Cold Spring Harbor baseball's Sam Levenbaum hits walk-off triple to force Game 3 in Nassau 'B' final
Cold Spring Harbor piles on Sam Levenbaum after his winning hit during Game 2 of the Nassau Class B baseball finals against Oyster Bay on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 in Hempstead. Credit: Dawn McCormick
This must-win Game 2 for Cold Spring Harbor was tied in the last of the seventh. Sam Levenbaum stepped into the righty box with a runner on first and no outs, and the powerful junior catcher had one thought running under his helmet.
“I’m just trying to drive the ball,” Levenbaum said. “That’s really it. Right-center is my approach. Get the boys a win.”
The count went to 2-and-2, and then he got his boys a win.
Levenbaum drove a fastball to deep center for his second RBI triple of the game. That walk-off hit gave the third-seeded Seahawks a 4-3 victory over No. 1 Oyster Bay Wednesday at Hofstra’s University Field, evening the best-of-three Nassau Class B baseball championship series at one apiece.
“It’s an amazing feeling, one of the best I’ve felt in a long time,” Levenbaum said.
So the teams will play here for first prize at 10 a.m. Saturday. Seahawks coach Chris Phelan said Jesse Silver “will probably get the start and it’s all hands on deck.”
“It gives us all the momentum,” Levenbaum said. “ . . . They’re not looking too happy right now and we’re on top of the world.”
Oyster Bay coach Jeff Schiereck, who saw his 19-5 team tie it at 3-3 with two in the fifth, didn’t announce his next starter. But he did express happiness that there are two off days before the showdown and that the Baymen will be the home team.
“So it’s all a question of how a bunch of high school kids can get their minds right and do what they can do,” Schiereck said.
Winner Connor Sheridan threw 109 pitches over seven for Cold Spring Harbor (15-10).
“There’s no one else you want on the mound in that spot,” Phelan said.
Sheridan allowed just two earned runs, six hits and three walks. The senior righty praised his teammates’ competitive edge, saying “They want to be here and they want to win.”
Patrick Cochrane fell to 5-1, but he showed grit. He walked eight over six-plus innings but was charged with only two earned runs and three hits, and he fanned nine.
The junior lefty escaped a first-and-second, one-out jam in the sixth to keep it even, then walked leadoff batter Ryan McCarey in the seventh. Cochrane was at 111 pitches, and Schiereck went to his bullpen.
“He earned the chance to get out there in the last inning,” Schiereck said. “ . . . He battled.”
