The Piscataway Magnet baseball team won ten games in 2014. The Raiders finished 10-15 and had a six-game losing streak and a seven-game losing streak during the year, but in terms of victories, it was their best season ever.
They won ten again in 2023, going 10-6 under Jake Rosenberg, but he left for North Brunswick the following season.
Fast forward to 2026, and the Raiders have set a new program best for wins just four weeks into the 2026 season. They have won 12 games, but more importantly, haven’t lost once.
With a 12-0 mark, this year’s club seems far from done. And while next year is still way down the road, consider that the 2026 edition has just one senior who’s had just four at bats all year.
This could be the start of something bigger at the school nestled between the Kilmer industrial area in Edison and the Rutgers Livingston Campus.
But one year at a time, and one game at a time from head coach Greg Sampson and his squad.
It all starts with the team’s top everyday hitter, junior Kyle Malchiodi, who catches, plays first base, and pitches. He’s hitting .512 with 16 RBI and two home runs on a club that’s hitting .401 as a team, is scoring nearly 13 runs a game, while allowing just 2.4 per contest.
On the mound, Malchiodi is 4-0, with a 1.67 ERA, and 33 strikeouts in 21 innings pitched, against just seven walks. But he’s not the only one. Sophomore Brody Guthrie had fanned 47 in 24 innings and is 4-0 with an ERA of 0.88, while junior Colton Lyerly is 3-0, and hasn’t allowed a single run – earned or unearned – in 17 innings pitched.
And back to the plate, freshman Trey Leyerly is hitting .500 with nine runs batted in, junior Vincent Canavan is at .487 with 13 RBI, while Trey’s brother – Colton, a junior – is batting .364 with eleven walks. Andrew Skara leads the team with seven extra base hits: four doubles and three triples.
In Sampson’s third year, a “team first” approach has seen the Raiders with “a great freshman class” progress from 6-8 his first year, to 10-12 last year – matching that previous best win record – to 12-0 in 2026, with what likely are many wins to come.
Click below to hear from Piscataway Magnet head coach Greg Sampson and junior Kyle Malchiodi with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko: