A high powered offense lead by 3rd year slugger Mike Washburn has scored 162 runs in 17 games and has the hometown Royals off to a 15-2 start and 1st place at the half way point in the season.
The Royals will play host to the leagues top pitching team, the 2nd place Saint John Alpines (12-7) Friday night. The Alpines feature Royal National pitching pick ups Peter Shaw & Shawn O’Toole who have both been dominant in 2013. On Saturday the Royals travel to PEI for 2 games against the young rebuilding Charlottetown Islanders and Royals National pick up infielder and 2012 NBSBL MVP Andrew MacDonald.
League Leaders as of July 18
AVG HR RBI
Mike Washburn - Royals .500 Mike Washburn - Royals 8 Mike Washburn - Royals 27
Derek Wilson - Royals .463 Jody Peterson - Royals 5 Chris Sorensen - Royals 19
Matt Stairs - Royals .438 Derek Wilson - Royals 5 Dave Barr - Royals 18
Andrew Rinzler - Mets .429 Matt Stairs - Royals 4 Kris Keating - Ironmen 17
Chris Sorensen - Royals .414 Dave Barr - Royals 4 Jody Peterson - Royals 16
John Burns - Royals .404 Chris Sorensen - Royals 3 Matt Stairs - Royals 16
David Barr - Royals .391 Kris Keating - Ironmen 3 John Burns - Royals 14
Orry Cook - Ironmen .375 Mark MacNevin - Royals 2 Derek Wilson - Royals 13
Jody Peterson - Royals .372 Andrew Burns - Ironmen 2 Dan Gusovsky - Mets 9
ERA Wins Saves
Peter Shaw - Alpines 1.59 Jake Waugh - Royals 5 David Redmand - Brewers 2
Jamie Walls - Ironmen 1.86 Jamie Walls - Ironmen 3 Derek Wilson - Royals 1
Shawn O'Toole - Alpines 2.48 Shawn O'Toole - Alpines 3 Jake Waugh - Royals 1
Derek Wilson - Royals 2.53 Peter Shaw - Alpines 3 Kevin Bowes - Ironmen 1
Jordan Stevenson - PEI 2.80 Justin Morton - Mets 2 Gary Ryder - Ironmen 1
Jake Waugh - Royals 3.00 Derek Wilson - Royals 2 Phil Merrill - Royals 1
Ryan Arseneault - Alpines 2