AT GOSHEN:
2019: Played 45 games, starting all of them ... all-conference ... led the team with a .378 average, 59 hits, 16 doubles and 7 home runs ... graduated with a program-record 53 two-baggers ... launched three home runs in tournament game 5/6 vs. Spring Arbor, marking GC's second 3-homer game at Winterholter Field in the last three seasons ... seven-game hitting streak from 3/9 to 3/22 ... finished his career on an 8-game hitting streak ... finished with 3 hits in a game four times, three of which came during that hitting streak ... five straight games with 2+ hits from 4/26 to 5/6 ... drove in four men 3/9 vs. Saint Francis, five 4/22 vs. Mount Vernon Nazarene, and six 5/6 vs. Spring Arbor ... two doubles in regular-season finale 4/27 vs. Grace. 2018: Played and started in 48 games as a junior ... one of three Maple Leafs to hit above .300, finished second on the team in slugging and third in OBP ... opened the season with four multi-hit games out of his first five, batting 8-for-13 (.615) in that span ... doubled and drove in 3 runs in first game of doubleheader 2/18 vs. Grace, then scored 3 times in second game ... homered in both games of quasi-doubleheader 2/24 vs. Reinhardt and Rio Grande ... scored twice and drove in 3 behind a pair of doubles 3/2 vs. Cleary ... lashed 3 hits in a game twice, four days apart, 3/23 and 3/26 vs. Saint Francis ... third homer of the season came 3/30 vs. Grace ... also went 3 for 4 on 4/11 at Bethel. 2017: One of three players to appear and start in 57 of the team's 58 games ... led the team with a .377 average, 75 hits, 8 homers, 49 runs batted in, and 6 sacrifice flies ... batted .455 (5 for 11) in season-opening 4-game series at Pikeville ... followed that three weeks later with 7-for-16 (.438) showing in 4-game set at Berea that included two homers on 3/5 ... came a double shy of the cycle and drove in 6 in the series finale ... that started a 9-game hitting streak with 5 multi-hit games ... after going 0 for 3 on 3/21 vs. Spring Arbor, promptly started another 7-game hitting streak, this one with five 2-hit performances ... three hits 4/1 in series finale vs. Bethel ... doubled, homered and drove in 3 on 4/11 in opener vs. Taylor ... on 4/14 at Indiana Wesleyan, capped a 4-game streak with multiple hits by going 4 for 4 with a double, a homer and 3 RBI ... finished the season on an 8-game hitting streak, his fourth of the season of seven games or longer. 2016: Played and started 54 of team's 56 games ... second on the team at being hit by pitch, something that happened 9 times ... 2 hits and 3 runs scored in season-opening doubleheader at Alice Lloyd, blasting his first career homer in game two ... tripled 2/24 at Reinhardt ... first multi-hit game came 3/26 vs. Grace when he went 3 for 3 ... homered against Bethel five days later ... added a 2-run double in a comeback win 4/12 vs. Marian ... went off for three hits 4/23 vs. Huntington ... season high for walks in a game was 2, three times.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Played for coach Phil Forbes at Menchville High School ... first-team all-conference and second-team all-region pick ... also participated in drumline ... graduated with honors.
PERSONAL:
Born on November 4 ... parent is Tamara Stroble ... chose Goshen because of "academic opportunities as well as athletic ones" ... admires his mother because " she has stuck by me through any and every thing I have been through, she is my best friend and my biggest supporter" ... little-known personal fact is "I was the only African-American on my high school team" ... best athletic moment was "going from riding the bench to being team captain, all-conference and all-region"
QUICK FACTS:
MAJOR: Peace, justice and conflict studies
FUTURE GOALS: Graduate cum laude
HOBBIES: Fishing
FAVORITES:
ATHLETE OR TEAM: Joe Mauer
TV SHOW: Baseball
MOVIE: Godzilla
VACATION SPOT: Beach
MUSICAL PERFORMER: J Cole
