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2021 Baseball Roster

Chad Keys
Marcus Sarate
Michael Rios
Marcus Sarate
Marcus Sarate
Marcus Sarate

1 Itchy Burts

  • Height 5-7
  • Weight 180
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown League City, Texas
  • Highschool Clear Springs HS

Biography

2021
First Team All-Southland at third base…First player in program history to land on first team All-Southland twice...Named to the Southland All-Academic First Team… Baseball America’s number one name in college baseball for the 4th year in a row… Appeared in and started in all 54 games… Batted .290 and tied the team lead in hits with 60, which included 10 doubles and three home runs… Drove in 33 runs and scored 30 runs… Drew 19 walks and got hit by pitch four times… stole a team-leading 13 bases… Went 3-for-4 with a home run and 2 RBIs against Texas Tech (3/7)… Went 3-for-5 with a double and 2 RBIs against Nicholls (4/11)… Made a game-saving catch and recorded the walk-off hit in the Southland Conference Tournament opener against Sam Houston St. (5/26).


2020
First Team All-Southland Preseason selection ... Baseball America's No. 1 name in college baseball for third-straight year ... appeared and started 18 games ... picked up 23 hits with three doubles and two triples, hitting .315 ... drove in nine runs and scored seven times ... drew seven walks and was hit by one pitch ... had seven stolen bases and two sacrifice bunts ... went 3-for-5 with two RBI, a double and a stolen base against Prairie View A&M (2/25) ... was 3-for-5 with a run scored and a stolen base against Missouri (2/23) ... went 3-for-4 with an RBI and two stolen bases against Texas A&M (3/3) ... was 3-for-5 with a triple, an RBI and a run scored against HBU (3/10).

2019 (Junior)
First Team All-Southland as a utility player ... First Team Southland All-Academic ... Baseball America's No. 1 name in college baseball ... appeared and started all 57 games  ... hit .356 with 83 hits including 15 doubles, four triples and three home runs ... scored 42 times and drove in 33 ... walked 20 times ... was hit by three pitches ... stole a team-high 10 bases ... had a .977 fielding percentage with 120 putouts and 95 assists ... recorded 28 multi-hit games ... was 4-for-5 with a triple and a run scored against SFA (4/19) ... hit a walk-off home run against Prairie View A&M (4/10).

2018 (Sophomore)
Second Team All-Southland honors, as an outfielder... .Baseball America's No. 1 name in college baseball ... 401 batting average was the top mark in the Southland and ranked ninth in all of Division I baseball... finished the season on a 21-game hitting streak... just 13 strikeouts over 137 at bats... .462 OBP ranked fifth in the Southland... tallied the first triple of his career against Incarnate Word (5/12)... drove in 23 runs over the course of the year.

2017 (Freshman)
Scored 25 runs while making 36 starts and 43 appearances... finished with a .248 batting average, with a .271 on base percentage.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 35

    2017Freshman

    Infield
    5'8" 165 lbs
    35
  • 1

    2018Sophomore

    Infield
    5'8" 165 lbs
    1
  • 1

    2019Junior

    2B
    5'8" 166 lbs
    1
  • 1

    2020Senior

    RF/2B
    5'7" 180 lbs
    1
  • 1

    2021Senior

    OF/INF
    5'7" 180 lbs
    1