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Jersey Number 7
Nathan Becker
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 225
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Jersey Village, Texas
- High School:
- Jersey Village H.S.
Bio
Honors at Rice
2024: Played in a career-high 52 games and tied his career high with 44 starts (all as the DH)… Hit .258 for the year with two homers and 25 RBI (one shy of his career-best) and drew a career-best 31 walks…. Hitting .320 in his last eight games (8x25)… 30 walks are a career high… Hit .280 at Reckling and finished his career with a .310 average at home…. Third on the team with a .255 average on the road… Slugged a three-run homer at Charlotte in the fourth inning to spark a Rice rally from being down 4-0 and take the series finale 8-5… Win broke an eight-game losing streak for Rice vs. the 49ers.
2023: Played in 11 games (10 starts) at DH … Slammed his first homer of the year and was 3x3 in a start vs. FIU on 5/20 ... Made the start in the opener vs. Louisiana and was 0x3 and drove in a run with a ground out. Hit .247 with three homers and 12 RBI in 20 games for Orange County in the California League in the summer prior to the season.
2022: Led the Owls with a .310 average and a .397 on-base percentage (career-highs) while adding career-highs in hits (53), doubles (11), RBI (26), and walks (25)… Hit .846 (11x13) with runners on third and less than two out… Also led the team with four pinch hits (4x6), the most pinch hits by an Owl since 2015... Opened the season by reaching base in 26 games (the longest streak by an Owl since 2017) and reached in 38 of his 44 starts overall and 22 of 26 starts in the conference… Hit .337 with runners on base and .800 with the bases loaded (4x5)… Tied for second on the team with 12 multi-hit games (8 two-hit games, 4 three-hit games)… Scored a career-high three runs vs. WKU on 4/12.
2021: All-Freshman Conference USA selection by conference coaches after becoming a productive fixture in the lineup at DH over the last half of the season… Hit .296 with a team-leading .592 slugging percentage in C-USA action, including all six of his home runs and 19 of his 20 RBI… Began his second-half run by blasting a pair of homers and driving in a season-high five at ODU in game two of the doubleheader on 4/17… Had six multi-hit games… Collected a single-game best of three hits in the second game of the doubleheader vs. UAB… Homered in back-to-back games at UTSA on 4/23-24, giving him four in the span of 12 at-bats… His first five homers came on the road, before hitting his first at Reckling Park in the season finale vs. Charlotte on 5/16. 2021 Summer: Hit .291 with one homer and 11 RBI at Covington of the Valley League.
Before Rice: Played in 32 games as a junior at Jersey Village HS in 2019, maintaining a .406 batting average with a .574 slugging percentage in District 17-6A… Collected 41 hits in 101 at-bats, including 12 doubles… Drove in 23 runs and scored 21 times… Rated as the No. 3 first baseman in Texas, and one of the Top 30 first basemen in the nation, according to PerfectGame.com.
- Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll 2021, 2023
- All-Freshman C-USA 2021
2024: Played in a career-high 52 games and tied his career high with 44 starts (all as the DH)… Hit .258 for the year with two homers and 25 RBI (one shy of his career-best) and drew a career-best 31 walks…. Hitting .320 in his last eight games (8x25)… 30 walks are a career high… Hit .280 at Reckling and finished his career with a .310 average at home…. Third on the team with a .255 average on the road… Slugged a three-run homer at Charlotte in the fourth inning to spark a Rice rally from being down 4-0 and take the series finale 8-5… Win broke an eight-game losing streak for Rice vs. the 49ers.
2023: Played in 11 games (10 starts) at DH … Slammed his first homer of the year and was 3x3 in a start vs. FIU on 5/20 ... Made the start in the opener vs. Louisiana and was 0x3 and drove in a run with a ground out. Hit .247 with three homers and 12 RBI in 20 games for Orange County in the California League in the summer prior to the season.
2022: Led the Owls with a .310 average and a .397 on-base percentage (career-highs) while adding career-highs in hits (53), doubles (11), RBI (26), and walks (25)… Hit .846 (11x13) with runners on third and less than two out… Also led the team with four pinch hits (4x6), the most pinch hits by an Owl since 2015... Opened the season by reaching base in 26 games (the longest streak by an Owl since 2017) and reached in 38 of his 44 starts overall and 22 of 26 starts in the conference… Hit .337 with runners on base and .800 with the bases loaded (4x5)… Tied for second on the team with 12 multi-hit games (8 two-hit games, 4 three-hit games)… Scored a career-high three runs vs. WKU on 4/12.
2021: All-Freshman Conference USA selection by conference coaches after becoming a productive fixture in the lineup at DH over the last half of the season… Hit .296 with a team-leading .592 slugging percentage in C-USA action, including all six of his home runs and 19 of his 20 RBI… Began his second-half run by blasting a pair of homers and driving in a season-high five at ODU in game two of the doubleheader on 4/17… Had six multi-hit games… Collected a single-game best of three hits in the second game of the doubleheader vs. UAB… Homered in back-to-back games at UTSA on 4/23-24, giving him four in the span of 12 at-bats… His first five homers came on the road, before hitting his first at Reckling Park in the season finale vs. Charlotte on 5/16. 2021 Summer: Hit .291 with one homer and 11 RBI at Covington of the Valley League.
Before Rice: Played in 32 games as a junior at Jersey Village HS in 2019, maintaining a .406 batting average with a .574 slugging percentage in District 17-6A… Collected 41 hits in 101 at-bats, including 12 doubles… Drove in 23 runs and scored 21 times… Rated as the No. 3 first baseman in Texas, and one of the Top 30 first basemen in the nation, according to PerfectGame.com.
DAVID PIERCE INTRODUCTORY PRESS CONFERENCE
Wednesday, March 19
KHOU Ben Dukes
Saturday, May 04
2024 Night of the Owl End of Year Recap
Thursday, April 25
Louisiana game one recap
Friday, March 01
