2013 Baseball Roster
Roster
Ryan Burgess
- Position:
- First Baseman
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Richmond, Va.
- High School:
- Steward School
2012 Highlights
Started 26 games at 1B … Went 3-for-4 in back-to-back games against Georgia Southern (Feb. 28) and N.C. A&T (Feb. 29) ... knocked in the game-winning run against GSU in the eighth inning ... Ended a lengthy slump in early May by hitting .345 (10-for-29) over a nine-game stretch – knocked in a team-best six runs during that span … Went 2-for-5 and drove in three runs at Marshall (May 15)
2011 Highlights
Second Team All-Big South selection as a DH ... First Team VaSID Designated Hitter ... Finished the season playing at 1B ... Was eighth in the Big South in conference-only average (.369), fifth in slugging (.583) and seventh in on-base percentage (.443) ... Knocked home the go-ahead run with a pinch-hit double in the eighth inning against Army (Feb. 18) ... Hit a pinch-hit run-scoring double in the eighth inning to spark a seven-run swing over the last two innings in a win over Towson (March 4) ... Third hit of the season as a pinch-hitter in the win over Wake Forest (March 6) ... Started and scored twice in the series opener against Hartford (March 12) ... Had a two-run double in the second game of the ETSU doubleheader (March 22) ... Went 5-for-9 in the CSU series (March 25-26) with two RBIs, hitting in all three games of the series ... Played at 1B for the first time this season, and went 3-for-4 and scored three times in the finale of the VMI series (April 10) ... Went 5-for-10 with four doubles and four RBIs in the Winthrop series (April 15-17) ... was 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs in the first game of the series (April 15) ... Hit a bases-clearing three-run double in the series opener against UNC Asheville (April 22) ... went 2-for-4 ... Hit in 14 consecutive games entering the Coastal Carolina series (22-for-51, .431), the third longest hitting streak for a Highlander since 2005 ... Tripled for the first time in his career in the finale of the Gardner-Webb series (May 1) ... Hit his first homer of the season, a three-run blast, to give RU its first runs in four games, sparking a seven-run fourth against Marshall (May 10) ... was 2-for-4 and drove in an insurance run on a seventh-inning double ... His two-run homer in the first game of Liberty series was his first Big South blast – went 3-for-5 in the game (May 19) ... Homered twice in the wins in the Liberty series (May 19-20) ... hit a two-run blast in the fifth inning of game one, bringing home the go-ahead runs
2010 Highlights
Started in Radford’s first five games of the season, and has been the everyday first baseman as a freshman ... Had his first multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 in a win over Rider (March 13) ... Hit his first collegiate homers with a pair of two-run blasts in a win over UNC Asheville (March 20) ... Singled in a run at No. 4 Virginia on April 7, going 1-for-2 ... Started at first in all three games of the Presbyterian series (May 7-9), collecting three hits
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% |
| 2010 | .200 | 29 | 23 | 70 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 22 | .314 | 14 | 0 | 23 | 1 | .329 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 190 | 8 | 4 | .980 |
| 2011 | .324 | 50 | 41 | 139 | 21 | 45 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 70 | .504 | 13 | 6 | 36 | 0 | .400 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 148 | 14 | 2 | .988 |
| 2012 | .213 | 42 | 33 | 127 | 12 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 31 | .244 | 11 | 2 | 33 | 3 | .280 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 211 | 20 | 2 | .991 |
| TOTAL | .256 | 121 | 97 | 336 | 43 | 86 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 50 | 123 | .366 | 38 | 8 | 92 | 4 | .340 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 549 | 42 | 8 | .987 |
