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Head coach Dan Pirillo ’08 was named Northeast Conference Coach of the Year after leading the LIU baseball team to a Division I program record for wins in 2022.
In his sixth season at the helm in 2022, Pirillo’s Sharks earned their first outright NEC title since 1990.
During the 2019 season, Pirillo coached the program to its first win over a top-10 team and Southeastern Conference school with a 1-0 win over ninth-ranked Georgia in late February. LIU was honored with the NEC Sportsmanship Award and excelled in the classroom as it posted a 3.49 GPA, which was highest in the NEC, and saw Frank Cerillo win the NEC Scholar Athlete of the Year award. LIU finished the season 20-33, 10-14 in the NEC and ranked second in the league with a .966 fielding percentage for the 2019 campaign. 24 student athletes were named to the Spring NEC Academic Honor Roll.
In 2018, he guided LIU to the school’s first Northeast Conference Championship and the first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1972. The team won a then-program-record 31 games and reached the NEC Tournament for the eighth time in school history. In the first NEC tournament appearance in five seasons, LIU went on to win all three NEC Tournament games en route championship title over Wagner, clinching the automatic NCAA berth.
Along with winning the NEC title, five members of the team garnered NEC All-Tournament Team honors; Patrick Clyne, Rob Griswold, Joe Mercadante, Andrew Turner and Greg Vaughn Jr., with Vaughan Jr. also being named NEC Tournament MVP. Five members of the team also garnered All-NEC honors, the most since 1990. Andrew Turner and Alex Briggs garnered first team recognition, while Mike Kreiger, Andrew Smith and Patrick Clyne were named to the second team. Pirillo also helped guide seven LIU players to NEC weekly awards.
Under Pirillo’s tutelage, Turner increased his batting average 90 over points in two seasons, finishing his senior campaign with a .346 batting average and .493 on base percentage and was drafted in 39th round by the Miami Marlins. He also garnered All-ECAC honors, becoming the first LIU baseball player to do so since 2014.
LIU rewrote the record book in 2019, crushing the program record for strikeouts with 442, well over the 345 mark set in 2013. It also tied the school mark for strikeouts in a game with 17 in a 2-1 win over Central Connecticut State University in May.
Success has also translated off the field for Pirillo’s teams. His teams have excelled in the classroom, earning the NEC Team GPA award in back-to-back years (2018, 2019) and have had over a 3.3 GPA in each of his three years. LIU has also earned ABCA Team Academic Excellence Awards in the last two seasons for a cumulative team grade point average above a 3.00. His student-athletes have been named to the NEC Spring Academic Honor Roll 56 times and 15 were named to the ECAC Academic Honor Roll in 2018.
Since taking over at LIU, Pirillo’s teams have been active in the community. They have raised over $6,000 for the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation which honors the sacrifice of firefighter Stephen Siller who laid down his life to save others on September 11, 2011. It is a foundation who helps wounded soldiers and first responders get back on their feet.
Holden Capps joined the LIU baseball team as pitching coach entering the 2022-23 academic year.
Capps was drafted by the Kansas City Royals out of the University of Central Oklahoma in the eighth round of the 2017 MLB draft. He played professionally in that organization through the 2022 season, making 114 appearances (18 starts). He most recently pitched with Double-A Northwest Arkansas.
Capps also served as a coach with the Southwest Oklahoma Shockers youth travel baseball organization.
Vigeant joined the Sharks staff as an assistant coach in September 2024. Overseeing hitting responsibilities and development of the infielders. The Warwick, R.I., native comes to Brookville after spending two seasons at St. John’s University , where he worked with the infielders and assisted with the development of the hitters. At St. John’s Vigeant was a part of the 2024 Big East Coaching staff of the year, to go along with capturing the Big East Championship title. In both Vigeant’s years at St. John’s the teams fielding percentage raised 10 and 6 points, respectively from the years prior. From an offensive side the team raised its batting average 36 points, and on base percentage 35 points from the 2022 to the 2023 season. The team increased from 129 extra base hits in 2022 to 178 in 2023 and 186 in 2024. To add, from 2022 to 2023 the Red Storm increased stolen bases by 17, and then 24 more from the 2023 to 2024 season.
Vigeant spent four seasons (2017-21) playing at Rhode Island College and one season at St. Andrew’s University (2022). At Rhode Island College he accumulated a program record 151 games played, all of which were starts. The former second basemen registered a career .350 batting average with 274 hits, 180 runs scored, 62 doubles, 10 home runs, 148 RBI and 29 stolen bases in his collegiate career.
After picking up his dual bachelor’s degree in psychology and economics from RIC, Vigeant becoming a graduate transfer at St. Andrew’s University, where he received a master’s degree in business administration in 2022. With the Knights, Vigeant earned an All-Appalachian Athletic Conference First Team selection to go along with the league’s batting title, hitting .432 with 56 runs scored and 52 RBI.
The former infielder also served as hitting coach for the Winnipesaukee Muskrats of the New England Collegiate League for the 2022 season, where they led the league in stolen bases.
A native of Shoreham, N.Y., Tyler was recently inducted to the Shoreham Wading River Athletics High School Hall of fame earlier this year. Osik was drafted in the 27th Round of the 2019 MLB Draft by the Chicago White Sox. He spent 4 seasons in the White Sox organization including winning the 2022 South Atlantic League batting title with a .310 Batting Average & reaching as high as Double A. Osik is also a 2019 graduate of the University of Central Florida where he played two seasons with the Knights. As a senior, he appeared in 52 games and batted a team-high .325 with 45 runs scored, 14 doubles, 10 home runs, and 40 RBIs and was one of seven players in the American Athletic Conference to post a 1.000 fielding percentage. As a junior, he hit .310 with nine homers and 56 RBIs in 53 contests, en route to earning second-team All-Conference honors.
In his coaching career, Osik has had coaching stints at Chipola College in Marianna, FL. & as the Hitting Coach @ Farmingdale State College & Francis Marion University.
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