Radford University Athletics

2012 Highlights
Second-year team captain for the Highlanders ... 31st round selection (957 overall) of Los Angeles Angels in the MLB First Year Player Draft ... First Team All-Big South selection at SS ... First Team All-State selection (VaSID) ... When healthy, was Radford’s top offensive producer and top defensive player … Anchored the Big South’s top defense at shortstop and one of the nation’s leaders – Radford led country in fielding percentage during April 2012 when Kemp was playing every day … 48 RBIs in 47 games, 4th-Big South … Led Big South in triples (6) and ranked among nation’s top-10 when healthy … Missed 11 games late in the season after suffering a broken hand when he was hit by a pitch in the opener of the Presbyterian series (April 27) … Before missing time, was ranked in top-10 of most Big South offensive categories … Hit in each of his first six games of the season ... Went 7-for-13 in the Samford series (Feb. 17-19), including 6-for-8 in the final two games ... had five doubles in the series, including three in the game two win  (Feb. 18) ... Knocked in a pair of runs, including the tying run, in the series opener at UNCG (March 2) ... Hit a two-run double to open the scoring in the series opener vs. La Salle (March 6) ... Knocked in 10 runs during the week of March 6-11 ... Had a five-RBI day in the second game vs. Bryant, with a three-run triple in the fourth and a two-run double in the seventh (March 10) ... Hit his first homer of the season, a solo shot in the bottom of the first of the series opener vs. Marist (March 16) … Walked twice and stole two bases in the second game (March 17) … Knocked in the tying run on a sac fly in the seventh inning of the finale (March 18) ... Doubled and tripled in the win at JMU (March 20) ... Knocked in eight runs in the first two games of the Asheville series (March 23-24) ... Hit a two-run double, his 10th of the season, as part of a four-RBI game in the series opener against UNC Asheville (March 23) … Carried an eight-game hitting streak during the last half of March (March 13-25), hitting .406 (13-for-32) with 11 RBIs … Heated up during the month of April and posted a career-long 12-game hitting streak, hitting .471 (24-for-51) with 16 RBIs … Went 3-for-4 and drove in five runs, including a three-run homer, in the series finale against Fairleigh Dickinson (April 15) … Went 6-for-12 with two homers and seven RBIs in the FDU series … Named Big South Player of the Week for the first time after hitting .533 (8-for-15) in the Winthrop series – he knocked in five runs, scored five times, stole three bases, doubled and homered in the series … Posted a season-high four hits and scored three runs in the series opener against Winthrop (April 20) … Returned to action in the Liberty series and finished out the season with five hits in five games

2011 Highlights
Team captain in 2011 ... Smacked a two-out solo homer in his first at-bat of the season in a 3-for-5 game against Army (Feb. 18) ... Hit his second career grand slam in a rout of Army the next night (Feb. 19) ... Socked a first inning two-run homer against Towson (March  4) ... Had his third first inning home run of the season in and his second blast in as many games in a win over Fordham (March 5) ... Tripled home a run in the series opener against Hartford (March 12) ... Had a career-high five RBIs in a 4-for-4 performance that included two doubles in the series finale with Hartford (March 13) ... scored three times and walked twice ... Was 4-for-11 and drove in three runs in the CSU series (March 25-26) ... Scored twice, stole two bases and went 1-for-3 in the win over Virginia Tech (March 29) ... Went 2-for-4, walked and scored in the first VMI game (April 9) ... Missed the finale of the VMI series after a collision at short in the second game (April 10) ... Went 2-for-4, scored twice, and stole two bases on back-to-back pitches in the series opener against Winthrop (April 15) ... Went 3-for-5 and drove in a pair of runs in the series finale at UNC Asheville (April 23) ... went 4-for-10, drove in three runs and scored twice in the series ... Suffered a season-ending hand injury during batting practice before the Appalachian State game (April 26)

2010 Highlights
Medical redshirt in 2010 following a shoulder injury sustained at the end of the 2009 season ... Hit .350 in six games as a first baseman/DH ... Baseball America Preseason All-Big South ... SEBaseball.com Big South First Team Preseason All-Conference ... Played in his first game of the season against Marshall (Feb 26) ... Played at first base for the first time in his career during the final two games of the Charleston Crab House Shootout (Feb. 27-28), finished the tournament 3-for-10 ...

2009 Highlights
2009 Big South Freshman of the Year; became the first frosh in Radford program history to earn the honor ... Collegiate Baseball / Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American ... Added to the Brooks Wallace Shortstop of the Year award watch list in April; only Big South shortstop named to the initial award list ... Started his collegiate career with safeties in 18 of his first 19 games, including a 10-game hitting streak (16-of-19, .390) to begin the 2009 season ... Hit in either the two or three spot in each of Radford’s games ... Swatted a walk-off grand slam in the first game of a doubleheader at home against Canisius March 7, with the Highlanders trailing 3-2 in the ninth inning with one out ... Launched a three-run shot two at-bats later in the first inning of the second game with the Golden Griffins ... Piled up 10 RBI in the three-game sweep of Canisius ... Had his first four-hit game in a 4-for-5 showing, a win over Presbyterian on March 21 ... Logged time at second base in a doubleheader at Charleston Southern April 25 ... Drove in three runs in back-to-back Big South games May 2 against Gardner-Webb and May 14 at Liberty

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