2024 Baseball Roster

Matthew Seaman
Sam Baechli

3 Banks Tolley

  • Position Outfielder
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 200
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Madison, Miss.
  • High School St. Andrews
  • Prev School Ole Miss

Biography

2024 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. I Second Team All-America
2024 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. I First Team All-Atlantic Region
2024 Sun Belt Newcomer of the Year
2024 First Team All-Conference
Sun Belt Player of the Week - April 2, 2024

2024:
Produced one of the best individual seasons in program history...Set the single-season program record with 26 home runs, blowing past the previous record of 17...Slashed .379/.484/.781 with 12 doubles, 26 home runs and 77 RBIs...Tallied five multi-homer games and registered the second three-homer game in program history, culminating with a walk-off blast in the 10th inning for a walk-off win over Georgia Southern on May 16 to secure a top-six seed in the Sun Belt Tournament...Posted 27 multi-hit games and 21 multi-RBI games...Hit safely in 11 consecutive games and reached base safely in 15 straight games during the year...Hit safely in 29 of his final 35 games...Led the Sun Belt in home runs (26), slugging percentage (.781), OPS (1.265), while ranking second in bating average (.379), RBIs (77), fourth in runs scored (70) and tied for seventh in hits (85)...Set the App State single-season record for home runs (26), RBIs (77), total bases (175), and ranks second in single-season runs scored (70), slugging (.781) and ninth in hits (85)...Ranks fourth in App State career slugging percentage (.781), fifth in career batting average (.379) and 11th in career home runs (26)...Following conference tournament week, Tolley was among just six players in the nation batting at least .375 with 26 or more home runs...Entering the NCAA tournament ranked tied for eighth in the nation in home runs, ninth in total bases and 10th in RBIs.

Prior to App State: Tolley transferred to the Mountaineers after two seasons at Ole Miss, where he played in 26 games for the Rebels, and was a part of their National Championship team in 2022. He began his college career at Meridian Community College where he was named All-Region and All-Conference in 2021, after batting .417 with 17 doubles, 13 home runs and 54 RBIs. Tolley led St. Andrews High School to a state championship in 2018, and was named a two-time first team All-District honoree. Tolley played for the Kalamazoo Growlers over the summer, where he slugged ten home runs in 44 games, which was tied for fifth-most in the league.

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