No sooner had Trevor Meehan pitched the first no-hitter here in 30 years than he turned around a week later and pitched another one.
In doing so, the big junior lefthander, whom East Hampton High’s baseball coach, Vinny Alversa, calls his “lefty bull,” presumably stands alone as the only Bonac hurler ever to pitch two no-hitters in a season, not to mention that they were back to back.
Meehan pitched the first one here against Half Hollow Hills West on April 30. The second he pitched at Comsewogue on May 7. Of the latest, Alversa said, “He went seven innings, walked two, and struck out 10. He was on-point again.”
Interestingly, Meehan walked the first batter to face him on four straight pitches.
Nobody on the bench said anything as the game progressed, in keeping with baseball tradition. In the fifth inning, Alversa turned to Jason Sheades, who was keeping the scorebook, and asked if Meehan had given up a hit. Sheades shook his head.
Asked if there weren’t a wild celebration following the 9-0 win, Alversa said, “Not really, it was business as usual.”
The Bonackers completed a series sweep with a 9-1 victory last Thursday, the team having outscored Comsewogue 34-1 during the course of the three games. Thursday’s win improved the team’s record to 11-4 in league play, second only to 15-0 Eastport-South Manor, leaving an away-home-away series with Westhampton Beach yet to be contested. The final regular-season home game, before which the team’s nine seniors were to be honored, was to have been played here yesterday.
Alversa hopes he’ll be told tomorrow that his charges have been seeded either third or fourth — and thus will start off with a home game — in the county’s AA tournament that is to begin Tuesday.
Tennis and Track
Speaking of the postseason, it began this week for the high school’s 9-6 boys tennis team, whose players are vying in the Division IV individual tournament at William Floyd High School. The tournament began Saturday and was to have continued through Tuesday.
The county’s large-school team tourney was to have begun yesterday with 13th-seeded East Hampton playing at fourth-seeded Ward Melville, last year’s runner-up to Commack. The winner is to play the Half Hollow Hills East-Sachem winner at the site of the higher seed tomorrow. Hills East is the tourney’s top seed.
The Ross School, Division IV’s undefeated league-leader, was to have played Port Jefferson in a small schools semifinal at Ross yesterday. The small schools final is to be played at Shoreham-Wading River High School next Thursday at 3 p.m.
Neither the boys nor the girls track teams saw action last week. They were to have competed against Half Hollow Hills West opponents Tuesday — the girls at home, the boys away — and are to play host on Saturday to the 25-school East End Classic invitational meet, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
