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  Joe Luli

Joe Luli

Player Profile

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Atwater, Ohio

High School:
Field

Last College:
Pikeville

Height / Weight:
5-11 / 205

Position:
OF

Birthdate:
02/15/1986

B/T:
R/R

Accolades:
2008 All-GLIAC Second Team
GLIAC Player of the Week (May 5)
2007 All-GLIAC Second Team
2007 GLIAC All-Academic Team
2007 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Preseason All-American
2006 ABCA All-North Central Region Second Team
2006 All-GLIAC First Team

2008: Batted a career-high .364...Limited to 37 games because of an injury but still led the team in RBIs (31) and home runs (5)...Led the team in slugging percentage at .542...Posted a .457 on base percentage...Drew 15 walks...Ranks sixth in school history with 120 RBIs and seventh in homers with 14...Named GLIAC Player of the Week on May 5 for a six game stretch April 30-May 4 in which he hit .529 (9-for-17) with two doubles, one homer and nine RBIs...Hit safely in all six games during the week to finish the season with a seven-game hitting streak...Hit .413 with runners in scoring position and .400 in five at bats with the bases loaded...Hit .458 with runners on base...Led the team with nine multi-RBI games...Hit a grand slam against Grand Valley State on April 27...Drove in three runs with a 2-for-4 effort against Saginaw Valley State on April 5...Went 3-for-3 with two RBis against Ashland on April 30...Drove in team's only run in a 1-0 win over Ashland on April 30...Recorded at least one hit in 18 of the last 19 games of the season...Batted .439 with four homers and 23 RBIs during that stretch...Posted a .719 slugging percentage in the final 19 games.

2007: Played in 51 games and started 49 as the right fielder...Batted .315 with four homers and 41 RBIs...Tied for the team-lead with 26 walks and nine hit by pitch...Second on the team with 41 RBIs, 13 doubles, 79 total bases and tied for second with four homers...Third on the team with a .479 slugging percentage, a .431 on-base percentage and 40 runs scored...Fourth on the team in batting average, hits with 52...Tied for fourth in the GLIAC In hit by pitch, tied for seventh in doubles and tied for eighth in walks...Had 13 multi-hit games and led the team with 14 mult-RBI efforts...Longest hitting streak lasted 14 games...Went 3-for-5 with four RBIs in season opener against No. 25 Nova Southeastern (February 22)...Was 1-for-3 with a three-run homer in a win over Palm Beach Atlantic (February 26)...3-for-6 with three runs scored in win over Salem International (March 11)...Went 7-for-11 with the bases loaded...Batted .373 with runners in scoring position.

2006: First Team All-GLIAC and Second Team All-North Central Region...started in 51 games...batted .319 with 58 hits...second on team with five homeruns, 48 RBIs and .511 slugging percentage...had a fielding percentage of .944.

Before Mercyhurst: Sophomore transfer...hit .389 with seven home runs and 40 runs batted in as a freshman at Pikeville College in Pikeville, Ky...named to the All-Mid South Conference team

High School: Played baseball for coach Craig Neddleton...Freshman of the Year...lettered all four years...team MVP as sophomore, junior, and senior...All-Conference...member of National Honor Society...Honor roll...Food Shelf

Personal: Business marketing major...son of Bill and Diane Luli...father works in construction while mother is a secretary...spent summer of 2006 playing for Florence RedWolves of Coastal Plain League.

 

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