The Huntington High School baseball team continues to play well. The squad is comprised of veterans who have been together since seventh grade. They love baseball and enjoy training together.
The Blue Devil roster includes sophomore Matthew Gerardi; juniors Adrian Angueira, Matthew Beasley, Robert Brown, Kevin Drake, Theodore Gress, Palmer O’Beirne, Andrew Schirripa and Dylan Schnitzer; and seniors Alex Bellissimo, Aidan Bender, Kyle Colleluori, Michael Gerardi, Alex Gonzalez, Zachary Gordon, Robert Harrington, Jaden Italiano and Chris Segreti. Billy Harris is Huntington’s head coach. Robert Cappas is the assistant coach.
The players are a confident bunch. When they step on the field, they expect to win. They are a gritty group and can never be counted out when they trail in a game.
The Blue Devils have been finding a way to win games. When they are stopped, they shake it off and come back the next day and go at it all over again. That’s the way baseball is played. A slugger can strike out four times in a game and forget about it and come back the next day and hit two homeruns.
Harris wants the team to be resilient and play all seven innings the same way. Working pitch count, striving to get on base, putting the ball in play and trying to score runs any way possible.
Defensively, the Blue Devils have been great. The infield has been solid with its fielding and with containing the ball. Outfielders have been efficient chasing down long drives.
Hitting has been timely and baserunning has been sharp and speedy. Huntington has a sensational pitching corps this year. Everyone has been filling their roles perfectly.
Huntington has high hopes this spring. Players don’t just want to reach the playoffs. They want to win games and push deep into the post-season.
