Seems Ivan Leshinsky – the late bloomer who just competed in the 74-79-year-old category in the National Senior Basketball Games – has inspired Danny Lynch, Jr.
The former St. Francis College, Brooklyn baseball coach says two of his Terrier teammates from the 1968-70 teams are also going strong.
“Eddie Savold and Tony Criscuola, both 74-years-old, at least,” said Lynch, “Are still playing.
“Eddie throws batting practice for a local high school team, and he still throws over his age,” Lynch said, “75-80 mph.”
Savold used to throw batting practice for LSU before moving to Arkansas, Lynch said.
“Tony played in an over-40-year-old league in Virginia until he recently moved to Florida,” Lynch said. “And he just joined an over-70 league.”
As for Lynch, he’s giving baseball instruction on Staten Island. “About 20 hours-a-week,” he said. “I estimate I throw over 1,000 batting practice pitches a week – but only from 25-feet,” he laughed.
That 1968 St. Francis College baseball team was one of the best in the country. “We beat both St. John’s and Seton Hall that year, but weren’t given an NCAA bid. The committee said that our schedule was to limited. I think that we only played 20-25 games as opposed to the 50-plus schedules of St. John’s and Seton Hall.”
The Terriers only played 19 games that season – and won 14 of them.
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Brian Jensen has been hired as the West Quad Pool’s first-ever Aquatics Director, and also returns as head coach of the Brooklyn College men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs.
“As a former Bulldog swimming student-athlete and coach, Brian understands what it takes to build a championship level program at Brooklyn and in the CUNYAC,” Brooklyn’s Athletic Director Erik Smiles said in a prepared statement.
Jensen last served as the head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach for Brooklyn during the 2021-22 season, guiding the programs back from the pandemic. In his first…
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