Bio: Three-year letterman...has started68 of 82 games...holds a career batting average of .272, with aslugging percentage of .425 and an on-base percentage of.388...solid defensively; has thrown out 18 runners attempting tosteal and has committed only two errors in 343 chances for a careerfielding percentage of .994...will serve as team captain for the2011 season with fellow seniors Chris Stallone and ChrisVelazquez.
Junior Year (2010): Started 26 of 30games...batted .202, with four doubles, two home runs, and 15RBI...hit safely in 14 games and had three multi-hit games...belteda pair of doubles and finished with a career-high three RBI in a21-16 victory over Minnesota-Morris in the first game of anon-conference doubleheader on March 16 in Ft. Myers,Florida...also had two hits and two RBI in a 16-4 loss to Wilkes onMarch 24 at Connell Park and two hits and an RBI in a 12-9 loss toCatholic University on April 24 in Washington, DC...drove in tworuns in a 4-2 victory over Drew University on April 17 in Madison,N.J...defensively, threw out two runners trying to steal andfinished with a .979 fielding percentage.
Sophomore Year (2009): Started 21 of 26games...raised his batting average 242 points from the previousseason, from .194 to .416...finished second on the team in on-basepercentage (.494), third in slugging percentage (.623), fourth inbatting average (.416), and fifth in RBI (25)...his .416 battingaverage is the ninth highest single-season total in Royals'history...hit safely in 17 games, including 10 multi-hitgames...drove in at least one run in nine games...belted a pair ofdoubles and knocked in a career-high seven runs in leading theRoyals to 13-3 win over St. Michael's (Vt.) in Ft. Myers, Florida,on March 18...also smacked a home run and a double and drove infive runs in a 24-5 win over Drew University in the first of athree-game Landmark Conference series on April 4 at ConnellPark...went 6-for-9 (.667) at the plate in his first three games,including a double and a triple and three RBI in a 15-3 win overPlymouth St. (NH) in the second game of a 7-inning doubleheader inFt. Myers, Flordia, on March 14...hit his first home run of theseason along with a double and drove in two runs in a 7-6 victoryover Lakeland College in Ft. Myers on March 17...for the secondstraight season, did not commit an error in 118 chancesdefensively...threw out seven runners trying to steal...FreshmanYear (2008): Started 21 of 26 games behind the plate...batted.194, with four doubles, a triple, a home run, and 14 RBI...hitsafely in nine games and had three multi-hit games...in his firstgame, had two hits, including a triple, drove in three runs andscored twice in a 17-9 victory over Plymouth State on March15...had a season-high three hits, including a double, and drove intwo runs in an 11-1 win over Drew on April 5...belted a double andfinished with two hits, two RBI, and scored three times in a 13-2victory over Moravian on March 29...saw action in two games in theLandmark Conference tournament.
Awards & Honors
Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll (2009, 2010)
