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2021 Merrimack College Baseball Roster

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22 Riley Sorenson

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Position Right-Handed Pitcher
  • Ht./Wt. 6-2 / 205
  • Hometown Sandwich, Mass.
  • High School/Prep (Previous College) Sandwich
  • Major Sports Management

Biography

2020:

  • NEC Pitcher of the Week
  • Appeared in five games, started four 
  • Lead the team with 23.2 innings pitched 
  • Posted 12 strikeouts

2019:

  • NE10, NCBWA Pitcher of the Week (4/29)
  • Led Merrimack’s staff with 16 appearances on the season
  • Totaled a team-high four saves (5th in the NE10)
  • Threw a complete-game shutout against Saint Michael’s (4/22) with a career-high seven strikeouts
  • Posted a 3-5 record with a 4.06 ERA, tossing 44.1 innings with 29 strikeouts

2018:

  • Returned from injury after missing all of the 2017 campaign
  • Made his first start of the season in the NE10 Championship winner-take-all game, throwing six innings and recording the victory over #7 New Haven (5/12)
  • Also notched the win in Merrimack’s playoff-clinching rally against Assumption (5/2), throwing four innings of one-run relief
  • Posted a 2.25 ERA and a 2-0 record over nine appearances and 16 innings of work
  • Struck out 18 batters and held opponents to a .203 batting average against

2017:

  • Did not appear in a game this season due to injury 

2016:

  • Filled the role of midweek starter by season’s end
  • Made four starts, all against divisional opponents, winning three of them
  • Set season highs of six innings and five strikeouts in his debut start vs. Assumption (4/13)
  • Started his career by throwing six scoreless innings across four appearances out of the bullpen
  • Ended the year with a 4-0 record, tossing 30.1 IP and recording a 4.45 ERA

Before Merrimack:

  • Four-year letterwinner at Sandwich High School
  • Combined to go 9-4 as a starting pitcher between his sophomore and junior years
  • Named team captain entering his senior season
  • Won the Holy Cross Book Award after his junior year
  • Member of the Team Cape Cod club program, posting a 6-2 record, 0.74 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 2014
  • Also recruited by UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell, Saint Anselm and Wheaton

Personal: 

  • Born on September 25, 1996
  • Son of Richard and Stephanie
  • Has one sibling, Calie
  • Sports Management major at Merrimack

CAREER HIGHS:

Innings pitched: 9.0, Saint Michael's, 04/22/2019 
Walks allowed: 5, Saint Anselm, 04/20/16 
Strikeouts: 7, Saint Michael's, 04/22/2019 
Batters faced: 31, Saint Michael's, 04/22/2019 ; Franklin Pierce, 04/28/2019 
Field chances: 3, Saint Michael's, 04/22/2019 
Putouts: 1, at Assumption, 04/27/16 ; vs Franklin Pierce, 05/11/19 
Assists: 3, Saint Michael's, 04/22/2019 
Runners CS: 1, Saint Anselm, 04/20/16 ; at So. New Hampshire, 5/4/2019 ; vs Davenport, Feb 24, 2019

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 29

    2016Freshman

    RHP
    6'2" 180 lbs
    29
  • 22

    2017Sophomore

    RHP
    6'2" 205 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2018Junior

    RHP
    6'2" 205 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2019Senior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'2" 205 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2020Graduate Student

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'2" 205 lbs
    22
  • 22

    2021Graduate Student

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'2" 205 lbs
    22
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