Geneva Twins

As of right now, the Geneva Twins are sitting right in the middle of the pack in the Western Division. After struggling in the early season, the Twins are at an even .500 record of 12-12.

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In spite of their record, though, the Twins are still bringing All-Star worthy players to the plate each game. We'll start with Catcher/First Baseman Marty Napleton. Napleton has been a regular for the Twins throughout the first half of the season. Sitting at almost exactly the halfway point through the season, Napleton is leading the NYCBL in batting average. Sitting at .369, Napleton has been phenomenal for the Twins as a constant threat to get on base.

Then we turn to the slugger, Connor Simonetti. Simonetti, out of Kent State University, is among the lead leaders in home runs, and RBI's. Tied for first in HR's with Zephan Kash from Cortland with 3, Simonetti is poised to continue his recent hot hitting and work his way to the sole league leader. His third home run was a walkoff blast over the right field fence to defeat the Wellsville Nitros in game one of a double header last week. In addition to hitting the ball out of the park, Simonetti also excels in the RBI category. Right now, the first baseman stands in third place, with 15 RBI's, five below the league leader of Dan Crozier with the Genesee Rapids who has 20. Simonetti, however, is just getting into the groove of things. After sitting out the first few games of the season with a broken hand, the slugger has made his impact since rejoining the lineup. That walkoff home run is clearly indicative of that.

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Josh Handzik also stands in the league leaders for home runs with two. He and Simonetti were tied in second with two until Simonetti recorded his third just last week.

On the other side of the ball, the Twins' Mitchell Powers also climbed his way into second place among the league leaders in strikeouts. Powers collected 12 K's in his last appearance, a complete game win over the Wellsville Nitros. Those 12 strikeouts jumped him from 22, which was outside of the top 10, to 34. Those 34 would have put him at the top of the leaderboards had Geneva Red Wings pitcher, Vince Apicella, struck out 11 in his outing against the Cortland Crush that night. That win also pushed Powers to three on the season, which has him tied for second place among the league leaders. In addition to those stats, Powers now has a 1.80 ERA. Hopefully his numbers can only improve if he continues to have outings like he did the other night.

As we are set to begin the second half of this season, I will be sure to update this with narratives throughout the rest of the season to look out for with the Twins and the Red Wings. For now, these stats will be where we start.

Be sure to tune in to every game here where you can hear me, Topher "Hollywood" Lane, or my broadcast partner, Andrew Grella for every home game, both Twins and Red Wings.

Topher Lane is the play-by-play/color commentator for the Geneva Twins and Geneva Red Wings. He is on Twitter @Topher_L and you can email him at crlane@syr.edu