2023 Baseball Roster

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University of North Alabama/Joseph Romans
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2 Drew Hudson

  • Position Infield
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Arab, Ala.
  • Highschool Arab

Biography

CAREER: Played in 145 games for the Lions with 134 starts ... Scored 80 runs and has driven in another 51.

UNA 2022: Started all 53 of the games for the Lions in 2022 ... Hit .235 with a .922 OPS on the season, tallying 48 hits, 12 doubles, two triples, and four home runs ... Batted in six different spots in the Lion lineup, spending the most time batting fifth and sixth with a total of 35 starts ... Hit for the cycle against Bellarmine in 2022, becoming just the fourth Lion to do so, and the first to accomplish the feat since 2004 ... Set the UNA season high single game total bases mark at 10 in his performance against Bellarmine on May 15th ... Hit the first home run of the 2022 season for the Lions against Austin Peay on March 2nd with an inside-the-park home run.

UNA 2021: UNA's second leading hitter in 2021 with a .282 average (50-of-177) ... Started all 43 games that he played in with 23 starts at third base, 14 at second base and six at shortstop ... Hit in the leadoff spot in 35 games ... Scored 33 runs and drove in another 10 ... Second on the team with 13 doubles and added one triple and two home runs ... Had a .401 slugging percentage ... Walked 16 times and hit-by-pitch four times and had a .355 on base percentage ... Struckout 55 times ... Had two sacrifice bunts and was successful on 13 of his 16 stolen base attempts ... Finished second on the team with 14 multi-hit games and had two games with multiple RBI ... Had a nine game hitting streak in 2021 and carries a four-game hitting streak into 2022 ... Homered in road games at Bellarmine and Ole Miss ... Fielded .919 with 12 errors in 151 chances ... One-for-two with the bases loaded ... Hit .306 with two outs (15-of-49).

UNA 2020: Played in eight games with eight starts, five at second base and three at third base ... Hit .167 (5-for-30) with three runs scored and one run batted in ... Had one double, walked once and struckout seven times ... Safe on his only stolen base attempt ... Fielded .889 with two errors in 18 chances ... Had one hit in five different games.

UNA 2019: Played in 41 games with 30 starts with 24 at second base, one at shortstop and five as designated hitter ... Hit .239 (21-of-88) with 15 runs scored, seven doubles, nine runs batted in and was eight-of-nine on stolen base attempts ... Walked 24 times and hit-by-pitch four times for .419 on base percentage ... Had a .318 slugging percentage ... One sacrifice fly and six sac bunts ... Fielded .987 with 38 putouts, 38 assists and one error in 79 chances ... Five multiple-hit games ... One multiple-RBI game ... Three-game hitting streak was his longest of the season ... Reached base safely in the last six games of the season and carries that streak into 2020.

HIGH SCHOOL: Played as a shortstop at Arab for head coach Chad Hudson … Helped lead the Knights to the second round of the state playoffs in 2017 … Named all-area and all-county 2017-18 and Honorable mention all-state in 2018 … Also lettered in football and basketball … Graduated with a 3.989 GPA.

PERSONAL: Full name is Andrew Allen Hudson … Born on June 12, 1999 … Son of Chad and Amy Hudson and has three siblings (Will, Luke and Sami) … Brother Will is also a member of the UNA baseball team ... Majoring in Accounting ... BATS RIGHT, THROWS RIGHT.

STATS AT NORTH ALABAMA
Year        Avg         G-GS       AB         R      H     2B    3B    HR    RBI    BB     HP    SO       SB
2019       .239         41-30       88        15    21        7      0      0        9      24       4      32       8-9
2020       .167           8-8         30          3      5        1      0      0        1        1       0        7       1-1
2021       .282         43-43     177        33    50      13      1      2      10      16       4      55    13-16
2022       .235         53-53     204        29    48      12      2      4      31      23       0      56    12-20
Career    .248       145-134   499        80  124      33      3      6      51      64       8    150    34-46

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 11

    2019Freshman

    Shortstop/Second Base
    5'11" 190 lbs
    11
  • 2

    2020Sophomore

    Shortstop/Second Base
    5'11" 190 lbs
    2
  • 2

    2021Sophomore

    Shortstop/Second Base
    5'11" 190 lbs
    2
  • 2

    2022Junior

    Shortstop/Second Base
    5'11" 190 lbs
    2
  • 2

    2023Senior

    Infield
    5'11" 190 lbs
    2