By Paul Gotham
ROCHESTER, NY – Dialing zeroes and making a late hall-of-famer smile. That’s what this week’s New York Collegiate Baseball League Pitcher and Player of the Week accomplished.
Ryan Clark (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/UNC Greensboro) hurled 13 shutout innings in a pair of outings, and Scott De Jong (Wellsville Nitros/Felician) connected on a pair of three-run bombs that had to make Earl Weaver smile from the grave.
Clark struck out 8 and walked none as the Jr. Chiefs defeated Sherrill, 7-0 on Opening Day. The sophomore from Johnson City, New York surrendered just three hits over six innings. The right-hander followed that with seven shutout innings on Sunday as the Jr. Chiefs fell to their cross-town rival Syracuse Salts Cats, 1-0 on a walkoff ground out RBI. Clark fanned 16 for the week while offering exactly zero free passes.
De Jong let his teammate, Shane Barley, nab the daily honors, but it was his collective effort which took Player-of-the-Week. In a rain-shortened week, the 6-4 235 pound De Jong connected for home runs in both of Wellsville’s victories. He added an RBI on a sacrifice fly and leads the league with seven runs batted in. He batted .500 for the week.
Honorable Mention
Shane Barley (Wellsville Nitros/St. John Fisher College) .500/2HR/6RBI/3R
Tommy Bergjans (Geneva Redwings/Haverford) 5IP/0H/0R/6K/2BB
Nick Donofry (Olean Oilers/Bloomsburg) 5IP/0ER/3K/2BB/1-0
Dylan Dunn (Hornell Dodgers/Hagerstown CC) .400/1HR/2RBI
Christian Fiorito (Syracuse Salt Cats/Concordia College) .444/2 2b/4RBI
Nick Hedge (Geneva Twins/Penn State) 6IP/0ER/5K/1BB/0-1
Matthew Milburn (Oneonta Outlaws/Wofford) 9IP/0ER/11Ks/2BBs
Adam Posey (Eastern Mennonite/Niagara Power) 9IP/1ER/4K/0BB
Dwayne Snider (Rochester Ridgemen/Texas Lutheran) 8IP/2ER
Ka’ai Tom (Sherrill Silversmiths/Fort Scott CC) .417/2 HRs/2RBI
Honor Roll – David Anderson (Geneva Twins/Muhlenburg), Aaron Brill (Wellsville Nitros/Felician), Alex Caruso (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/St. John’s U), Mike DeCarr (Syracuse Salt Cats/SUNY Cortland), Josh Griffith (Sherrill Silversmiths/Fort Scott CC), Jimmy Gutowski (Hornell Dodgers/Monroe CC), Tyler Kirwan (Massachussetts Boston U), Tim Knesknik (Rochester Ridgemen/SUNY Stony Brook), Travis Laitar (Niagara Power/SUNY Cortland), Jake Levine (Oneonta Outlaws/Brown), Sean McCracken (Hornell Dodgers/Southern Nevada), Richard Moses II (Geneva Redwings/Newman), Scott Orr (Sherrill Silversmiths, SUNY Plattsburgh), Cody Pentecost (Niagara Power/College of the Ozarks), Chris Pindar (Oneonta Outlaws/SUNY Oneonta), Tim Ravel (Olean Oilers/Bloomsburg), Travis Rosenwinkel (Geneva Twins/Niagara U), Stanley Susana (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/St. Thomas Aquinas), Vernon Trice III (Geneva Redwings/Oglethorpe), Derek Vail (Olean Oilers/Santa Fe CC), Nick Wolyniec (Rochester Ridgemen/Siena)
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