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2019 Baseball

20 Sam Owens

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 195
  • Bats/Throws R/R
  • Year Sophomore
  • Hometown Scituate, R.I.
  • High School Scituate
  • Position INF/C

Biography

2019 (Sophomore)
ABCA All-Northeast First Team catcher ... NEIBA All-New England First Team catcher ... All-NEC First Team catcher ... Appeared in 54 games, making 47 starts ... Started 42 games at catcher and five at DH ... Hit .326 with 11 doubles, six home runs, 37 RBI and 44 runs scored ... Committed just three errors in 374 total chances behind the plate ... Threw out eight runners ... Finished with a .431 OBP and a .497 slugging ... Homered on Opening Day at Abilene Christian ... Hit a home run in the series opener at No. 1 LSU on Feb. 22 ... Connected on a home run at Winthrop on Mar. 12 ... Went 3-for-3 with a grand slam and five RBI vs. CCSU on Mar. 24 ... Went 7-for-9 with three doubles and five runs scored in a three-game series vs. Hartford ... Homered in back-to-back games against CCSU on Apr. 18 and Apr. 19 ... Went 5-for-8 with four RBI and six runs scored in the series ... Delivered an RBI single and scored a run in the NEC Championship game vs. CCSU. 

2018 (Freshman)
Took over as Bryant's everyday shortstop after Jimmy Titus tore his ACL ... Appeared in 55 games and made 53 starts at short ... Was a two-time NEC Rookie of the Week ... Hit .239 (43-180) with eight doubles, two triples, two home runs, 25 RBI and 34 runs scored ... Posted 13 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games ... Finished the year with a .921 fielding percentage ... Made his collegiate debut as a pinch-runner at Arizona ... First-career hit was an RBI single at Arizona (Feb. 18) ... Finished 2-for-4 with a double and earned NEC Rookie of the Week honors ... Posted three hits, including a double, drove in a run and scored twice at Auburn (Feb. 24) to earn second rookie of the week honor ... 3-for-4 with a run scored at Delaware (March 16) ... Hit his first career triple at Wagner (March 25) ... Hit his first-career home run at Fairleigh Dickinson (April 14) ... Two-run triple vs. Central Connecticut (April 28) ... Delivered walk-off single vs. Wagner (May 11) ... Hit game-tying solo home run in the seventh two days later vs. Wagner ... Doubled, walked twice and scored a season-high four runs vs. Mount in the NEC Tournament.

Before Bryant
A four-year varsity letterwinner for head coach Dave Hanson at Scituate High … Helped Scituate earn four-straight playoff berths … Led team to first state championship appearance as a senior ... Hit .493 and earned First Team All-State honors as a senior ... Two-time Division 2 North MVP … Team MVP as a junior … Named an all-star as a sophomore and a junior … Won a state championship with Legion Post 85 in the summer of 2017 ... High Honor student.

Personal
The son of Catharine and Steve Owens ... Has one brother, Jack, and one sister, Jane ... Jack is also a member of baseball team ... Steve is the head coach of the Bryant baseball team.

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Historical Player Information

  • 20

    2018Freshman

    INF/C
    5'11" 188 lbs
    20
  • 20

    2019Sophomore

    INF/C
    5'11" 195 lbs
    20