2019 Baseball Roster
Roster
Ben Smith
- Position:
- Catcher
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 200
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Sammamish, Wash.
- High School:
- Skyline
2019 (Sophomore): Appeared in 28 games with 22 starts at catcher before missing the rest of the season with an injury...hit .203 with four doubles and seven RBIs...posted two RBIs in win over Binghamton (4/3)...Went 2-for-5 with an RBI vs. Niagara (3/2) also posted a multi-hit game vs. Saint Joseph's (3/20)...stole six bases. Â
2018 (Freshman):Â Played in 17 games with five starts as Bucknell's No. 2 catcher ... went 4-for-15 (.267) at the plate, with three RBis and three runs scored ... logged hits vs. Villanova, Army, Lafayette and Towson ... off to good start defensively ... threw out three runners attempting to steal and did not commit an error behind the plate.Â
High School:Â Graduated from Skyline High School in 2017 ... four-time letterwinner (two in baseball and two in basketball) ... all-league member in baseball ... two-time captain in basketball ... 2016 baseball team won the 4A Washington state title ... owns the single-season assists record in basketball (85) ... teammate of Bison pitcher Jack Simpson during Skyline's 2016 championship season ... member of the Northwest Bandits in the Seattle Elite Baseball League.Â
Personal:Â Benjamin Edgar Smith ... born October 21, 1998 in Bellevue, Washington ... son of Paul and Deb ... has two siblings: brother, Andrew (22), and sister, Sydney (21) ... Sydney plays soccer at Claremont McKenna ... major is undecided within the Freeman College of Management.
