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2024 Baseball Roster

Sarah McIlroy
Sarah McIlroy
© Union College
Michael Mason
Michael Mason

55 Kobe Mentzer

  • Class Senior
  • Position Outfield
  • Ht./Wt. 6-1 / 200
  • Hometown Larchmont, N.Y.
  • High School Mamaroneck
  • Major Managerial Economics
  • Minor Data Analytics and Classics

Biography

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I chose Union because I really loved the camaraderie of the team and the school has a strong economics program.
Honors and Awards:
- All-Liberty League Second Team (2022)
- All-Liberty League Honorable Mention (2023, 2024)
- CSC Academic All-District First Team (2023, 2024)
- Liberty League All-Academic Team (2022, 2023, 2024)

At Union: Hosts a radio show on WRUC ... a Dean's List student ... Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society.

2024: Started in all 41 games as a senior captain … hit .365 (58 for 159) with a career-high 11 doubles, one triple and two homers ... drove in 46 runs and scored 42 runs… reset his own school single-season record with 31 walks and also surpassed the program career walks record with 82 in four years … tied for the Liberty League lead in walks and also ranked second in RBIs and hits as well as fourth in runs scored ... went 6-for-7 on the basepaths … had five hits, drove in eight and scored five times in a doubleheader sweep of Skidmore (4/27) ... went 4-for-5 against Russell Sage (5/1) with three runs, two RBIs, one double and a stolen base. 

2023: The only Union player to start all 38 games as a junior … hit .385 with a team-best 47 hits, 10 doubles, 31 runs scored and 35 RBIs on the year … also walked 25 times, one short of his own program record set last year … went 8-for-11 in stolen base attempts … reached base in 35-of-38 games, including the final 16 games of the season … had 10 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI outings … ranked fifth in the Liberty League in walks, ninth in slugging percentage (.598) and second in sacrifice flies (6) … his 35 RBIs rank seventh on the school single-season list … had one hit but drove in four runs in a win over Wisconsin-Eau Claire (3/20) … reached base four times with a single and three walks and stole four bases versus Keuka (3/23) … went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored in a win over Oneonta (4/11) … went on a 10-game hitting streak in late April, including three-hit efforts against Castleton (4/18), Vassar (4/22) and Wesleyan (4/25).

2022: The only player to play in and start all 34 games on the season, including 26 games in left field … led the team in batting average (.366), OPS (1.004), hits (41), runs scored (27), doubles (9), runs batted in (21), walks (26) and on-base percentage (.486) … his 26 walks are a new program single-season record and ranked fifth in the Liberty League this year … ranked ninth in the conference in on-base percentage … started the season with a 14-game hitting streak, the longest by a Union player all year … had at least one hit in 29 of 34 games … launched his first homer of the season and had a season-high three hits with an RBI and a run scored in game two against Wisconsin-Whitewater (3/19) … went 3-for-4 with three RBIs in game one against Clarkson (3/26) … drove in three runs and scored twice versus Bard (4/26).
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2021: Appeared in six games and started one in the pandemic-shortened season … Made collegiate debut against Cortland (4/10) as a pinch hitter … Started first game as a designated hitter against Skidmore (4/24) … Recorded first collegiate hit, a single, against Rochester (5/15).
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High School: A 2020 graduate of Mamaroneck High School ... played five years of baseball for the Tigers.

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Historical Player Information

  • 55

    2021First Year

    Outfield/First Base
    6'1" 190 lbs
    55
  • 55

    2022Sophomore

    Outfield/First Base
    6'1" 190 lbs
    55
  • 55
    C

    2023Junior

    Outfield
    6'1" 195 lbs
    55
    C
  • 55
    C

    2024Senior

    Outfield
    6'1" 200 lbs
    55
    C