Named to NCBWA
Preseason All-America Team...CAA Preseason Co-Player of the Year selection...Coastal
Plains League All-Star this past summer.
At Hofstra
2012: All-Colonial
Athletic Association first team selection...ABCA All-East Region team pick...Played
in and started 55 games...Batted .376 with 18 doubles, four home runs and a team
and CAA-best 66 RBIs...Scored 47 runs and stole 12 bases...Posted a .996 fielding
percentage (2 errors in 468 chances), a .516 slugging percentage and a .479
on-base percentage...Ranked third on team and 42nd in the nation in batting...Was
fourth in the nation in RBIs per game (1.20) and 12th in total RBIs...Had 22
multi-hit games and 18 multi-RBI contests...Was second on the team in doubles...Had
three hits games versus Florida State, Fordham twice, Delaware State twice,
Delaware, VCU and Northeastern...Knocked in four runs in games against Fordham,
Delaware, VCU and Albany...Blasted three-run home run in bottom of the eight inning
to put Hofstra ahead and complete sweep of VCU...CAA Commissioner's Academic
Award recipient...Batted .339 with 34 RBIs in CAA play...CAA Player of the Week on
March 6...2011: Played in 42 games,
starting 38...Ranked second on the team in batting with a .358 average...Had 48
hits, eight doubles, one home run and 25 RBIs...Ranked second on the team in
RBIs...Had a .440 slugging percentage and a .425 on-base percentage...Posted a .997
fielding percentage with one error in 364 chances...Posted 13 multi-hit games,
including four three-hit games...Went 3-4 with two doubles and two RBIs at
Florida Atlantic...Went 3-4 with a double and two RBIs at Miami (FL)...Homered and
drove in three runs in series finale against George Mason...Added three RBI games
against New York Tech, VCU and Old Dominion...Hit a team-high .351 in CAA play...2010: Played in 37 games, starting
30...Batted .284 on the season with four doubles, one triple and two home
runs...Drove in 12 runs and scored 24...Posted a .413 on-base percentage and a .403
slugging percentage...Had eight multi-hit games...Went 2-4 with a double at
Troy...Had two hits, including a solo home run, and scored three times in second
game of first Fairfield doubleheader...Had a home run and two RBIs in second New
York Tech game...Went 2-4 with a triple and two RBIs at Towson...Had a three-hit
day with two runs scored versus Long Island...Ended the season on a six-game
hitting streak...Batted .304 in league play...CAA Commissioner's Academic Award
recipient.
High School/Personal
Played baseball for four years and basketball for two years
at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ...Teammate of fellow
Pride senior Jared Rogers...Helped team to state championships in 2008 and
2009...2009 squad posted a 29-1 record, finished as the top-ranked team in New
Jersey and was ranked 19th in the nation at one point during the season...All-New
Jersey selection as a senior...2009 Courier
News Player of the Year...Three-time all-county and all-conference
selection...Named all-area as a junior and senior...All-New Jersey Group IV pick in
2009...2009 Team Player of the Year, as well as the Howard Stewart Memorial
Sportsmanship Award and Baseball Most Valuable Athlete Award recipient...Was
selected to play in the New Jersey Scholastic Baseball Coaches' All-Star
Game...Posted a school record 111 hits in his career and ranks fourth all-time
with a career batting average of .427...Posted a 7-0 mark as a pitcher in 2009
with a no-hitter...Was a Coastal Plains League All-Star over the summer 2012
while playing for the Asheboro Copperheads...Born April 18, 1991...Has one
sister...Lists Tino Martinez as his favorite athlete...Nicknamed
"Hammer"...Information technology major.
