| Boyd's World-> Breadcrumbs Back to Omaha-> Career Stats Leaders | About the author, Boyd Nation |
Career Stats Leaders
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
Hanging in There
Last year I ran a column where I looked at, as far as I could tell, the career leaders in a variety of offensive categories among returning players, in order to see if any of the NCAA career records were likely to be broken last year. At the time, I declared that it hadn't been worth the effort, because it was a lot of effort and none of the records were particularly close. It turned out, though, that it was a column that got a fair amount of interest, both from the general readership and the SID's in the house, because those leaders are inherently interesting. With that in mind, I decided to take a revised look at it with the focus more on the leaders than on the records. As it turns out, the SID's repaid my kindness, because it was a lot easier to do this year because a lot more of them already have the new roster online to make the checking easier.
Although I've done the best checking that I could given my deadline constraints, I might have someone on here who's not actually coming back; please excuse any errors. The NCAA record is listed in parentheses for comparison.
GP (295, John Fishel, Cal State Fullerton, 1982-1985): South Carolina Michael Campbell 200 Cal State Fullerton Justin Turner 188 Pepperdine David Uribes 187 Cal State Fullerton Danny Dorn 183 North Carolina State Matt Camp 182 AB (1114, John Fishel, Cal State Fullerton, 1982-1985): Pepperdine David Uribes 759 South Carolina Michael Campbell 741 Cal State Fullerton Justin Turner 721 North Carolina State Matt Camp 712 Middle Tennessee State Jeff Beachum 687 R (420, Phil Stephenson, Wichita State, 1979-1982): Pepperdine David Uribes 179 Southern Mississippi Marc Maddox 167 Georgia Tech Steven Blackwood 165 Arizona Brad Boyer 153 Cal State Fullerton Danny Dorn 153 H (418, Phil Stephenson, Wichita State, 1979-1982): Pepperdine David Uribes 243 Georgia Southern Greg Dowling 232 Cal State Fullerton Justin Turner 229 Middle Tennessee State Jeff Beachum 225 South Carolina Michael Campbell 223 2B (95, Khalil Greene, Clemson, 1999-2002): Richmond Ben Zeskind 52 Minnesota Andy Hunter 50 Winthrop Jacob Dempsey 49 Washington State Jay Miller 46 Kent State Joe Tucker 46 St. Mary's Delaney Gallagher 46 3B (32, Bob Zeihen, Indiana State, 1985-1988): Arizona Brad Boyer 17 North Carolina-Charlotte Cory Lane 13 Northwestern State Brandon Morgan 12 Towson Adam Heffron 11 Dallas Baptist Cody Montgomery 11 Wagner Nick Papa 11 Bucknell Kyle Walter 11 HR (100, Pete Incaviglia, Oklahoma State, 1983-1985): Florida Matt Laporta 40 Southern Mississippi Marc Maddox 35 Ball State Brad Miller 29 Vermont Kyle Brault 28 Georgia Josh Morris 28 RBI (346, Jeff Ledbetter, Florida State, 1979-1982): Cal State Fullerton Danny Dorn 162 Minnesota Andy Hunter 157 Georgia Southern Greg Dowling 156 Ball State Brad Miller 152 College of Charleston Chris Campbell 150 TB (730, Phil Stephenson, Wichita State, 1979-1982): Southern Mississippi Marc Maddox 372 South Carolina Michael Campbell 365 Ball State Brad Miller 358 Georgia Southern Greg Dowling 327 Richmond Ben Zeskind 326 Pepperdine David Uribes 326 BB (300, Phil Stephenson, Wichita State, 1979-1982): Richmond Ben Zeskind 106 Elon Chris Price 105 Centenary Alex Valdivia 103 Northwestern State Michael Palermo 99 Florida International Michael Lopez 98 HBP (92, Tony Hurtado, San Francisco, 1997-2000): Notre Dame Cody Rizzo 70 Illinois State Jay Molina 59 Cincinnati Mark Muscenti 57 Akron Brian Kimutis 52 IUPU-Fort Wayne Ryan Keena 44 SB (206, Phil Stephenson, Wichita State, 1979-1982): Florida State Shane Robinson 68 IUPU-Fort Wayne Ryan Keena 64 Chicago State Jonathan Sakurai 63 Texas Drew Stubbs 60 New York Tech Kraig Binick 57
For the most part, the records are safe. For example, Laporta's a fairly strong power guy, and in two years he hasn't yet reached Incaviglia's season record of 48. However, it does look like Cody Rizzo is on pace to break the HBP record -- not something that'll get you into the Hall of Fame, but worth mentioning if he does, anyway. Cory Lane is also a sophomore, and triples aren't the kind of skill that necessarily boosts your draft status all that much, so he could have a shot at a two-year run at that record.
If you're interested in reprinting this or any other Boyd's World material for your publication or Web site, please read the reprint policy and contact me
| Boyd's World-> Breadcrumbs Back to Omaha-> Career Stats Leaders | About the author, Boyd Nation |