BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (Jul. 27, 2015) - Last week, two LIU Post standout pitchers, sophomores
Jake DeCarli (Higganum, Conn.) and
Dan Jagiello (West Islip, N.Y.), got the call to finish the remainder of the summer with the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
DeCarli had one of the finest single-season performances in LIU Post baseball history in 2015 and has been showered with well-deserved recognition. Last month, he was named an All-America Honorable Mention by both Daktronics and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and in May, the righty was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-East Region Second Team.
Earlier this offseason, the Higganum native was chosen to the 2015 Daktronics/Division II Conference Commissioners Association and NCBWA All-East Region First Team.
DeCarli, the 2015 East Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year and All-ECC first-team honoree, was dominant on the hill for the green and gold this season. In 10 starts that spanned 71.0 innings pitched, he put together a 6-1 record to go along with a minuscule 0.76 earned-run average.
His ERA led the ECC and ranked third in Division II, while his win total was good for fourth in the conference. DeCarli was even better in ECC play, finishing with an unblemished 4-0 mark and a 0.79 ERA during the regular season. On the year, he added 60 strikeouts and held hitters to a stingy .148 batting average against. DeCarli also placed third in Division II with 4.44 hits allowed per nine innings and fourth with a 0.80 WHIP (walks plus hits per innings pitched).
DeCarli was one of the key factors in the program's success in 2015. The green and gold went 8-2 in his 10 starts, including winning the opening game of each of the six ECC series that he pitched in. He led the Pioneers to their first ECC Baseball Championship appearance since 2010.
In DeCarli's lone start in the ECC Tournament, he threw a five-hit, complete-game shutout to advance the Pioneers to the winner's bracket.
Jagiello, a 2014 All-ECC second-team honoree, has been lighting up the radar gun for the Riverhead Tomcats of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League before his promotion to the Cape.
In five starts for Riverhead, the righty had tossed 22.1 innings, allowed 17 hits and yielded five runs (four earned), while striking out 14 and walking just three. His 1.61 ERA was good for third on the team. He also earned the win in the league's All-Star Game, throwing 1.2 innings in relief. The righty struck out four batters while hitting a reported 95 miles per hour on the radar gun.
For the Pioneers, Jagiello was the power arm at the back end of the rotation. The West Islip native made 11 appearances with eight starts and posted a 5-3 record with one save. Jagiello struck out a team-high 61 batters in 57.2 innings and held hitters to a .226 batting average.