Baseball had their best season in program history, finishing with the first winning record and having a 30 win season. They finished 32-23 overall and 28-14 in conference play, setting a new program wins record for overall wins and conference wins.
The Trojans were lead offensively by freshman, Phil Williams (Wilmington, NC), who had 66 hits, 29 walks, 49 stolen bases and 53 runs scored. Sophomore, Toufic Khabie (Aventura, FL), lead the team with 54 runs batted in and 14 homeruns setting new school records for both categories.
Defensively, the Trojans had three big arms to lead the season. Sophomore, Ricky Montalvo (Inman, SC), pitched 72.2 innings breaking the strikeout record with 88 and finished with a 3.84 ERA. Jacob Chavis (Prospect, NC) threw 72.2 innings with 76 strikeouts and a 4.58 ERA. Freshman, Israel Moore (Lakeville, MN), pitched 60.2 with a 2.52 ERA and 66 strikeouts.
The Trojans also had a big closer in Jackson Sherron (Wendell, NC) who had seven saves on the year and 40 strikeouts in 28.2 innings of work.
Freshman, Brantley Hayward (Plant City, FL), had 320 putouts on the season with 31 assists. He lead the team with 12 doubles from the plate and also had 50 hits and 40 runs batted in. Sophomore, Cole Feldman (Midlothian, VA), had 237 putouts fielding .977. He had 42 hits from the plate with 25 runs batted in.
Sophomore, Koa Kloehs (Suwannee, GA), fielded a perfect 1.000 with 181 total chances and 170 putouts.
The Trojans were freshman heavy this year with other big standouts in Jordan Wright (Rocky Mount, NC), Eythan Reynolds (Pinehurst, NC) and Kristian Scales (Madison, NC).
A lot of familiar faces will be back next fall when the Trojans will start workouts back up in August. Stay up to date for all things Trojan Athletics on our social media and our website.
