MSU Baseball Adds One For 2020 Season

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr., announced that Zach Hopman will be joining the Spartans in the fall of 2019. Hopman is an outfielder/pitcher from Brighton, Mich. (Brighton High School).

"Zach is a tremendous athlete," Boss said. "He had a great spring and made a run at the state home run record. He's a very, very athletic, left-handed hitter with obvious power at the plate. He's also going to have the opportunity to pitch this spring. We're very excited to have him as a Spartan."

Hopman will be joined in MSU's incoming class by Adam Berghorst (Zeeland, Mich. | Zeeland East High School), Jack Frank (Strongsville, Ohio | Strongsville High School), Dillon Kark (Commerce, Mich. | Orchard Lake St. Mary's High School) and Wyatt Rush (Grand Ledge, Mich. | Grand Ledge High School | Lansing Community College).

Zach Hopman | Brighton, Mich. | Brighton High School | 5-11 | 170 | L/L | OF/LHP

Was a four-year letterwinner at Brighton High School for head coach Charlie Christner ... Helped the Bulldogs to a 30-6 record and advancing to the MHSAA Playoffs ... Named to the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association (MHSBCA All-State Dream Team, as well as earning Division 1 First Team All-State honors ... Also named the Livingston County Player of the Year, along with earning First-Team All-County accolades as a junior and senior ... Mashed 19 home runs with a .483 average and 63 RBI in 116 at bats ... Amassed a 1.129 slugging percentage ... Won the county "triple crown," leading the county in home runs, RBI and batting average ... Hit 19 home runs, while no one else in Livingston County hit more than four HR and the other 103 hitters in the county combined for 27, after also leading the county as a junior with six round-trippers ... On the mound, rang up 56 strikeouts in 31 innings pitched ... Had a 15-game stretch from May 1-20 going 33-for-53 (.623) with 13 homers, 43 RBI and 29 runs while striking out only twice in 53 at-bats, the spurt began with a three HR, seven-RBI outing at Plymouth, and ended with a four-HR, nine-RBI day in a DH sweep of Ann Arbor Pioneer, hitting three HR with seven RBI in opener and going 4-for-4 with a HR, triple and two RBI in game two ... Ranked as the No. 34 overall player and the No. 5 outfielder in the state of Michigan by Prep Baseball Report ... Also played football at Brighton, earning All-Conference accolades as a defensive back as a senior, also collecting All-County honors during both junior and senior seasons ... Son of Robert and Kathy Hopman ... All four of his brothers were also multi-sport athletes, including brother, Carson, played at Muskegon CC and brother, Trevor, was a sophomore for the MSU club baseball team last spring ... Intends on majoring in business administration and management at MSU, with future ambitions of owning own business when his athletic career is complete.

MSU Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator Graham Sikes on Hopman: "Zach is a really good get for us. He was a bit of a late bloomer but when he put it all together he REALLY put it together with a huge senior season! He just stayed hot all season long. He runs well, throws very well and the 19 home runs speak for themselves. Zach has been a multi-sport kid, so that may have been attributable to blooming late, but I am excited to see what he's going to look like once he has year round work."

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