East Hampton's Trevor Meehan pitched a no-hitter versus Half Hollow Hills West on April 30, apparently the first here since Guy Ficeto pitched one on April 3, 1995.
That enabled East Hampton High’s baseball team to take two of the three games played in the Hills West series. The Bonackers, with Finn O’Rourke on the mound, lost the first by a score of 11-6. With Tyler Hansen going all the way — and with help at the plate from Hudson Meyer, Mason Miles, Carter Dickinson, Liam Cashin, and Hudson Beckmann — they won the second 6-2.
Meehan, whom Bonac’s coach, Vinny Alversa, calls his “lefty bull,” struck out 11 and walked four during the course of East Hampton’s 9-1 series-ending win here on the 30th. The visitors scored their lone run in the top of the seventh inning following two walks, a stolen base, and an overthrow.
That big win improved East Hampton’s league record to 8-4. “We need to win two of our last six games to make the playoffs,” Alversa said during Friday’s practice session. The sole team to take the Bonackers’ measure so far this season has been Eastport-South Manor. The Sharks were good, Alversa acknowledged, “but we weren’t at full strength when we played them. . . . I won’t be nervous if we play them again.”
Of his no-hitter, Meehan, who when he’s not pitching plays first base, agreed that he’d been in the zone, not overthinking, staying ahead of the hitters and painting the outside corner of the plate with fastballs and changeups. The 11 Ks were a record for him in varsity competition, he said, adding that he owed a lot of credit to the fielding and hitting of his teammates, especially Victoreddy Arguero, who hit a two-run homer, and Dickinson, who “called a great game.”
Following Friday’s practice, a number of the baseball players checked out the Eastport-South Manor-East Hampton softball game, which, despite Izzie Briand’s much-improved pitching, ended with the visitors winning 4-2. The first two runs the league-leading Sharks scored came about as the result of miscues, not hits. Going into Friday’s contest, the 6-6 Bonackers had won four in a row. Barring disaster, they seem to be playoff-bound.
