Telecom’s baseball season ends with a bit of controversy
The High School of Telecommunications Arts and Technology will not have a chance to defend its Public School Athletic League (PSAL) title after it was beaten by Cardozo 1-0 in a quarterfinals match at Jefferson High School’s field in East New York on Wednesday.
The game was initially supposed to be played on Tuesday at Grand Street Campus, but it was postponed after Cardozo’s coach Ron Gorecki insisted that the field was “unsafe” due to basepaths that were rock hard after being baked in the sun over Memorial Day weekend and suspected that the mound was illegally high.
Telecom players and coaches disagreed and wanted to play, but were eventually overruled by the PSAL and the game was postponed until the following day. Similar conditions existed on fields throughout the city on Tuesday and no other games were postponed. Water and rakes were available and Telecom coaches worked diligently for 45 minutes to get the field in shape, but eventually Gorecki succeeded in having the game postponed.