It would be hard to tell if the Delsea Regional High baseball team was winning by 10 runs or losing by 12 if you looked at Frank Cairone.
The tall senior lefty was all business throughout his career as a Crusader, and became one of the top pitchers in the state and a Major League Baseball draft pick with a dominant senior season.
Cairone allowed just three earned runs all season, and didn’t allow a run until the end of April. In all, he allowed just 19 hits in 44 innings, mixing a mid-90s fastball with a knee-buckling slider. Shawnee was the only team to score more than one run against him, in the sectional quarterfinals, and he recorded double-digit strikeouts in 7-of-9 outings, despite not pitching a ton of innings. For his career, Cairone struck out 238 batters in 141 innings and had a 1.78 ERA.