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New Faces: MSUB baseball freshman Matt Dillon

NCAA Stats Page

Career Single Game Bests (Hitting)

Category	Total	Date	Opponent
At-Bats	6	2/16/19	2 times
Runs	3	3/9/19	3 times
Hits	5	3/23/18	at Northwest Nazarene
RBIs	5	3/3/19	3 times
2B	2	4/18/19	2 times
3B	1	4/6/19	2 times
HR	2	3/3/19	3 times
Walks	2	3/30/19	8 times
Stolen Bases	2	4/27/17	at Concordia
Putouts	9	4/23/17	2 times
Assists	2	4/27/17	4 times

*Date of last occurrence if multiple
*Bold Indicates School Record

Career Single Game Bests (Pitching)

Category	Total	Date	Opponent
Innings	0.1	2/17/19	at Colorado Mesa
Strikeouts	1	2/17/19	at Colorado Mesa
Pitches	26	2/17/19	at Colorado Mesa
ERA	--	--	--

*Date of last occurrence if multiple
*Minimum 2.0 IP for ERA

Awards

NCAA D2 All-American	Season
CoSIDA Academic All-American (Third Team)	2019 (Senior)
NCAA D2 All-West Region	Season
First Team (ABCA)	2019 (Senior)
Second Team (D2CCA)	2019 (Senior)
Second Team (NCBWA)	2019 (Senior)
CoSIDA Academic All-District	2019 (Senior)
All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference	Season
First Team	2019 (Senior)
Academic All-GNAC	2019 (Senior)
Academic All-GNAC	2018 (Junior)
Academic All-GNAC	2017 (Sophomore)
Athletic Department Awards	Season
Baseball Player of the Year (Buzzies)	2018-19 (Senior)

2019: First-team ABCA all-region…second-team D2CCA & NCBWA all-region…unanimous first-team all-GNAC rightfielder…ranked second on the team and in the GNAC with 15 home runs…ranked second on the team and in the GNAC with a .647 slugging percentage…started 49 of 53 games and batted .287 in 167 at-bats…had 13 doubles and drove in 42 runs…reached base at a clip of 413…led team and ranked No. 4 in the GNAC with 29 walks drawn…ranked second on the team and in the GNAC with 50 runs scored…stole three bases in four attempts…ranked third on the team with an OPS of 1.060…ranked fourth on the team with 108 total bases…finished career No. 5 in MSUB history with 19 home runs…hit a walk-off, two-run home run on April 6 against Saint Martin’s…had a season-high three runs scored in two different games…had a season-high three hits in two different games…matched career high with five RBIs on March 3 at Western Oregon…had a career-high two doubles on February 24 at Dixie State and on April 18 against NNU…matched a career best with two home runs on February 16 at Colorado Mesa and March 3 at Western Oregon…had a season-best nine total best on February 16 and March 3…had a season-high six putouts on May 9 against Western Oregon…made only career pitching appearance on February 17 at Colorado Mesa, throwing 26 pitches in 1/3 innings…CoSIDA academic all-district selection…named academic all-GNAC for third straight season…named Baseball Player of the Year at The Buzzies…helped the ‘Jackets claim their fourth regular-season title in the last five years and tie the school record with 33 wins…helped the team win its first-ever GNAC tournament title and claim its first-ever berth into an NCAA D2 West Region Championship tournament.









2018: Started 16 games and played in 23 primarily as a rightfielder…hit two home runs and drove in 11…batted .213 in 61 at-bats…was successful in lone stolen base attempt…played perfect defense in 27 chances…had a team-season best five hits at Northwest Nazarene on March 23, tying the school record…had season-high five RBIs in the game at NNU…hit first-career triple on March 16 at Saint Martin’s…earned academic all-conference for second straight season…helped the Yellowjackets claim the 2018 GNAC regular season title and win a program-record 33 games.

2017: Started 27 games and played in 35 primarily used as a catcher in sophomore season…had a .214 batting average and a .371 on-base percentage…hit first two career home runs in the same game against Saint Martin’s on April 23…had a season-high five RBIs on April 23…hit five doubles and scored 13 runs…committed just two errors defensively for a fielding percentage of .979…had two multi-hit games and two multi-RBI games…stole seven bases in eight attempts…tied for second on the team with 11 times hit by a pitch…academic all-conference...inducted into MSUB’s Chi Alpha Sigma National Honor Society.

2016: Started nine games and played in 27 as a freshman catcher and outfielder…had first career hit against Concordia on March 19…batted .200 (7-for-35) with three RBIs and eight runs scored…drew seven walks to reach base at a clip of .349 on the season…made only two errors in 63 chances for a fielding percentage of .969…threw out 5 of 8 baserunners attempting to steal…member of MSUB’s second straight GNAC regular-season championship title team.

2015: Redshirted.

Skyview High School: Wrestled four years for the Falcons lettering all four years...went undefeated in his senior season…was titled state champion…earned all-state honors…team captain for the baseball team.