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Jersey Number 1
Jake Alu
- Class:
- Junior
- Position:
- UT/RHP
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 175
- Custom1:
- L/R
- Hometown:
- Hamilton, N.J.
- High School:
- Princeton Day School
Bio
CAREER GAME HIGHS
Batting
At-Bats: 8, Northeastern (3/20/18)
Runs: 3, at Florida State (3/101/17)
Hits: 4, 2x (Last: vs. Rutgers, 2/25/18)
RBI: 4, vs. Wofford (3/7/18)
Doubles: 2, 3x (Last: Virginia Tech, 3/24/18)
Triples: 1, Pittsburgh (4/7/18)
Home Runs: 1, 2x (Last: vs. Wofford, 3/7/18)
Walks: 2. 6x (Last: at Notre Dame, 4/28/18)
Stolen Bases: 3, vs. Villanovav (3/5/17)
Pitching
Innings: 2.0 vs. Ball State (3/7/17)
Strikeouts: 2 (2x) last vs. North Carolina (4/9/17)
AS A JUNIOR (2018)
Appeared in all 49 games, while making 47 starts, primarily at third base… hit .216 with 25 runs scored, 19 driven in, eight doubles, two home runs and one triple… scored twice and drove in a pair of runs with a home run at Santa Clara (2/17)… matched his career-high in hits with a 4-for-5 performance vs. Rutgers (2/25) at the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, FL… went 2-for-5 with a run, RBI and stolen base vs. Niagara at the USA Baseball Complex in Cary, N.C…. posted a 2-for-5 game at UNC Asheville (3/6)… drove in a career-high four runs with a home run and finished 2-for-5 with two runs against Wofford (3/7) at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C…. recorded a 2-for-5 game with two runs, two RBI and a double in game two at North Carolina State (3/10)… doubled twice in a 2-for-4 effort against Virginia Tech (3/24)… picked up a triple and two RBI in a 3-for-6 game in the nightcap against Pittsburgh (4/7)… knocked in two runs and went 1-for-4, scoring once against Quinnipiac (4/11)… posted a 2-for-3 game against Louisville (5/5).
AS A SOPHOMORE (2017)
Played in 48 games, making 45 starts – 29 in left field, 10 at second base, five as the designated hitter and one shortstop … earned a spot on the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) All-New England Third Team … also logged nine appearances on the mound … HITTING: Led the Eagles with a .331 batting average, was second with a .384 on-base percentage and ranked third with a .386 slugging percentage … also was tied for the team lead with 12 stolen bases, ranked third with 55 hits, fourth with 23 RBIs, 64 total bases and nine doubles and tied for fifth with 24 runs scored … recorded 16 multiple-hit games and six multiple-RBI games … tied for the team lead by scoring the winning run four times … drove in the game-winning run three times … recorded a career-long, nine-game hit streak from May 6 to May 23, batting .419 in that span with 13 hits, including two doubles, six runs, 10 RBIs, six walks and two stolen bases … one of four players to log a team season-high four hits in a game … ninth in the ACC with 0.25 stolen bases per game … .342 batting average in ACC regular-season games ranked eighth in the league … logged 39 hits, including seven doubles, 11 RBIs, 12 runs, eight walks and four stolen bases in conference action … batted .348 at home with a .449 slugging percentage and 13 RBIs … batted .545 with six hits, two runs and five RBIs in the three-game sweep of Notre Dame … tied a career high with three RBIs on a 3-for-4 day with a run and double in the series-opening victory over the Irish (5/18) … drove in two, scored two runs and walked in the 9-8 win over Maine (5/16) … went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, a walk, run and stolen base in the 8-0 shutout victory at No. 17 Wake Forest (5/6) … led the Eagles with a .600 batting average in the three-game sweep of NC State, going 6-for-10 with two doubles and only striking out once … logged a 3-for-4 afternoon with two doubles, a run and RBI in the series-opening victory at Fenway Park (4/22) … stolen second and third and crossed the plate for the eventual winning run in the 3-2, five-inning victory over Harvard (4/19) in the Eagles’ 13th Beanpot title … recorded a career-high four hits in a 4-for-6 outing in the victory at Duke (4/15) … went 2-for-3 with a run and RBI against No. 4 North Carolina (4/8) … batted .600 with a double, two RBIs and two walks in the three-game series at Virginia Tech, including a 3-for-5 day in the second contest (4/1) … drove in three on a 2-for-3 day with two runs, two doubles and a walk in the victory over Massachusetts (3/29) … scored a career-high three at No. 2 Florida State on a 2-for-5 day (3/10) … stole a team season-high three bases in a 3-for-4 outing and tied a career high with three RBIs in first career start – hitting as the DH – in the win against Villanova (3/5) … PITCHING: Recorded a 12.46 ERA, allowing 13 hits, 12 runs – all earned – five walks and eight strikeouts over 8.2 innings … tied a career high with two strikeouts in a 123 inning against No. 4 North Carolina (4/9) … threw a flawless inning of relief with one K against UMass (3/29) … threw a career-high two innings of relief against Ball State (3/7), allowing two hits, one run, one walk and struck out one … made first career appearance on the hill against Villanova (2/25), throwing a perfect inning of relief and striking out two.
AS A FRESHMAN (2016)
Played in 10 games, entering as a pinch runner eight times and a pinch hitter twice … recorded five runs, two hits in four at bats, a doubles, two walks and one putout in the field … 1-for-1 as a pinch hitter with a walk … went 2-for-2 with a run and first career hits, including a double, against Bryant (4/27) … scored as a pinch runner against No. 4 Louisville (4/23), Northeastern (4/20), at Massachusetts (3/30) and Ohio State (3/6) … the run against the Buckeyes was the first of career … in first career appearances, drew two walks against Northern Illinois (2/21).
BEFORE BC
Four-year starter for Princeton Day School … set the PDS record for career hits, recording his 100th on April 28, 2015 … named to New Jersey State Prep B First Team in 2015, second team in 2014 and 2013 and picked up honorable mention in 2012 … collected Trentonian All-Area First-Team honors as a senior and Second-Team honors as a junior … named the Princeton Packet Baseball Player of the Year and Perfect Game USA Northeast All-Region Second-Team honors in 2015 … two-time All-Princeton Packet shortstop … as a senior, registered a .523 batting average with 28 runs, 45 hits, including 10 doubles, three triples and three home runs, and 18 RBIs in 86 at bats … ranked ninth in the state in hits and runs … named a team captain junior and senior years … earned Perfect Game USA Underclassmen All-American Team honorable mention and Garden State Underclassmen top 100 as a junior.
PERSONAL
Enrolled as a business major in the Carroll School of Management … recipient of the 2019 Richard L. Mucci '72 and Family Scholarship... Jake is one of Phil and Judy Alu’s two children … has an older sister, Danielle … father played soccer at the College of New Jersey and Elizabethtown College … recipient of the Berry ’87 and Mai ’91 Family Scholarship Fund.
Batting
At-Bats: 8, Northeastern (3/20/18)
Runs: 3, at Florida State (3/101/17)
Hits: 4, 2x (Last: vs. Rutgers, 2/25/18)
RBI: 4, vs. Wofford (3/7/18)
Doubles: 2, 3x (Last: Virginia Tech, 3/24/18)
Triples: 1, Pittsburgh (4/7/18)
Home Runs: 1, 2x (Last: vs. Wofford, 3/7/18)
Walks: 2. 6x (Last: at Notre Dame, 4/28/18)
Stolen Bases: 3, vs. Villanovav (3/5/17)
Pitching
Innings: 2.0 vs. Ball State (3/7/17)
Strikeouts: 2 (2x) last vs. North Carolina (4/9/17)
AS A JUNIOR (2018)
Appeared in all 49 games, while making 47 starts, primarily at third base… hit .216 with 25 runs scored, 19 driven in, eight doubles, two home runs and one triple… scored twice and drove in a pair of runs with a home run at Santa Clara (2/17)… matched his career-high in hits with a 4-for-5 performance vs. Rutgers (2/25) at the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, FL… went 2-for-5 with a run, RBI and stolen base vs. Niagara at the USA Baseball Complex in Cary, N.C…. posted a 2-for-5 game at UNC Asheville (3/6)… drove in a career-high four runs with a home run and finished 2-for-5 with two runs against Wofford (3/7) at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C…. recorded a 2-for-5 game with two runs, two RBI and a double in game two at North Carolina State (3/10)… doubled twice in a 2-for-4 effort against Virginia Tech (3/24)… picked up a triple and two RBI in a 3-for-6 game in the nightcap against Pittsburgh (4/7)… knocked in two runs and went 1-for-4, scoring once against Quinnipiac (4/11)… posted a 2-for-3 game against Louisville (5/5).
AS A SOPHOMORE (2017)
Played in 48 games, making 45 starts – 29 in left field, 10 at second base, five as the designated hitter and one shortstop … earned a spot on the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) All-New England Third Team … also logged nine appearances on the mound … HITTING: Led the Eagles with a .331 batting average, was second with a .384 on-base percentage and ranked third with a .386 slugging percentage … also was tied for the team lead with 12 stolen bases, ranked third with 55 hits, fourth with 23 RBIs, 64 total bases and nine doubles and tied for fifth with 24 runs scored … recorded 16 multiple-hit games and six multiple-RBI games … tied for the team lead by scoring the winning run four times … drove in the game-winning run three times … recorded a career-long, nine-game hit streak from May 6 to May 23, batting .419 in that span with 13 hits, including two doubles, six runs, 10 RBIs, six walks and two stolen bases … one of four players to log a team season-high four hits in a game … ninth in the ACC with 0.25 stolen bases per game … .342 batting average in ACC regular-season games ranked eighth in the league … logged 39 hits, including seven doubles, 11 RBIs, 12 runs, eight walks and four stolen bases in conference action … batted .348 at home with a .449 slugging percentage and 13 RBIs … batted .545 with six hits, two runs and five RBIs in the three-game sweep of Notre Dame … tied a career high with three RBIs on a 3-for-4 day with a run and double in the series-opening victory over the Irish (5/18) … drove in two, scored two runs and walked in the 9-8 win over Maine (5/16) … went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, a walk, run and stolen base in the 8-0 shutout victory at No. 17 Wake Forest (5/6) … led the Eagles with a .600 batting average in the three-game sweep of NC State, going 6-for-10 with two doubles and only striking out once … logged a 3-for-4 afternoon with two doubles, a run and RBI in the series-opening victory at Fenway Park (4/22) … stolen second and third and crossed the plate for the eventual winning run in the 3-2, five-inning victory over Harvard (4/19) in the Eagles’ 13th Beanpot title … recorded a career-high four hits in a 4-for-6 outing in the victory at Duke (4/15) … went 2-for-3 with a run and RBI against No. 4 North Carolina (4/8) … batted .600 with a double, two RBIs and two walks in the three-game series at Virginia Tech, including a 3-for-5 day in the second contest (4/1) … drove in three on a 2-for-3 day with two runs, two doubles and a walk in the victory over Massachusetts (3/29) … scored a career-high three at No. 2 Florida State on a 2-for-5 day (3/10) … stole a team season-high three bases in a 3-for-4 outing and tied a career high with three RBIs in first career start – hitting as the DH – in the win against Villanova (3/5) … PITCHING: Recorded a 12.46 ERA, allowing 13 hits, 12 runs – all earned – five walks and eight strikeouts over 8.2 innings … tied a career high with two strikeouts in a 123 inning against No. 4 North Carolina (4/9) … threw a flawless inning of relief with one K against UMass (3/29) … threw a career-high two innings of relief against Ball State (3/7), allowing two hits, one run, one walk and struck out one … made first career appearance on the hill against Villanova (2/25), throwing a perfect inning of relief and striking out two.
AS A FRESHMAN (2016)
Played in 10 games, entering as a pinch runner eight times and a pinch hitter twice … recorded five runs, two hits in four at bats, a doubles, two walks and one putout in the field … 1-for-1 as a pinch hitter with a walk … went 2-for-2 with a run and first career hits, including a double, against Bryant (4/27) … scored as a pinch runner against No. 4 Louisville (4/23), Northeastern (4/20), at Massachusetts (3/30) and Ohio State (3/6) … the run against the Buckeyes was the first of career … in first career appearances, drew two walks against Northern Illinois (2/21).
BEFORE BC
Four-year starter for Princeton Day School … set the PDS record for career hits, recording his 100th on April 28, 2015 … named to New Jersey State Prep B First Team in 2015, second team in 2014 and 2013 and picked up honorable mention in 2012 … collected Trentonian All-Area First-Team honors as a senior and Second-Team honors as a junior … named the Princeton Packet Baseball Player of the Year and Perfect Game USA Northeast All-Region Second-Team honors in 2015 … two-time All-Princeton Packet shortstop … as a senior, registered a .523 batting average with 28 runs, 45 hits, including 10 doubles, three triples and three home runs, and 18 RBIs in 86 at bats … ranked ninth in the state in hits and runs … named a team captain junior and senior years … earned Perfect Game USA Underclassmen All-American Team honorable mention and Garden State Underclassmen top 100 as a junior.
PERSONAL
Enrolled as a business major in the Carroll School of Management … recipient of the 2019 Richard L. Mucci '72 and Family Scholarship... Jake is one of Phil and Judy Alu’s two children … has an older sister, Danielle … father played soccer at the College of New Jersey and Elizabethtown College … recipient of the Berry ’87 and Mai ’91 Family Scholarship Fund.
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