Boys of Summer Player of the Week: Northwestern grad Mike Fignar

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FROM KEITH GROLLER

From Sunday's print edition of The Morning Call, the Boys of Summer Player of the Week -- Mike Fignar of the Northern Yankees. Mike is a Northwestern Lehigh and King's College product:
MIKE FIGNAR, NORTHERN YANKEES
A change in job shifts for Mike Fignar has resulted in a change in fortunes for the Northern Yankees in the Blue Mountain League.
Fignar used to be on middle shift at Mack Trucks in Lower Macungie and could only make weekend games, but halfway through the baseball season he was shifted to daytime hours. That opened his nights up for the Yankees.
He has made the most of that extra time, helping the team go on a six-game win streak that allowed the former Tri-County League member to secure the No. 2 seed in its first Blue Mountain League postseason.
Fignar is hitting .333 overall, but was 9-for-20 with two walks and six runs scored during the Yankees’ hot streak and has made a big difference for the Scherersville team.
“He does a great job patrolling center field and is another big bat for us in the middle of our order,” Yankees manager Brian Polaha said. “He runs well, has some pop and has been a big stabilizing factor for us.”
Fignar, a fixture on the Yankees’ 2011 and ’12 Tri-Co title teams, said the regular playing stints have been helpful for him to helped him find a rhythm at the plate.
“I’m not a college kid anymore, so it doesn’t hurt to get more reps and be able to be here all the time,” the 2007 Northwestern Lehigh grad and King’s College product said. “I don’t like tooting my own horn. I am just happy to help out and be with such a good group of guys.”