Don’t wake up Jack Kehoe. Not in the midst of his dream season. The CHSAA’s Player of the Year has been unconscious in postseason play, but he put the opposition to bed on Wednesday night.
The senior slugger clobbered a walk-off, two-run home run in the eighth inning to deliver the Eagles a 7-5 victory over Archbishop Molloy for the CHSAA Intersectional championship at Fordham University’s Jack Coffey Field. Kehoe’s heroics, which have been a recurring theme in these playoffs, lifted the New Brighton school to its first-ever city baseball crown. The Eagles copped their first Archdiocesan championship a year ago and added the school’s second consecutive title in that department last week, after Kehoe stroked a walk-off knock to defeat Kennedy Catholic.
On Tuesday, he followed up with six no-hit innings on the mound as part of a combined no-hitter to take the opener of the best-of-three series against Molloy. On Wednesday, he effectively ended the series and secured a 2-0 sweep. St.
Peter’s, which improved to 22-2 on the year with the victory, is the last of Staten Island’s Catholic schools to claim a city championship, joining the likes of Moore Catholic (1983, 2005), St. Joseph-by-the-Sea (2010), and Monsignor Farrell (2015, 2017). Ironically, the Eagles could become the first S.
I. school to capture the elusive New York State championship. STP had already qualified for the State championship tournament, which will feature the four regional victors St.
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