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2024 Baseball

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Buck Anderson #4/52 UTL

  • Height:
    5-7
  • Weight:
    165
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Hometown:
    Torrance, Calif.
  • High School:
    Lakewood
  • Major:
    S/R

Summary

Biography

AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2024)
Played and started in 44 games…carried a .288 batting average…totaled 47 hits with six doubles and three home runs…drove in 30 runs and walked 27 times with a .381 on-base percentage and a .380 slugging percentage… tallied two hits with an RBI and two runs scored versus USC Beaufort on Feb. 16…registered three hits in five at-bats, three runs scored and two RBI against Kentucky Wesleyan on March 7…posted three hits and three runs scored versus Purdue Northwest on March 13…went 3-for-5 in the season-opener versus Embry-Riddle with three RBI and two doubles

AS A SENIOR (2023)
NCBWA Preseason First Team All-South Region
...Appeared in and started 50 games…Batted 298 and recorded 34 RBI’s… had 59 total hits including seven doubles, and two triples… scored 35 runs… Had a .343 slugging percentage and a .381 on base percentage… Had his best game of the season against AUM on 4/7 where he recorded four hits including a triple and drove in three runs.

AS A JUNIOR (2022)
Anderson finished his junior year starting 53 games for the Green & Gold and finished the season hitting .324. Anderson used his speed on the basepath for the Lions, stealing a conference high 42 bags. Against Florida Southern, Anderson proved to be too much on the basepath as the second basemen stole a season-high four bases. He recorded a season-high three of his 38 RBI's against Eckerd College. Second for the Lions in runs with 46, second in hits with 67, 91 total bases, 21 walks, 10 doubles, four home runs, and one triple.

CAREER
Transferred from Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif. … named team MVP at Cerritos … batted .321 through 21 games played with 10 RBI and 13 runs scored … stole 13 bases … began collegiate career at Cal State University Bakersfield … in 2019, appeared in three of the first five games as a pinch-runner and scored one run … missed the remainder of the season due to an injury … as a freshman, played in 24 contests with 12 starts in the outfield … batted .203 with two RBI and five runs scored … stole a pair of bases and went 2-for-3 at the plate in his first career start against the University of California-Berkeley … prepped at Lakewood High School under coach Spud O’Neil … named Offensive Player of the Year … posted a .405 batting average … earned First Team All-Moore League.

PERSONAL
Born on March 11 in Inglewood, Calif. … son of Kreggory and Alicia Anderson … has two sisters, Kamron and Kreshawna … lists Mookie Betts as his favorite athlete … lists waffles as his favorite food … believes his speed is the biggest asset he brings to the team.

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2022Junior

    UTL
    5'7" 160 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2023Senior

    UTL
    5'8" 165 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2024Graduate Student

    UTL
    5'7" 165 lbs
    4