[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 81 (Friday, June 17, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1275]
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    CONGRATULATIONS TO MOORE HIGH SCHOOL AND TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

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                           HON. VITO FOSSELLA

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 17, 2005

  Mr. FOSSELLA. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
congratulate the stellar baseball seasons of Moore High School and 
Tottenville High School. Both of these schools recently completed their 
seasons with respective City Championships.
  Andrew Costello, a Tottenville senior, couldn't have scripted a 
better ending to his already impressive high school career. The right-
hander fired a complete-game three hitter to give the Pirates their 
third Public School Athletic League city championship in six years. The 
Pirates finished their season with a 23-1 record, including a 6-0 
record in the playoffs.
  Costello put his three-pitch arsenal of fastballs, curve balls, and 
sliders to work against what some considered the city's most talented 
hitting order and could have hardly been much better. He allowed one 
earned run, walked one, and struck out seven. He retired the first nine 
batters that he faced took a no-hitter into the fifth.
  Moore Catholic High School, just as Tottenville had, rode the strong 
arm of their starting pitcher, Nick Doscher. He pitched five of 
scoreless baseball and even helped his own cause from behind the plate 
by homering off the left field foul pole.
  Moore High School, winners of their second Catholic High School 
Athletic Association championship, battled adversity through the early 
stages of the game by failing to score twice with the bases loaded.
  Doscher, selected by the Kansas City Royals in the Major League 
Baseball Amateur Draft overmatched his opponents over the final five 
innings of play; only allowing one hit and recording seven strikeouts, 
at one point, retiring twelve in a row.
  On behalf of family, friends, fans, and the entire 13th Congressional 
District of Staten Island and Brooklyn New York, I would like to again 
congratulate both Tottenville and Moore Catholic High Schools for their 
outstanding seasons. Each player, coach, and fan should be very proud 
of their efforts. I commend them for their drive, desire, and 
sportsmanship that they revealed throughout the season.

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