2009 home schedule posted and old school news
The 2009 home schedule has been posted on the Schedule Page. The Wings will again compete for the divisional championship in the Western Division against rivals from Niagara Falls, Bolivar, Elmira, Webster, Brockport, Hornell and Allegany County. Also, for the third year in a row the NYCBL has decided to skip cross-divisional games. Each team will play 42 regular season games within their own division.
Until the season gets going, how about some “old school” news?
2007 Red Wing, Ashton Mowdy who was drafted in the 2008 Amateur Draft by the Houston Astros has been invited to Arizona with his parent club. The 22 year old righthanded Mowdy went 4-2 last season with the Tri-City Valley Cats of the New York Penn League with a 4.10 ERA in 41.2 IP, enroute to striking out 48.
Jeremy Kehrt has also been invited to Spring Training by his parent club, the Boston Red Sox. Kehrt
was a member of the 2006 and 2007 Red Wings and was drafted by the Sox in the same 2007 draft as Mowdy. Kehrt, a 23 year old right handed pitcher spent the majority of his rookie season in the Gulf Coast League working out of the Red Sox Training Facility in Ft. Myers. He finished the GCL season with a 3-2 record and a 2.84 ERA striking out 44 in 50.2 IP while only allowing 7 walks. He had cup of coffee with the Lowell Spinners during the season, and was called up to the Class A Greenville Drive to finish off the 2008 season.
Also a part of the”legendary” 2007 team was Kyle Bellamy. Bellamy a right handed sidewinding Junior at the “U” (University of Miami) cruised as a Red Wing, setting a NYCBL record with 16 saves and a 0.00 ERA in 19IP, he struck out 26 and walked 4 for the Wings in ‘07. He carried what he learned in Geneva over to Miami in ‘08 and as a set-up-man was named a 2008 second team All-American, and was also added to the Howser Trophy watch list. The Howser Trophy is the College Baseball equivelant of Football’s Heisman Trophy.
Don’t miss out this summer! You never know who will be coming through Geneva on their way to bigger things. Never been to a game? Be sure to mark your calendars with our 2009 home schedule fresh off the press! Come on out to McDonough Park this summer, one of the only places you take a family, get dinner, watch top level athletes and be GUARANTEED to to talk to and get autographs from the players all for less than a couple Hamilton’s. It’s almost baseball season…almost!