Personal
Born in Quebec, Canada where his father was playing for the Montreal Expos ... parents are Vance (Coach at BYU) and Sharon ... brother Tim played three years for BYU ... grandfather Vernon was the 1960 Cy Young Winner for the Pittsburgh Pirates ... uncles played baseball and basketball for BYU ... is an Eagle Scout ... served a Church mission to London, England ... graduated with a degree in sociology.
Before BYU
Prepped at Provo High where he was coached by former Cougar Lance Moore ... was team captain, co-MVP with teammate Bryce Ayoso who also signed with BYU ... was all-region and all-state ... batted .429 with eight stolen bases, eight doubles and three triples ... lettered three times in baseball.
Stats
Year Avg. G-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB-SBA 2005 .346 26-10 52 11 18 1 1 0 6 21 3 12 0-0 2008 .267 39-26 105 28 28 4 0 0 10 32 7 17 8-10 2009 .259 49-48 201 27 52 14 2 2 27 76 10 43 18-20 2010 .471 4-4 17 5 8 1 1 0 1 11 0 4 4-5 2011 .258 56-55 217 37 56 5 0 1 17 64 18 43 17-20
Mission
- London
Had a five-game hitting streak ... batting average soared above .400 through his first 16 games as he replaced an injured Sean McNaughton in the lineup at second base ... hit .371 in league games.
Went 5-for-5 in a 15-2 victory at Utah ... had a pair of stolen bases in games vs. San Diego State and the Air Force Academy ... batted .341 in league games ... had eight assists in games vs. TCU and Utah ... had an eight-game hitting streak during the season.
Batted .305 in league games ... had a seven-game hitting streak during the season ... had five RBI in the second game against Utah in Provo, mostly from a base-clearing double in the five-run seventh inning ... homered in back-to-back games at Western Carolina ... his two-run homer was the game-winning RBI in the middle game at WCU ... also hit a game-winning RBI triple vs. Portland ... part of only the fourth triple play in school history when he teamed with Steve Parker and Kasey Ko on a 5-4-3 triple play in a 12-2 victory over New Mexico.
Team co-captain in 2011 and 2010 ... in the MWC Tournament against San Diego State he executed an unassisted triple play in the seventh inning, a 6-U-U-U, with one out in the books from the infield fly rule with the bases loaded ... was All-Tourney in the Brooks Wallace Classic at Lubbock, Texas ... led team with 10 sac bunts ... in 2011 he had a pair of game-winning RBI: a two-out single vs. San Diego St. in a 6-4 victory and a one-run single vs. Air Force in a 10-4 victory ... in on three of the six double plays turned by BYU vs. UNM, one shy of NCAA record, a new MWC record
Sidelined after four games because of a torn hamstring injury ... has a current four-game hitting streak ... was 2-for-2 with a triple and three stolen bases in his last game of the season at UC Davis in a 10-2 victory on Feb. 25 ... spent the remainder of the season rehabbing ... led the Holyoke Blue Sox in the New England Collegiate Baseball League with a .341 batting average ... was fourth in the league batting statistics ... was picked up at the end of the summer by the Y-D Redsox in the Cape Cod League.
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BYU Drops 6-4 Contest to Utah
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2011 Season Review