Generals finish spring trip 6-4

Generals finish spring trip 6-4

Herkimer NY- The Herkimer Generals Baseball team returned from their annual spring trip Saturday night with a 6-4 record. The Generals began the trip in North Carolina against defending regional champion Rockingham CC then traveled to the RussMatt tournament in Auburndale Florida for 6 games against nationally ranked #2 Niagara, #10 Northern Essex, #11 Brookdale and finished up in Pennsylvania against a strong Northampton CC. 

The Generals offense was very strong on the trip against some high level pitching. Herkimer had a .302 team batting average while scoring 74 runs and adding 18 home runs and 25 stolen bases in the 10 games.

Ethan Duda (Latham,NY) led the team in average on the trip with a .423 average with 1 double and 4 homeruns. Dakota Britt (Rockwall, TX) hit .393 with 5 doubles, 2 homeruns, 5 stolen bases and 9 runs batted in. Mike Gunning(Rocky Point, NY) hit .400 on the trip adding 3 doubles, 3 homeruns, 8 stolen bases and 13 runs batted in. Jovani Wiggs(Amsterdam, NY) added a .375 average, Jordan Lewis(Toronto, ON) hit .316 with 2 homeruns, and Sal Carricato(Farmingville, NY) who leads the team with 16 RBI's and is tied with Duda for the lead in homeruns with 4 to pace the Generals offense.

Herkimer pitching staff struck out 94 hitters over 66 innings pitched. The staff was led by Ryan Packard (Oneonta, NY) who picked up 2 wins for the Generals with 16 strikeouts while only allowing 1 hit in his 2 starts posting a 1.00 ERA and 0.778 ratio. Greg Farone (Schenectady, NY) struck out 21 on the trip while picking up a win against Brookdale CC. Ethan Patch (Whitehall, NY) led the team in innings pitched with 11.1 and worked 14 strikeouts and only 4 walks while posting a 3.97 ERA and 1.32 ratio.

Head Coach Jason Rathbun commented on the trip, "I thought we battled in every game and gave ourselves a chance to win every game, unfortunately, we let a few wins get away from us and did not have the record we had hoped for.  We need to work on limiting our damage on the mound and getting some timely hits later in the game. It was a very difficult schedule and glad we got the chance to find out who we can be as a team and I think this trip really cleared some things up for us."

The Generals return to action this weekend when they host Columbia Green CC on Saturday (3/26) before returning to the road for Sunday (3/27) at Columbia-Greene.