Lakeland’s Joy is Canisius bound

March

I didn’t have time to post it because I was upstate closing down the LoHud basketball season a la Trevor Hoffman (a little shaky, but got the job done), but I heard yesterday that Lakeland senior Josh Joy has committed to Canisius College as a 3B/OF.

Joy has been a starter since part-way through his freshman year on the highly-successful team that included Alex Martinez and Joe Cotone. (On a personal note, I remember Joy batting second against Beacon during a playoff game…I’ve always kept an eye on him since, because that spot ahead of Martinez was rarefied air at that point…as many of you probably know, Martinez was the local version of Barry Bonds at the time.)

Joy does a lot of everything for the Hornets, both on the mound and in the field. But he earned his college looks as a member of the Shrub Oak American Legion team. Joy batted over .400 for Shrub Oak and helped them reach the state semis.

Lakeland rebounded last year to go 15-8, but I expect more of the same this year. I imagine the Hornets will miss ace Jim Kelm, but with Joy, Brendan Hourihan and Paul Echevaria back, that’s 106 IP. The bigger question mark will be the offense, which returns just three of the seven regular starters (the other position was a platoon) in Jo, Hourihan and Jon Cosenza, who batted .403 with 33 RBI as a sophomore.

Cosenza had an absurd OPS of 1.153. If you know OPS (and I’m sure most of you do), you know 1.153 is no joke.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at 2:42 am by Josh Thomson.
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4 Responses to “Lakeland’s Joy is Canisius bound”

Lakeland Fan March 30th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Josh,
all these committments, are any of these comittments to accept scholarship offers or are they actually decisions to attend a certain school? I think having a list of where kids decide to go to school is great. To know who is going to go and play in college is also cool.

We can always keep an eye on the collge sites.
BB Fan March 30th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Congratulations to Josh, he will enjoy his time there. Quite a few Section 1 players already playing for the Griffs.
Sufffern parent March 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Lakland Fan,

Giordano from South is receiving partial scholaship to play for Adelphi. I agree with you though most of these players are not receving money since many are signing with D3 teams and can’t receive athletic money.
Dreamer18 March 30th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Coach McRae actually put a nice academic scholarship together for Josh bringing his tuition to state school level, and a spot on the team.

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