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Red Bank Catholic’s baseball season may have had a nightmare
ending, but the season overall was anything but that. In a campaign
that began with huge question marks because of the lost
2020 season and the team’s relative youth, RBC did not miss a beat,
winning 20 games and a pair of championships.
“It’s not easy to win 20 games any season,” said Casey Head Coach
Buddy Hausmann. “We’ve done it six years in a row.”
B North Division championship and repeating as Shore Conference
Tournament champions. However, it is the championship that got
away, the NJSIAA Non-Public A South Jersey crown, that will weigh
heavily on the season. It was an extra-inning 6-5 loss to St. Augustine
and let slip away. A two-out error in the seventh opened the door for St.
Augustine to tie the game and then win it in the eighth.
“The game was over,” lamented Hausmann, who was seeking to
expect to make six errors in a championship game and win.”
Hausmann noted that he thought the Caseys overall inexperience
may have caught up with them as they failed to add on to those early
“We were trying to hang on and played not to lose,” he said. “We
played young.”
campaign, one done under trying circumstances and challenges.
“It was a new group. We only had three returning starters,”
Hausmann pointed out. “I was surprised at how some of the freshmen
stepped up. We played them more than usual. I really think the lost
year to the pandemic hurt these kids a lot. In the middle of the season,
I was still teaching them things.”
The challenge, Hausmann noted, was that sophomores had never
played high school ball because of the lost season and most of the juniors
had not played varsity baseball before. Yet, they banded together
to bring more championships to the program.
Hausmann gave credit for RBC’s success this spring to its senior
class led by returning starters pitcher Shane Panzini, shortstop Sean
“The whole senior class did a tremendous job teaching the younger
kids helping them come along,” said Hausmann. “It was as good of
leadership that I’ve had.”
Panzini was everything expected of him and more – which is say-
year (8-0). He won the club’s two biggest games, tossing a shutout in
the Casey’s 7-0 win over Middletown South in the Shore Conference
fanned 12 and allowed just three hits in leading RBC to the 6-1 victory.
The senior, who has committed to the University of Virginia, was
dominant in every game he pitched. He threw 55.1 innings and allowed
just seven earned runs and 24 hits. He fanned 101 batters and
walked just 17. He had a season-high 15 strikeouts against Delbarton.
Despite all his brilliance, Hausmann said that for Panzini, it was always
about team and not him.
Panzini now awaits to see where he goes in the annual Major League
Baseball Draft and if it is high enough to lure him away from Virginia. The
Caseys wouldn’t have won 20 games and accomplished what they did in
tournament play without depth behind their ace.
Senior Dylan Wanagiel was the hurler who stepped up to provide that
second ace, going 5-1. He pitched 5.2 scoreless innings for the win in RBC’s
4-0 win over St. Joseph, Metuchen in the state sectional.
The others who came through for RBC included sophomores Alex
Stanyek and Dominic Mallamaci as well as freshman Declan Leary.
The underclassmen will be at the top of the rotation next spring.Sophomores
Frank Scrivanic and Stanyek were the leading run producers. Scriv-
Panzini provided the pop in the line-up with nine extra base that in-
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ducing was balanced as Borriello (21), Panzini (19), Frank Scrivinac (18) and
junior Matt Scrivanic (17) all had big RBI seasons.
As haunting as the NJSIAA Non-Public A South Jersey loss was, the returning
Caseys will not lack for motivation next year.
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