Doring, LaBadia take weekly NYCBL honors

Doring went 2-0 for the week. (Photo by Sue Kane @skane51)

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — One week remains in the 2014 New York Collegiate Baseball League season, and the playoff picture is taking shape. The Hitter and Pitcher of the Week put their teams in that visual.

The Geneva Red Wings Drew Doring (John Carroll) and Cody LaBadia (Southern Vermont) of the Syracuse Salt Cats took the honors.

In a bout of Twilight Zone-level consistency, Doring nearly pitched two identical games this week against the same opponent. On July 14^th facing the Cortland Crush, he went six innings allowing one unearned run on two hits and three walks while striking out six. He pitched to 23 batters. Yesterday again opposing the Crush, he went six innings, allowing no runs, with one hit, two walks and seven strikeouts, this time seeing 22 batters. Even more spooky, consider the score of the two matchups; 11-1 on Monday and 12-1 last night. As winners of five of their last seven and 12 of 15 in the month of July, there’s no reason for Doring and the Red Wings to stop drinking whatever’s in the Geneva water. The righty is 3-0 in three starts in a month that has yet to see him surrender an earned run. To top it all, following yesterday’s win, Doring can currently lay claim to one of the more difficult feats in baseball; having an ERA (0.89) and WHIP (0.98) sub 1.00.

To say LaBadia broke out this week would be an understatement. The lefty batter was hitting just .207 entering Monday. Now at .275 and riding a nine-game hit streak, LaBadia’s emergence may be just what the doctor ordered for a Salt Cat lineup that has only one batter hitting north of .300, and a 10^th-ranked team batting average of .246. It’s worth noting that LaBadia either scored or drove in at least one run in each of the last five games. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the week was the fact that the Howes Cave native now carries a four game multi-hit streak into the home stretch of the regular season.

HONORABLE MENTION

Bryan Baquer (Sherrill/Washington College) .458 Avg./11 H/2 2B/2 3B/1 HR/4 RBI/1 BB/6 R

Andrew Bonnette (Genesee/Walsh) 12H/ 10 R/ 7 RBI/ 2 BB

Seth Cornell (Hornell/Houghton) 1 W/ 8 IP/ 0 ER/ 5 K/ 1 BB

Brian Epstein (Rochester/Clarendon) 6 IP 3 H/ 0 R/ 5 K/ BAA .143/ ERA 0.00

Fernando Garcia (Geneva Twins/ Murray State College) 8 H/ 2 2B/ 3B/ SB

Jimmy Hand (Oneonta/Northeastern): 9-22 -.409 AVG/ 3B/ 2 2B/ 10 RBI/ 5 R/ SB/ .552 OBP

Caleb Lang (Niagara/ Philadelphia Biblical) .348 AVG/ 8 H/ 5 RBI/ 2 SB

Gabe Levanti (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/Northeastern) 12 for 27/ 9 RBI/ 1 HR/ 3 runs/ .444

Zach Racusin (Cortland/ Marist) 8 H/ 1 HR/ 3 RBI/ 3 BB/ .295 AVG

Frank Rubio (Olean/ University of Florida) 1W/ 16 IP/ 2 ER/ 11 K/ 6 BB

Jordan Wheaton (Wellsville/ Alfred St.) 6-14/ 3 2B/ R/ 3 RBI/ SB

HONOR ROLL

Jordan Accetta (Hornell/ Wofford), David Anderson (Geneva Twins/ Muhlenberg), Mike Annone (Geneva Twins/ Wilmington), Wesley Burghardt (Cortland/ SUNY Brockport), John Cruz (Geneva Red Wings/ Dowling), Nick DeRegis (Syracuse Salt Cats/ University of Rhode Island), Ted Dilts (Olean/ El Camino), Ethan Evanko (Oneonta/Grand Canyon University), Ben Haefner (Wellsville/ University of Buffalo), Daniel Jarrell (Sherrill/Washington College), Zephan Kash (Cortland/Mansfield), Chris Kemp (Wellsville/ Pitt-Bradford), Sam Kysor (Olean/ USC Upstate), Jack LaMarca (Genesee/ Ohio Northern), Tyler Marcinko (Niagara/Piedmont College), Riley Moonan (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/ Fairleigh Dickinson), Reid Neal (Sherrill/Florida Atlantic) Ramon Osuna Sanchez (Oneonta/College of Charleston), Spencer Scorza (Hornell/ Cornell), Gabriel Sevigny (Niagara/Olivet Nazarene), Alex Storaci (Rochester/Blue Mountain CC), Andrew Utterback (Geneva Red Wings/ Alabama A&M), Jordan White (Genesee/ Hutchinson CC), Tanner Whiteman (Syracuse Jr. Chiefs/ Onondaga CC), Blaise Whitman (Syracuse Salt Cats/ University of Rhode Island), Nick Wolyniec (Rochester/Bergen CC)

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