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2025 Baseball Roster

14 Bobby Falese

  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 180
  • Bats/Throws R/R
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Medford, N.J.
  • High School Shawnee
  • Position INF
  • Major Joint Studies

Biography

Career Honors

  • Second-team D3Baseball.com All-Region V (2022)
  • Third-team ABCA/Rawlings All-Region (2022)
  • First-team All-Centennial Conference (2022)
  • Two-Time Honorable Mention All-Centennial Conference (2023, 24)
  • Centennial Conference Player of the Week (3/14/23)
2024: Named Honorable Mention All-Centennial Conference ... Started all 39 games at shortstop ... Led the Diplomats with 43 runs scored, two triples, five sacrifice flies and 157 at-bats ... Batted .299 with an OPS of .920 ... Recorded 11 doubles, eight home runs and 39 RBI ... Became the program leader in career-RBI (132) and career-home runs (22)  ... Broke the program single-game home run record with three against Johns Hopkins (4/27) ... Recorded an .876 fielding percentage with 59 putouts, 82 assists and 11 double plays. 

2023: Tabbed Honorable Mention All-Centennial Conference ... Selected as Centennial Conference Player of the Week (3/14/23) ... Started in all 40 games that he appeared in ... Tied the program career home runs record (14) with five this season ... Hit .308 with a .403 OBP and .487 slugging ... Tallied three doubles and a team-high five triples ... Recorded 37 runs scored, while driving in a team-leading 39 RBI ... Stole six bases out of eight attempts ... Led the Diplomats with 76 total bases ... Pieced together a nine-game hitting streak that included six multi-hit games ... Posted two four-hit performances ... Batted 2-for-5 with a three-run home run and two runs scored in game one against No. 23 Montclair State (3/24) ...  Recorded a season-high four RBI in game one against Swarthmore (4/1) ... Finished the season with a .913 fielding percentage as a middle-infielder ... Turned 15 double plays with 92 assists and 55 putouts.

2022: Second-team D3baseball.com All-Region V … Third-team ABCA/Rawlings All-Region … First-team All-Centennial Conference … Started all 39 games, seeing time primarily at shortstop … Set new school records for RBI (52) and total bases (103) … Batted .366 … Finished third in the Centennial Conference with a .673 slugging percentage, the third-best single-season mark in school history … Finished first in the conference in RBI, second in total bases, third in doubles (14), fourth in home runs (9), sixth in hits (56), and ninth in triples (3) … His nine homers rank second in the F&M record books for a season … Started the season with RBI in ten of his first 12 games, with 21 RBI during those contests … Hit four home runs in three games with single dingers during each game of a doubleheader against Johns Hopkins (4/16) and tied the F&M record with a pair in a road game at Washington College (4/19) … Set the school record with three doubles against Clarkson (3/13) … Finished with a .906 fielding percentage, helping to turn 12 double plays.

2021: Started the first 11 games of the year in centerfield … Hit .220 with a .319 on-base percentage and .341 slugging percentage … Totaled three doubles, one triple, five runs, and two RBI … Registered multi-hit games at Muhlenberg (4/3) and McDaniel (4/10), collecting a pair of extra-base hits both times … Scored a run in his final four games of the season … Posted a .957 fielding percentage.

High School: Lettered four times in ice hockey, twice serving as team captain … Led team to the 2019 Burico Carpenter Cup Championship.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 27

    2021First-Year

    IF
    5'10" 170 lbs
    27
  • 14

    2022Sophomore

    UTL
    5'10" 175 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2023Junior

    INF
    5'10" 180 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2024Senior

    INF
    5'10" 180 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2025Senior

    INF
    5'10" 180 lbs
    14