2024: Broke NCCA DIII Hits Record (330) on March 30th. He also broke the sacrifice fly record with 29. Also holds multiple NCAA DIII Active Player records- #1 Total bases (483), #1 Doubles (72), #2 Runs (218), #2 At-Bats (852) and #2 Game Played (202).
2023: CCS Player of the Year. Named to the 2023 D3baseball.com All-Region Region 6 team and the 2023 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. III All-Region –Region 6 Team. Finished the season with 68 hits (bringing his total career hits to 316). With 169 at bats, he finished with 50 RBIs, 35 runs, 18 doubles, three triples and three homers with a .402 hitting average.
2022: ABCA/Rawlings All-America first team... D3baseball.com All-America first team... Player of the Year on the D3baseball.com All-Region 6 and ABCA/Rawlings All-Region 6 teams... D3baseball.com All-Region 6 first team... ABCA/Rawlings All-Region 6 first team... USA South Player of the Year... USA South All-Conference first team... Played in and started all 53 games at third base... Batted .443 with 10 home runs, 83 RBIs, and a .671 slugging percentage, all team bests... Led NCAA Division III with a record 109 hits... Just the third Division III player with 100 hits in a season... Hits and RBIs were also USA South season records... Ruth set a team record for at-bats (247) and tied another with 22 doubles... Hit safely in 47 of 53 games... Did not have back-to-back hitless games... Led team with 36 multiple hit games and 21 multiple RBI games... Led team with 10 stolen bases... Set a new NCAA-era school game record with three home runs and tied the NCAA-era school record with eight RBIs in a 20-9 win at Oglethorpe on April 12... In same game tied career best with five hits: the three home runs, a double and a triple... Also recorded his 200th career hit with a home run to lead off the eighth inning in same game... Named USA South Player of the Week for week ending April 17... In four games, had .571 batting average (12-for-21), scored nine runs, had two doubles, a triple, four home runs, and 16 RBIs... Also had .522 on-base percentage and a 1.333 slugging percentage... Had walk off two-run home run for 11-9 win over Piedmont on April 15... Named to USA South Tournament all-tournament team... Recorded 100th hit in 9-8 loss to Chapman in Super Regional on May 28... Set new single season hits record of 104 with third hit of game in 12-0 win over Trinity at the Division III World Series on June 3... Current school career ranks: batting average .391 (2), RBIs 182 (3), hits 248 (4), runs scored 175 (5), doubles 47 (T5), slugging percentage .562 (6), at-bats 634 (10)...
2021(Jr.): ABCA/Rawlings South All-Region first team... D3baseball.com All-South Region second team... USA South All-Conference first team... USA South West Division first team... USA South Academic All-Conference... Played in and started all 34 games... Batted .355 with four home runs and 39 RBIs... Had .582 slugging percentage and .399 on-base percentage... Stole six bases in seven attempts... Led NCAA Division III with 10 sacrifice flies... Led USA South with 16 doubles... Tied for team lead in hits (50) and runs scored (43)... Tied for second on team with 15 mulitiple hit games... Tied for first on team with 11 multiple RBI games... Had three four hit games and two four RBI games... Had two home runs, a double, scored five runs, and had four RBIs in first game of doubleheader against Brevard on April 25... Tied USA South Tournament record with four runs scored against Piedmont in first game of USA South First Round series May 8... Recorded 100th career hit in second game of doubleheader against Emory on March 20...
2020(Soph.): Played in and started all 17 games... Second on team with .362 batting average... Tied for second on team with 16 RBIs... Second on team with 25 hits... Second on team with 52 assists... Had three hits, including a double, and season-high four RBIs in second game of doubleheader against Huntingdon on March 8... Had season-high six assists in first game of doubleheader against Huntingdon on March 8...
2019(Fresh.): USA South All-Conference second team outfield... Only player on team to play in and start all 44 games... Started 12 games at third base and started all three positions in outfield... Second on team with .365 average... Had a home run and led team with 44 RBIs... Led team with 64 hits, 79 total bases, and 15 stolen bases... Second on team with 40 runs scored and three triples... Led team and was 14th in NCAA Division III with seven sacrifice flies... Led team with 15 multiple RBI games... Second on team with 20 multiple hit games... Had team season-high five hits, including two doubles, scored four runs, and had three RBIs in first game of doubleheader at Huntingdon on March 9... Finished doubleheader with Huntingdon with seven hits, seven runs scored, and five RBIs...
Parent: Sharon Neil.
