Baseball
The baseball team had won only one league title, in 1972, until 2000 when the school won its second league title and eventually losing 2-1 to Harrison in the Section 1 Class B Semi-Finals. The baseball team would again win the league title the following year in 2001. Eventually losing to Brewster in the Class B Quarter-Finals. After 2001 the baseball team fell on hard times. In 2005, the team made the sectional playoffs defeating Pearl River in the opening round. The team would lose in the Class A Section 1 Quarterfinals to Nyack, New York. Two years later the emergence of Somers as a Section 1 powerhouse came with a walk-off home run by senior Mike Levine in the bottom of the 7th inning in the 2007 Class A title game. The team followed up with another Sectional title in 2008 but both season would end in the first round of the NY State Class A playoffs. In the 2009 Sectional Playoffs, Dan Zlotnick pitched a no-hitter against Lakeland HS to win the Section 1 Class A crown and make it a 3-peat for Somers.
In 2007 Rob Sanzillo a Somers High School graduate (class of 2003) was drafted in the by the St. Louis Cardinals.
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