2024 Baseball Roster

David Katzenmaier
Lauren Francis
David Katzenmaier
Kaitie Dornauer
Sam Cooke

7 Austin St. Laurent

  • Position Uttility
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 190
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Elon, N.C.
  • High School Western Alamance
  • Prev School East Carolina

Biography

14th Round draft pick of the Seattle Mariners in 2024
2024 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. I Second Team All-Atlantic Region
2024 First Team All-Sun Belt
2022 Freshman All-American (Collegiate Baseball)
2022 Sun Belt Freshman of the Year

2024:
Started all 55 games, split between third base and shortstop...Slashed .366/.424/.618 with 12 doubles, 14 home runs and 60 RBIs...Tallied 29 multi-hit games, 16 multi-RBI games, reached base in each of the final 24 games of the season, tallying an 11-game hitting streak during that span...hit safely in 23 of his final 36 games...Homered twice and drove in five runs against Siena Feb. 23 in Hickory...Registered a second five-RBI game against Queens on March 12...Tied a career-high with five hits against No. 13 Coastal Carolina on March 24...Also enjoyed four-hit games against Marshall and James Madison...Finished the season tied for the league lead in triples (four), ranked third in the Sun Belt in runs scored (78) and tied for third in hits (90). He was sixth in batting average (.366), 10th in slugging (.618) and 10th in OPS (1.042)....Set the App State single-season program record for runs scored (78) and ranked fourth in total bases (152), sixth in hits (90), tied for seventh in RBIs (60) and ninth in home runs (14)...His 14 home runs on the season more than doubled his total (6) from his first two years combined...Ranks 9th in career runs scored (146)...Named a First Team All-Conference selection as a utility player.

2023: Played in 40 games making 39 starts in the outfield and at shortstop...slashed .286/.383/.383 with nine doubles and 18 RBI...Hit an opposite field homer vs Queens on opening day to account for first run of the season...Tallied career-highs with five hits, five RBI, and four runs scored vs No. 24 Campbell on March 10...Tallied 15 multi-hit games on the season, including three-hit effort against JMU in the Sun Belt Tournament on May 26...Out April 15-May 18 due to injury.

2022: Named the Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, becoming the fifth Mountaineer in program history to earn Freshman of the Year honors (Scott Waugh (1988), Johnny McCraw (1989), Kenny Osborne (1993), and Jaylin Davis (2013)), and first to do so in the Sun Belt era. Led the team in OPS (.842), slugging (.462), hits (60), triples (3), total bases (91), and was tied for the team lead in batting average (.305). Raised his batting average from .277 to .305 over his final 19 games of the season. Hit first App State home run March 20 versus Georgia Southern, also doubled and drove in four in the game. Tallied 19 multi-hit games on the season. After joining App State as a shortstop, played the majority of the season at first base, before moving back to his natural position after an injury to Alex Aguila in the final weeks of the season.

East Carolina: Redshirted … Played for the Carolina Disco Turkeys, a collegiate summer ball team and a member of the Textile League, in the summer of 2021 … Held a .478 on-base percentage and the squad's second-best batting average with a .321.

High School: The 6-foot, 185-pound shortstop attended Western Alamance High School … Earned five total letters (baseball 4, football 1) at Western Alamance… Named team captain senior year and helped the Warriors to a four-year composite record of 64-24 with 35 conference wins … Was a member of the 2018 conference championship squad … Posted a .368 career batting average to go along with five home runs, three triples and 12 doubles … Drove in 47 runs while scoring 50 …

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Historical Player Information

  • 7

    2022Redshirt Freshman

    Infielder/Right-Handed Pitcher
    5'11" 188 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    Infielder/Right-Handed Pitcher
    5'11" 190 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Uttility
    6'0" 190 lbs
    7