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Jersey Number 31
Justin Showalter
- Year:
- Junior
- Position:
- Right-Handed Pitcher
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-2 / 185
- B/T:
- R/R
- Hometown:
- Bridgewater, Va.
- High School:
- Turner Ashby
- Major:
- Psychology
Bio
Career Highs:
IP: 9.0, vs. Quinnipiac, 2/22/20
Strikeouts: 11, two times
2022 as a Graduate Student:
IP: 9.0, vs. Quinnipiac, 2/22/20
Strikeouts: 11, two times
2022 as a Graduate Student:
- Made 14 appearances, all via starts
- Earned four wins and led the team with 72.1 innings and 67 strikeouts
- Walked only 13 batters to finish sixth in lowest single-season BB/9 at 1.62
- Finished career tied for third at 2.15 BB/9 and eighth at .251 opposing batting average
- Tied a career-high in strikeouts with 11 against Northeastern (4/15)
- Had two games of double-digit strikeouts, adding a 10 K game against Fairleigh Dickinson (2/25)
- Tossed second complete game of career against Towson (5/8)
- Went a season-high seven innings twice, against Northeastern (4/15) and Towson (5/8)
- Only three games he allowed more than one walk
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Spring 2022)
- Preseason All-CAA
- Made six starts in six appearances.
- Tossed 35 innings with 22 strikeouts with an opposing batting average of .223.
- Had three quality starts.
- Three a season-high five strikeouts against Charleston (4/4).
- Tossed a season-high 8.2 innings against Charleston (4/18).
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall '20, Spring '21)
- Dean's List (Spring '21)
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall '20, Spring '21)
- Made five appearances, including four starts.
- Went 4-0 with a 0.67 ERA in 26.2 innings pitched.
- Struck out 21 batters to only four walks.
- Tossed the program’s first one-hitter since 2009 vs. Quinnipiac (2/22).
- Had a streak of 24.2 innings pitched without allowing an earned run, the longest streak in JMU history since 1995.
- Pitched first shutout vs. Quinnipiac (2/22).
- Tossed seven strikeouts against Rider (3/1).
- Earned Pitcher of the Week honors for the week ending on Feb. 24.
- Lead the CAA in wins and opposing batting average, and second in innings pitched and ERA.
- Was tied for second in wins nationally and ranked 27th in the country in ERA.
- Held opposing batters to a .144 average.
- Ranks fourth in single season ERA.
- Named to Dean's List in Fall 2019.
- Earned VaSID First Team honors.
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall '19, Spring '20)
- Started 9 of the 10 games he appeared in for the Dukes
- Collected 30 strikeouts on the season in his 36 and 1/3 innings pitched
- Struck out a career-high 11 batters against Lehigh (3/13)
- Posted 6 and 2/3 innings pitched against Fairfield, marking a new career-high (3/2)
- Made nine appearances, compiling 13 2/3 innings with 11 strikeouts and only two walks
- Threw a scoreless 1 1/3 innings vs. UMass Lowell (3/16)
- Had a scoreless inning and a strikeout vs. Elon (3/24)
- Dean's List recipient for the Fall of 2018
- First Team All-Conference 29 (2016-2017)
- First Team All-Area, First Team All-State, First Team All-Conference 29, First Team All-District, First Team All-Region, State Player of the Year, Conference Player of the Year, Region Player of the Year, State, Regional and Conference Champion (2017)
- Second Team All-Region, Regional Champion (2016)
- Member of the National Honor Society and Honor Roll
- Justin Matthew Showalter
- Son of Brent and Kerry Showalter
- Majoring in Psychology
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