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Brandon Decker #22
Brandon Decker
Position: Outfield
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 225
Bats: L Throws: R
Year: Senior
Previous school: South Florida CC
Hometown: Holiday, Fla

Career Highlights

Pre-Valdosta State: Batted .404 for South Florida CC last year ... Tallied 20 home runs and 67 runs batted in ... Was hit by a pitch 27 times ... Was named a National Junior College All-American ... Was SFCC's MVP and Offensive Player-of-the-Year ... Played on the Junior College Team USA squad ... Played prep career at Gulf High ... Set the school's career home run record ... Batted .494 as a senior ... Recorded 47 runs batted in while hitting 10 home runs ... Was first team All-Conference.

AS A JUNIOR IN 2009: Earned first-team All-America honors from Daktronics and Rawlings/ABCA ... Also earned first-team All-Gulf South Conference and was one of only four unanimous decision All-Gulf South Conference honorees ... Batted .514 on the season, finishing the year with 94 hits in 234 at-bats ... Hit 22 home runs, just one shy of the Valdosta State single season record ... Scored 75 runs while driving in a school record 84 ... Also tied a school mark with 172 total bases ... Tallied six doubles and three triples for a .735 slugging percentage ... Struck out 31 times while drawing 36 walks, including six intentional walks ... Owned a .505 on-base percentage as he was hit by 14 pitches ... Was successful on three-of-four stolen base attempts ... Played in and started 63 of the Blazers 64 games ... Was a perfect four-for-four while driving in three runs in the first game of a doubleheader at West Alabama March 29 ... Also tallied four hits at Montevallo April 19 and was four-of-four with five RBI against West Florida April 26 ... Matched his season-high with five RBI at Saint Leo February 14, a game in which he hit two home runs, as well as against West Georgia April 5 and SCAD April 22 ... Tallied 32 multi-hit and 22 multi-RBI games ... Totaled two home runs against North Alabama April 11 ... Batted .514 with 10 home runs and 34 runs batted in against Gulf South Conference opponents ... Had a .972 slugging percentage in league games as well as a .563 on-base percentage in those contests ... Finished the season ranked 74th nationally in batting average, eighth in runs scored, 53rd in runs per game (1.19), 14th in hits, fourth in home runs, 18th in home runs per game (0.35), ninth in runs batted in, 24th in runs batted in per game (1.33), 43rd in slugging percentage, seventh in total bases, 42nd in on-base percentage, 42nd in walks, 61st in walks per game (0.57) and 57th in hit by pitch.

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