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2017 RIT Baseball Roster

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24 Phil Sammon

  • Position First Base
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Ridgefield, CT
  • Highschool Ridgefield
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Career: Fourth all-time at the university with 11 home runs … tied for sixth all-time at RIT with 30 doubles and eighth with 90 runs batted in …  in top-15 with 187 total bases.
 
2017:
Appeared in 30 games, with 24 starts at first base … fourth on the team with a .325 batting average … hit two home runs and drove in 21 runs in 80 at-bats … named to the Liberty League Championship All-Tournament Team … Liberty League Player of the Week, April 3 … hit a go-ahead grand slam home run in the top of the ninth inning off of All-American closer Loukas Brigham in a 9-6 win over nationally-ranked St. John Fisher … homered, doubled and drove in five runs in a 12-11 win over Rensselaer … doubled and drove in three runs in a 13-3 win over Vassar … hit .438 with 15 RBIs over his first 12 games of the season … was 3-for-3 with two runs scored in an 11-4 win over Vassar the next day … was 2-for-4 with two RBIs in a 6-2 win over Union in the Liberty League Tournament … was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a RBI in the Liberty League Championship, a 9-4 win over Clarkson … had seven multiple-hit games … batted .333 with a homer and 10 RBIs in 17 Liberty League regular season contests … had a tremendous .993 fielding percentage in 152 chances. STATS

2016: Appeared in 37 contests, making 35 starts, primarily at first base … finished second on the team with a pair of home runs, while driving in 26 runs … batted .293 overall … added nine doubles … went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs in a win over Elmhurst … was 3-for-4 with a walk, two runs scored and three RBIs in a 15-10 win over St. Norbert … doubled and homered, driving in three runs in an 11-0 win over The College at Brockport … doubled twice and drove in a pair of runs at Union … enjoyed a six-game hitting streak in which he batted .500 (11-for-22) with nine RBIs, March 18 to March 25 … walked twice and stole a base in a win over Clarkson … recorded a hit in 25 games … enjoyed 11 multiple-hit games … had a .985 fielding percentage with 254 putouts. STATS

2015: Garnered All-Liberty League honorable mention accolades … played in and started 36 games … hit four home runs, second most on the squad to go with eight doubles, and 26 runs batted in … hit .314 and enjoyed a .474 slugging percentage … third on the squad with 65 total bases and a .474 slugging percentage … was second among all RIT hitters with a .373 batting average, .560 slugging percentage, two homers and 18 RBIs in 21 Liberty League games … named the RIT Male Athlete of the Week, April 6 … enjoyed an eight-game hitting streak, April 26 to May 7 … hit .484 (15-for-31) with six RBIs over that stretch … was 2-for-5 with a home run and three runs scored in a 10-3 win over St. John Fisher … homered and drove in three runs in a win over Colby … homered twice and drove in six runs in a four-game weekend series against Skidmore … doubled, tripled, scored twice, and drove in three runs in a 17-1 win over St. Lawrence … added three more RBIs in a 16-13 win later that day … drove in three runs in a 9-7 win over Rensselaer … stole two bases on the year against St. Lawrence and Vassar … defensively, had a season-high six assists against St. John Fisher … had a hit in 23 contests … recorded 14 multiple-hit games and drove in three runs in a contest five times … named to the Liberty League All-Academic Team. STATS

2014: Appeared in 30 games, with 25 starts, rotating between the outfield and third base … tied for the team lead with three home runs … added six doubles … had 25 hits … made his collegiate debut by hitting a run-scoring double in an 11-2 win over Utica … walked three times and scored a pair of runs in a win over Kalamazoo … hit his first collegiate home run in a 21-1 win over Bard … homered and scored twice in a 12-7 victory over Skidmore … hit a go-ahead three run homer that broke a 4-4 tie in a 7-5 win over St. Lawrence … was 3-for-4 with two RBIs in a 4-0 win the day before … added three hits in a win over Clarkson … had four multiple-hit games. STATS

Before RIT: Played two years of varsity baseball at Ridgefield High School … hit .375 with 19 runs batted in during senior season … also ran varsity cross country and competed in track and field at Ridgefield.

Personal: Older brother Rich, was a pitcher for RIT … mechanical engineering major … son of Dianne Bellantoni Sammon and Rich Sammon.

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Historical Player Information

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    2014First Year

    Shortstop/Outfield
    6'3" 185 lbs
    24
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    2015Sophomore

    Third Base
    6'3" 185 lbs
    24
  • 24

    2016Junior

    Utility
    6'3" 190 lbs
    24
  • 24

    2017Senior

    First Base
    6'3" 190 lbs
    24