Tackling the biggest issues in sports from sports media students at Seton Hall
By: Nick Santoriello It is the summer of 2014. Matt Leon is finishing up his senior season at Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A skinny right-hander, Leon has had his share of success at the high school level. First Team All-Conference and First Team All-Area selections, two career no-hitters, and a 1.55 ERA with 85 strikeouts in only 54 innings as a…
Week of 4/23 (3-1) The Seton Hall baseball team rounded out their week of action with an 11-2 victory over Villanova on Sunday to bring their weekly record to 3-1. After stumbling through Wednesday’s non-conference matchup with NJIT, the Pirates rebounded with a three-game series sweep of the Villanova Wildcats. The conference series sweep was the…
The Seton Hall Pirates were defeated 10-3 by the Monmouth Hawks on Wednesday afternoon at Owen T. Carroll Field. With the win the Hawks moved to 13-20 on the year while the Pirates fell to 14-14-1. Billy Layne Jr. picked up the loss for Seton Hall, his first of the year, as he moves to…
With so much talk about how to speed up the game and make it more appealing to a younger generation, perhaps the solution to making baseball more fun lies within the players and not the rules. Sure, limiting mound visits and setting a pitch clock help to move the game along for an ever-depleting public attention span….