Granath, Joe Spollen, Nick Genduso and Anthony Morais collecting doubles. The Chrome Gang added two more runs when Paul Easton doubled in Chris Brostek and came around to score on Anthony Morais' single. K's kept the pressure on, scoring two more runs when Carmine Sarno doubled in Zach Chichi and T.J. Gessner. The K-Cars kept driving, but a slick fielding play by Chromium's second baseman Greg Lapin saved the game. Other highlights for Chromium were Brandon Hoffman's slide home to score the winning run and Alex Lopes' nine straight foul balls, possibly a new MAA record. For K's, Dennis Clark picked up a single and a walk. Daniel Lamonica pushed home a run with a walk and E.J. Lopresti played a stong outfield.

Century 21 Laffey and A & J Moving and Storage squared off on a sunny and rain free June day. A &J had some hard hitters, led by Christopher DeStefano and Kevin Hardiman.

Century 21 had some hard hitters of their own. Robby Clarkin, who had three solid hits for Century, one going all the way to center field. Danny Hasting, Zachary Englis and Matthew Stevens, each had two hits. Ryan Brown and Victoria Wresch each had solid hits and played a good game in the field.

Nassau Chromium 11, Install-A-Lock 6

Nassau Chomium keyed past Install-A-Lock 11-6 in their first meeting of the year. Chromium led off the game with a quick score when Joe Spollen bounced in Anthony Morais. The Locks tumbled right back to ties the game when Michael Brady singled in T.J. Winters. Hurlers Matt Siwinski and Joe Spollen traded scoreless second frames, each recording a pair of strikeouts. In the bottom of the third, Lock padded the score when T.J. Winters, Matt Siwinski and Michael Lacava reapped out base hits and Michael Brady blasted a three-run homerun. The Chrome Boys shined in the fourth, scoring five runs when Alex Lopes, Christ Brostek, David Easton and Greg Lapin reached safely and Anthony Morais smashed his first four-bagger of the year. The Chromies plated two more when Alex Eisen tripled in Joe Spollen and was banged in by Nick Genduso. The Lockies came back with Matt Siwinski driving in George Braun. But the Chrome Gang put the game out of reach when Anthony Morais and Paul Easton tagged up and scored on Joe Spollen's sacrifice fly after a great catch by T.J. Winters. Alex Eisen tallied one more run when he singled in Michael Granath. The Installers would threaten once more, but Chromie backstop Joe Spollen picked a Lock trying to steal a base, the second time in three games that Joe has closed out the game with a caught stealing.

Tsontos Furs 10, Chamber of Commerce 8

This was the final meeting for Tsontos Furs and the Chamber of Commerce immediately took the lead in the first inning with two runs. Michael Greico hit a single and due to errors made it home. Max Bankin tripled and was able to score. Pitching for Tsontos Furs was Brian Abrams, who stayed on the mound for four innings, striking out eight. He has 47 strikeouts in 26 innings pitched. As the Furs' batters came up to the plate, the bats went swinging. Brian was walked. Robert McPartlan singled. Steve Keeler singled. Pete Diglio doubled. Mike Donato walked. Joe Werther and Anthony Tretolo doubled. This gave the team to a quick lead of 5-2. In the third inning, the Furs continued their hitting streak. Pete doubled, Mike singled, Joe tripled to the fence to make the score 8-3. Commerce did not give up. Three batters walked and all scored. The 4th inning brought two more runs for the furs. Kevin Brostek walked and Chris Valente laid down the perfect bunt for a base hit. Brian Green singled and Brian Abrams doubled to make the score 10-6. In the last at-bat for Commerce, Max was on second. Luke Ammirati sent the ball not only over the fence but over the LIRR tracks, making the final score 10-8.

Mineola Florist 16, Willis Hobbies 11

Mineola Florist and Willis Hobbies played one of the most exciting games of the 2000 baseball season. Mineola Florist came out and scored three runs in the top of the first on a lead off single by Joe Wellbrock, who was on base four times for the game. Daniel Fitzgerald and Gabriel Cuto walked to load the bases. Matthew Dadich then walked to force in a run and John Englis also walked to force in another run. Fred Usma grounded out to score another run. Willis came right back in the bottom of the first on back to back triples by Shawn Wachter and Terry Mooney to tie the score at three. Both pitchers, Gabrielle Couto for Florist and Terry Mooney for Willis, pitched a scoreless second inning.

In the third, Mineola Florist's Matthew Dadich walked and Chris Lorusso singled, putting runners on second and third. John Englis then singled both runners home for a 5-3 lead. But in the bottom of the inning, Willis Hobbies came back again with four runs to take a 7-5 lead.

Mineola Florist took the lead in the fourth with three runs and in the fifth, scored eight times for a 16-11 final.

Chris Lorusso was 2 for 4, with a big two run double in the fifth inning. Chris also made two good defensive plays in the outfield. In the first inning, Chris caught a hard hit liner and in the fourth, stopped the ball in deep center. He then threw a strike to Fred Usma, who threw a strike to catcher Gabriel Couto to get Terry Mooney at the plate. Andrew Leno had an RBI single and walked once. Robbie Delbella was on base three times and scored one run for Mineola Florist.