Brice and Sigman tabbed NYCBL’s top hitter and pitcher of the week

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Two teams fighting for their playoff lives, and the players leading the way. That is the story for the New York Collegiate Baseball League’s top hitter and pitcher honors for this past week.

Kevin Brice (Pomona-Pitzer) leads a resurgent Sherrill Silversmiths while Jackson Sigman (Glendale CC) kept the Rochester Ridgemen in contention.

Brice (Pomona-Pitzer Col) had a major hand in the Silversmiths going 4-0 in an All-Star shortened week. The Tucson, AZ native  went 8-14 including a pair of doubles with five runs scored and two RBI. He also walked twice and stole a base. He has consistently been among the best hitters in the NYCBL this year, and currently leads the league in batting average and hits, and is second in home runs and sacrifice flies. Looking at sabermetrics, Brice leads the league with a runs created mark of 33.256. His performance Sunday now extends his hitting streak to four games.

Sigman (Glendale CC) entered the week without a win in twelve appearances (one start). The righty reliever made up for it earning all three of Rochester’s in three consecutive days. Sigman never threw less than 2.0 innings and surrendered just four base runners over 26 batters faced. He struck out six without surrendering a walk. Even more impressive, Sigman hasn’t allowed a run in the month of July (six appearances) and the run he allowed on June 25^th is his only earned run allowed all season (four unearned total).

Honorable Mention

Shane Cochran (Syracuse Salt Cats/Saginaw Valley St.): 1W/ 1ER/ 5.1IP/ 3K/ BB

Seth Cornell (Hornell/Houghton): 1W/ 6IP/ 0ER/ 6K/ 1BB

Tyler Fletcher (Geneva Red Wings/Coll. of Charleston): 6.o IP/ 3 H/ 1 BB/ 5 K/ 1 W

Fernando Garcia (Geneva Twins/Murray St): 6-13 avg/ 2 R/ 1 3B/ 5 RBI/ 3 BB/

Jimmy Hand (Oneonta/Northeastern): 7-17 (.412 AVG)/ 2 doubles/ triple 4 RBI/ 4 runs/ .500 OBP/ .647 SLG/ 1.147 OPS

Chris Kemp (Wellsville/Pitt-Bradford): .500AVG (5-10)/ 2 HR/ 5RBI/ 3R/ 1W/ 5.1IP/ 4K

Ryan Kohlhofer (Olean/Defiance): .500AVG (10-20)/ 3R/ 3SB

Tyler Marcinko (Niagara/Piedmont College): 6R/ 9H/ 3RBI/  .346 AVG

Patrick Merryweather (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Onondaga CC): 1 W/9IP/ 2 runs / 7 hits/ 9 K 

Zach Racusin (Cortland/Marist): 7H/ 3 doubles/ RBI/ 2SB

Zach Uher (Genesee/Baruch): 1W/ 9IP/ 1ER/ 11K/ BB

Honor Roll

Mike Annone (Geneva Twins/Wilmington), Cooper Belyea (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Ithaca College), Matt Bolger (Oneonta/University of Southern Alabama), Mitch Cavanagh (Sherrill/St. John’s), Ryan Contegni (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Ithaca College),  Kellen Creech (Genesee/Ave Maria), Gerard DeFilippo (Wellsville/Felician), Nick DeRegis (Syracuse Salt Cats/Rhode Island), Jason Euler (Genesee/Mesa CC), Mike Fahrman (Olean/University of Florida), Ricky Gorrell (Geneva Red Wings/Kutztown), Ben Haefner (Wellsville/University of Buffalo), Matt Hardy (Syracuse Salt Cats/Nova Southeastern), AJ Hammond (Niagara/Millersville), Greg Jasek (Cortland/Clarkson), Thad Johnson (Hornell/St. Bonaventure), Zephan Kash (Cortland/Mansfield), Caleb Lang (Niagara/Philadelphia Biblical),  Jason Meger (Geneva Red Wings/North Park), Harley Moore (Olean/Dickinson), Alex Mumm (Rochester/Judson), Kody Ruedisili (Oneonta/Wofford College),  Alex Saville (Sherrill/Monroe CC), Jake Shields (Geneva Twins/Case Western Reserve), Blake Thomas (Hornell/Webster University), Nick Wolyniec (Rochester/Bergen CC)