Sayville's big second inning leads to Suffolk Class A baseball title against Bayport-Blue Point
Sayville players start a dogpile on the mound after defeating Bayport-Blue Point the Suffolk Class A baseball final on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Credit: Elizabeth Sagarin
With an experienced group that kept inching closer to bringing Sayville its first county title since 2019, coach Joe Esposito thought he had the right mix to win a title this season.
It came to fruition Saturday.
Second-seeded Sayville scored four runs in the second inning — all with two outs — and all nine starters reached base in an 8-1 win over No. 1 Bayport-Blue Point in the Suffolk Class A baseball finals at the Middle Country Athletic Complex in Selden.
“I felt we were the best team going into this tournament, and had these guys believe in it,” Esposito said. “You get hot at the right time and start hitting, good things happen.”
The Golden Flashes (16-7) won their second county title in program history.
Sayville will face either Wantagh or Seaford in the Long Island championship/Southeast Regional semifinal at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday at MCAC.
“Been waiting for a long time,” said senior Tyler Brown, who had three RBIs. “Been three years I've been on this team, haven't done it yet. We felt this year was our year, and we just went out and proved ourselves.”
Brown and Kyle Messina each went 3-for-4. Brody Tellier had two hits.
Chris Spatenga earned the win, striking out six, walking four and allowing seven hits and an earned run in five innings. Brown pitched the final two innings.
Patrick Coan hit a two-run single and Messina and Andrew Law each had RBI singles in the second inning.
“(We’ve been) stressing two-out hits win games — for years,” Esposito said. “And this year, a lot. We started to get them when it counted.”
The Phantoms (22-2) cut it to 4-1 in the third on Brendan Mattimore’s RBI single.
Brown had a fourth-inning RBI single to make it 5-1. Sayville extended it to 8-1 in the sixth on Tellier’s RBI single and Brown’s two-run single.
BBP went 20-0 in the regular season, its second undefeated regular season in program history. The Phantoms were county finalists for the third straight season.
“I felt like they competed all the way up to this point, and unfortunately, we ran into a really good team in Sayville,” BBP coach Victor Manzella said. “And they got the big hit, and we just didn't.”
Ben Dickson joined Newsday’s high school sports staff in 2023 after graduating from Maryland, where he covered several of the Terrapins' teams.
