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I've never seen anyone get so excited about stats before the SEC season even starts... Do you know how many hit balls are caught between 291' and 330? Me neither but it's probably four per game. Let us know when you play someone with a pulse.
Customized picks for college football bowl pick’em contests . Former major-league catcher Todd Greene had the previous record of 26 home runs as a freshman with Georgia Southern in 1990. The lines usually arent the real issue, most home runs by far and large go through power alleys or central left and central right field. That’s both incredible power and a great piece of hitting, especially from a freshman. In the first inning of the ACC Championship semifinal against Pittsburgh, White crushed a solo home run — 412 feet, 106 mph exit velocity — over the right-center field wall to give NC State an early 2-0 lead.
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Furniss and Cresse were part of the famous Geauxrilla Ball era at LSU. Both were members of the 1997 CWS champion Tigers team that slugged 188 home runs that season — still an NCAA record — including at least one Tiger bomb in every one of the 70 games they played. Furniss finished his career as one of college baseball’s all-time greats, ending as the SEC's all-time leader in home runs, RBI and hits, the latter finally broken in 2019 by Mississippi State’s Jake Mangum.

While we may never know to whom Boda was referring, a notable player who finished his career with 34 home runs was Tennessee Volunteer All-American Bobby Tucker who starred in Knoxville from 1970 to 73. The following is a list of NCAA Division I baseball career and single-season home run leaders. There's more home runs hit over center field than close to the foul poles. UT's home run stat should never be mentioned unless all hit balls by all other teams caught in or near warning track are credited in the HR stat line. Customized picks for NFL and college football pick’em contests .
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It makes you wonder just how many they could have hit had either come close to the 213 games Incaviglia played. Neither Snyder nor Canale hit less than 21 home runs in their three years of college baseball, with Canale posting a career-high of 29 and Snyder slamming 27 as his best mark. Tommy “Tanks” White has put together a remarkable freshman college baseball season for the NC State Wolfpack, and on Saturday he secured a freshman record for his slugging prowess.
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He ended 1982 with 124 RBI, and his career RBI total of 346 remains the collegiate career record. The first reference I found to a college home run king came in a May 7, 1975, newspaper article. Hank Small was nearing the end of his stellar career at the University of South Carolina and had hit 44 home runs at the time. Two players on the list stand out as big "what ifs." BYU’s Cory Snyder and Virginia Tech’s George Canale both slugged 0.42 home runs per game, tied for second behind Inky’s 0.47.

Cresse finished his career two behind Furniss on the SEC career home run list. Pete Incaviglia's status as college baseball's home run king is well-known in college baseball circles. Remarkably, Incaviglia accomplished the career feat in three years and 216 games, while Ledbetter had played four years and 262 games at FSU.
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These are the college football programs with the most College Football Playoff wins and appearances since the format began in 2014. The 6’0″, 242-pounder is just getting started in his college baseball career, and maybe we’ll see him hitting him bombs in the majors one day too. Matt LaPorta is the most recent player to crack the top 10, and that was more than a decade ago. LaPorta was a four-year player who had 20-plus home runs in two of his seasons. LaPorta hit a home run in five straight games between March 24 and April 1, 2007, and three of them were two-home run games. It’s home run No. 27 on the season for White, and that’s officially the NCAA Baseball freshman record.
And he did it in a very important game, too. White still has a chance to reach the BBCOR composite bat era record of home runs by any college baseball player, which is 31 homers, set by current MLB star Kris Bryant with the University of San Diego in 2013. Prior to the release of the 1981 NCAA Baseball Guide, individual career records weren't published. Only annual statistics leaders were listed back to 1957. Each year the guide served as a review of the previous season and a preview of the season ahead, and the 1981 guide showed Horner as the career leader with 56.