Queens - In a series in which it had been dominated, the Kaiser Division, primarily made up of players representing Sag Harbor, Southampton, Westhampton, Riverhead, the North Fork, had its time to shine, for nine innings dominating the Wolff Division at the annual Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game, held at St. John's University on Monday night.

After an 11-0 rout under the lights at Kaiser Stadium, named after the very man, Jack Kaiser, for which the East End division is named, the new kids in town proved they were up to the challenge of going toe to toe with its tradition-rich adversaries.

Right fielder Jason Rago gave the team a jolt by socking a solo home run in the second inning that just cleared the center field fence.

It was the division's first all-star win since 2004 when it prevailed 3-1. The Wolff Division, which consists of teams from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and upstate New York, leads the all-time series 12-5, but on this night, it stood no chance against the upstart Hamptons squad.

"I think it shows that even though it's a new thing, we have players that can play," said Sag Harbor outfielder/infielder Brandon Boykin, who was named the game's Most Valuable Player. "It will be good for better players next year to come out here and kind of puts us out there."

A five-run fifth inning provided more insurance than the Kaiser Division pitchers needed. The Kaiser Division began the inning with four straight singles and Boykin all but sealed the Wolff's fate by ripping a Jeff Calabrese offering deep to left field to clear the bases. "The guy just threw two balls in the dirt and he was struggling a little bit," said Boykin, who also reached on an infield single."I figured he would come back with a fastball down the middle and I was just sitting on it."

If Boykin was the most impressive individual, Kaiser's pitching staff had the best night of anyone. Riverhead's Nick Tropeano pitched around two hits by striking out the side in the first inning; he came back in the second and tossed a 1-2-3 inning, punctuating his night with a strikeout of Steve Sangiuliano. Kaiser's pitching staff didn't let up after that. Westhampton's Mike Mandarino (Camden County) and Gavin McCullough (Vermont) were perfect through their innings. Southampton's Nick Melchiorre, a product of Fairleigh Dickinson, gave up a leadoff walk to Park Smith but he was quickly erased when second baseman Brian Blasik (Dayton) snared a liner off the bat of Sangiuliano and fired to first for the double play.

Gavin McCullough of Westhampton tossed a flawless fourth to become the second of six relievers to throw hitless innings in succession.

It wasn't until the eighth inning that the Wolff got back into the hit column following its two-hit first. At one point, Kaiser compiled a streak of 6 1/3 innings of hitless ball. Wolff finally put two runners on in the eighth, but Justin Bradley (UNC Wilmington) struck out Shane Houck for the second out and catcher Justin Echevarria (Stony Brook) gunned down to first to catch Mike Kacelowicz napping. All told, the East Enders gave up four hits and struck out 12.

"I think we just overmatched them honestly," said Southampton manager Andrew Lorraine, who served as pitching coach for the evening. "Every guy that went out there did a great job. We had some arms to take it to them tonight and that was the big difference in the game."

A former major league pitcher, Lorraine was most impressed with Tropeano, even though he surrendered half of the Wolff Division's hits. Tropeano entered the night with roughly double the strikeouts as his nearest competitor in the league. "He had motion in all his pitches, he threw them all over the plate, and they had some bad swings on them," Lorraine said. "They missed some balls by a lot. You can tell if kids were on the ball or if they were fooled. They were way out in front, taking balls right down the middle, and swinging at balls and missing by a foot."

The Kaiser bats, however, were right on the mark from the start. Sag Harbor's Ed Squeri (Dowling) set the tone by doubling down the third base line to lead off the game, and North Fork's Tony Lepore (Southern Illinois) chased him to third with a single to right. Riverhead DH Peter Greskoff lofted a deep fly ball to right that was caught but nonetheless put Kaiser on the board.

Gerard Tingos was one of two All-Star starters from Westhampton, joining catcher Chris Walker.

"We came out swinging right away," said Sag Harbor's Jason Lefkowitz, who managed the team. "We led off the game with a double, Lepore came out and singled, Greskoff got him in, and from there it was pretty much all downhill. Every guy had quality at-bats and put the bat on the ball. … With the lineup we were running out there and the guys we had coming off the bench, I was very happy with what I had to work with."

In the second, the Ospreys' Jason Rago (Fairfield) belted a solo home run to dead center field to make it 2-0. The speedy Cass Hargis, a Riverhead outfield out of Southeastern Louisiana, then singled, stole second and third and galloped home on a wild pitch for a 3-0 lead.

The Wolff Division's confidence was already wavering as Kaiser's pitchers continued to put zeroes on the board in impressive fashion. In the fifth, that confidence was just about erased entirely. Squeri, Lepore, Greskoff and Southampton's Kyle Kubitza (Texas State) all singled to start the frame, the latter two driving in runs. That's when Boykin stepped up and muscled Calabrese's 2-0 pitch deep into the night for an eight-run advantage. The East Enders tacked on two more in the seventh on a two-run single by Riverhead's Scott Ferrara, who was playing at his home park, and then added another in the eighth on an RBI fielder's choice by St. Joe's senior Matt Barnathan from the Long Island Mustangs.

Riverhead's Cass Hargis stole second, third and then scored on a wild pitch to put the Kaiser Division up 3-0.

KAISER DIVISION 11, WOLFF DIVISION 0
ACBL All-Star Game, St. John's University
KAISER 120 050 210 – 11 15 1
WOLFF 000 000 000 – 0 4 1
K, Nick Tropeano, Mike Mandarino (3), Gavin McCullough (4), Nick Melchiorre (5), Steve King (6), Anthony Kupbens (7), Justin Bradley (8) and Chris Zaccherio (9) and Chris Walker, Justin Echevarria (5); W, Casey Lawrence, Nate Reed (2), David Putman (3), Brian Dudzinski (4), Jeff Calabrese (5), Joel Sanchez (6), Corey Crispell (8), Phil Messerian (9) and Cameron Johnson, Marcos Torres (5). HR – K, Jason Rago, Brandon Boykin. 2B – K, Ed Squeri, Matt Barnathan; W, Dewey Oriente, Ken Gregory.