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2023 Catamount Baseball Roster

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4 Brandon Butterworth

  • Position Infield
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 175
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Monroe, N.C.
  • High School Sun Valley HS

Biography

Note: Will enter the 2024 season with a three-game reached base streak.
 
2023 (Sophomore): Played in 52 of the team’s 54 games with 52 starts in the middle infield at second base … Batted a career-high .301, collecting 66 hits on 219 at-bats with 22 extra-base hits … Led the Southern Conference with seven triples, tying for WCU’s single-season triples record … Posted the team’s longest reached-base safely streak at career-long 21-straight games and enjoyed a career-long seven-game hitting streak in early-to-mid April … Hit in the lead-off spot 24 times … Finished second on the team with 19 multiple-hit games and had eight multi-RBI efforts ... Was also second on the team with 23 two-out RBI, batting .304 (24-of-79) with two outs … Drew 21 walks and was plunked four times as a part of a .370 on-base percentage … Tripled in three-straight games in tournament action at Fluor Field, twice against Michigan State and once against Kansas … Hit his first collegiate home run in a home win over Radford (March 19) … Drove in a career-high five RBI in the road win at UNC Asheville (April 11) … Posted a career-best four hits twice – in home wins over UNC Asheville (May 3) and The Citadel (May 14) ... Named to the Spring 2023 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2022 (Freshman): Saw action in 32 games on the season including 19 starts with 16 coming at second base and three at shortstop … Batted .296 (21-for-71) on the season with six extra-base hits – all doubles … Scored 13 runs while driving in nine … Drew eight walks and was plunked once with a .375 on-base percentage … Made his collegiate debut as a pinch hitter in game one of an opening-weekend series against Niagara (Feb. 18), singling and driving in a run in his first plate appearances … Collected his first career extra-base hit with a double against Stony Brook (March 5), scoring his first collegiate run in the same game … Posted his first multiple-hit game with three hits including a double and two RBI against USC Upstate (May 4) … Credited with 38 putouts and 55 assists and was a part of 13 double plays in the field defensively ... Named to the 2021-22 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll; Summer: Expected to play for the Mooresville (N.C.) Spinners of the Southern Collegiate League.

Prior to Western Carolina: Was an honorable mention All-State selection in 2021 from HighSchoolOT.com after batting .420 with four doubles and a home run ... Drove in 11 runs while scoring 17.

Career Game Highs (WCU):

  • At Bats: 7, USC UPSTATE (4/4/23)
  • Hits: 4, twice (MR: THE CITADEL, 5/14/23)
  • Runs: 5, THE CITADEL (5/14/23)
  • Doubles: 1, 16 times (MR: THE CITADEL, 5/14/23)
  • Triples: 1, seven times (MR: THE CITADEL, 5/14/23)
  • RBI: 5, at UNC Asheville (4/11/23)
  • Walks: 2, UNCG (5/21/22)
  • Hitting Streak: 7 games (2023)

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2022Freshman

    Infield
    5'11" 155 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2023Sophomore

    Infield
    5'11" 175 lbs
    4