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2022 Catamount Baseball Roster

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32 Tristen Campbell

  • Position Right-Handed Pitcher
  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 230
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Cheraw, S.C.
  • High School Cheraw HS

Biography

2022 (Redshirt Senior): Made a team-high 26 seasonal appearances including two starts and 24 out of the bullpen … Posted a 3-2 seasonal record with each win coming in relief … Finished the year with a 7.40 ERA, allowing 40 runs – 37 of which were earned – over 45.0 innings of work … Just 18 (15 doubles, three home runs) of the 55 hits surrendered on the season went for extra bases … Recorded 50 ground ball outs and 39 fly outs … Made two starts on the season, tossing a predetermined inning against Gardner-Webb (April 19) and was called on to start against UNCG (May 27) at Fluor Field in the SoCon Tournament … Struck out 37 against 19 walks with 14 hit batters … Struck out a season-best six in a season-long 4.1 relief innings against Niagara (Feb. 19) on opening weekend.

2021 (Redshirt Junior*): Made 11 appearances on the mound including eight starts … Pitched 39.2 innings with a 3-2 record and a 5.45 ERA … Allowed 29 runs, 24 of which were earned, on 47 base hits including 18 for extra bases with opponents batting .299 against him on the year … Struck out 36 against 17 walks with seven hit batters … Recorded 33 fly ball outs and 38 ground ball outs including five double plays … Struck out four in his season debut against Towson (Feb. 19), tossing two innings … Made his first start for the Catamounts, earning the victory at Gardner-Webb (April 7) … Struck out a season-best seven over 6.0 innings against Mercer (May 7) … Threw 5.0 scoreless innings, limiting The Citadel (May 21) to just three hits in a winning the regular-season finale in Charleston … Tossed a career-long 8.1 innings in the SoCon Tournament against Samford (May 30), striking out six... Named to the 2020-21 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

2020 (Redshirt Junior): Made four relief appearances on the season, tossing four innings with a 6.75 collective ERA in the small sample size … Only allowed four singles over four innings of action … Made his WCU debut with an inning of one-hit, scoreless relief in the 7-2 win over Chicago State (Feb. 16) on opening weekend … Recorded one inning of work three times … Struck out a career-best three in an inning of work against Bryant (March 10) ... Named to the 2019-20 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll … Season shortened because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of spring sports in mid-March.
 
Prior to Western Carolina: Transferred to WCU from USC Sumter … Collected All-Region and Relief Pitcher of the Year honors in 2018 from D1Baseball.com … Began his collegiate baseball career at Spartanburg Methodist where he made seven relief appearances, posting a 2-1 record over 15.1 innings of work with an 8.80 ERA … Struck out 22 batters in 2017; High School: Was a two-sport athlete playing football and baseball at Cheraw HS.
 
Personal: Is the son of Tish and James Campbell … Has a brother, Tallon, who was a two-sport athlete – football and baseball – at Limestone College.

Career Game Highs:
  • Innings Pitched: 8.1, vs. Samford (5/30/21)
  • Strikeouts: 7, MERCER (5/7/21)
  • Walks: 3, three times (MR: vs. Cincinnati, 3/13/22)

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 47

    2020Redshirt Junior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'5" 230 lbs
    47
  • 32

    2021Redshirt Junior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'5" 230 lbs
    32
  • 32

    2022Redshirt Senior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'5" 230 lbs
    32