Missouri S&T Athletics

2022: Started 40 of 43 games in his second season in Rolla...Posted a .315 average with eight doubles, a triple and four home runs...Went 8-11 on stolen bases and drove in 30 while scoring 33 times...Turned in 11 multi-hit games...Drove in a run and scored in six-straight games from 3/13-3/20...Drove in a season-high three on two occasions...Went 4-4 with two doubles, an RBI and two runs against USI (4/29).

2021: Appeared in 38 games, making 36 starts, in his first season at S&T, batting .339 with 10 doubles, two home runs and 23 runs batted in...stole six bases and scored 25 runs...recorded his first career hit against Missouri Southern and went 3-4 in that game...recorded 10 multi-hit games, including a trio of three-hit outings...recorded a season-long seven game hitting streak from April 1 to April 11..first collegiate homerun came against William Jewell on April 26 and drove in a season-high five runs...recorded five mutli-RBI games...named to the GLVC Academic All-Conference Team.

HIGH SCHOOL: Batted .323 in his junior year at St. James High School with a home run and a team-high 16 runs batted in; 2020 season was canceled...batted .322 as a sophomore and drove in five runs...had six extra base hits during that season....was a second-team all-state selection by MaxPreps in basketball following his senior year.

PERSONAL: Son of Melvin and Beth Branson...majoring in biology at Missouri S&T.