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2008-09 Annual Report
 
 

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  Brian Meagher

Brian Meagher

Player Profile

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Drexel Hill, PA

High School:
Monsignor Bonner

Height / Weight:
6-2 / 180

Position:
INF

Bats/Throws:
R/R

2009: The only Explorer to start all 49 games and all at shortstop...Had 10 multi-hit games and five multi-RBI contests...On Feb. 21 at Duke had two hits and two RBI...Also had two RBI versus Saint Peter's on three hits, including a triple...Had one other three-hit game, scoring three runs versus Delaware State (3/25)...Knocked in three runs in a pair of games, at Temple (3/27-G1) and versus Richmond (5/14), both on three-run home runs...Hit three round trippers in all, the other versus Coppin State (4/8)...Tied for the team lead with eight sacrifice bunts, which also tied him for 141st in the nation...Also led La Salle with 147 assists, which was eighth-most in the Atlantic 10 Conference, had 77 putouts, and helped turn 27 double plays.

2008: Started all 50 games played, second most on the team, and all at shortstop...Had 10 multi-hit games, and three multi-RBI games...Had four games with three hits, including a 3-for-4 day with a career-high four RBI, and first career triple versus Long Island (3/14)...Other games were at Duquesne (4/11), versus George Washington (5/10-G1) with a pair of runs scored, and versus Saint Joseph's (5/17-G1)...In final day of the season in a doubleheader against the Hawks, went 5-for-9 with four RBI, which included a pair of game-winning walk-off hits...Hit a pair of home runs, at Richmond (3/22) and versus Fordham (4/20)...Helped turn 31 double plays, had 140 assists - second-most on the team, and 85 putouts.

2007: Led the team with 48 starts - all at shortstop...Had seven multi-hit games, including his first game with a hit versus Ball State (2/17-G2)...Also had a pair of hits at Bethune-Cookman (3/6), versus Iona (3/11), versus Saint Louis (4/7-G2), at Villanova (4/17), at Delaware (4/24), and at Xavier (5/12)...Hit his first of seven doubles at Miami (3/7)...Also had doubles versus Iona (3/11), versus Philadelphia (3/21), at Delaware (4/3), at Penn (4/11), versus St. Bonaventure (4/29) and at Xavier (5/12)...Had two multi-RBI games - versus Villanova (3/13) and at Saint Joseph's (4/14-G2) and scored a pair of runs at Delaware (4/3)...Tied for the team-lead with 106 assists and helped turn 22 double plays...Also tied for the team-lead with eight sacrifice bunts.

High School: As a senior, named second team News of Delaware County and third team All-City.

Major: marketing and management.