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Sachem East Alum Anthony Luciano in NCAA Baseball Tournament with Stony Brook University

Pitcher is one of many former area athletes competing in post-season tournaments.

To think that Stony Brook has become an athletic power is certainly a shocker to many. After conference titles in football, soccer, cross-country and lacrosse and a bid to play in the NIT in men's basketball, the Seawolves' recent America East baseball championship is just another in a long list of impressive athletic accomplishments for the state school.

On the baseball team is Sachem High School East alum Anthony Luciano, who has an 8.78 ERA and 1-1 record in 16 appearances this year as a sophomore reliever. He was a two-year player at East and was named All-League in 2007.

Fourth-seeded Stony Brook clinched the conference title with a 4-2 win over Albany last Friday and lost to top-seeded Coastal Carolina in the first round of the tournament Friday, June 4. It's a four-team double-elimination regional. Stony Brook (29-26) will play the loser of Friday night's College of Charleston/N.C. State contest in an elimination game on Saturday at 1 p.m.

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The university is making its third appearance in the NCAA Division I tournament since jumping to that level in 2000. The Seawolves have never won a game in the tournament. At the 2008 Tempe Regional, Stony Brook fell to No. 1 Arizona State in the opener, 9-7, before being eliminated by No. 2 Vanderbilt, 9-4. At the 2004 Kinston Regional, SBU fell to East Carolina, 8-2, in the opener. The Seawolves were then edged by No. 2 Tennessee, 1-0.

Sachem Patch will be profiling Luciano upon the completion of the season.

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