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Jersey Number 13
Kolby Branch
- Position:
- Infielder
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Lucas, Texas
- High School:
- Lovejoy HS
CAREER HONORS
• 2023 Freshman All-America (CBN)
• 2023 Big 12 All-Freshman Team
• 2023 Brooks Wallace Award Watch List
2023 (Freshman): A 2023 Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper … Unanimously named to the Big 12’s All-Freshman Team … Named to Brooks Wallace Award watch list, which honors the nation’s top shortstop … Played in 55 games all as a starter, including 43 at shortstop and 12 at second base … Led team in batting average (.325), OPS (.939), runs (49), hits (69), doubles (17), home runs (6), RBI (41), slugging percentage (.509), walks (39), on-base percentage (.430) and stolen bases (7) … Tallied 19 multi-hit and 10 multi-RBI games … Reached base in each of the first 23 games of the season … Made his collegiate debut on Opening Day against Central Michigan (2/17), leading off and playing second base … Went 3-for-5 and drove in two in first-career game … Scored the game-winning run on Opening Day as part of walk-off victory over Central Michigan (2/17) … Was a triple shy of the cycle against HCU (2/21), going 4-for-5 with six RBIs, including a grand slam, his first-career home run … Hit his second home run, also a grand slam, against Youngstown State (3/4) in game one of a doubleheader … Delivered a walk-off bloop single against DBU (3/7) to help BU down the Patriots in 12 innings … Homered vs. Mercer (3/10) … Tallied three hits in first game as full-time shortstop (vs. Rice, 3/14) … Racked up three hits at Kansas (3/31) and homered in Sunday finale against the Jayhawks (4/2) … Produced his second four-hit game of the year against Oklahoma (4/6) and drove in three runs … Homered at Abilene Christian (5/2) … Logged three-hit and three-RBI game vs. CSU Bakersfield (5/19) and launched his sixth HR of the year.
High School: Four-year letterwinner at Lovejoy High School in Lucas, Texas … 2022 Academic All-State honoree … First-Team All-State 5A and First-Team All-Area 5A member … Named 2022 District MVP … 2022 Area Hitter of the Year … Led Leopards to District 10-5A championship … Hit .472 in senior season with eight home runs and 43 RBIs … Also stole 28 bases … Hit .355 with two home runs, 22 RBIs and nine stolen bases as a junior … Voted 2021 Defensive Player of the Year by his teammates … 2019 Newcomer of the Year … Two-time Academic All-District honoree … Member of National Honor Society.
Personal: Son of Kari and Rusty Branch … Father, Rusty, played tennis at Oklahoma Baptist University … Has three brothers, Kyle, Carson and Cooper … Intends to major in finance.
• 2023 Freshman All-America (CBN)
• 2023 Big 12 All-Freshman Team
• 2023 Brooks Wallace Award Watch List
2023 (Freshman): A 2023 Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper … Unanimously named to the Big 12’s All-Freshman Team … Named to Brooks Wallace Award watch list, which honors the nation’s top shortstop … Played in 55 games all as a starter, including 43 at shortstop and 12 at second base … Led team in batting average (.325), OPS (.939), runs (49), hits (69), doubles (17), home runs (6), RBI (41), slugging percentage (.509), walks (39), on-base percentage (.430) and stolen bases (7) … Tallied 19 multi-hit and 10 multi-RBI games … Reached base in each of the first 23 games of the season … Made his collegiate debut on Opening Day against Central Michigan (2/17), leading off and playing second base … Went 3-for-5 and drove in two in first-career game … Scored the game-winning run on Opening Day as part of walk-off victory over Central Michigan (2/17) … Was a triple shy of the cycle against HCU (2/21), going 4-for-5 with six RBIs, including a grand slam, his first-career home run … Hit his second home run, also a grand slam, against Youngstown State (3/4) in game one of a doubleheader … Delivered a walk-off bloop single against DBU (3/7) to help BU down the Patriots in 12 innings … Homered vs. Mercer (3/10) … Tallied three hits in first game as full-time shortstop (vs. Rice, 3/14) … Racked up three hits at Kansas (3/31) and homered in Sunday finale against the Jayhawks (4/2) … Produced his second four-hit game of the year against Oklahoma (4/6) and drove in three runs … Homered at Abilene Christian (5/2) … Logged three-hit and three-RBI game vs. CSU Bakersfield (5/19) and launched his sixth HR of the year.
High School: Four-year letterwinner at Lovejoy High School in Lucas, Texas … 2022 Academic All-State honoree … First-Team All-State 5A and First-Team All-Area 5A member … Named 2022 District MVP … 2022 Area Hitter of the Year … Led Leopards to District 10-5A championship … Hit .472 in senior season with eight home runs and 43 RBIs … Also stole 28 bases … Hit .355 with two home runs, 22 RBIs and nine stolen bases as a junior … Voted 2021 Defensive Player of the Year by his teammates … 2019 Newcomer of the Year … Two-time Academic All-District honoree … Member of National Honor Society.
Personal: Son of Kari and Rusty Branch … Father, Rusty, played tennis at Oklahoma Baptist University … Has three brothers, Kyle, Carson and Cooper … Intends to major in finance.
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