Tickets2020 Season: Started and played in 8 games… led the team hitting .429 with 12 hits and 4 doubles… scored 3 runs, with 5 walks, 8 RBIs and slugged .571… had an on-base percentage of .528 and had 4 assists in the field… went 2-3 with a double at Florida State (2/23)
2019 Season (Junior): American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team and AAC All-Tournament Team … played in 55 games with 53 starts … hit .289 with 63 hits, 15 doubles, and two homeruns … scored 34 runs, with 20 walks, 27 RBIs and slugged .385... recorded his first hit as a Bearcat opening day at FAU (2/17)... recorded 43 hits through the months of March and April while posting a .349 average during that span with 13 multi-hit games... posted four hits vs. Miami (4/10)... went 2-for-4 with a homerun and four RBIs at Memphis (5/10)… launched an early homerun vs. UConn in route to winning the AAC Conference Tournament Championship
Prior to UC: Was First Team Mid-Florida Conference and second team all-state while at St. John's River State College ... team went 32-18 and he was on the President's List with a perfect 4.0 GPA ... played shortstop in high school and was named first team all-district and metro after hitting .491 with seven doubles and one triple his senior year ... high school team made the district playoffs his sophomore season and he was named first team all-district and first team all-metro as a second baseman ... also played for Gatorball Baseball Academy out of Gainesville, Fla.
Personal: Born March 8, 1998 in Altamonte Springs, Fla. ... Parents are Joe and Lisa ... has an older sister, Nicole ... his father played baseball at Rollins College ... mother was a cheerleader at Rollins College ... his grandfather, Joe Bellini II, played football and baseball at Albright College ... his sister played lacrosse at Old Dominion and Florida Southern ... he second cousin Eric Karros played with the Los Angeles Dodgers ... brother-in-law Ryan Yarbrough is currently a pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays ... plans to major in entrepreneurship
2019 Season (Junior): American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team and AAC All-Tournament Team … played in 55 games with 53 starts … hit .289 with 63 hits, 15 doubles, and two homeruns … scored 34 runs, with 20 walks, 27 RBIs and slugged .385... recorded his first hit as a Bearcat opening day at FAU (2/17)... recorded 43 hits through the months of March and April while posting a .349 average during that span with 13 multi-hit games... posted four hits vs. Miami (4/10)... went 2-for-4 with a homerun and four RBIs at Memphis (5/10)… launched an early homerun vs. UConn in route to winning the AAC Conference Tournament Championship
Prior to UC: Was First Team Mid-Florida Conference and second team all-state while at St. John's River State College ... team went 32-18 and he was on the President's List with a perfect 4.0 GPA ... played shortstop in high school and was named first team all-district and metro after hitting .491 with seven doubles and one triple his senior year ... high school team made the district playoffs his sophomore season and he was named first team all-district and first team all-metro as a second baseman ... also played for Gatorball Baseball Academy out of Gainesville, Fla.
Personal: Born March 8, 1998 in Altamonte Springs, Fla. ... Parents are Joe and Lisa ... has an older sister, Nicole ... his father played baseball at Rollins College ... mother was a cheerleader at Rollins College ... his grandfather, Joe Bellini II, played football and baseball at Albright College ... his sister played lacrosse at Old Dominion and Florida Southern ... he second cousin Eric Karros played with the Los Angeles Dodgers ... brother-in-law Ryan Yarbrough is currently a pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays ... plans to major in entrepreneurship