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Guilford College Quakers

2017 Baseball

25 Joe Metts

  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 225
  • Bats/Throws R/R
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Asheville, N.C.
  • High School Erwin
  • Position IF
  • Major Business Administration

Biography

2017

  • started all of his 35 appearances as a corner infielder
  • posted an overall batting average of .294 with 42 hits, 10 doubles, and 18 RBIs
  • recorded the Quakers’ highest fielding percentage of the season (.987)
  • ranked second in conference with 31 double-play completions
  • best game was in the February win over Ferrum College when he was 3-for-5 with three doubles and two RBIs

2016

  • made 31 appearances with 26 starts split between first and third base
  • hit .309 with 21 runs scored, two home runs and 21 RBIs, good for second on the team
  • led Guilford with nine doubles and 13 extra-base hits
  • recorded eight multi-hit games including a 3-for-5 performance with a double, triple, and three RBIs versus Methodist University March 17
  • a top performance came March 21 against regionally ranked Tufts University when he went 3-for-5 with two doubles, a triple and three RBIs

Personal

  • graduated with honors
  • won Guilford's 2017 Richard Joyce Sportsmanship Award
  • interned with the NBA Developmental League's Greensboro Swarm in the summer of 2016
  • twice named to the Academic All-ODAC Team
  • four-time member of Guilford's Student-Athlete Honor Roll
  • three-time dean's list student
  • serves as a resident advisor at Guilford
  • active in Guilford Christian Ministry
  • student assistant in Guilford's Sports Information Office
  • serves as treasurer for Guilford's Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society chapter
  • serves as a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative
  • transferred to Guilford in fall 2015 from UNC Asheville
  • named a Carolina-Virginia Collegiate League All-Star in 2014
  • lettered three years for coach Granville Gehris at Erwin High School
  • two-time All-Mountain Athletic Conference honoree
  • earned All-Western North Carolina honors 
  • according to MaxPreps, led the state of North Carolina in home runs in 2013
  • helped lead Erwin to a Mountain Athletic Conference championship in 2012
  • represented Region 8 in the North Carolina Powerade State Games
  • son of Bob and Leasa Metts

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 25

    2016Junior

    IF
    6'5" 230 lbs
    25
  • 25

    2017Senior

    IF
    6'5" 225 lbs
    25