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At Charlotte - 2008: Started the season playing from the bench, but emerged to become an everyday outfield starter, logging 39 starts in 48 games played... Finished the season with a career-long 13-game hitting streak, which is active heading into 2009... Was fourth on the team by drawing 34 walks... Was 2-for-6 as a pinch hitter, with two runs scored and two RBI... Drew a walk and scored a run in his only appearance as the designated hitter... Made only one error in 83 chances for a .988 fielding percentage, second-best in the Charlotte outfield... Had a pair of three-hit games, including a perfect 3-for-3 at Wake Forest on March 26... Drove in five runs on a double and a grand slam in game two of a home DH versus Stony Brook on March 16... Scored four runs after two hits and two walks at Massachusetts in a 24-6 road conference win... Went 14-for-48 with two outs and logged 17 two-out RBI... Recorded 14 RBI in 17 opportunities with a runner at third and less than two outs...
Summer Ball, 2008: Played in the Atlantic Collegiate League for the Hampton Whalers... Named a top prospect out of that league after leading the team with a 22-for-22 stolen base total and scoring 23 runs for the season.
2007: Led team in pinch hitting, with seven pinch hits in 25 at-bats (.280)... Also led team in average with two outs (.428)... Best performance was a three-hit game off the bench in an 11-inning win over Xavier on 5/4, during which he went 3-for-3 after coming in for the eighth inning, with two singles and an RBI double in the 11th... Recorded a hit in four consecutive pinch-hit at-bats.
2006: Collected his first career hit, a two-run triple to start a five-run inning in Charlotte's 12-4 win vs. Canisius on Feb. 19... Put together career-best eight-game hitting streak (12-for-26) which began at No. 6 North Carolina and raised his season average from .212 to .322 and included five runs and five RBI and ended with a home run in the final game, a leadoff blast in the third in Charlotte's 14-6 win at Duquesne... Had five multi-hit games... Only one of two players to record an RBI in the A-10 baseball tournament... Batted .308 (4-for-13) hitting seventh in the lineup...
At North Mecklenburg - On North Meck's conference championship team in 2005 ... Helped Vikings to a 20-5 record ... All-Conference selection ... Honor Roll student ... Played for the Carolina Copperheads during the summer.
Personal - Parents are Paula and Gary Parks ... Major is criminal justice... Born September 10, 1987.
