✈️ Fayetteville ➡️ Newark ✈️
Shoutout to the best College Baseball staff in the nation for trusting me with a Twitter account and introducing me to 35 of the greatest young men in the world!
Can’t wait to do this again next year and take this picture with a 🏆.
#RollTech
⚔️
Just watched this for the 700th time and instantly started looking up Friday morning flights back to Fayetteville...
I'm nuts and may actually do this.
If it were up to
@pfranzoni15
, he would probably still be at Baum-Walker tossing balls to the fans.
Same could be said about all of his teammates. They killed it all weekend long.
📚 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞
⚔️
@pfranzoni15
hit a HR in his final AB (⬇️)
⚔️ A young Hogs fan wound up with the ⚾️ & waited for Franzoni by our 🚌
⚔️ Thinking it was his last game, he wanted Franzoni to have the ⚾️
⚔️ "Fortunately, I'll be back next season. I plan to hit many more"
📚𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 Vol. 2
⚔️5th-yr Sr
@theKACShow
is a
@RazorbackMBB
fan
⚔️Coach
@EricPMusselman
heard this, and learned Jared threw vs. the Hogs on Fri. in what was probably his last-career outing
⚔️Coach came by the Stadium before Sat. game for a pic
⚔️Highlanders won 3-2!
There were ~4 Billion tweets about
@NJTechBaseball
yesterday.
Can't say I read them all, but this one is my favorite.
These guys forced the
#1
team in the country to have their National Player of the Year/Closer come into the game in the 4th inning!
Let's go beat Northeastern.
If someone told me one month ago that I would soon fall in love w/ Arkansas...
So many great places/people in this country - as much as I love New Jersey, I’m going to do my part to get out more & see all America has to offer.
Still going to the Shore this weekend though.
🇺🇸
THANK YOU NJIT…
In June, I’ll be moving on from a place that means more to me than I can put into words.
I’ll always be a Highlander and can’t wait to continue supporting NJIT Athletics.
Simply put, NJIT is a special place full of special people.
#RollTech
Tremendous weekend in Omaha capped off by a National Title for the Vols.
People forget I “studied abroad” in Knoxville for my first semester of college.
Big s/o to
@AlexJSchwartz
for taking me in and re-introducing me to
#VolNation
.
I’m a
#VFL
. See you in Knoxville soon!
Huge shoutout to Jake/Jordan of
@D3BaseballPod
&
@CespedesBBQ
for their coverage of Division III baseball.
Division III sports rarely get the credit they deserve and these two not only put a lot of time into it, but do it very well and mix in humor to make it even for fun.
#d3b
Putting together information all the regional teams, but if there's anything notable you think we should know about your team or a player on your team, let us know.
Anything from a crazy stat, or a guy you just think is really good and deserves some love. DMs are open.
Cat got out of the bag quicker than I would’ve liked on this one.
Beyond thankful to Jeff and NYU for a great 3+ years. Learned a ton and made some lifelong friends - I truly loved going to work every day.
More on my next step coming soon...
After several years of great service, my assistant, Myles Rudnick, is leaving his position as Assistant SID at NYU. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for the position. You can find the listing and job description here:
@ECACSIDA
@CoSIDAnews
5⃣ Years
6⃣ Dudes
9⃣8⃣ Wins
7⃣8⃣6⃣ Hits
8⃣4⃣ Brick City Blasts
1⃣9⃣ Mound Wins
1⃣6⃣ Saves
1⃣ Trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas
𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 records shattered
🤝 Thanks to Huss, Dave, Geck, Rapp, Juli and Paulie for the two best springs of my professional career.
Another tough weekend for the "They graduated all their power" crowd...
Highlanders have 12 homers in seven games.
Eight different players with at least one bomb, at least one in all seven games.
Been saying for 2 years that
@NJIT
is one of the best kept secrets around and it’s part of my job to get that secret out there.
Can’t thank the
@NJTechBaseball
boys and their coaches enough for trusting me to share their story last month.
An absolute team effort!
#RollTech
⚔️
In early March,
@pfranzoni15
asked me if we could play Leo Sayer's "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" after wins.
Today,
@NJTechBaseball
won an NCAA Regional game and the song played at Baum-Walker Stadium in Fayetteville.
So cool.
Thanks to
@JSanchez24_7
for making that happen!
Had a ton of SIDs 10-15 years older than me help bring me along when I was getting into the industry…
Happy to be there for
@JordanSarnoff
as he begins to make his mark.
@FDUKnights
and
@FDUKnightsMBB
are lucky to have him!
Neighbors in Jersey City probably all confused with me yelling BALL FIVE, BALL SIX, BALL SEVEN, etc...
Also, glad they didn't call the police when I was yelling to
#CallTheKopps
!
#WPS
Somewhere in Newark,
@_NickHussey_
and co. are definitely Calling the Hogs!
Congrats to our buddies down South on advancing to the Super Regional...
WOO PIG SOOIE!
Last day making the iconic walk from the 14th street PATH station to my office (cubicle) in the basement of NYU’s Third North Dormitory.
Going to miss avoiding being hit by Citi Bikers, taxis, crazy people, and AC unit drips.
#Emosh
Lots of heroes today, but I'm going to shoutout my guy Joe G.
@White_chocalate
(🤔) saw his 20+ innings streak without an earned run come to and end, but kept the Highlanders in game two, a game they ultimately won to get the sweep.
Sixth-year guy. Career-high six strikeouts.
How about this play from Luke Longo today?
Putting his body on the line, just has he has done every day for five seasons as a Highlander...
Love how fired up the dugout was after the captain's big defensive play!
🤝
@Luke_Longo_22
🎙️|
@JPGuerette
Here's a fun note from a fun weekend at Yogi Berra Stadium...
NJIT ace Aidan Kidd threw the first pitch of the series on Friday. Younger brother Colin Kidd threw the final pitch of the series on Sunday.
Sometimes the stories write themselves!
6am COVID testing tomorrow followed by a 6+hour ride to VA then two games after almost a full year off.
Going to be a long day for
@NJTechBaseball
, but you won’t find a more grateful crew anywhere tomorrow...
Couldn’t be happier for this team - NJIT Baseball is back!
Since you've all waited so patiently these last 3⃣5⃣2⃣ days, we figured we'd reward you:
Opening our season a day earlier than expected? ✅
Not just one game, but a doubleheader? ✅
We'll take on VMI tomorrow (twice) to kick off the 2021 campaign!
#PullTheRope
|
#RollTech
⚔️
Got two more full days of media stuff lined up for our NCAA Tournament bound
@NJTechBaseball
guys...
Looking forward to watching them continue to kill it and be great ambassadors for our athletic department and university!
We all know about the bats, but 11 different
@NJTechBaseball
pitchers and four different catchers combined to keep their opponents off the scoreboard in 17 out of 18 innings and not allow an earned run throughout the DH sweep.
Could be another fun spring 👀
🧹 🧹 🧹
Highlanders take Game 2 3-0 to complete the DH sweep!
⚔️ 0ER in 18 innings
⚔️ 17 scoreless innings
⚔️ 4 RBI for
@david_marcano11
in Game 1
⚔️ Great job by some of our young guys to provide the offense in Game 2
#GritBall
is back Oct. 16 at Lafayette
Been working in college athletics for a decade.
Dealt with a ton of coaches.
Robbie ranks up there with the best of them.
Great coach and an even better guy. Fortunate we share an office hallway and literally get to work alongside one another.
Here's to several hundred more!
𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗥𝗢𝗪‼️
@jake_rappaport
improves to 5-0 (w/ 7 saves!!) as the Highlanders clinch their second-straight
@AmericaEast
series!
NJIT will look to get the series sweep in Game Two, which will begin in roughly 30 minutes.
I can't tell you what the outcome will be on Friday, but I'll tell you this:
@NJTechBaseball
isn't scared of Arkansas. They respect the heck out of the top-ranked Razorbacks, but they're going to fight for 27 outs.
I'm the luckiest SID in the country.
#RollTech
⚔️
First guy out of the dugout to greet
@Aidankidder
?
Yeah, that's Ryan Fischer, who threw a complete game shutout about two hours earlier.
9 strikeouts for each of those guys today and six more in four innings from
@grantvurpillat
.
Best pitching staff in the
@AmericaEast
!
Bad day to be a baseball…
⚔️ 20 Hits - most since 2017
⚔️ 6-9 Hitters: 10-for-18, 3HR, 8RBI, 7R
⚔️
@colefleming21
: three hits after entering today with two on the year
Ready for Stony Brook.
That’s career HR number 19 from Franzoni…
Could be a fun spring watching
@pfranzoni15
and
@juliomarcano25
(23 career bombs) go all “Mantle and Maris” on the program’s career HR leaderboard.
When you put in the hours we do, you gotta find ways to make it fun.
One of the most fun weekends I’ve had in a long time, and the
@NJTechBaseball
guys are 100% the reason for that.
These guys are amazing and will go on to do some amazing things!
Only six members of the
@NJTechBaseball
200-hit club, and two of them share the same last name (and have quite a bit more in common)…
Congrats to
@juliomarcano25
&
@david_marcano11
, who are literally re-writing the program’s record book so fast I can barely keep up!
Jared Donnelly was a "glue guy" for three seasons...
This weekend he was THE guy.
Works his tail off and doesn't ask for anything. Easy to spend most of your weekend in a press box when you're working with guys like Jared.
🤝
@Donn24Jared
"𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝑮𝒐 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆!" - Jared Donnelly
For the second time this weekend,
@Donn24Jared
walks off the Great Danes, this time with a 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓™️ to complete the three-game sweep!
One of the best parts of working at
@nyuniversity
is being able to get to know student-athletes from across the nation (and 🌎).
Congrats to these 2️⃣ Lubbock, TX, natives for coming to the Big 🍎 and being named 1st Team All-
@NewsUAA
players & also earning All-Academic honors!
Congrats to our two Lubbock boys, Colman Hendershot and Jack Walter, for making first team all-UAA! And congrats to Violets who were named second team all-UAA: Ford Ladd, Ryan McLaughlin, and Joe Prisco!
#LightTheTorch
Just caught myself yelling at my phone while streaming a Division III basketball game on the train.
At least I have a good answer next time someone asks why I’m single.
Keep battling,
@URMensHoops
!
@momma_hog1
Appreciate you, Momma Hog!
I'm looking into it, wish there was a direct flight.
But I already miss Dickson Street and
@jjsgrill
, I'll spend my Wednesday trying to make this work!
Hopefully I'll see you in Fayetteville in a few days.
Hiram had beaten Wooster just twice in the last 30 years before tonight…
What a W for
@CoachTRoth
and his
@HiramMBB
squad over the first place team in the league!
BEANS. FROM THE ELBOW. GAME.
@HiramMBB
upsets the Fighting Scots, 83-31, on Kevin Beans Jr.'s game-winner at the buzzer!!
Brodgie Gordon and Doug Sartain each led the Terriers with 17 points, while Sartain added nine rebounds.
#TerrierNation
|
#d3mbb
|
#RingIT
🔔
Been an absolute pleasure getting to watch this guy over his 12-year career at NJIT...
All kidding aside, huge hit from a guy that will go down as one of the greatest to ever wear a Highlanders uniform!
Love watching these dudes have a blast on the diamond.
🤝
@AlbertChoi4
"𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝑮𝒐 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒌!" -Albert Choi
The veteran's walk-off 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 wins it for the Highlanders...
Rubber match tomorrow against the Bobcats in Connecticut!
Heading into the City to meet
@keithcarter1981
and fellow
@RazorbackBSB
fans for tonight’s game...
Have a few NJIT shirts for some lucky Arkansas fans. Looking forward to Calling the Hogs!
#WPS
🤝
#RollTech
⚔️
10 years ago
@MikeMcSloy
was a senior at Maritime, averaged 21.0 ppg.
Tonight he led his
@sjc_mbb
team to its fifth-straight win, defeating his alma mater.
Longest winning streak for Joes in…10 years.
America!
CC: D3
@JonRothstein
Wins in three of four for
@NJTechBaseball
this weekend in California...
How about these two Cali boys getting it done in their home state?
⚔️ Aidan Kidd: Career-High 11 K's in 5IP to jumpstart Friday night's win
⚔️ Drew Standen: Four shutout IP over two games and a save
Growing up, I was fortunate to go the Jimmy V Classic in East Rutherford with my dad almost very year.
Saw some great 🏀 , but Coach Valvano’s ESPY speech was the best part.
Little did I know cancer would take my mom in early 2009.
Miss that lady.
#laugh
#think
#cry
#EveryDay
Great to have three
@NewsUAA
sports info/athletic comm. departments represented at
@CoSIDAnews
#CoSIDA18
.
We aren’t rivals, we are friends who will do anything to help each other succeed!
Fish is one of five NJ natives projected to be in the Highlanders' Opening Day starting lineup.
13 total players from the Garden State on this year's roster...15 if you include
@david_marcano11
&
@juliomarcano25
, who are basically Jersey residents after being here half a decade!
@NJTechBaseball
gets it going tomorrow as well, as Gritball U travels to
@GWUBaseball
for a 5 PM start to the most anticipated season in team history. Ryan Fischer gets the ball - can the
@Whitehouse_P284
follow up a 2021 season that included a legendary NCAA Tourney win?
Ray Ortiz is quietly having one of the best offensive seasons in the
@NJTechBaseball
D1 era...
-18 Doubles leads the America East and ranks third all-time, three off the program record
-12 Home Runs is tied for second most in program history
-39 RBI is six off the program record
"There have been more media requests in the past week for NJIT than the past 10 years combined."
🤯🤯🤯
These guys deserve all the coverage and then some.
Thanks to Coach McClellan and our student-athletes for being superstars w/ the media all week.
Now its time to play ball.
Hard work pays off - I can't count how many times I leave the office late at night and
@Michael_Doyle17
is putting in extra work in the Turf Room...
Seven hits and four RBI for Mikey in an NJIT series win this weekend!
Great start to the season for
#GBU
against a Davidson program that won 43 games last season and was picked to win the Atlantic 10…
If this is the fifth-best team in the America East, consider me Miles Davis!
Win the Game: ✅
Win the Series: ✅
Highlanders Hand Davidson its First Series Defeat Since 2021
NJIT Leaders:
⚔️ Donnelly: 2-for-4, HR, 2R, 5RBI
⚔️ Fleming/Choi/Longo: 2 hits, 2 RBI each
⚔️ de Jong: Perfect 9th inning in collegiate debut
🚍| Heading Back to Jersey 2-1...
These two RBIs give
@CadeLadehoff
53 for the season, which extends the program record and is one off the America East lead.
He's now up to 119 total bases this season, also the most in program history.
He's. A. Freshman.
Great win today for
@NJITHoops
over the first place team in the
@AmericaEast
!
Shoutout to
@mattkippmedia
for continuing to deliver big time with some photos.
SID Friends: If you need a photographer, let me know. Matt Kipp is tremendous!
Promise I didn’t pay
@gpapaccio2
for such kind words, but can’t thank G, his colleagues, and their student-athletes enough for the last month or so.
Highlight of my career by far and I’m excited to take the momentum in 2021-22 w/ all of our
@njithighlanders
teams.
#RollTech
⚔️
Before his postgame interview I asked EB if he knew he got 1,000…
“Had no clue. I don’t look at that stuff. I just want to win.”
Elijah Buchanan won this weekend.
With Notre Dame’s loss to Georgetown today, NJIT holds the longest winning streak in Division I lacrosse (6).
If my math is correct, the Highlanders are one of just nine undefeated teams in the country and the only one to boast a 5-0 record.
Again, 🫡
@NJITMLAX
!
Dave Van Horn taking it to the next level and starting his closer tonight.
Never been prouder to be an
@RazorbackBSB
fan (disclaimer: I’ve been a Hogs fan for like nine days).
A nice present for our mothers...𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐍!
We take the season series from Stony Brook 5-3!
⚔️
@pfranzoni15
: go ahead 2-run 💣
⚔️
@jake_rappaport
4.0 IP, 1ER out of the 'pen
⚔️
@colefleming21
: 2-for-4, BB, RBI, R
⚔️
@AlbertChoi4
, D. Helfgott: 2-hit game
Been fortunate to get to some pretty neat sporting events in my life, may need to make a spot on the Mount Rushmore for tonight…
Congrats to my guy
@DOUGWATERS1993
and Saint Peters!
Easy to fold when you’re winless through 6 conference games and have a road doubleheader against the
#10
team in the country.
Or you can sweep them and snap their 13-game winning streak.
Very proud of
@nyu_baseball
.
#d3b
@D3BaseballPod
@d3baseball
Saturdays are for the Violets!!! Double
#VioletVictory
😈 In game 1: 🏗 and 🦄 both had 3 hits. 🍇 (Bernard) had 2, along with 2 BBs. 🍟 was strong in relief. And 🚰 went 2 perfect innings for the 6-out save!
#LightTheTorch
🔥
The 97 strikeouts are a new career-high for Aidan Kidd and 20 more than any other
@AmericaEast
pitcher this season...
Kidd's 250 career strikeouts are the third most in NJIT history!
🤝
@Aidankidder
𝑨𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒏 𝑲𝑲𝑲𝑲𝑲𝑲𝑲𝑲𝑲𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒅!
Here's the 10th and final punch out from the senior's sixth-career double-digit strikeout performance in today's win over Binghamton.
It was also Kidd's second-career 10-strikeout performance in the
@AmericaEast
Playoffs!
No shortage of reasons why I love
@ECACSIDA
, but the best is getting to reconnect with these two mentors and, more importantly, friends.
Forever grateful for these two.
#gohop
#foreverabluejay
#ecacsida18
That’s a wrap on out of conference play! We head into America East play with a record of 7-0.
Ryan Sininsky 2 Goals, 3 Assists 👀
Ben Roberts 3 Goals, 1 Assist 🎯
Hank Bethel 6 GB, 4 CT 🔒
Liam Brown 13 saves 🧱
#OGT
#FPO
#AEMLAX
If I’m a high-academic high schooler looking to playing high-level college football I’m SPRINTING to play for
@Greg_Chimera
and
@JHU_Football
.
Unfortunately, I’m in my late 20’s, couldn’t break 1200 on the SAT and the highest level of football I played was NFL Blitz on N64.
Zach Cooks was back to being Zach Cooks today - season high 25 points to lead the Highlanders to the W...
Cooks is now up to 8th in program history with 1,629 career points. Needs nine more tomorrow to move up the 7th all-time!
🤝
@zachcooks15
Not many D1 pitchers get to throw to their HS teammate.
Sophomores Ryan Fischer (and his former
@HCRHSAthletics
battery mate
@Luke_Longo_22
) are 2-1 w/ a 2.40 ERA through 5 starts and 30 IP.
Excited to watch this tandem keep improving as the season and their careers progress!
No shortage of storylines with this bunch, but this is one of my favorites...
Ryan Fischer began pitching to Luke Longo when they were 12. From travel ball to Hunterdon Central HS and now NJIT.
This weekend? Fischer will pitch to Longo on one of the biggest stages of the sport.
𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 #𝟯: Ryan Fischer & Luke Longo
Fischer has thrown to Longo since they were 12, including a stint @ Hunterdon Central HS...
The pair led NJIT to a 2-1 victory vs. Maine last Fri. and preview this weekend's games.
When Arkansas baseball was in an absolute dogfight against
@NJTechBaseball
in an NCAA Regional game, I asked
@HunterYurachek
if he’d retweet a picture of he and
@NJITAD
watching the game together.
“Whatever you need!”
Another reason to love the Razorbacks.
#WPS
🐗 x
#RollTech
⚔️
"We're calling the Hogs in church and giving away TV's for prostate exams. It doesn't get any better than that right now."
Arkansas athletic director
@HunterYurachek
had the audience rolling at the Little Rock Touchdown Club today😂
Full story tonight at 9 on
@FOX16News
AJ Soldra started the final 19 games of the season for
@NJTechBaseball
...
He reached base safely in all 19 and had hits in 17 of them, including 10 multi-hit games.
During that stretch, he led the Highlanders in AVG (.411) & OBP (.489), and was second in hits (30) & runs (15).
It only took four years and him to move to Jersey, but I finally got to see Coach
@MikeMcSloy
in action tonight…
Well played game by his Drew squad resulted in a 27-point W!
#LGR
#d3h