HAWKS FINISH LONG OPENING SEASON ROAD TRIP WEDNESDAY AT SENECA
Posted: Sep 17, 2018

HAWKS FINISH LONG OPENING SEASON ROAD TRIP WEDNESDAY AT SENECA

ETOBICOKE, ON: The Humber Hawks men's baseball team will complete their grueling eight-game road trip to begin the 2018 season with a doubleheader on Wednesday night against the Seneca Sting.

THE MATCH UP

Humber "Hawks" @ Seneca "Sting"
4-2, 2nd place              1-5, 5th place tie
Wednesday, September 19/18
5:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Bishop's Cross Park – Toronto

LAST TIME OUT VS. SENECA

With weather being a factor for most of the 2017 season, the two teams met at the Hawks Connorvale Park for doubleheader action in what was a Seneca home game night. The game, eventually an 8-4 Hawk win, proved to be the closest game between the two teams of the four played. In fact, Humber was down most of the game, being forced to one in the sixth to draw into a tie, and then four in the top of the seventh to salt the victory away. Andrew Thomson had the big blow, a bases clearing triple in the seventh for a game high three RBI's. Matthew Stoddart got the win and improved to 2-0, throwing two clean innings.

SCOUTING SENECA

  • The Sting split their season opening doubleheader on the road at George Brown in the second game of the doubleheader. Seneca had lost game one by a score of 14-5 and then responded with a resounding 17-6 win.
  • Most recently, they have lost four straight, by a combined score of 54-11
  • Seneca leads the league in home runs (4), batting average (.337), on-base percentage (.456) and slugging percentage (.446)
  • Batting Leaders:

Average – Daniel Perrier (.529)

RBI's – Daniel  Perrier (8)

Hits – Daniel Perrier, Tommy Nguyen (9)

Stolen Bases – Hayden McNab (3)

  • Pitching Leaders:

Wins – Joelson Delrosario (1)

ERA – Joelson Delrosario (9.13)

Strikeouts – Zach Byrd (7)

 

 

HAWK NOTES

  • Humber has produced a solid 4-2 record, considering they have played all of their games  on the road against 2017 play-off teams
  • Humber's catcher Justin Marra was recently named the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) most valuable player as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs
  • Humber leads the league in doubles (12), extra base hits (13), strikeouts (28), stolen bases (15) and shutouts (2)
  • Batting Leaders:

Average – Brendan Lyons (.500)

RBI's – Dennis Dei Baning (8)

Hits – Keegan Murphy, Dennis Dei Baning (7)

Stolen Bases – Hunter Bisser, Liam Sutherland (4)

  • Pitching Leaders:

Wins – 4 players (1)

ERA – Rory Pollard (0.00)

Strikeouts – Brendan Lyons (13)

 

 

CHASING HISTORY

  • Offensively, It is the battle between Keegan Murphy and Andrew Thomson. Murphy leads all-time in hits with 73 (Thomson 67) and RBI's with 54 (Thomson 46). But, Thomson leads in runs with 56 (Murphy 49).
  • Rory Pollard should break the all-time strikeout record, as he is just five short of tying and six away from setting the new mark

 

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