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#1 Andres Sosa
INF/C 5-11 190 Sr. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico San Jacinto College
CAREER HONORS
2019:
Lubbock Regional All-Tournament Team Missouri Valley Conference All-Tournament Team
2020 (SENIOR)
Made five starts before he was lost for the season to injury ... Hit .286 with a home run and five RBI ... VS. NON-CONFERENCE: Went 2-for-4 with a home run and a matched a career-high in RBI (4) against South Dakota State (2/16) ... Scored three runs as part of a two-hit day versus South Dakota State (2/16).
2019 (JUNIOR)
2018 (SOPHOMORE – SAN JACINTO COLLEGE)
Played in 49 games and hit .200 with four home runs and 14 RBI.
2017 (FRESHMAN – UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS)
Played in 11 games and made two starts ... Made his collegiate debut versus No. 23 Rice (2/18) ... Earned his first career start at No. 22 Stanford (3/4) ... Recorded his first career hit against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3/8).
COLLEGIATE SUMMER LEAGUE
Played for the Cowlitz Bears in the West Coast League in 2018 and 2019 ... Spent the summer of 2017 with the Martinsville Mustangs in the Coastal Plains League.
HIGH SCHOOL
Four-year letterman at San Antonio Reagan High School ... Played for head coach Chans Chapman ... Named an Honorable Mention All- American by Perfect Game in 2016
as a senior ... Rated the third
best shortstop in the state of
Texas and No. 21 in the nation
by Perfect Game ... Garnered
Class 6A Honorable Mention All-
State honors as a senior by the
Texas Sports Writers Association
... Tabbed a First Team Underclass All-American in 2015
by Perfect Game ... Competed for the Houston Banditos Black in the summers.
PERSONAL
Born on November 7, 1997 ... Parents are Andres and Lydia Sosa ... His grandfather, Miguel Sotelo, was
a pitcher and is in the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame ... Earned
a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from DBU and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Leadership ... Favorite Bible verse is Psalm 38:9.
Played in 47 games, making 40 starts ... Hit .262 and was second on the team in home runs (8) ... Also collected 34 RBI, five doubles, and seven stolen bases ... Made just three errors in 274 chances for a .989 fielding percentage ... VS. TOP 25 OPPONENTS: Took over the team’s starting role at first base against No. 19 TCU (4/9) and went 1-for-5 in a win over the Horned Frogs ... VS. MVC OPPONENTS: Went 2-for-4 in a victory over Bradley (4/20) ... Smashed his third home run of the year as part of a 2-for-2 day with three RBI against Bradley (4/20) ... Helped DBU clinch the MVC regular-season title by going 1-for-3 with a home run and a season-high four RBI in a win at Southern Illinois (5/18) ... VS. NON-CONFERENCE: Was the team’s Opening Day starter at DH and drove in a run in a win over Kent State (2/15) ... His first hit as a Patriot was a three-run homer at Oral Roberts (3/9) ... Went 3-for-6 with a double, four RBI, and a season-high four runs scored in a win at Air Force (3/24) ... Helped lift DBU to a series win over Charleston (4/14) after going 2-for-4 with a home run and three runs scored ... Delivered a season-high four hits and four RBI to go along with a double at TCU (4/23) ... Went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI versus Stephen F. Austin (5/7) ... MVC TOURNAMENT: Smashed a home run, doubled, and drove in three runs in a win over Evansville (5/23) ... Hit his second home run of the MVC Tournament against Indiana State (5/25) ... Earned MVC All-Tournament Team honors after hitting .333 (5-for-15) with two home runs and four RBI ... LUBBOCK REGIONAL: Lifted the Patriots to a victory over Florida after going 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBI ... Delivered a solo homer in an elimination win against Florida (6/2) ... Went 2-for-4 versus No. 8 Texas Tech in the finals of the Lubbock Regional (6/2) ... Named to the Lubbock Regional All-Tournament Team after hitting .438 (7-for-16) with two home runs, three RBI, and four runs scored.
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