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45 Ronnie Freeman

  • Ht./Wt. 6-1 / 190
  • Position Catcher
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Lawrenceville, Ga.
  • High School Brookwood HS

Biography

2011 Season
Was a Second Team All-Atlantic Sun Conference selection ... Played for the USA Collegiate National Team, where he hit .500 (5-for-10) ... Set the Kennesaw State record for the longest hitting streak in the program’s history when he singled against Vanderbilt (3/9) for his 42nd consecutive game with a hit, breaking the school record of 41, set by Jason Jones ... Was 26th in the NCAA in doubles with 20 and finished third in the A-Sun in batting with a .392 mark ... Was tied for third in the league in both hits (85) and doubles (20) ... finished third in on-base percentage (.487) and fourth in slugging percentage (.622) ... Singled, walked and drove in a run while scoring twice at Georgia State (4/19) ... Had his second multi-hit game in three games when he went 2-for-5 against FGCU (4/17) ... Drove in a career-high five runs on a 3-for-3 afternoon against FGCU (4/15) ... Has five perfect days on the season with three 2-for-2 games and a 4-for-4 game ... Has hit safely in 12 of his last 14 games ... Hit in his sixth straight game, going 1-for-3 versus No. 8-ranked Georgia Tech (4/5) ... Is coming one of his best days as an Owl as he went 4-for-4 with two doubles and two home runs in the Owls 10-6, win over Southern Illinois (4/3) ... In the game, his first inning home runs sparked back-to-back-to-back homers for the first time in KSU history ... Homered and doubled in the Owls loss to Southern Illinois (4/1) ... Has not his average dip below .353 all season ... Has hit in three straight games ... Hit into a 5-4-3 triple play at Mercer (3/25) ... Had his 10th, two-hit game of the season on Wednesday night against Georgia State (3/23), snapping out of a 3-for-17 slump ... Was 0-for-5 at Georgia Southern (3/22) ... Went 3-for-3 with two runs scored in the Owls, 6-2, win over Lipscomb (3/20) as he snapped an 0-for-9 slump ... Is 12-for-31 (.388) since his hitting streak ended ... Drove in a season-high three runs versus UGA (3/16) ... Had two hits including his first home run of the season and drove in three runs at Belmont (3/13) ... Had two hits in his first two at-bats including a double, reached base all four times and drove in a pair of runs at Belmont (3/12) ... Had the nation’s longest hitting streak snapped at 42 games when he went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts at Belmont (3/11) ... The game marked the first time in his career at KSU that he struck out three times in a game ... Finished the streak with the 12th longest in NCAA history and the fifth longest in NCAA Division I ... Set the Kennesaw State record for the longest hitting streak in school history when he singled against No. 2-ranked Vanderbilt (3/9) ...  Tied Jason Jones for the Kennesaw State hit streak mark at 41 games when he singled in the fifth inning of the Owls 7-4 loss at Georgia Tech (3/8) ... Had two hits in each game of a doubleheader against Campbell (3/6) ... Had a sixth-inning single against Campbell (3/4) to extend his hitting streak to 38 games ... Hit in his 37th straight game when he singled to left field in the third inning against Memphis (2/27) ... He finished the game with two hits, the 18th time he recorded a multi-hit game during the streak ... Extended his streak with a first-inning double to right field vs. Memphis (2/26) ... Extended his hitting streak to 35-games with a first inning single and holds the nation’s longest hitting streak ... Owns the longest hitting streak in the nation after hitting a double in the sixth inning of the Owls, 9-6, win at Jacksonville State (2/23) ... Had shared the longest hitting streak in the country at 33 games ... Drove in two runs for the first time this season with a groundout and a sacrifice fly at Jacksonville State (2/23) ... Is 2-for-6 as a designated hitter and 5-for-12 while catching ... Extended his hitting streak to 33-games with an RBI-single in the fifth inning against UAB (2/22) ... Extended his hitting streak to 32-games with a first inning infield hit against Ball State (2/20) ... Had his second multi-hit game of the season and the 14th of the streak when he went 2-for-4 on Sunday ... Singled in his first at-bat against Ball State (2/19) to move the streak to 31-games ... Went 2-for-3 on Opening Day vs. Ball State (2/18)
 
2010 Season
Enjoyed one of the best freshman seasons in the program’s history ... Was a 2010 Collegiate Baseball/Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American ... Selected to the Ping!Baseball First Team Freshman All-America Squad ... Was also named Second Team Freshman All-American by the College Baseball Writer’s Association in addition to his Second Team All-Atlantic Sun Conference selection ... Ended the season with a 29-game active hitting streak ... Led the team in batting with a .365 mark ... Topped the Owls with 26 multi-hit games, including a team-high seven three-hit games ... Had 15 multi-RBI games ... Enjoyed one of his best conference series of the year when he went 6-for-12 with six runs scored and eight runs batted in against Belmont (4/1-2) ... Was 6-for-14 with seven runs batted in and four runs scored against Mercer (4-30-5/1) ... Beginning with a 3-for-5 game against Binghampton and counting with two games against Tennessee and a game against Georgia, he had a streak of six consecutive multi-hit games in which he batted .500 (14-for-28) with nine runs batted in.
 
Prior to Kennesaw State
Played four years of varsity at Brookwood…Helped his team to make an appearance in the state play-offs 2007-09, winning the state championship in 08…Helped his team win the region championship in 07 and   to a ranking of 3rd in the nation in 08… In 08, was named Georgia Dugout Club Player of the Month, selected to the LaGrange All-Tournament Team,  selected as the catcher for the Gwinett County 2nd All-County team, also named to Senior team Georgia…In 09, was named Georgia Dugout Club Player of the Month and Gwinnett County Player of the Month.
 
Personal
Was born Ronnie Edward Freeman in Atlanta, Ga....Is the son of Ron and Eileen Freeman...Has two siblings, Brooke and Kayleigh...Ronnie is undecided on a major.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2010Redshirt Freshman

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  • 2011Redshirt Freshman

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    2012Junior

    Catcher
    6'1" 190 lbs
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