February’s traditional National Signing Day provided more than the usual Red & White salute for acclaimed St. Thomas scholar-athletes seizing the chance to continue their careers at the university level. Amid the coast-to-coast carnival capping the wild world of frenzied football recruiting that long ago reached peak absurdity came the engrossing journeys of exemplary St. [...]
There is one road that will always remain the same. It’s familiar. It’s comfortable. And its destination is somewhere they never quite left. For former Eagles, distant and near, it’s the road home, their home at 4500 Memorial. For Toronto Blue Jay Cavan Biggio ‘13 and former MLB pitcher Jeff McCurry ‘88, the return was [...]
The state championship outcome is secured in the inner sanctum of TAPPS baseball playoff history. The sterile 7-6 final score can’t conjure the stirring, furious finish that pulsated with drama and gushed with emotion and overflowed with sudden punch-to-the-gut despair for Eagle Baseball. A pair of clutch three-run innings had staked St. Thomas to a [...]
A large dose of late drama sends Eagle Baseball to the TAPPS D-I state tournament for the third time in four seasons and the 11th appearance since 2010. Shortstop Anthony Equale ‘23 (Washington University in St. Louis) crushed a two-run home run with no outs in the sixth inning for a pulse-pounding 4-3 win over [...]
In the first TAPPS baseball fandango of the COVID-19 era, St. Thomas was pressed into a righteous ballgame, an emotional vise, squeezing tighter and tighter until the whole thing was too much and burst in spectacular fashion. Eagle Baseball rescued revelry from the jaws of elimination and charged into the state tournament for the 10th [...]
Relentless right-hander Will Rizzo ‘21 (Texas A&M) reserved his best for his last start at Fr. Wilson Field - a tight-fisted one-hit complete game with eight strikeouts to thrust Eagle Baseball into the TAPPS 6A regional final. St. Thomas needed every last dramatic drop of Rizzo’s raucous dominance for a 2-1 verdict in the area [...]
A line drive RBI single from center fielder Max Chung ‘21 (UT-Dallas) broke a 1-1 tie and keyed a four-run sixth inning to give St. Thomas a 5-1 decision over St. John XXIII at Fr. Wilson Field to clinch the outright district championship in the third season with head coach Adam Massiatte. Catcher Vincent Ori [...]
Designated hitter Vincent Ori ‘21 drove in four runs while Will Rizzo ‘21 (Texas A&M) and Grant Stringer ‘21 combined to allow only one earned run as Eagle Baseball swept a two-game set with St. John XXIII, 5-1 and 10-2. The Eagles (14-7-1, 5-1) continued a torrid pace in winning five of six games, outscoring [...]
Even the chaos concocted by the coronavirus colliding with the circus-like aftermath of a surreal presidential ballot count could not slow tried and true Americana - November National Signing Day. The month’s first Wednesday routinely caps the latest coast-to-coast carnival of frenzied recruiting, COVID be damned. Will Rizzo ‘21 and Max Chung ‘21 paired for [...]
This story was originally published in May 2014. It’s more than fitting, if not fateful, that Ben Condara `14 became the poster boy for the 23rd state baseball championship in the proud and prestigious history of the St. Thomas program. Condara will be remembered for his tenacity and perseverance, his calm and composure through adversity, [...]
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