2007: National Player of the Year candidate … Named First Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball and Rivals.com … Member of 2007 USA Baseball National Team … Named a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and quarterfinalist for the Brooks Wallace Award, both recognizing the National Player of the Year in college baseball … Preseason Third Team All-American by Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball and National Collegiate Baseball Writers ... Broke the Rutgers single-season and career home run record against Notre Dame (4/28) with his 35th career blast and 15th of the season … Finished his junior season with 22 home runs and 42 for his career …Posted a .520 average (13-for-25) in six games of the BIG EAST Tournament with 12 runs, three homeruns, five doubles and seven RBI ... Broke the Tournament’s run record (12), doubles record (5) and total bases mark (27) ... His 13 hits tied the Tournament record  … Named BIG EAST Player of the Year at the annual awards banquet … Named to the All-Tournament team at the NCAA Charlottesville Regional after going 4-for-12 with four doubles and four runs scored in Rutgers’ three games … Finished junior season in the top-6 in every Rutgers single-season offensive category, excluding triples …  Broke the Rutgers single-season record for home runs (22), home runs by a leadoff hitter (22), runs scored (87), walks (62), doubles (24) and total bases (187) … Also finished second in slugging percentage (.757), second in at bats (247), tied for third in runs batted in (65), fifth in hits (93), and tied for sixth in stolen bases (25) …Has placed himself on several Rutgers career record charts through just three seasons … Is the Scarlet Knights’ all-time leader in home runs (42) and runs scored (210), and is second in walks (138) and total bases (434), and third in hits (241), slugging percentage (.625) and stolen bases (65), and fifth in runs batted in (152) …Finished the season fourth in the nation in home runs (22), fourth in runs per game (1.38), eighth in walks per game (0.98) and 11th in home run per game (0.35) … Led the BIG EAST in home runs, runs scored, slugging percentage, walks, hits and total bases and ranks among the league leaders in virtually every other offensive category, including runs batted in, on-base percentage, batting average, stolen bases and doubles entering NCAA Tournament play … Rated as the top professional prospect in the Northern Region by Baseball America … Has reached base safely in all but one of RU's 63 games this season, including 57-straight contests … Has recorded a hit in 52 of 63 games and driven in at least one run in 36 games this season … Named BIG EAST and Collegiate Baseball Foundation National Player of the Week on April 9 after finishing a three-game series with Connecticut with 12 RBI, including two grand slams and a two-run, walk-off home run to complete the series sweep of the Huskies … Owns three grand slams on the season … Went 4-for-6 with four RBI and two runs scored, including a grand slam at No. 14 Georgia Tech (3/4) … Hit two home runs in the first inning of RU's series opener against Cincinnati (5/5) and finished the game 3-for-5 with four RBI in the Scarlet Knights' 16-6 victory over the Bearcats … Went 4-for-6 with a home run and three doubles in the BIG EAST Tournament against Villanova (5/24) ... Has recorded three hits in a game six times this season and owns a pair of four-hit performances …  Has started all 174 games in his career with the Scarlet Knights, owning a .347 career batting average … Named New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association Division I Player of the Year.

Personal: Was a member of the Toms River East American Team (along with teammate Casey Gaynor) that won the 1998 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. 

Overall Career Statistics
Year      AVG     GP-GS      AB          R         H         2B       3B       HR      RBI     BB       S0        SB-ATT
2005      .295       53-53         220         61        65        13        3          9          36        34        43        19-21
2006      .366       58-58         227         62        83        14        3          11        51        42        42        21-28
2007      .377       63-63         247         87        93        24        2          22        65        62        51        25-30
Career  .347       174-174     694         210      241      51        8          42        152      138      136      65-79

BIG EAST Only Statistics
Year      AVG     GP-GS      AB          R         H         2B       3B       HR      RBI     BB       S0        SB-ATT
2005      .253       24-24         95           22        24        4          0          3          16        13        23        7-8
2006      .424       27-27         99           32        42        3          2          6          23        26        17        6-11
2007      .340       27-27         106         35        36        8          1          9          30        29        24        11-13
Career  .340       78-78         300         89        102      15        3          18        69        68        64        23-32