Drew Dosch Biography
- Last name pronounced with long "o"
2013 (Junior) | Game-By-Game Stats: Named First-Team All-Horizon League at third base for the second straight season... Also voted Capital One Academic All-District and the Horizon League's Scholar-Athlete of the Month in February... Named the conference batter of the week on March 4 and April 22... Tabbed the top professional prospect in the Horizon League by Baseball America and voted the Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year prior to the season... Started all 54 games he played in at third base... Started 53 games batting third and one batting second... Led the Penguins with a .338 batting average, 40 runs, 15 doubles, three triples, a .488 slugging percentage, 36 walks and a .434 on-base percentage... Set new career highs in runs, doubles, triples, walks and on-base percentage... Struck out just 25 times, compared to his 36 walks... Hit .372 with a .477 slugging and a .447 on-base percentage in league play... Ended the season on a 12-game hitting streak over which he was 19-for-45 (.422)... Batted .436 over the first 11 games of the season... Had seven multi-hit games in the first 11 games... Posted multiple hits 21 times, including four three-hit games and a one contest with four hits... Reached base in 48 of his 54 games... Hit .458 with a homer, eight runs scored and six RBIs from April 15-21 to earn conference batter-of-the-week honors... Was 4-for-5 with three runs scored versus UIC (4/20)... Drove in three runs on three occasions - March 1 at Charlotte, March 16 at UIC and April 17 at Toledo... Homered at Samford in the season opener (2/15)... Also hit home runs at Charlotte (3/1) and against UIC (4/19)... Doubled twice at Wake Forest (2/24)... Drew three walks in back-to-back games at Ohio (3/19) and at Wright State (3/28).
2012 Summer: Named the starting designated hitter in the Cape Cod All-Star Game for the West Division... Finished the summer as Falmouth's leader in batting average (.326), home runs (8), RBIs (30), runs scored (23) and doubles (13)... Also led the Commodores with a .537 slugging percentage and a .377 on-base percentage... Received the Outstanding Hitter Award by Falmouth... Ranked second in the Cape Cod League in hits and doubles while also ranking in the top 10 in home runs, RBIs, batting average and slugging percentage... Was named the league's Coca Cola Player of the Week on July 4.
2012 (Sophomore) | Game-By-Game Stats: Named First-Team All-Horizon League at third base... Also voted Capital One Second-Team Academic All-American, Academic All-Horizon League and the Horizon League Scholar-Athlete of the Month for May and June... Started all 55 games at third base... Batted .353 with a .408 on-base percentage and a .527 slugging percentage... Hit a team-high eight home runs after not hitting one round-tripper as a freshman... Also registered team highs with 36 runs, 79 hits, 118 total bases, six sacrifice flies and 115 assists... Ranked third in the Horizon League in batting average, total bases and home runs while ranking fourth in slugging, fifth in hits, eighth in RBIs, and ninth in on-base percentage... Led the Penguins with 23 multi-hit games and posted nine multi-RBI games... Reached base in the first 20 games of the season and 50 times in 55 games overall... Became the second player in school history to register at least five hits in a game twice in the same season (Brandon Caipen, 2006)... Went 5-for-7 with three RBIs and two runs scored against Iowa (3/4)... Was 5-for-6 with two runs, including the game-winner, against Milwaukee (3/18)... Posted four hits in five at bats at Valpo (5/18)... Dosch drove in four runs against Butler twice (3/31 and 5/4)... Stole two bases at Pittsburgh (4/4)... Scored three runs against UIC (4/27)... His batting average stayed between .347 and .369 from March 25 to the end of the season... Batted .368 against lefties, .350 with runners in scoring position and .446 with two outs.
2011 (Freshman) | Game-By-Game Stats: A Horizon League All-Newcomer Team pick... Played in 42 games, 40 of which he started... 38 of those starts came at third base... Batted .262 with 15 runs and 11 RBIs... Hit .310 with five runs and seven RBIs in 17 league games... Batted .357 (5-for-14) with five runs in the Horizon league Baseball Championship... Named the Horizon League Batter of the Week on March 28 – hit .615 during the previous week to earn the honor... Had seven multi-hit games... Ended the season on a five-game hitting streak... Scored the winning run in the ninth in the 3-2 win over Cleveland State (4/23)... Drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th at Milwaukee (4/29)... Scored a career-high four runs while going 2-for-3 with three walks and two steals in the tournament win over UIC (5/28)... Had a career-best four hits, two RBIs and a stolen base in five at bats at Wright State (3/26)... Also drove in two runs at UIC (5/20)... Had 10 sacrifice bunts, which tied for the fifth-most in the conference... Missed three weeks with an injury and returned on April 17... Was hitting .301 before the injury.
High School: Earned all-state honors as both an infielder and pitcher during his prep career... For his career, he batted .524 with 121 RBIs, 111 runs, 46 doubles and eight home runs while striking out just six times... According to the Ohio High School Athletic Association Record Book, he retired ranking 11th in Ohio history in batting average and 18th in hits with 155... Earned a spot on the MaxPreps Medium School All-America Second Team as a senior... He was also First-Team All-Ohio at infield, first-team all-metro, Mid State League Player of the Year and the Division II Central District Player of the Year... Ranked 32nd on The Buckeye Scout's Top 100 list... Batted .563 with 32 RBIs and 40 runs scored as a senior... On the mound, he was 5-2 with a 2.55 ERA... As a junior, he batted .500 with 47 RBIs in helping lead Canal Winchester to the state semifinals... Named Second-Team All-Ohio at pitcher as well as the MSL Player of the Year, first-team all-district and first-team all-metro... Was 12-1 on the mound with a 1.48 ERA... He hit .514 with 42 RBIs as a sophomore, earning first-team all-league, all-district and Fairfield County Player-of-the-Year... Broke school single season records in batting average, hits and RBIs... Earned three letters and was team captain one year... Graduated with a 4.0 and class valedictorian.
Personal: Son of Greg and Lisa Dosch... Has a brother (Grant) and a sister (Rachel)... Academic interest is integrated social studies education... Recipient of the 2011-12 Stephen Bartolin, Sr. Scholarship.
Career Stats:
Year | avg | gp-gs | ab | r | h | 2b | 3b | hr | rbi | tb | slg% | bb | hbp | so | gdp | ob% | sf | sh | sb-att | po | a | e | fld% |
2011.... | .262 | 42-40 | 145 | 15 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 39 | .269 | 14 | 0 | 17 | 3 | .323 | 2 | 10 | 5-7 | 21 | 59 | 11 | .879 |
2012.... | .353 | 55-55 | 224 | 36 | 79 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 42 | 118 | .527 | 23 | 2 | 21 | 4 | .408 | 6 | 3 | 5-7 | 48 | 115 | 15 | .916 |
2013.... | .338 | 54-54 | 201 | 40 | 68 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 98 | .488 | 36 | 2 | 25 | 4 | .434 | 5 | 2 | 3-6 | 46 | 129 | 15 | .921 |
TOTAL... | .325 | 151-149 | 570 | 91 | 185 | 29 | 4 | 11 | 83 | 255 | .447 | 73 | 4 | 63 | 11 | .397 | 13 | 15 | 13-20 | 115 | 303 | 41 | .911 |