Bio: Three-year letterman...has started64 of 82 career games...became a fixture at third-base last seasonafter splitting time with junior Matt Rayha at shortstop in2009...holds a career batting average of .262, a sluggingpercentage of .350, and an on-base percentage of .388.
Junior Year (2010): Started 29 games andbatted a career-high .300, with two doubles, a triple, a home run,and a career-high 13 RBI...also posted career-highs in sluggingpercentage (.388), on-base percentage (.446), stolen bases (8),walks (21), and runs scored (28)...hit safely in 16 games and hadseven multi-hit games...batted .458 (11-for-24), with five RBI,during a season-long 7-game hitting streak from March 14 throughMarch 17...opened Scranton's Spring Break trip to Ft. Myers,Florida, with three hits, including a triple, scored three times,and drove in a run in a 14-13 loss in eight innings in the firstgame of a non-conference doubleheader...hit his first home run ofthe season (and second of his career) to spark an 8-run rally inthe sixth inning in a come-from-behind 14-6 victory over eventualLandmark Conference champion Moravian College on April 10 atConnell Park...drove in two runs in an 11-3 loss to Drew Universityin the first game of a Landmark Conference doubleheader on April 17in Madison, New Jersey...played third-base exclusively andcommitted a career-low six errors in 52 chances to finish with acareer-best .903 fielding percentage.
Sophomore Year (2009): Started 25 of 29games, a majority of which were at shortstop...batted .222, withfour doubles, a triple and seven RBI...also posted a .289 on-basepercentage and a slugging percentage of .296...hit safely in 14games and had three multi-hit games...drove in two runs in a 12-11victory over Central College (Iowa) in the first of an 9-gameSpring Break trip to Ft. Myers, Florida, on March 13...belted apair of doubles in a 19-16 loss to Wilkes University on March 25 atConnell Park...smacked the first triple of his career and scoredtwice in a 10-2 victory over Drew University in the third game of athree-game sweep at Connell Park on April 5...batted .500(6-for-12) during a 5-game hitting streak from March 30 to April5...Freshman Year (2008): Appeared in 24 games and started 10times...batted .267, with two doubles, a home run and sevenRBI...hit safely in 10 games and had two multi-hit games (two hitsand an RBI in an 11-1 win at Drew on April 5 and two hits, threeRBI, and four runs scored in a 25-13 victory over Baptist Bible atConnell Park on April 25)...batted .545 (6-for-11) during five-gamespan from April 5 through April 13 and hit .417 (5-for-12) duringanother five-game span from April 23 through April 29...saw actionin the first two games of the Landmark Conferencetournament...after struggling early defensively, made only twoerrors in his final 19 games of the season.
Awards & Honors
Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll (2010)
