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Jersey Number 3
Sam Thompson
- Position:
- C
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 201
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Bremen, Ga.
- High School:
- Bremen
- Prev School:
- Kent State
Bio
2024 (GRADUATE): Played in 34 games, starting all 34, making 33 starts behind the plate and one start at DH ... Posted a .281 average with five doubles and three HR, logging 21 RBI and adding two stolen bases ... Tied for third on the team in sac flies (3) and tied for fifth in walks (21) ... Registered 11 multiple-hit games, with nine two-hit outings and three hits in two games ... Notched five multiple RBI games, driving in two in four games and a career-high four RBI once, coming on March 26 at Michigan, going 2-for-4 with four RBI, one run and two walks, drawing a bases-loaded RBI walk in third inning, then lacing an RBI single in the seventh, before topping off performance with a two-run single in ninth in the Victory for MSU ... Logged a career-long eight game hitting streak (March 15-April 6) ... Finished season with an eight-game reached base streak (May 5-18) ... Was 3-for-5 at Ohio State (April 26) with an RBI and a run scored and matched the season-high three hits going 3-for-4 at Minnesota (May 10) with a run scored and a double ... Bashed first HR of the season on March 22 at Maryland, adding second homer of season at Ohio State (April 27) and third round-tripper of the year came vs. Michigan (May 5) ... Registered 251 putouts and 15 assists, along with leading the team by nabbing six baserunners trying to steal.
2023 SUMMER: Named to Great Lakes All-Star Game with the Michigan Monarchs.
2023 (SENIOR): Played in 19 games with 14 starts behind the plate ... Knocked nine hits with two HR and one double, with six RBI and four runs scored, adding seven walks ... Made Spartan debut on Feb. 19 vs. Arizona in MLB Desert Invite in Phoenix, and got first hit and scored first run as a Spartan ... Knocked first HR for the Green & White on March 28 at Western Michigan, finishing with season-highs of two hits and three RBI, going 2-for-4 with a HR and single, driving in three and scoring once ... Knocked first home run at home on April 15 vs. Western Illinois, going 1-for-3 with an RBI and run scored ... Had three-game hitting streak (Feb. 19-25) ... Behind the dish, logged 111 putouts and 15 assists, throwing out four stolen base runners.
2022 SUMMER: Named a Sunbelt Baseball League All-Star, playing with the Atlanta Crackers.
AT KENT STATE (2020-22): Played three years for the Golden Flashes, finishing his career with a .235 batting average … During the 2022 season started 15 of the 24 games played in finishing with a .125 average, with two doubles and one stolen base … Had a season high two-hit game against No. 20 Texas Tech in Lubbock … Finished his career at Kent State with a .988 fielding percentage including ending both the 2020 and 2021 season with a perfect fielding percentage.
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterwinner at Breman High School for coaches Tim Hanegan, Mark Clark and Chris Brown ... Earned all-state honors as a junior ... Posted a .429 average or better each year of high school, including two-time team leader in average, hitting .469 in junior season, earning Team Offensive MVP honors, and hitting .413 in senior season ... Was also Team Defensive MVP award recipient as a senior ... Also a four-year letterwinner in basketball at Breman, and was team captain in 2018 ... Played in the Alaskan Baseball League in the summer of 2019 and was named an All-Star.
PERSONAL: Son of Christy and Mark Thompson ... Has three siblings ... Has gone on three mission trips to Honduras with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ... Lists his father as biggest baseball influence from coaching him when he was young and has made it tall his games from tee ball through college, and he also wore No. 3 ... Lists greatest athletic experience as playing in the Alaska Baseball League, from meeting some lifelong friends and the opportunity to hike, fish and explore a part of the country he’d always wanted to visit ... Has career aspirations of being an entrepreneur when his baseball career is complete ... Majoring in sports, leadership and administration.
2023 SUMMER: Named to Great Lakes All-Star Game with the Michigan Monarchs.
2023 (SENIOR): Played in 19 games with 14 starts behind the plate ... Knocked nine hits with two HR and one double, with six RBI and four runs scored, adding seven walks ... Made Spartan debut on Feb. 19 vs. Arizona in MLB Desert Invite in Phoenix, and got first hit and scored first run as a Spartan ... Knocked first HR for the Green & White on March 28 at Western Michigan, finishing with season-highs of two hits and three RBI, going 2-for-4 with a HR and single, driving in three and scoring once ... Knocked first home run at home on April 15 vs. Western Illinois, going 1-for-3 with an RBI and run scored ... Had three-game hitting streak (Feb. 19-25) ... Behind the dish, logged 111 putouts and 15 assists, throwing out four stolen base runners.
2022 SUMMER: Named a Sunbelt Baseball League All-Star, playing with the Atlanta Crackers.
AT KENT STATE (2020-22): Played three years for the Golden Flashes, finishing his career with a .235 batting average … During the 2022 season started 15 of the 24 games played in finishing with a .125 average, with two doubles and one stolen base … Had a season high two-hit game against No. 20 Texas Tech in Lubbock … Finished his career at Kent State with a .988 fielding percentage including ending both the 2020 and 2021 season with a perfect fielding percentage.
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterwinner at Breman High School for coaches Tim Hanegan, Mark Clark and Chris Brown ... Earned all-state honors as a junior ... Posted a .429 average or better each year of high school, including two-time team leader in average, hitting .469 in junior season, earning Team Offensive MVP honors, and hitting .413 in senior season ... Was also Team Defensive MVP award recipient as a senior ... Also a four-year letterwinner in basketball at Breman, and was team captain in 2018 ... Played in the Alaskan Baseball League in the summer of 2019 and was named an All-Star.
PERSONAL: Son of Christy and Mark Thompson ... Has three siblings ... Has gone on three mission trips to Honduras with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ... Lists his father as biggest baseball influence from coaching him when he was young and has made it tall his games from tee ball through college, and he also wore No. 3 ... Lists greatest athletic experience as playing in the Alaska Baseball League, from meeting some lifelong friends and the opportunity to hike, fish and explore a part of the country he’d always wanted to visit ... Has career aspirations of being an entrepreneur when his baseball career is complete ... Majoring in sports, leadership and administration.
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