PRONUNCIATION: LOWDER -- LOUD - durr
2024 (Senior): Made 15 appearances, tossing 10 total innings in spot relief … Posted a 7.20 ERA, allowing nine runs – eight earned – coming on just 10 base hits including two doubles and a triple … Had eight scoreless appearances … Recorded six strikeouts against five walks with a pair of hit batters … Tossed at least one inning five times with a season-long 1.2 relief appearance against Akron (April 7) in a neutral field meeting at Prasco Park … Struck out a season-best two against UNCG (April 12).
2023 (Junior): Led the team with 26 relief appearances on the year, tossing 15.2 innings mostly in spot relief … Tossed an inning of relief five times, recording an out in all but three outings … Posted an 0-1 record with one save … Struck out eight against seven walks … Allowed 20 base hits, just six going for extra-bases … Recorded 18 scoreless appearances … Earned his first career, tossing an inning of hitless, scoreless relief in the road win at Samford (May 7).
2022 (Sophomore): Made 11 appearances on the season, each in relief out of the bullpen … Posted a 1-2 record with a 12.71 ERA, allowing 18 runs – 16 of which were earned – on 27 base hits with just seven going for extra bases – five doubles and two triples … Struck out 10 against five walks, tallying strikeouts in seven of his 11 appearances … Was one of just two Catamount pitchers with double-digit appearances not to surrender a home run … Tossed a season-long 3.2 innings at VMI (April 30), striking out a career-high three while matching a career-high with two walks;
Summer: Expected to pitch for the Covington (Va.) Lumberjacks of the Valley League.
2021 (Freshman*): Made 10 appearances including eight as a reliever with two midweek starts, finishing with an 0-1 record … Threw 14.2 innings with a 7.98 ERA, allowing 20 runs with just 13 earned … Allowed 29 hits with 12 going for extra bases … Struck out six against seven walks … Recorded 21 fly ball outs with 14 ground ball outs … Matched his career-high with two strikeouts in a 3.2 inning relief effort at Wofford (April 3) … Made his first collegiate start against nationally-ranked Tennessee (April 13), tossing a career-long 4.0 innings … Saddled with the loss after allowing four runs in the first inning against Wake Forest (April 20);
Summer 2021: Pitched in nine games for the Fuquay-Varina (N.C.) Twins, tossing 9.0 innings ... Posted a 2.00 ERA for the summer, allowing two earned runs on just 10 hits ... Struck out 16 with just five walks issued.
2020 (Freshman): Made four relief appearances on the season posting a 1-0 record … Tossed 3.1 total innings with a 10.80 ERA, surrendering four runs on seven hits including four for extra bases … Struck out five against three walks … Twice pitched a career-long one inning, doing so in his collegiate debut against Chicago State (Feb. 15) and again vs. Saint Joseph’s (Feb. 23) … Struck out a career-best two in two-thirds of an inning of work against Bryant (March 11) …
Season shortened because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of spring sports in mid-March.
Prior to Western Carolina: As a four-year starter in high school, batted .438 with five home runs and 19 RBI as a senior while posting a 2.30 ERA and a 2-3 record over 21.1 innings on the mound as a senior … Recorded 32 strikeouts while limiting opponents to a .184 average against in his final year as a prep ... Was an All-State selection in 2019 … Played Legion baseball with Stanly Post 76.
Career Game Highs:
- Innings Pitched: 4.0, TENNESSEE (4/13/21)
- Strikeouts: 3, at VMI (4/30/22)
- Walks: 2, four times (MR: UNCG, 4/12/24)
