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2016 Baseball Roster

27 Garen Turner

  • Position Catcher
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 200
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Hainesport, NJ
  • Highschool Rancocas Valley HS

Biography

Major: Business

2015: Played in all 36 games last season. Batted .297 with 44 hits, eight doubles, three home runs, 28 runs batted in, and 25 runs scored. … Compiled 13 multi-hit games including a trio of three-hit games. … Collected his 100th career hit with a base hit to left-center at home against Rutgers-Camden … Stroked three doubles and drove in two in a 9-8 win over Keene State. … Had a big double header against NJCU, going a combined 3-for-7 with seven RBIs, a triple, and a home run. Followed that performance with a four-RBI day against William Paterson, giving him 11 runs batted in over three games. … His biggest hit of the season came in the NJAC tourney. Broke a 4-4 tie in the seventh with an opposite-field, two-run homer to lead the Lions to a 9-4 win over top-seeded Rutgers-Camden. … A member of the NJAC All-Academic Team, TCNJ Scholar-Athlete, and has made the Dean’s List every semester at the college.

2014: Turner was limited to a designated hitter role due to an arm injury in 2014, but had a solid season at the plate for the Lions.  He hit .288 with six doubles and a pair of home runs.  He played a key role in TCNJ’s first victory of the season against Suffolk, going 2-for-4 with a double, a triple and four runs batted in.  Turner enjoyed a three-hit game against Messiah College, and in an NJAC doubleheader sweep over Richard Stockton College, he went 5-for-7 with three RBI and four runs scored. Turner was a reliable run producer in 2014, driving in 25 runs and crossing the plate 23 times.

2013: Appeared in 27 games, starting 26 during his rookie season. … Shared time behind the plate and as the designated hitter. … Batted .260 with 26 hits, seven doubles, a triple, and a home run. Drove in 12 runs and crossed home plate 20 times. … Threw out five runners attempting to steal. … Notched his first career hit on Opening Day against Immaculata with a single up the middle … Slammed his first career home run at George Ackerman Park against Rugers-Newark.

Parents: Son of Paul and Michelle Turner

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 27

    2013Freshman

    C
    6'0" 185 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2014Sophomore

    Catcher
    6'0" 185 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2015Junior

    Catcher
    6'0" 198 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2016Senior

    Catcher
    6'0" 200 lbs
    27
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