ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It comes as no coincidence that a Hornell Dodger and Geneva Red Wing claimed this week’s New York Collegiate Baseball League honors. Hornell and Geneva are two of the hottest teams in the league and Joe Gnacinski (Mercyhurst) and Sam Kim (Hawaii Hilo) lead the way.
Gnacinski, the NYCBL’s strikeout leader with 46, went 2-0 dropping his ERA from 4.31 to 3.13 in the past week. He allowed one earned run over 14.2 innings of work striking out 12 and walking five. In that same period, the righty was efficient, spreading 100 pitches over 30 batters in 6.2 innings Tuesday, and 92 to 29 batters in eight innings Sunday, putting his weekly averages at 7.1 innings, 29.5 batters faced, and 96 pitches. That breaks down to an average of 13.1 pitches per inning and 3.3 pitches per batter faced. Of the 192 pitches thrown, 128 were strikes, posting a solid strike percentage of 67. In a 10-0 triumph over Rochester Gnacinski retired the first 17 he faced and did not surrender a run over eight innings.
Kim continued his dominance of the league this week, helping propel the Red Wings to a 6-1 record. He hit .538 (14-26) with seven doubles, two home runs, a triple, six walks, nine runs scored and seven RBI. He extended his hitting streak to ten games, nearing the territory of some of the league’s best since 2011. He had multiple hits in five of those seven games, and produced one or more runs in all seven of those games. Kim thrived as a run-producer, which is supported by his runs created metric of 32.151, the best in the league. He also leads qualified batters with a secondary average of .524.
Honorable Mention
Dave Anderson (Geneva Twins/Muhlenberg) 4.2 IP/ 1 W/ 4 K/ 4 H/ 0 R/ 0 BB
Austin Bizzle (Olean/ Gulf Coast CC) 1W/ 7IP/ 1ER 10K/ 3BB
Jacob Chipka (Rochester/Hope) 1W/ 8IP/ 0ER/ 2K/ 1BB
Ben Haefner (Wellsville/University of Buffalo) .500 AVG (10-20), 2 2B, 2 RBI
Blake Hohlbein (Niagara/Huntington) 1W/ 8 IP/ 1 ER
Michael Kerr (Genesee/Houghton) .409 AVG (9-22)/ 8 RBI/ 6R/ 2B/ HR
Anthony Massicci (Syracuse Salt Cats/Canisius) .583 AVG (7-12)/ .643 OBP/ .583 SLG
Reid Neal (Sherrill/Florida Atlantic U) .421 AVG/8 H/2 2B/1 HR/5 RBI/6 R
Iannick Remillard (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Canisus) 13.2 IP / 2 ER / 8 SO / 1.32 ERA
Ramon Osuna Sanchez (Oneonta/College of Charleston): .452 AVG (14-31)/ 3B/ 3 2B/ 5 RBI/ 6 R/ .528 OBP
Spencer Scorza (Hornell/Cornell) .458 AVG. (11-24)/ .480 OBP/ .625 SLG/ 11 RBI
Tom Taplin (Cortland/University of Buffalo) 3 R/ 4 H/ 3 SO/ 1 SV/ 2.57 ERA
Honor Roll
Cam Balego (Wellsville/Mercyhurst NE), Janson Bourque (Geneva Twins/LSU-Eunice), Drew Doring (Geneva Red Wings/John Carroll), Jaren Drummond (Oneonta/Grand Canyon University), Fernando Garcia (Geneva Twins/Murray St.), J.T. Genovese (Oneonta/University of Albany), AJ Hammond (Niagara/Millersville), Lane Hanzel (Genesee/ Anderson), Matt Hardy (Syracuse Salt Cats/ Nova Southeastern), Daniel Jarrell (Sherrill/Washington College), Jack LaMarca (Genesee/Ohio Northern), Mark Lepri (Olean/Aquinas), Alex Lind (Cortland/Lake Erie College), Jack McClure (Sherrill/St. Bonaventure), Andrew Mercer (Geneva Red Wings/Southern Indiana), Vinny Mallaro (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/U of Buffalo), Hank Morrison (Hornell/Mercyhurst), Kevin Neumann (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Seton Hill), Zach Racusin (Cortland/Marist College), Frank Rubio (Olean/University of Florida), Jack Trotman (Niagara/ UMass-Lowell), Larry Vidaurre (Rochester/ Nyack), Jordan Wheaton (Wellsville/Alfred State), Blaise Whitman (Syracuse Salt Cats/Rhode Island), Nick Wolyniec (Rochester/ Bergen CC)
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