Aggie Baseball
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Throughout most of his career, has served mostly as a pinch-hitter for
the Aggies with a few starts mixed in between...Has been head coach
Keith Shumate’s most reliable pinch-hitter…Has six career pinch hits in
22 pinch-hit at bats…Has played in 66 games with 33 starts…Earned the
most playing time of his career as a junior with 23 starts…Is a solid
first baseman with a career .952 fielding percentage…Has been a member
of the MEAC ‘s All-Academic team for three years.
2006
Season
Played
38 games with 23 starts…Thirty-eight games played and twenty-three
starts were both career highs…Batted .228 with six RBI and one home
run…Ranked third in the conference in pinch-hits with four…Ranked first
in the MEAC with pinch-hit at-bats with 10…Was most effective against
left-handers with a .286 batting average…Batted .273 with runners in
scoring position…Had four multiple-hit games…Went 2-for-3 with a double,
two runs scored and two doubles on March 4 against Radford…A day
earlier, hit his first career home run against the Highlanders as his
two-run blast helped the Aggies to victory…Went 2-for-4 with two runs
scored and two RBI in a win over Delaware State…Went 2-for-4 with an RBI
against Bethune-Cookman in the MEAC Tournament on May 18.
2005 Season
Served
as a pinch-hitter last season for the Aggies…Made 41 plate appearances
in 21 games played last season…Made nine starts and batted .195 with one
RBI and eight base on balls…Was 2-for-3 with an RBI in a 14-5 win over
Albany on March 3…Was 1-for-4 with a run scored in a loss at Campbell on
March 15.
2004 Season
Compiled
three hits last season in a limited role…recorded two RBI as a
freshman…recorded his first career hit, a triple, on March 23, 2004
against Coppin State.
High
School Accomplishments
Played
four varsity seasons at Kinston High School under his father Ronnie
Battle…Was a first-team all-conference selection as a senior…Was an
honorable mention selection as a junior…Received the Omega Psi Phi
Community Service Award as a senior…Voted by his peers as one of the top
20 people in his class likely to succeed…Received the American Legion
Post 43 Student Athlete of the Year Award as a senior.
Personal
Full
name is Ronnie Joel Battle…Majors in fitness and wellness management…Is
the son of Ronnie and Birta Battle…Has one sibling, Torise Battle…Made
the freshman Honor Society with a 3.4 GPA…Plans on starting his own
business in the fitness field after graduate school…Is a member of the
Human Performance & Leisure Studies Club…Is also a member of the Alpha
Lambda Delta group…Lists Ken Griffey Jr., as his favorite athlete.
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