AS A SOPHOMORE (2015): Saw action in 13 games, including four starts … Posted a .444 batting average in 18 at-bats with eight runs scored on eight hits, including three extra-base hits (1 HR), and seven RBI … Also drew a pair of walks and one hit by pitch, and was 1-for-1 on stolen base attempts … Picked up first hit of season on a pinch-hit single in game three against Pitt-Johnstown … Hit a pinch-hit grand slam in the second game of the doubleheader … Tripled in a run on a 1-for-3 outing against St. Andrews … Hit a pinch-hit two-run double at USC Aiken … Walked once and scored twice at Catawba.
AS A FRESHMAN AT CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE (2014): Saw action in 19 games … Posted a .103 batting average in 29 at-bats with one run scored on three hits, including one extra-base hit, and one RBI … Recorded his first collegiate hit, and later scored, on a double at Fairfield … Hit 2-for-4 with a RBI in series opener with Sacred Heart.
HIGH SCHOOL: Prepped at South Kingstown High School for coach Jim Sauro … Earned second-straight all-state and all-division laurels as a prep senior after hitting .493 with 21 RBI and 21 runs scored … Also stole 19 bases ... Registered a .442 batting average as a junior in leading the rebels to a runner-up finish in the state tournament.
PERSONAL: The son of Karen and Ken Hayes … Has two younger brothers, Justin and Jared … Maintained a 3.3 cumulative grade point average at South Kingstown High School and graduated in the top 40 percent of his 248-member senior class … A business major at UNCP.
CAREER HIGHS AT CCSU
AB: 4 vs. Sacred Heart (5/15/14)
R: 1 at Fairfield (5/3/14)
H: 2 vs. Sacred Heart (5/15/14)
RBI: 1 vs. Sacred Heart (5/15/14)
2B: 1 at Fairfield (5/3/14)
3B: None
HR: None
BB: None
SB: None
Hitting Streak: 2 games (5/3/14 – 5/15/14)
UNCP CAREER HIGHS
AB: 2 vs. Wingate (3/8/16)
R: 1 vs. Chowan (3/22/16)
H: 1, twice – last vs. Chowan (3/22/16)
RBI: 1, twice – last vs. Chowan (3/22/16)
2B: None
3B: None
HR: None
BB: 1 vs. Shippensburg (2/27/16)
SB: None
Hitting Streak: None
