University of Scranton

• Four-year letterman who played in 121 games, including 101 starts.
• Posted a .311 batting average with 103 hits, including 16 doubles, one triple and four home runs.
• Drove in 75 runs and scored 51.
• Posted a slugging percentage of .402 and an on-base percentage of .421

Senior Year (2018)

• Game-by-Game Statistics
• Played in 33 games, including 30 as a starter, around the infield and at DH.
• Hit .330 with a career-high seven doubles and one triple.
• Drove in 20 runs and scored 15.
• Had a team-high 26 walks and led the team in on-base percentage at .480.
• Had eight multi-hit games, including two with three hits.
• Reached base safely in 29 of the 33 games he played in.
• Went 10-for-17 (.588) with two doubles, five RBIs, five runs and two walks over a five-game stretch in late April.
• Went 5-for-10 with a double, four RBIs and a run in his final two games, both against Catholic in the Landmark Conference playoffs on May 13.

Junior Year (2017)

• Game-by-Game Statistics
• Played in 27 games, including 21 as a starter, in the infield.
• Hit .280 with four doubles, a home run, 18 RBIs and seven runs scored.
• Had six multi-hit games.
• Doubled, homered, drove in two and scored a run in a 4-2 loss in the second game of a doubleheader against Susquehanna on March 25.
• Singled twice, walked, drove in three and scored a run in a 9-8 loss in eight innings of the second game of a doubleheader against Elizabethtown on April 2 at Connell Park.
• Singled twice, drove in three runs and scored once in a 15-10 win over William Paterson on April 18 at PNC Field.
• Singled, doubled and scored a run in a 4-0 win over Moravian in the first game of a doubleheader on April 29.

Sophomore Year (2016)

• Game-by-Game Statistics
• Played in 34 games, starting 30 times, in the infield.
• Hit .333 with four doubles, three home runs, 28 RBIs, 19 runs and 17 walks.
• Went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBIs in an 11-6 loss to Dickinson in the second game of a doubleheader on Feb. 27.
• Went 3-for-3 with a homer, four RBIs and two runs in an 11-8 win over Elizabethtown in the first game of a doubleheader on March 19.
• Doubled, homered, drove in five and scored twice in an 18-14 win over Elizabethtown on March 23.
• Singled twice, drove in three and scored three runs in a 17-8 win over Catholic in the second game of a doubleheader on April 2.
• Had three hits, a run and an RBI in an 11-0 win over Merchant Marine Academy on April 13.
• Went 3-for-3 with a double, three RBIs and two runs in a 10-2 win over Juniata in the second game of a doubleheader on April 16.

Freshman Year (2015)

• Game-by-Game Statistics
• Played in 27 games, including 20 as a starter, hitting .288 with 10 runs and nine RBIs.
• Hit safely in 16 games, including a nine-game hitting streak in the middle of the season.
• Singled and drove in a run in his collegiate debut in a 9-8 loss to Johnson & Wales on March 5 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
• Had a two-run single in a 9-3 win over Johnson & Wales on March 6 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
• Went 3-for-3 with an RBI in a 6-5 loss in eight innings in the second game at Elizabethtown on April 2.
• Singled and drove in a pair in a 16-10 win at Merchant Marine on April 6.
• Pushed his hitting streak to nine with an RBI single while scoring a run in a 17-6 win at Juniata on April 12.
• Went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run in a 15-3 win over Elmira on April 13 at Connell Park.

Awards & Honors

• All-Landmark Conference 2nd Team (2018)
• Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll (2016, 2017)

High school/personal

• Earned four varsity letters in baseball at Bethlehem Catholic.
• Is the son of Jeff and Lori Mergel.