Name: Robert Boland
School: Christ the King
Sport: Baseball
Position: Pitcher
Year: Senior
Height: 6-foot-2
Weight: 175 pounds
In his first game back from a hyperextended right ankle that kept him sidelined for two weeks, Boland was masterful in a 7-1 win over John Adams in the second round of the Monroe tournament Monday at Taft High School in the Bronx.
Boland got in front of almost every Spartan batter with a lively fastball that painted the outside corner. The 6-foot-2 senior righty carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning and allowed just one unearned run on two hits. Boland struck out 10 and walked just two.
“I knew they were a good hitting team, and I knew I couldn’t fall behind,” Boland said. “If I made a mistake, they’d take me deep. I knew I had to stay on top of things.”
Marcos Vasquez went 3-for-4 with an RBI, and Elvin Millan went 1-for-2 with two walks and belted a leadoff homerun in the seventh inning for the Christ the King baseball team in the victory over John Adams … Pete Stein went 6-for-7 with four runs scored in a doubleheader sweep for the Francis Lewis baseball team over Van Buren. Mike Guarnieri was 3-for-4 and pitched a two-hitter with nine strikeouts in the opener … Luis Tavares pitched a complete-game five-hitter with 12 strikeouts for Long Island City to earn a doubleheader split with Grover Cleveland … Vinny Johnson was 3-for-4 with three RBIs to lead McClancy over Holy Cross …Toniann Campuzano batted .538 for the Mary Louis Hilltoppers at the Bash on the Beach tournament in Virginia.
