The Bryan Bonin Grand Slam Challenge has been a success in the Long Island baseball community.

The annual all-star game, played for the 18th time Monday night, features the top senior talent from Nassau, Suffolk and the NSCHSAA.

This year’s game was the third in honor of Bonin, the former Commack coach who died at 33 in January 2022 after battling melanoma.

The Nassau all-star squad scored four runs in the first inning and never looked back in a 7-3 win over the Suffolk all-stars in front of a lively Farmingdale State crowd.

All proceeds went to the Bryan Bonin Scholarship Fund. Bonin’s children, Ella and Luke, threw out the ceremonial first pitches.

“It’s incredibly exciting for us,” said Lauren Bonin, Bryan’s wife. “The kids look forward to it. His legacy lives on, and they can see what their dad meant to people.”

Commack coach Matt Salmon said: “It's really exciting. It's great for the foundation, so that they can keep the Bryan Bonin Scholarship Fund going and give to families who need it and give to graduating students. The fact that it's all in his name is just really cool.”

Lauren described Bryan as a character coach, someone who focused on producing great people. He echoed love and kindness and taught his players about “Mudita,” a Buddhist term that describes the unselfish joy for others.

Bonin led Commack to the 2021 Long Island Conference I title, its first in program history. The Cougars would bring home three Suffolk championships and two more LI crowns over the next three seasons.

“More than anything, Bryan was about being kind to other people and coaching with love,” Salmon said. “It’s so much more than baseball. It was just about friendships and brotherhood and just being close and having this experience at this time of your life.”

Farmingdale shortstop John Franco was named MVP after going 1-for-1 with a triple, two walks and three runs scored.

“I played with a bunch of these guys, and half of these guys I've never seen before,” said Franco, a Molloy commit. “So it's a really cool experience to have fun with my friends and have fun with new guys I met.”

Calhoun’s Ryan Morash was named the Pitcher of the Game after striking out four in two hitless innings. Kellenberg’s Lucas Vamvaketis, playing centerfield, earned Defensive Player of the Game honors after making an over-the-shoulder catch with runners on second and third and two outs in the fourth inning.

“We came in as strangers, but by the end of the game we had a great bond,” said Morash, a Maritime commit. “It was a blast to share the field with these guys tonight.”

Garden City’s Evan Cabral hit a two-run ground-rule double in the top of the first inning. Chaminade’s Collin Anderson scored on a wild pitch and Farmingdale’s Angel Cartagena had a sacrifice fly to make it 4-0.

Bellmore JFK’s Eli Lowenstein hit a two-run single in the third inning to extend it to 6-0.

Franco’s triple came in the fifth inning, and Anderson drove him in with a groundout to give Nassau a 7-0 edge.

Suffolk scored three runs in the eighth inning. Comsewogue’s Joe Perri scored on a wild pitch, and Patchogue-Medford’s Frank Kentoffio hit a two-out, two-run double.

Two championship-winning coaches from this season were tapped to manage the teams. Pat Miles, who led Kellenberg to its first NSCHSAA postseason title since 2017, coached the Nassau squad. Sayville's Joe Esposito, who coached the Golden Flashes to their first Suffolk and Long Island Class A titles since 2019 and only their second in program history, led the Suffolk tea,

Nassau cut Suffolk’s series lead to 10-8.

“Obviously, [Bonin] was a guy that loved baseball, and he always cared for his players,” Morash said. “He just respected the game and always did the right thing.”