High School: Struck out 44 batters in 36 innings while posting a 3.31 ERA with a .196 batting average against as a junior before posting one win in Apex’s four games during an abbreviated 2020 season … Also batted .342 with 25 hits, 14 RBIs and two home runs as a junior …  First-team all-conference as a junior … Played for coach Tyler Drew as a senior ... Competed for the TPA Nationals travel team under coach Daniel Healey, posting six wins and 40 strikeouts in 28 innings in 2019 … State Games participant … Born Aug. 18, 2001 … Son of Doug and Ashley Peterson … Has three siblings: Rebekah, Jonathan and Kathryn … Father was an All-ACC placekicker for Duke’s football program, and grandfather played minor league baseball in the New York Yankees and Cleveland organizations.