2020 Baseball Roster
Roster
Justin Antoncic
- Position:
- INF
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 181
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Westerville, Ohio
- High School:
- St. Francis DeSales
CAREER NOTES: A three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.
2020 (SENIOR): Academic All-Big Ten honoree... Played in eight of the 15 games in shortened season, making two starts, while returning to full speed after recovering from injury ... Notched two hits and one RBI, while scoring three runs and drawing four walks ... Made season-debut Feb. 15 vs. Morehead State, starting as DH and went 1-for-3 with a run scored and drew a walk ... Went 1-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored, while drawing another walk, the next day vs. Morehead State (Feb. 16) ... Started second game of doubleheader vs. Merrimack (Feb. 22) at first base and logged eight putouts, part of 1.000 fielding percentage for season.
2019 (JUNIOR): Academic All-Big Ten selection... Played in 43 games, making 39 starts ... Posted .234 average with 32 hits, including one double and one triple, along with 16 RBI, drawing 21 walks and swiping five stolen bases, adding two sacrifice bunts and one sacrifice fly ... Logged a .255 slugging percentage with a .338 on-base percentage ... Logged nine multiple hit games, led by career-high four hits in 4-for-4 outing vs. Indiana State (April 7), along with one RBI and one run scored, while also notching three hits in 3-for-5 outing vs. Appalachian State (March 10) ... Registered four multi-RBI outings, posting a pair of ribbies all four occasions, including span of twice in three games vs. Indiana (April 21) and Oakland (April 23) ... Knocked lone triple of season at New Orleans (Feb. 17) and lone double came vs. Oakland (April 23) ... Had a five-game hitting streak (March 5-15), along with at least one hit in five of the first six games of the season and six of the first eight, including a pair of hits in each of the first three games during series at New Orleans (Feb. 15-17) ... Also had an eight-game reached base streak (March 5-17) ... Made 31 starts at first base to go with eight starts in center field, posting a .980 fielding percentage.
2018 (SOPHOMORE): Academic All-Big Ten honoree ... Played in 51 of the 52 games, making 48 starts, leading team in games played and ranking second in starts ... Saw action in outfield, as DH and at second base ... Hit .269 with 29 runs scored and 18 RBI, posting seven doubles, two triples and one HR, adding 14 stolen bases ... Ranked 16th in B1G overall in stolen bases (14) and eighth in B1G only action with seven stolen bases in league play ... The seven doubles ranked tied for second on the team, while ranking third with the 14 stolen bases ... Third on team in total sacrifices (5), leading team in sac flies (4), while adding one sac bunt ... Had a six-game hitting streak (Feb. 24-March 7) and also ended season with a four-game streak as part of a hit in nine of last 11 games and 16 of last 23 games, posting at least one hit in 36 of the 51 games played ... Also tied for MSU’s longest reached-base streak of 19 games (March 21-April 29), as well as a 12-game streak (Feb. 24-March 16) ... Had 11 multi-hit games, highlighted by 3-for-4 outing vs. Arizona (March 4) and 3-for-5 vs. Valparaiso (April 13) ... Named to the Dairy Queen Classic B1G/Pac-12 Challenge All-Tournament Team after hitting .462 for the weekend, including his first home run of his Spartan career off No. 11 UCLA (March 3), adding two doubles ... Also posted first three-hit outing of career going 3-for-4 vs. Arizona (March 4), and also made then-career-high six putouts in the field ... He was also part of MSU’s three-run ninth inning rally for a 3-2 walkoff win over Arizona, with a single and later scored the tying run ... Posted four multi-RBI outings, all four with two RBI ... Swiped two stolen bases in a game in three different outings, most recently at Northwestern (April 20).
2017 (FRESHMAN): Saw action in nine games, mostly as pinch runner ... scored two runs on season, one in season-opener at Abilene Christian (Feb. 17) and vs. Ohio State (April 16) ... posted one assist at Abilene Christian (Feb. 18).
