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Gehrig Ebel Season 2024

PositionC
Weight205 lbs
Height6-0
ClassSenior
HometownOoltewah, Tenn.
High SchoolBaylor School
Bat/ThrowR/R
B/TR/R

2023 at Virginia Tech
Season Notes:  Played in 34 games, started 21 games, batted .211 while recording 71 at-bats … Registered 15 hits, including a home run , slugging .310 … Scored nine runs and totaled nine RBIs … Drew 15 walks, achieving a .363 on-base percentage … Sported a .996 fielding percentage at catcher and has 13 putouts during the second game in the Charleston series. 

2022 at Virginia Tech
Season Notes:  Played in 13 games, making four starts at catcher … Batted .167 while recording 18 at-bats … Tallied three hits, including a home run … Scored five runs and totaled three RBIs … Drew two walks and was twice a hit batsman, achieving a .318 on-base percentage … Went errorless on 43 chances at catcher and caught one runner stealing.
NCAA Blacksburg Regional:  Scored two runs, totaled two RBIs and hit his first career home run, a two-run shot, during the top of the eighth inning of Tech's 24-4 victory against Columbia (June 4).

2021 at Virginia Tech
• Appeared in 27 games, starting 12 at catcher … Batted .220 across 41 at-bats … Recorded nine hits, one double and two RBIs … Scored eight runs … Finished the season with a .333 on-base percentage … Made one error on 137 defensive chances (.993 fielding percentage) … Caught two runners stealing on eight attempts.

High School
• Earned five varsity letters playing for coach Mike Kinney at Baylor … Helped the Red Raiders to back-to-back TSSSA Division II-AA state titles as a sophomore and junior ... The team combined for a 51-12 record in 2018 and 2019 as Baylor was tabbed one of the top 100 high school athletic teams in the nation by MaxPreps ... Batted .361 as a junior ... Was a two-time all-state player and a two-time Best of Preps player ... Also earned a varsity letter for the Red Raiders' basketball and bowling teams.
 
Personal
• Gehrig William Ebel … Born May 27, 2001 in Chattanooga, Tennessee … Son of George and Melissa Ebel ... Has a younger sister, Maris … Father played golf at Tennessee Tech, while his grandfathers played collegiate basketball and football
• Majoring in human nutrition, foods and exercise.