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2024 Baseball Roster

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9 Mark Black

9 Mark Black

  • Position:
    C/OF
  • Height:
    5-11
  • Weight:
    225
  • Class:
    Junior
  • Bats/Throws:
    R/R
  • Hometown:
    Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • High School:
    Serra Catholic
  • Prev School:
    Wake Forest

Summary

Biography

2024 at Gardner-Webb: Appeared in all 53 games, also making 50 starts…was second on the team in RBIs with 27…racked up 47 hits, 27 runs, 26 walks, and seven stolen bases…hit seven home runs on the season including a three-run walk off bomb to defeat Charleston Southern on April 13.

2023 at Gardner-Webb: Named Second-Team All-Conference as a utility player ... Selected Big South Co-Player of the Week in the final week of the regular season (5/22) ... Played in 53 games while making 48 starts in his first season with the Runnin' Bulldogs ... Batted .281 on the year collecting 52 hits including seven doubles and seven home runs ... Slugged .432 and had on base percentage of .395 (3rd on the team with after drawing 30 walks and six hit by pitches ... Was used all over the infield and outfield during the season recording 165 outs and a .954 fielding percentage ... Scored 41 runs and had 35 RBIs on the year ... Had a career-high seven RBIs which included two home runs on three hits against Charleston Southern (5/19) to punch the team's ticket to the Big South Tournament ... Recorded four hits in a pair of games for a career best at Winthrop (3/24) and at Western Carolina (4/25) ... During the Winthrop game he had two homers for the first multi-home run game of his career. 

2022 at Wake Forest: Appeared in 11 games, including two starts... Made Wake Forest debut in season opener versus Lafayette (Feb. 18)... Finished with two hits, one home run, five RBIs, four walks and four runs... Launched a grand slam in Wake Forest's 23-3 victory against UNC Greensboro (Feb. 22) for first Division I hit and a career-high four RBIs... Also drove in a run against NJIT (Feb. 25) with a bases-loaded walk... 

2021 at Chipola: In 38 games with the Indians, he hit .288, three home runs, and 28 RBI’s...Received Collegiate Baseball Newspaper First Team High School All-American Catcher honors

High School: Named the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Baseball Player of the Year and the Triblive HS Sports Pittsburgh Baseball Player of the Year in 2019.. Two-time-independent Aul Bat Player of the Year (2018 and 2019)... Member of the WPIAL AA championship runner-up team in 2018, 2019... Played on the PIAA AA championship runner-up team in 2019... Teammate on the 2019 USA Baseball 17U National Developmental Team Program... Participant in the 2020 PBR Super 60 Pro Showcase... Played in both the 2019 Yankees Area Code Games and 2019 Reds East Coast Pro Showcase Team Member... Earned four varsity letters for baseball.

Personal: Has two brothers, Zach, 15, and Max, 13.
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  • 9

    2023Sophomore

    C/OF
    5'11" 225 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2024Junior

    C/OF
    5'11" 225 lbs
    9