Tyler Tharp's Career Stats
2017: First Team All-SoCon honoree by both coaches and media...hit .348 with 16 homers, tied for the third-most homers in school history...led SoCon in slugging percentage, ranked fourth in on-base percentage and was 10th in batting average...set a new school record for single season total bases and his 77 hits were the fifth-most in VMI annals...closed out his career by starting his last 117 games...saw a career-high 15-game hitting streak end in the season finale...had three hits in tournament loss to Mercer...went 7 for 15 with a homer, his 16th, in Furman series 5/13-14...named SoCon Player of the Week and Collegiate Baseball POTW on 5/9, first time to earn either honor...went 9 for 17 with four home runs in four game span 5/2-5/7...had the first three-homer game by a Keydet in 21 years (N. Shepperson) on May 5 vs. UNCG, and followed it up with three hits the next day...had three hits, including his 11th homer of the year, and three RBI in opener of Radford series 4/28... started the year 7 for 7 in stolen bases...had his first career multi-homer game with two long balls 3/21 against UR...reached base in the season's first 15 games
...saw nine-game hitting streak snapped 3/17 at Elon...first VMI player to hit three homers in first five Keydet games since 2010 (S. Roberts)...started the year on a five-game hitting streak with three home runs.
2016: Hit .207 with seven home runs in his junior year...2 for 3 with two RBI, a 2B and a 3B and two runs scored in 5/13 win over Furman...2 for 5 with a RBI double April 23 vs. Wofford...went 2 for 5 with a double and a RBI in series finale vs. WCU April 10...hit his seventh home run of the year April 2 at UNCG...homered in back to back games March 26 and 27 against The Citadel...homered March 13 against UMES...5 for 7 with five runs scored, five RBI and his third home run of the year in Binghamton DH (3/5)... hit his first career grand slam in Feb. 19 (game 2) win over UMBC...homered in back to back at-bats Feb. 19 against UMBC.
2015: Hit .271 with a homer and 29 RBI in his first season of full-time duty...hit safely in eight of the season's first nine games, including five two-hit contests, and raised his average to a season-high .361 after a doubleheader opener against Central Connecticut State on 3/15...failed to get a hit in just five of VMI's games in February/March...drove in a then-career high (since equaled) three runs 3/28 against Samford...hit his first career home run 4/4 in doubleheader opener against Furman...4 for 5 with two RBI in loss to ETSU 4/11...had back to back three-hit games at THe Citadel 4/24-26, in which he went a combined 6 for 10 with three RBI...had five hits in nine AB's over last two UNCG games, including a 3 for 5 day May 10...had a RBI single in the season-ending conference tournament loss against The Citadel.
2014: Posted two hits in his freshman year...had his first career hit in 3/1 win over UMES...drove in a run May 10 against Campbell.
High School/Personal: First Team All-State 1B (AAA)...First Team All-Beach District (voted All-Beach District all four years)…First Team All-Region...four-year letterwinner at Kempsville HS…led Beach District in batting average as a senior (.468)…also ranked third in home runs with five and third in RBI with 26…played for the Tidewater Drillers and Orioles…voted top male athlete at Kempsville as a senior...team captain...majoring in chemistry at VMI.
Career Highs
AB - 7, at Furman, 5/14/17
R - 3 (5x), Last vs. #7 ETSU, 5/26/17
H - 4, vs. ETSU, 4/11/15
2B - 2 (2x), Last vs. #7 ETSU, 5/19/17
3B - 1 (3x), Last vs. Mercer, 4/15/17
HR - 3, vs. UNCG, 5/5/17
BB - 3 (2x), Last vs. #7 ETSU, 5/26/17
RBI - 5, vs. Appalachian State, 2/17/17
SB - 2, vs. Old Dominion, 4/5/17
Hit Streak - 15, 4/30/17 - 5/25/17
