2016 Baseball Roster
Trent Astle
- Class:
- Junior
- Position:
- LHP
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 220
- Hometown:
- Jeffersonville, Ind.
- High School:
- Jeffersonville
• BIG EAST All-Academic Team
Finished season with a 5-1 record and a 5.60 ERA in 17 appearances and 13 starts... third on team with 70.2 innings pitched and tied for second on the team with five wins... fourth on team with a career-best 41 strikeouts... capped career ranked sixth in program history with 296 career innings pitched, fourth in program history with 52 starts and tied for seventh in program history with 18 wins... made third career NCAA Tournament start on June 4 against Oklahoma, helping XU to an 11-0 win with eight scoreless innings, scattering seven hits and striking out four... started in the BIG EAST Championship game against St. John's, going 4.1 innings and allowing six runs in XU's 7-6 win... closed out a weekend sweep with two scoreless innings of relief against Georgetown... threw four scoreless, striking out five and scattering two hits in a 7-1 win over Cincinnati (5/16)... posted a strong relief outing at No. 18 St. John's (5/12), going six innings and allowing just two earned runs... went five scoreless against Miami (OH) on April 5, striking out three and scattering five hits in a 9-4 win... picked up a win against Wright State, going 6.1 innings and allowing three earned runs while striking out six (3/21)... held No. 1 Louisville to two runs through four innings before coming out in the fifth (3/15)... threw six innings of scoreless ball in first start of season at Troy (2/18)...
2016 (As A Junior)
• BIG EAST All-Academic Team
• BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (5/23)
Dominant in BIG EAST play with a 3-0 record, leading XU starters with a 2.82 ERA in league play... helped seal series sweeps against Butler, Seton Hall and Villanova with game three wins... was second on the team in starts (15), innings (69.2) and tied for second in wins (5)... was the winning pitcher with a season-high seven innings of scoreless ball in XU's 9-0 victory over Villanova on May 21... the win over 'Nova clinched the BIG EAST regular season title... named to BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on May 23 after the performance... had another big moment against Creighton in the BIG EAST Tournament, getting the win against the Bluejays with 5.2 innings of three-run ball to send XU back to the title game for the second time in three years...
2015 (As A Sophomore)
• All-BIG EAST Second Team
• BIG EAST All-Academic Team
Posted a career-best 3.42 ERA and led the Musketeers in innings pitched (79), strikeouts (55) and starts (13)... named to All-BIG EAST Second Team after stepping up in BIG EAST play to lead the team with a 2.82 ERA in six starts... ranked second in the BIG EAST in innings pitched and eighth in ERA... fired a complete game at Lipscomb on March 22, striking out a career-high 10 batters in a 5-1 win... won two of his last three starts... beat Butler in the season finale, surrending one unearned run over seven innings in a 16-2 win... logged quality starts in eight of his 13 outings, including seven of his last nine starts...
2014 (As A Freshman):
• BIG EAST All-Tournament Team
• BIG EAST All-Academic Team
Was named to the 2014 BIG EAST All-Tournament Team after throwing a complete-game, three-hit shutout against the No. 1-seed Creighton Bluejays to lead Xavier to the BIG EAST crown in its first season in the league ... Pitched seven-plus innings against No. 2-seed Oregon in the 2014 NCAA Nashville Regional, allowing five runs on seven hits with a career-high six strikeouts ... Posted 15.1 consecutive innings without allowing a run, a streak that began in the eighth inning of Xavier's May 9th game at Seton Hall and ended in the first inning of XU's NCAA Regional meeting with Oregon (June 1st) ... Earned first collegiate victory after throwing 6.2 innings against Miami (Ohio), allowing one run on three hits and a walk ... Finished season with a 5-4 record, 4.46 ERA, 28 strikeouts and 23 walks in 76.2 innings pitched.
Prior to Xavier:
Played four years of varsity baseball as a starter at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Ind. ... Threw a no-hitter against North Bullitt High School in 2013 ... News and Tribune 2013 Player of the Year ... 2011-2013 Hoosier Hills Conference First Team All-Conference ... 2012 IHSAA All-State Honorable Mention ... Helped Jeffersonville win a 2013 Hoosier Hills Conference, Sectional and Regional Championship and a 2012 Conference and Sectional Championship ... Member of the National Honor Society.
Personal:
Son of Dane and Jan Astle ... Father, Dane, played football at Virginia Tech ... Mother, Jan, swam at the University of Evansville ... One brother, Luke ... Sports Management major.
