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2024 Baseball Roster

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3 Brandon Eike

  • Position Infielder
  • Height / Weight 6-0 / 220
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Powhatan, Va.
  • High School (Prev. School) Powhatan (North Carolina)
  • B/T R/R

Biography

Selected in the 2025 MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners (13th Round)
Atlantic 10 Player of the Year (2024)
Two-time A-10 All-Conference First Team (2023, 2024)
A-10 Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2024)
A-10 All-Championship Team (2024)

IN THE RECORD BOOK
  • Program record-holder in single-season doubles (27, 2024)
  • Second in single-season total bases (166, 2024)
  • Third in career slugging percentage (.637)
  • Fourth in single-season RBI (71, 2023)
  • Tied-fourth in single-season hits (95, 2024)
  • Tied-fifth in single-season doubles (24, 2024)
  • Sixth in career batting average (.363)
  • Sixth in single-season at-bats (251, 2024)
  • Sixth in single-season home runs (14, 2024)
  • Tied sixth in career doubles (51)
  • Eighth in career home runs (25)
  • 10th in single-season total bases (141, 2023)
2024/JUNIOR
  • A-10 Player of the Year
  • Named to A-10 All-Conference First Team
  • Atlantic 10 Tournament Most Outstanding Player and A-10 All-Championship Team
  • A-10 Player of the Week (Mar. 12)
  • Started all 61 games for the Rams
  • Finished the season with a 1.131 OPS
  • Bashed 14 homers and drove in 62 RBIs on 95 hits
  • Went 5-6 in a regional game against Evansville, for a season high in hits (June 1)
  • Crushed two home runs against Richmond going 2- 5 with two RBI and a walk (May 23),
  • Collected 17 multi-RBI games, including three four-RBI games
2023/SOPHOMORE 
  • Named to A-10 All-Conference First Team
  • Played and started in all 55 games
  • Made 43 starts at third base and 12 at first base
  • Finished the season ranked fourth in the nation in sacrifice flies and total doubles, 15th in doubles per game and 29th in total RBIs
  • Slashed .346/.395/.610
  • Racked up 80 hits, 24 doubles, two triples, a team-leading 11 home runs and 71 RBIs and he had eight sac flies
  • Made just five errors with 91 putouts and 64 assists
  • Put together 23 multi-hit games, with seven three-hit games and 19 multi-RBI games, with two games knocking in at least five runs
  • Ended the season on a 10-game hitting streak and 11-game reached base streak
  • One triple short of a cycle against Fairfield (Mar. 5), going 3-for-4 with four RBIs
  • Smashed two home runs and went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and four RBIs against NJIT (Mar. 18) 
  • Went 4-for-6 with four RBIs, two doubles and one home run, missing the cycle by a triple at South Florida (Mar. 24)
  • Smashed a VCU single-game high five hits while knocking in seven runs, going 5-for-7 with five runs scored, one triple and one home run at South Florida (Mar. 26)
  • Brought home three Rams in a 3-for-4 day against St. Bonaventure (Mar. 31), scoring four runs and hitting one home run
  • Went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and one run scored against Saint Louis (Apr. 28)
  • Hit a triple and knocked in four runs at Davidson (May 6)
  • Went 4-for-5 with two home runs, five runs batted in and three runs scored
  • Had multi-hit games over the final three games of the season
2021/FRESHMAN (NORTH CAROLINA)
  • Spent the 2021 season with the North Carolina Tar Heels
  • Played in four games
  • Started as the DH against Duke (4/11)
PRIOR TO COLLEGE
  • Four-year letter winner at Powhatan High School in Powhatan, Va.
  • 2019 Region 4B Player of the Year
  • 2019 First Team All-State (shortstop and pitcher)
  • 2019 All-Metro (pitcher)
  • Played football
PERSONAL
  • Son of Kathy and Chris Eike
  • Has one brother

Statistics

Season:
2024

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Historical Player Information

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    2023Sophomore

    Infielder
    6'0" 220 lbs
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    2024Senior

    Infielder
    6'0" 220 lbs
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