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2018 Baseball

4 Ben Furlong

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 170
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown North Bethesda, Md.
  • Highschool Georgetown Prep.

Biography

Career Honors
ABCA/Rawlings Third-team All-Mid Atlantic Region (2017)
Second-team All-Centennial Conference (2017)
Honorable mention All-Centennial Conference (2016, 18)
Centennial Conference Gold Glove of the Year (2016)
Centennial Conference Player of the Week (Apr. 10, 2017)

2018: Honorable mention All-Centennial Conference … One of four players to start all 36 contests … Logged 24 hits … Had four multi-hit games, achieving the feat in back-to-back games against Wooster (Mar. 17) and Gwynedd Mercy (Mar. 19) … Logged two RBI in a win over McDaniel (Mar. 31) and also had multi-RBI contests against Washington College (Apr. 13) and Dickinson (Apr. 21) … Stole eight bases in 13 attempts on the season … Homered against Wooster and against Muhlenberg (Apr. 20).

2017:  ABCA/Rawlings third-team All-Mid-Atlantic Region … Second-team All-Centennial Conference … Started 36 games … Led the team with 10 home runs, the second most in single-season program history … Fifth on the team with a .301 batting average … Clubbed a program and Centennial Conference single-season record three home runs in a single game against Franklin & Marshall (Apr. 8), adding five RBI …Picked up Centennial Conference Player of the Week honors in recognition of the effort (Apr. 10) …  Seven multi-hit contests … Hit a home run in Centennial Conference playoffs against Ursinus (May 6) … Notched Centennial-best 133 infield assists … Turned 31 double plays to lead all conference shortstops.

2016: Honorable mention All-Centennial Conference … Centennial Conference Gold Glove of the Year recognizing the best defensive player in the conference … Was one of two to start all 42 games playing at shortstop … First on the team in home runs (6) and RBI (41) ... Tallied 14 multi-hit and 10 multi-RBI games … Notched a 10-game hit streak (Mar. 6-Mar. 19) … Career-high five RBI against Johns Hopkins (Apr. 2) … Season-high three hits on four separate occasions vs. Lakeland (Mar. 11), vs. Rowan (Mar. 23), at Johns Hopkins (Apr. 2) and vs. McDaniel (May 5).

2015: Played in 25 games and made 21 starts at shortstop … Tallied 13 runs, three doubles and six RBI during the season … Over final 13 appearances, hit .381 (16-for-42) with five multi-hit games to end the season with a .281 average … Three games with two runs scored, last vs. Johns Hopkins (Apr. 30) …Two multi-RBI games … Season-best three hits at Gettysburg (Apr. 25) ... Two doubles vs. Neumann (Apr. 28).

Prep: Graduated with First Honors and member of National Honors … Made the Dean’s List all four years of high school.

Personal: Son of Mary and Brendan Furlong.

Yearavggp-gsabrh2b3bhrrbibbsosb-att
2015.....28125-2164131830068163-5
2016.....31342-4216031509364114335-7
2017.....30136-361232637911037232512-13
2018.....19836-3612116246121513368-13
TOTAL....276139-1354688612927518995811028-38
SINGLE-GAME HIGHS [all-time ranking -at time of graduation]:
Hits: 4, Franklin & Marshall, Apr 08, 2017 ; vs Anna Maria, Mar 7, 2017
Doubles: 2 [t-6th], Rowan, 3/23/2016 ; Neumann University, 4/28/2015
Triples: 1 [t-5th], 5 times
Home runs: 3 [1st], Franklin & Marshall, Apr 08, 2017
Total bases: 13 [1st], Franklin & Marshall, Apr 08, 2017
RBI: 6 [t-3rd], vs Anna Maria, Mar 7, 2017
Runs scored: 3, Ursinus, 4/21/2016 ; Gettysburg, 4/30/2016 ; Franklin & Marshall, Apr 08, 2017
Walks: 2, 10 times
Hit by pitch: 2 [t-4th], Johns Hopkins, Apr 14, 2018 ; Cabrini, Mar 29, 2018
Struck out: 3 [t-6th], 6 times
Sac flies: 1 [t-9th], 5 times
Sac bunts: 1, 9 times
At bats: 6 [t-10th], 4 times
Stolen bases: 2, at Catholic University, Mar 03, 2018 ; at Catholic, Mar 03, 2018 ; The College of NJ, Mar 30, 2017
Caught stealing: 2 [t-1st], at Franklin & Marshall, Apr 07, 2018
Field chances: 12, at NYU, Mar 25, 2017
Putouts: 6, at Johns Hopkins, 4/2/2016
Assists: 8 [t-6th], at Eastern, Mar 06, 2018 ; at NYU, Mar 24, 2018 ; at New York University, Mar 24, 2018
CAREER ALL-TIME RANKINGS [all-time ranking - at time of graduation]: 
Most assists: 2nd (428)
Most double plays turned: 2nd (102)
Most home runs: t-3rd (18)
Most games started: 7th (135)
Most chances: 9th (698)
Most games played: t-9th (139)
Most at bats: 10th (468)
Most sacrifice hits: 10th (10)
Most times hit by pitch: t-10th (18)
Most total bases: 11th (220)
Most runs batted in: t-11th (99)
Most walks: 15th (58)
Most times reached on FC: 15th (15)
Most doubles: t-15th (27)
Most triples: t-19th (5)
Most runs scored: 20th (86)
SINGLE-SEASON RANKINGS - [All-time ranking at time of graduation]:

Most home runs: 2nd (10 in 2017)
Most assists: t-2nd (133 in 2017)
Most double plays turned: t-3rd (31 in 2017)
Most assists: 4th (128 in 2016)
Most games started: t-4th (42 in 2016)
Most games played: t-6th (42 in 2016)
Most double plays turned: t-6th (28 in 2016)
Most runs batted in: 9th (41 in 2016)
Most assists: 9th (115 in 2018)
Most at bats: t-9th (160 in 2016)
Most times reached on FC: t-11th (6 in 2016)
Most total bases: 12th (83 in 2016)
Most triples: t-12th (3 in 2016)
Most times reached base on error: t-12th (7 in 2018)
Highest slugging pct.: 13th (.634 in 2017)
Most total bases: t-15th (78 in 2017)
Most double plays turned: t-15th (23 in 2018)
Most runs batted in: 16th (37 in 2017)
Most sacrifice flies: t-16th (3 in 2017)
Most sacrifice hits: t-16th (4 in 2016)
Most home runs: t-17th (6 in 2016)
Most walks: t-18th (23 in 2017)
Most double plays turned: t-19th (20 in 2015)

 

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2015First-Year

    SS/2B
    6'1" 170 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2016Sophomore

    2B/SS
    6'1" 170 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2017Junior

    SS
    6'1" 170 lbs
    4
  • 4

    2018Senior

    SS
    6'1" 170 lbs
    4
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