2021 Season
Chosen No. 5 in the 2021 MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles ... highest player selected in Sam Houston and Southland Conference history ... entered draft ranked by MLB.com as No 11 overall prospect for 2021 MLB Draft ... ranked by D1Baseball.com as No. 4 collegiate prospect in 2021 MLB Draft ... first Golden Spikes Award semifinalist in Bearkat history ... Southland Conference Player of the Year ... Southland Conference Student-Athlete of the Year ... All-Southland Conference first team ... Southland Conference All-Defensive team ... Southland Conference all-academic team ... Southland Tournament all-tournament team ... D1Baseball.com all-America first team ... Baseball America all-America first team ... Perfect Game all-America first team ... ABCA/Rawlings All-Central Region first team ... ABCA All-America second team ... preseason all-America first team by Baseball America ... preseason all-America second team by Perfect Game ... preseason all-SLC first team ... preseason all-SLC by Perfect Game ... Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award preseason watch list ... ranked in the top five in the Southland in batting average (.374), runs (61), hits (76), home runs (16), RBI (52), slugging (.680), walks (42) and on-base percentage (.490)
2020 Season
Southland Conference All-Academic first team ... was first Bearkat in program history and the first Southland Conference player since Michael Choice (UT Arlington, 2010) to be on the preseason watch list for the Golden Spikes Award ... Preseason All-America Third Team by D1Baseball.com ... Preseason All-America Third Team by Collegiate Baseball ... Preseason All-America Third Team by National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) ... Preseason All-Southland Conference first team ... Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List ... ranked in preseason as No. 4 collegiate prospect for 2021 MLB Draft by Baseball America ... ranked in preseaosn No. 8 collegiate prospect for 2021 MLB Draft by Perfect game ... Hit safely in first 8 games of 2020 and reached base in first 10 games ... ranked third in SLC with 14 runs scored ... picked up 2 RBI in series opening win over Loyola Marymount (2/21), reaching base twice ... went 2-for-4 with the go-ahead homer in fifth inning off of Team USA teammate Nick Frasso in Game 2 against LMU (2/22) ... reached base in all six plate appearances in series finale vs LMU (2/23), hitting safely three times with a double and career-high 5 runs scored ... had a double and run scored on Opening Night (2/14) ... had an RBI, run scored and stolen base in the middle game (2/15) and picked up first career bunt hit in series finale vs the Gaels (2/16) ... walked twice, scored a run and had a double in series-opening win at Louisiana (2/28) ... had a pair of RBI in series finale vs Houston Baptist (3/8).
2019 Season
Southland Conference Hitter of the Year … all-Southland Conference first team outfielder … earned spot on Team USA Collegiate National Team, making him the first Bearkat in school history and the first Southland Conference player since Michael Choice (UT Arlington) in 2009 to do so ... earned MVP of the USA vs Cuba Friendship series, hitting .438 with 6 runs scored in the series ... named to the D1Baseball.com Freshman All-America first team ... Baseball America Freshman All-America second team ... earned Freshman All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball Magazine ... also named to Perfect Game Baseball Freshman All-America Second Team ... ABCA/Rawlings All-Central Region Second Team selection ... named Southland Conference Hitter of the Week on March 18 after reaching base safely in 13 of 18 plate appearances in four games against Louisiana Tech and UIW … named to all-tournament team at Frisco Classic after going 3-for-7 with four runs scored and three extra-base hits, including the only home run of the tournament by any player … hit for first recorded cycle in Bearkat history against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (5/5), getting an opposite-field solo home run to lead off the eighth inning in his final at-bat of the game to complete a day that saw him go 4-for-5 with four RBI … had 20 multi-hit games and 17 multi-RBI games … hit .394 with five extra-base hits and 10 RBI in nine games vs Power 5 opponents … ranked second in the SLC in batting average (.361), fourth in slugging percentage (.602), third in on-base percentage (.450) and fourth in runs scored (50) … also ranked third in SLC in hits (78) and RBI (54) … led SLC with seven triples while ranking seventh with 17 doubles … also had seven home runs and was second in SLC with 14 hit-by-pitches … was also 9-for-9 in stolen bases … saw time in the field at all three outfield positions, in addition to third base … led SLC in league-only games with .388 batting average, 32 runs scored, 47 hits and four triples … was also second in SLC-only games with 34 RBI, fourth with a .669 slugging percentage and third with a .458 on-base percentage … started all 56 games as a true freshman, hitting between 1-3 in the batting order in every game … went 2-for-5 with a grand slam in collegiate debut vs Manhattan (2/15) at the RyCass Classic in DeLand, Fla. … hit safely in each of first 12 games as a collegiate player and reached base safely in 53 of 56 games on the year … went 2-for-4 with a double and 3 RBI at Texas (2/26) … went 2-for-4 with two runs scored against Mississippi State (3/1) at Frisco Classic … went 1-for-3 with go-ahead, 2-run home run in comeback win over Nebraska (3/2) at Frisco Classic … had three hits, walked twice and scored four runs in series-opening win over UIW (3/15) … went 3-for-5 with three runs scored, a home run and four RBI in Game 3 vs UIW (3/17) … went 2-for-3 with three RBI in win over Baylor (3/19) … had a home run in each of three games of Stephen F. Austin series (4/12 – 4/14) … went 3-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI in win over Northwestern State (5/16) … had walk-off RBI single in regular-season finale vs Northwestern State (5/17), clinching the SLC title for the Bearkats.
Cy Ranch High School
Perfect Game/Rawlings Sports All-Texas region team … led Cy Ranch to 32-9-2 record and a berth in the Class 6A state tournament … 2018 THSBCA Class 6A first team all-state … 2018 first team all-District 17-6A selection.
