Aggie Baseball
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N.C. A&T Highlights
Will go down as one of
the best players to ever wear an Aggies uniform regardless the sport…
Earned the honor of being named to the Brooks Wallace Watch list, which
means he is a candidate for the 2007 National Player of the Year award …
Going into his senior season, already owns North Carolina A&T baseball
records in career hits, games played, games started, at-bats, plate
appearances and total bases…Was a part of Keith Shumate recruiting class
that helped transform Aggies baseball along with Jeremy Jones…Has more
home runs than any other player in the Shumate era…Also owns school
single-season records in home runs, hits, total bases, at-bats and plate
appearances and games played …Has started 162 out of the 163 games the
Aggies have played during his career…Missed one game to attend to a
family matter…Will likely be a three-time first-team All-MEAC performer
and four-year member of at least one of the all-conference teams before
his career is over…Was named second-team All-MEAC as a freshman…Will
likely be a four-year blackcollegebaseball.com’s first team
selection…Has never finished lower than second on the team in
hitting…Finished in the top five in home runs in the MEAC his sophomore
and junior seasons… Has led the team in RBI, slugging percentage and
total bases the last two seasons…Also was among the top five in each
category in the MEAC over the last three seasons…Has 24 career home runs
and 136 career RBI …Has a career batting average of .350, career
slugging percentage .579 and an incredible career on-base percentage of
.453…Recorded his first hit four games into the season when he singled
against the University of Virginia on Feb. 14, 2004…Was only the third
freshman in Aggies baseball history to record more than 60 hits…Earned
the honor along with fellow freshman at the time, Jeremy Jones…He has
also hit for the cycle once and has two career walk-off home runs…Is
also strong academically…Is a three-year member of the MEAC All-Academic
Team…Has been named to the N.C. A&T Dean’s List three years in a row and
was named the Aggies 2007 team captain.
2006 Season
Had a career season last
season in which he played in and started all 58 of the Aggies games …Set
school records in hits (84), RBI (54), doubles (21) total bases (141),
at-bats (231) and plate appearances (250)…Two of the records – doubles
and hits – are records teammate Jeremy Jones set the year before…Batted
a career-best .364 with eight home runs…Led the league in six different
statistical categories, including hits, RBI, total plate appearances,
at-bats, slugging percentage (.610) and doubles…Ranked second in the
league behind teammate Joe McIntyre in batting…Also ranked second in
runs scored (48) and triples (6)…Ranked fifth in the conference in home
runs (8) and sixth in stolen bases (16)…Batted .388 against left-handers
and .357 against righties…Batted an impressive .361 with two outs and a
whopping .425 with runners in scoring position…Averaged nearly two hits
and one RBI per game…Put together a 12-game hitting streak between Feb.
25 and March 13…During the streak, hit .471 with 13 RBI and one home
run…Following on the 12-game streak, hit safely in six straight games,
which gave him a hit in 18 out of 19 games…Hit .443 during that stretch
with 20 RBI…Had 28 multiple hit games, including 10 games in which he
had three hits and one game in which he had four hits…Had a seven-game
stretch between April 16 and April 27 in which he hit .516 with 12 RBI
and three home runs…Reached base nine straight games between April 12
and April 29…Went 4-for-5 with three RBI, two runs scored, a double and
a single against Radford on March 3…Went 3-for-4 with two RBI and a home
run against East Carolina on March 8…Went 3-for-5 with one run scored
and one RBI in a win over UAB on March 17…Went 7-for-12 with four RBI
and five runs scored in a three-game series against Florida A&M on April
1 and 2…Went 2-for-4 with four RBI and one home run in a win over
Delaware State on April 29.
2005 Season
Started all 53 games he
played in last season, making 196 plate appearances…Batted .337 with 13
home runs and 48 RBI as the Aggies cleanup batter…Had a .872 fielding
percentage as the Aggies third baseman…Ranked first in the MEAC in RBI
and home runs…Ranked ninth in the league in batting (.337)…His 66 hits
ranked him fourth in the league in hitting…Ranked second in the league
in slugging percentage (.612) and runs scored (51)…Tied for first in the
league with teammate Jeremy Jones in total bases (120), and was second
in the league in total plate appearances (228) and plate appearances
(196) behind Jones…Went 3-for-5 with a home run that clinched a 10-3 win
over Norfolk State and spot in the MEAC Tournament Championship
game…Went a combined 4-for-7 with an RBI and a home run in the Aggies to
NCAA Regional games in Clemson…Went 2-for-3 with two home runs, three
RBI and three runs scored in a 8-0 win over Coppin State that helped the
Aggies clinch the MEAC regular-season title…Went 3-for-3 with a double,
a home run and two RBI in a win over Delaware State…A day earlier, was
3-for-5 with a double, a home run and three RBI in a 14-5 win over
Albany…Hit for the cycle against Maryland-Eastern on April 2…Went
4-for-5 in the game with four RBI and three runs scored…Hit a walk-off
home run on March 29 to help the Aggies beat Campbell 3-2.
2004 Season
Batted .348 with three
homers and 34 RBI…Had a slugging percentage of .500 and an on-base
percentage of .397…Ranked first in the MEAC in doubles with 16…Was
second on the team in batting (.348) and 14th in the MEAC…Tied
for second on the team and seventh in the league in hits with 62…Was
second on the team in slugging percentage (.500) and total bases
(89)…Ranked third on the team in on-base percentage and RBI (34)…Had 16
multiple-hit ball games on the season…Had a five-hit day with three
runs scored and three doubles in a 6-2 Game 1 win over Coppin State on
April 9…On a March 6 doubleheader against Savannah State in which the
Aggies split, went a combined 6-for-8 with five RBI, three runs scored,
one homer, one triple and one double…Had a 3-for-4 night with three RBI
and three runs scored in a loss to Campbell on Feb. 20…Was 2-for-2 with
two RBI, a double and a run scored in a loss to Virginia on Feb. 15…Had
three hits, three runs and stole two bases in a 12-1 win over
Maryland-Eastern Shore on March 28.
High School Accomplishments
Played three varsity
seasons under his father, Charlie Gamble III, at Southern Guilford…Made
all-conference three years in a row…Also made All-Guilford County and
the Greensboro News & Record All-Area team…Participated in the
Junior State Games…Played in the Senior East-West All-Star Game…Earned
the Outstanding Senior Award at Southern Guilford…Was a Coke-a-Cola
Scholar Athlete for maintaining a 3.0 or better for all four years of
high school.
Personal
Full name is Charles
Vance Gamble IV…Majors in landscape architecture…Is the son of Debbie
and Charles Gamble III…Has two siblings, Leigha Jordan and Leslie
Landreth…Says his greatest athletic moments was hitting a home run in
the NCAA Regional against Clemson and hitting for the cycle against
Clemson…Favorite pro athlete is Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper
Jones…Enjoys eating Japanese food….His message to youth is: “There is no
such thing as office hours for leaders. You can do anything you want if
you put your mind to it.”