Biography
2017: Named a Second-Team All-Region selection by the American Baseball Coached Association… Named a Third-Team All-Region selection by D3Baseball.com… Named a First-Team All-MAC Commonwealth selection… Named MAC Commonwealth Championship Tournament MVP after going 6-for 10 with one homer, one double, five RBI and four runs scored as the Knights went 3-0 in the conference tournament to claim their first MAC Commonwealth title… Started in all 45 games as a senior, splitting time between catcher and first base… Launched a program-record 10 home runs in his final collegiate season… Batted .329 with 50 hits, eight doubles, 43 runs scored and a team-best 41 runs batted in… Also led the team with a .592 slugging percentage… Was 2 for 4 with four RBI and a run scored in a 10-3 win over Anderson (3/12)… Went 3 for 4 with a double, a home run, two RBI and a run scored in a 4-2 win over Amherst (3/16)… Went 2 for 3 with two homers, four runs scored and four driven in in a 16-7 win at Stevenson (3/24)… Went 5 for 11 with five RBI and three runs scored as Arcadia took two of three games from Hood (4/1-2)… Was 3 for 3 with two homers, five RBI and three runs scored in a 23-3 win at Eastern (4/5)… Was 2 for 5 with two RBI and three runs scored, and hit his single-season record setting ninth homer of the year in an 18-6 win at Gwynedd Mercy (5/2)… Was 2 for 3 with three RBI and two runs scored, and crushed his program-record 16th career home run in an 8-4 MAC Commonwealth semifinal win over Alvernia (5/6).
2016: First-Team All-MAC Commonwealth selection at catcher as a junior… Started in 32 of his 33 games played… Led the team in batting average (.359), slugging (.581), RBI (25) and home runs (5)… Second on the team in hits (42) and runs scored (31)… Went 2-5 with a homer, four RBI and two runs scored in a win over Susquehanna (3/6)… Was 2-4 with a homer, two RBI and two runs scored in at win over Misericordia (3/7)… went 5-10 with one homer, one double, two RBI and two runs scored in a three-game sweep of Hood (3/18-20)… Was 2 for 5 with two RBI and a run scored in a game-one win over Widener (3/24)… Was 3-4 with a homer, three runs scored and two RBI in a win at Swarthmore (3/29)… Went 3-6 with a double, a run scored and drove in the game-winning run in a walk-off win over Muhlenberg (3/30)… Went 7-11 with a homer, six RBI and five runs scored in game-one and two wins over Stevenson (4/15-16)… Was 4-6 with a double, three runs scored and one RBI in a doubleheader split with Alvernia (4/30).
2015: Named to the MAC Academic Honor Roll…Appeared in 32 games as a sophomore, 29 as a starter…Finished with a .275 batting average, five doubles, one homerun, 18 RBIs, 21 runs scored, and seven stolen bases…Went 2-for-4 with a walk and two doubles, three RBIs, and two runs scored in the game-two victory over Hood (3/14)…Added a double, RBI, and a run scored in game-one win against Messiah (3/30)…Was a triple away from the cycle in a win against Albright (4/2), going 3-for-4 with a double, a homerun, two RBIs, and a run scored…Contributed two hits and two RBIs in a loss to Alvernia (4/24)…Went 2-for-3 with a walk, an RBI, two runs scored, and a stolen base in the game-two victory over Alvernia (4/25)…Contributed a hit, an RBI, and a run scored in the win over Centenary (5/6) in the opening round of the ECAC tournament
2014: Played in 17 games as a freshman, 13 as a starter…Finished with a .326 BA, .380 OBP, eight RBI’s, seven runs scored, and a .962 fielding percentage…Went 1 for 1 with two RBI’s and two walks in a loss to Keystone (3/8)…Recorded two hits, one RBI, one run scored, and a steal in a tie against Penn State-Abington (4/8)…Finished with two hits, an RBI, and a run scored in a loss to Stevenson (4/12)…Added a hit, a run scored, and a walk in a victory over Stevenson (4/12)…Recorded a double, an RBI, and a run scored in a win against Lebanon Valley (4/18)…Went 3 for 3 with a run scored in a loss to Ursinus (4/23)…Contributed two hits, one RBI, one run scored, and a steal in a loss to Alvernia (4/25)
High School: 2013 graduate of Manheim Township High School…Participated in Baseball for four years…Served as a Captain his senior year…Named to the Second Team All-League in 2013…Was a Scholarship Award Winner
Personal: Son of William and Kim Draude…Business Economics major
