Senior Co-Captain's Perspective on Old Westbury Series

(Editor's Note: This was originally to run on Monday.)

This weekend we got another sweep in Long Island, beating Old Westbury 5-4 and 3-1. In the first game, we needed to make a comeback after leading most of the game, and we scored two runs in the top of the ninth to get the win. Matt O’Leary (shown left) pitched a great game and we should have gotten him the win as hitters, but Dan Tracy (right) did well in relief to pick up the win. Simply put, we left too many runners in scoring position. We did not do O’Leary’s performance justice, especially with two outs in the inning. I think the brightest spot on the day was an errorless defensive performance, although it should have been better. We’re looking to fine tune our game right now and we’re so close to doing just that, but if fine tuning some things is the worst part of your game then you must be playing well. I think the one thing we need to work on is putting away teams when we get up on them. We led in both games and stopped scoring.

Tracy threw another great game in the back end of the doubleheader, running his record to a perfect 6-0. You can’t say enough about what it means to a team to have two aces on the pitching staff. They give you a chance to win every single game. They’re both tough to score on. Neither one of them throws a fastball with high velocity, but Tracy will throw a “heavy” one, with means it sinks and makes it hard for hitters to drive the ball in the air. O’Leary spots his pitches better than most and has a great curveball that he can throw to either get ahead of the hitters or put them away with one in the dirt. It’s amazing to have two pitching performances like we did without striking out a single batter. Hopefully this week, we’ll be able to get a look at our other pitchers if the weather permits.

#17 = Matt Burns