2012 Season
No. 8-rated prosect in the Big South by Baseball America
2011 Highlights
First Team All-Big South selection in LF ... Team leader and fourth in the Big South with a .367 batting average ... Finished second in the Big South with 28 steals and 23rd nationally through the end of the conference tournaments ... Third all-time in a single season in stolen bases at RU ... Fifth in the conference, scoring 49 runs ... Started in all 56 games ... Rivals/SEBaseball.com Preseason All-Big South selection ... Went 8-of-13 (.615) in the Highlanders’ opening weekend against Army and Davidson (Feb. 18-20), including a 4-for-5 game against Davidson ... Hit a leadoff solo homer in the 13th inning to lift Radford to an 8-6 win over Auburn (Feb. 25) ... Hit his second home run of the season in the loss to NC State (March 8) ... Had a career day in the series opener against Hartford (March 12) ... went 5-for-6, drove in six runs, stole a base and scored three times ... hit the first grand slam of his career in the seventh inning ... Was 5-for-8 in the doubleheader at ETSU (March 20) and led off the first game with his fourth homer of the season ... Went 7-for-14 in the CSU series (March 25-26) with three stolen bases and his fifth homer of the season, a solo shot that got the Highlanders on the board in the fifth inning of the finale ... Had a 4-for-5 game at Virginia Tech (March 29) ... Went 3-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs in the second game of the Prebsyterian series (April 2) ... Had an 11-game hitting streak (March 20-April 3) ... Stole his 20th base of the season, becoming the eighth player in school history to reach that plateau, in the finale of the VMI series (April 10) ... scored three runs in that game, going 2-for-4 ... Doubled twice in a 3-for-4 effort in the second game against Winthrop (April 17) ... Had a pair of three-hit games in the UNC Asheville series (April 22-23) ... went 3-for-4 in the opener with a walk ... was 3-for-5 and scored three runs in the finale ... Went 2-for-4 and played in CF for the first time following an injury to Zach Costello against Appalachian State (April 26) ... Was 3-for-5 with a walk and a stolen base in the Gardner-Webb opener (April 29) ... Moved into third in a single season with three stolen bases in the series opener against High Point (May 14) ... walked twice, went 2-for-2 and scored four runs (each time he reached) ... Had hits in all three series games (5-for-11) and knocked in the go-ahead run in the second inning of the HPU series finale with a double (May 15) ... Homered in the first at-bat of the game in the series finale at Liberty (May 21)
2010 Highlights
First Team All-Big South designated hitter, Hillsinger’s first all-conference honor … First Team All-State (VaSID) ... Went from hitting .276 while starting in 18 games in 2009, to batting .348 in 48 starts … One of five Radford players to steal 10 or more bases ... Hit in the leadoff, third, cleanup, fifth and ninth spots ... Went 3-for-3, picking up his first hits of the season, against The Citadel (Feb. 28) ... Posted back-to-back three hit games with four triples against UNC Asheville (March 19-20), and drove home the winning run with a ninth-inning walk-off triple in the first game of the series ... his back-to-back games with two triples tied a school record for triples in a game ... Had six hits over a four game span (March 27-April 2) ... Hit his second career homer and first of the season April 7 at No. 4 Virginia, 364 days after his first career blast ... went 2-for-4 against the Cavaliers ... Multiple hits in seven consecutive games (April 7-18), including three twice ... Collected three hits, including a pair of doubles, in the series opener against High Point (April 16) ... Went 2-for-3, hit his second homer of the season, scored four times and drove in three runs in the series finale against High Point (April 18) ... Hit a bases-loaded double in the seventh inning in a televised win over Winthrop (April 23) ... Drove in three runs and scored twice in a win over Marshall (May 18)
2009 Highlights
Had his first collegiate hit in his first start Feb. 27 at The Citadel ... Posted his first multi-hit game, going 2-for-5 with a pair of two-RBI doubles, in Radford’s win at UNC Asheville April 4 ... Career-high three hits April 8 in a win over ETSU ... Went 2-for-3 and blasted a two-run home run in the ninth inning at ETSU April 22 ... Knocked home the go-ahead runs in the eighth inning of doubleheader game 2 at Liberty May 15 ... Went 3-for-5 in three games during the Big South Tournament
CAREER STATISTICS
|
Year
|
Avg
|
GP
|
GS
|
AB
|
R
|
H
|
2B
|
3B
|
HR
|
RBI
|
TB
|
SLG%
|
BB
|
HBP
|
SO
|
GDP
|
OB%
|
SF
|
SH
|
SB
|
ATT
|
PO
|
A
|
E
|
FLD%
|
|
2009
|
.276
|
37
|
18
|
76
|
20
|
21
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
16
|
30
|
.395
|
14
|
2
|
17
|
0
|
.394
|
2
|
0
|
6
|
7
|
28
|
1
|
1
|
.967
|
|
2010
|
.348
|
49
|
48
|
187
|
40
|
65
|
13
|
6
|
2
|
36
|
96
|
.513
|
22
|
5
|
37
|
2
|
.420
|
5
|
2
|
15
|
18
|
18
|
0
|
0
|
1.000
|
|
2011
|
.367
|
56
|
56
|
221
|
49
|
81
|
14
|
4
|
6
|
30
|
121
|
.548
|
19
|
6
|
39
|
2
|
.426
|
3
|
0
|
28
|
32
|
102
|
2
|
2
|
.981
|
|
TOTAL
|
.345
|
142
|
122
|
484
|
109
|
167
|
31
|
11
|
9
|
82
|
247
|
.510
|
55
|
13
|
93
|
4
|
.418
|
10
|
2
|
49
|
57
|
148
|
3
|
3
|
.981
|
