2013 baseball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
2013 baseball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
2013 baseball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
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PLAYER PROFILES<br />
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joe burg<br />
Senior, 5-10, 190<br />
Pitcher<br />
Bats: Left<br />
Throws: Left<br />
Lindenhurst, IL<br />
Carmel Catholic High School<br />
2012 Rhodes Scholarship Finalist<br />
At Hofstra<br />
2012: Appeared in 20 games with six starts...Posted a 4-1 record and a 5.54 ERA...Tied for<br />
second on the team in wins...Won four consecutive decisions...Added one save and posted 36<br />
strikeouts in 52 innings of work...Picked up wins in relief over Delaware State and Fordham...<br />
Allowed two hits and struck out six in five scoreless innings in a winning start at Delaware...Also had a win in a start versus NYIT...<br />
Notched a save with three scoreless innings in a win over VCU...Member of Provost’s List (4.0 GPA) in both semesters of the 2011-12<br />
academic year…CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award recipient…Elected to Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society and Phi<br />
Beta Kappa Honor Society…Received the Azelle Waltcher Endowed Scholarship for Mathematics…Was 1-1 with a 6.33 ERA in CAA<br />
games…2011: Appeared in 20 games with four starts…Posted a 1-4 record and a 8.66 ERA…Tallied one save…Had 29 strikeouts in<br />
35 1/3 innings pitched…Picked up win in start against George Mason, allowing eight hits and three earned runs with six strikeouts in<br />
five innings of work…Earned a save at James Madison…Pitched all three games of the UNCW series, throwing in relief in both ends<br />
of a doubleheader before starting the finale…Member of Provost’s List (4.0 GPA) in both semesters of the 2010-11 academic year…<br />
CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award recipient…Earned Homer Demetriou Endowed Scholarship for Mathematics…Inducted into<br />
Golden Key International Honor Society and Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society…2010: Pitched in 25 games, which ranked<br />
second on the team…Started one contest (at Florida State)…Posted a 2-2 record, a 7.00 ERA and one save…Picked up first collegiate<br />
win against William & Mary, throwing 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief…Allowed two hits in three innings of relief to notch win at<br />
Towson…Picked up the save against Army with a perfect ninth inning…Struck out a season-high four batters in two innings against<br />
Long Island…Was 2-1 with a 6.23 ERA in league games…CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award recipient…Received Phi Beta<br />
Kappa Sophomore Book Award in the fall of 2010…Named to Provost’s List (4.0 GPA) in both semesters of the 2009-10 academic<br />
year…Earned the Carl Friedrich Gauss Award for Excellence in Mathematics.<br />
High School/Personal<br />
Played four years of <strong>baseball</strong> at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, Illinois…Part of 32-6 team that won conference regional<br />
and sectional championships as a junior…Posted a 3-3 record as a senior with 50 strikeouts and a 2.25 ERA…Team captain as a<br />
senior…Threw a no-hitter in his first varsity start as a sophomore…Named to conference all-academic team…All-Illinois Academic<br />
Team nominee…Honor student…Named an AP Scholar…Summa Cum Laude graduate…Named an Illinois State Scholar…Born<br />
November 10, 1990…Has two sisters and one brother…Hobbies include swimming, playing the piano and hockey…Performed more<br />
than 260 hours of <strong>com</strong>munity service in high school, including Hurricane Katrina relief…Member of Hofstra’s Society of Physics<br />
Students and served as treasurer in 2011-12…Also active in the Math Club and the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship…Serves as a<br />
physics tutor and a teaching assistant…Plans to own his own nanotech research <strong>com</strong>pany…Majoring in mathematics and physics.<br />
Year G/GS W-L SV ERA IP R ER H SO BB HB WP<br />
2010 25/1 2-2 1 7.00 36.0 28 28 55 21 20 7 1<br />
2011 20/4 1-4 1 8.66 35.1 35 34 59 29 14 2 3<br />
2012 20/6 4-1 1 5.54 52.0 33 32 65 36 20 10 5<br />
Career 65/11 7-7 3 6.86 123.1 96 94 179 86 54 19 9<br />
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