Youngstown State University

2012 (Senior) | Game-By-Game Stats: Named First-TeamAll-Horizon League at designated hitter after leading the league inbatting average (.385), on-base percenrtage (.466) and sluggingpercentage (.578)... Missed 14 games from March 20 to April 13 withan injured shoulder... Started all 41 games he appeared in... LedYSU with 16 doubles and 44 RBIs despite missing 14 games... Batted.354 against league opponents during the regular season... Hit ablistering .419 against right-handers, .387 with runners in scoringposition and .403 with two outs... Established new career highs inRBIs, total bases, slugging percentage, on-base percentage andwalks while matching his previous high in home runs... Named theHorizon League Batter of the Week three times - March 6, March 12and April 30... Batted .462 and was named to the all-tournamentteam at the Austin Peay Riverview Inn Classic during the weekleading up to March 6... Reached base seven times in a 10-inningloss to Iowa, hitting a go-ahead two-run homer in the ninth,singling three times and walking three times... Followed that up byhitting .545 with three homers, two doubles and eight RBIs in athree-game series at VMI the following week to repeat as theleague's batter of the week... Also named the Central Region Playerof the Week by CollegeBaseballInsider.com on March 14... Earned histhird weekly honor by the league by hitting .636 and reaching baseat least twice in each game of a three-game sweep over UIC...Started the season by posting multiple hits in his first five gamesand in 10 of his first 17... All five of his home runs came in hisfirst 13 games, including two at VMI on March 11... Delivered awalk-off single in the 11th inning to lead YSU to a 4-3 win overMilwaukee on March 18... Was injured during the postgamecelebration and went on to miss 14 games... Finished the campaignwith 18 multi-hit games and drove in at least two runs in ateam-best 10 games... Hit safely in 17 consecutive games from April22 to May 25... Had four hits twice - at VMI on March 4 and againstUIC on April 29.

2011 (Junior) | Game-By-Game Stats: One of two playersto play in and start all 55 games... 53 starts came at first base,and two were at designated hitter... Batted a team-best .300 whileadding team-highs with three home runs, 64 hits, 26 RBIs, 83 totalbases and a .390 slugging percentage... Added eight doubles and atriple... Hit .319 in Horizon League play and .400 over four gamesin the conference tournament... Compiled a fielding percentage of.991, committing four errors in 458 chances... Hit a team-high .327with runners in scoring position... Led the Penguins with 20multi-hit games and tied for top honors with six multi-RBI games...Seven of those multi-hit games came in 16 contests in May...Reached base in the final nine games of the season... Hit two ofhis homers at Ohio (5/3)... Also homered at home against Milwaukeewhen he went 4-for-5 with four RBIs and two runs scored (5/7)...Also had four hits at Xavier... Scored two runs seven times... Hadmultiple hits five times in a six-game span from March 26 to April3 to raise his average 48 points... Stole five bases, matching thetotal from his freshman year... Walked 22 times while striking outjust 17 times, the lowest among all players with more than 75 atbats.

2010 (Sophomore) | Game-By-Game Stats: Played in 51 gamesand started 43 contests at first base... Hit a career-best .313while also setting career highs with five home runs, 12 doubles, 36runs scored, 37 RBIs and a .475 slugging percentage... Became onlythe third Penguin in a decade to hit .300 as both a freshman andsophomore... Had 22 walks and 22 strikeouts in 2010, and has 41walks against 39 strikeouts in his first two seasons... Batted.353 with 27 runs, four homers and 26 RBIs in 33 games over thefinal two months... Posted 13 multi-hit games, 11 multi-RBI gamesand six multi-run contests... Hit home runs in bunches - the firsttwo came in a three-game span from March 30 to April 2, and thelast three came over seven games from April 30 to May 14... Hit athree-run shot at Duquesne (3/30) and a two-run homer versus UIC(4/2)... Hit a two-run homer at Wright State (4/30)... Hit agame-winning two-run blast with two outs in the top of the 11th tobeat Cleveland State (5/7)... His fifth homer led off the fifthinning at Valpo (5/14)... Matched his career high with four hits inthe season opener at New Orleans (2/27)... Scored a career-bestfour runs against Duquesne (4/7)... Doubled twice, tripled andwalked while driving in three runs against the Dukes... Drove in aseason-best four runs at Duquesne (3/30)... Recorded a season-besteight-game hitting streak from April 21-30... Also hit in sevenstraight games from March 27 to April 7... Was held hitless inback-to-back games just three times... Hit safely in 19 of thefinal 21 contests.... Started April by going 10-for-18 with 10RBIs, eight runs scored and five doubles in four games... Had threehits four times, three runs twice and three RBIs four times.

2009 (Freshman) | Game-By-Game Stats: Played in 45 gamesand started 33... Batted .302 with four home runs, 29 runs scoredand 30 RBIs... His home run and RBI totals were the highest by afreshman since YSU career record holder Erich Diedrich hit sixhomers and drove in 33 in 2005... Was even better against HorizonLeague competition, batting .324 with three homers, a .465 sluggingpercentage and a team-best 15 RBIs... Hit safely in the final 11games of the season and in 14 of the final 15... Batted .439 with18 RBIs and 13 runs scored over the final 11 games... Increased hisbatting average 67 points over that span... Also batted .323against righties, .348 with runners in scoring position and .395with two outs... His 17 two-out RBIs were a team-high... Finishedwith eight multi-RBI games, which ranked second on the team, eightmulti-hit games and five multi-run games... Homered three times ina four-game span from May 2-8, including both games of adoubleheader on May 8 against Wright State.... Hit a three-runhomer and matched a career-high with four RBIs at Valpo (5/2)...Also drove in four against Buffalo in the regular season finale(5/13)... Scored a career-high three runs at Valpo (5/2)... Had acareer-high four hits - three singles and a double - against Butlerin the Horizon League Tournament... Hit a walk-off, game-winningsingle in the bottom of the ninth against Cleveland State (4/11)...Scored the winning run in the seventh at Marshall (3/15)... Homeredfor the first time in his career at Akron (3/18)... Drew threewalks twice and two walks three times.

High School: Earned three letters... namedFirst-Team All-Ohio in Division II at first base and member of theMizuno All-Ohio Series his senior year... Also named the DivisionII Eastern District Player of the Year and the Ohio Valley AthleticConference Class AAAA Player of the Year as a senior... Hit .590with 35 RBIs, four homers and 38 runs scored to go along with a 7-2record on the mound... Drew 29 walks and struck out only fourtimes... Named to the OVAC all-star team... As a junior he batted.359 with three home runs and 23 RBIs for the Big Red... Hit .373with four homers, 14 doubles and eight triples in 66 games forAmerican Legion Post 33 in the 2007 summer... Was also a standoutfootball player for the Big Red, who won the Division III statetitle his freshman and sophomore seasons... Was an All-OVACselection in as a tight end and linebacker.

Personal: Son of Joel and Joyce Banks...Has four brothers (Joel Jr., Justin, Joshua and James) and onesister (Jamie)... Justin played baseball for the Penguins from2003-06 and ranks among YSU's top five career-best hitters in hits,RBIs, doubles, at bats and total bases... Major is accounting...Born June 7, 1990... Recipient of the 2011-12 MayberryScholarship.

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