Completed Event: Baseball versus Cornell on April 27, 2025 , Win , 7, to, 4
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Ivy League Player of the Year (2018)
All-Ivy League First Team (2018)
Senior CLASS Award Candidate (2018)
Google Cloud Academic All-District I (2018)
Dartmouth MVP (2018)
Best Offensive Player (2018 team award)
James H. Cooke Award (2018 team award)
Ivy League Player of the Week (April 30, 2018)
2x Academic All-Ivy League (2017, ’18)
All-Ivy League honorable mention (2016)
Fourth all-time at Dartmouth in games played (162) when he graduated.
SENIOR (2018) | Game-by-Game Stats
Ivy League Player of the Year and All-Ivy First Team outfielder … team co-captain … named one of the top 10 draft prospects in the Ivy League for 2018 by D1Baseball.com … one of the 30 candidates for the Senior CLASS Award … Google Cloud Academic All-District I Team and Academic All-Ivy League Spring Team … named team MVP and Best Offensive Player, plus the recipient of the team’s James H. Cooke Award … tied for the Ivy League lead in doubles (14), third in slugging (.497), fourth in RBIs (32) and eighth in batting average (.314) … slugged .536 in conference games with 20 RBIs and a league-best 10 two-baggers … tied for team lead with 16 multi-hit games … after taking the collar in the opener, went on a 12-game hitting streak, the longest at Dartmouth in over four years, producing a .365 average (19-for-52) with two hits in six of those contests … hit safely in the six games after that streak was snapped … went 2-for-5 with a double, run and RBI in the second game at Georgia Tech … smacked a two-run bomb in an 11-9 victory at Cal State Bakersfield … returned to Hanover to go 3-for-6 with a double, homer, two runs and two RBIs in the home opener, leading Dartmouth to an 11-4 win over Quinnipiac … finished the season with a flourish, hitting .450 (18-for-40) in the final nine Ivy League games … launched a walk-off solo shot in the ninth to left the Big Green to a 2-1 win over Brown in the series opener … stroked two hits in each of the three games against the Bears with three doubles and a jack … drove in a career-high five runs while going 3-for-5 with a pair of two-baggers and a home run in the series-opening, 14-3 win against Princeton … had two more RBIs in the second game of that twinbill in a 16-1 victory over the Tigers … hit .571 (8-for-14) in the three games at Harvard, including a 3-for-4 performance with a long ball and a season-high four hits in the finale, scoring two runs and driving in three more.
JUNIOR (2017) | Game-by-Game Stats
Named to Spring Academic All-Ivy League Team … Ran his consecutive games played streak to 112 by playing — and starting — in all 40 games … led the Ivy League and ranked 23rd nationally in sacrifice flies with seven … twice rapped out four hits in a game … finished the season strong, hitting .333 (17-for-51) with a .435 OBA over his last 14 games … registered 11 mult-hit games and drove in two or more runs eight times … tied for fourth in the Ivy League with three triples … began the season by driving in two runs in an 8-4 win over Eastern Michigan … went 4-for-5 with two runs and three RBIs in a 13-1 rout of St. Bonaventure … had six hits and drove in four runs in the four-game split at The Citadel … recorded another 4-for-5 with four runs, three RBIs, a double and two triples — his second career game with two three-baggers — in a 19-11 slugfest victory over Chicago … reached base and scored to start a four-run sixth in a 4-1 win at No. 26 UCF … doubled twice and scored twice in a 9-2 win against Columbia to complete a twinbill sweep of the Lions … lofted two sacrifice flies to help the Big Green salvage a split with Princeton in a 7-6 victory … hit safely in all four games, reaching base eight times, versus Brown as Dartmouth won three … rapped out three hits and drove in the first of five runs in the sixth to break open a one-run game into an eventual 8-3 victory over Boston College … went 4-for-8 with five walks in the first three contests at Yale … produced an RBI single in the ninth as part of a three-run rally to tie Siena in a game that ended in a 9-9 deadlock … blasted first collegiate home run in the season finale at Harvard, a two-run shot.
SOPHOMORE (2016) | Game-by-Game Stats
All-Ivy League honorable mention at second base … only player on the roster to see action in all 43 games, starting 42 … hit from the top three spots in the order in 37 of those starts … tied for Ivy lead with five triples … also ranked sixth with 50 hits and 70 total bases, seventh with 105 assists and eighth with eight stolen bases … his .405 average in league games only ranked second while his 32 hits tied for the most … led team in hits, runs (18), doubles (10), triples, total bases, .422 slugging average and stolen bases, as well as multi-hit games (16)…. ranked 25th nationally in triples per game … stroked two three-baggers against Bucknell, the second driving in two in the ninth to break a 4-4 deadlock in the first win of the season … doubled and tripled in a 5-4 loss to Lehigh … avenged that loss two days later by tying the game in the sixth with sacrifice fly, then delivered the game-winning hit in the eighth to beat the Mountain Hawks, 5-4 … started April off with a five-hit game with two RBIs against Princeton in the second game of a doubleheader … had a modest five-game hit streak, going 11-for-22, in mid-April with a pair of three-hit contests at Brown … scored twice and drove in another in a 4-3 win over the Bears … crossed the plate three times in a 15-0 drubbing of Brown … posted four straight two-hit games against Cornell (2) and Yale (2), swatting triples in each end of the doubleheader against the Big Red … helped the Big Green salvage the final game against the Bulldogs with three hits and three runs as well as a couple of stolen bases … drove in the game-winner of a 2-1 triumph at Harvard with a seventh-inning single … ended the season on a four-game hit streak, including a 2-for-5 showing in the Rolfe Division playoff at Yale.
FRESHMAN (2015) | Game-by-Game Stats
Played in 40 of the 43 games, starting 34 — 30 at second base, two at third and two at first … first collegiate hit was a single against 14th-ranked Texas A&M … went 2-for-5 with an RBI versus Northwestern … singled and scored in the 5-4 win at Columbia … was 1-for-4 with a walk, stolen base, three runs and three RBIs in the 22-10 slugfest victory at Yale … had two singles, a walk and two stolen bases while scoring two of the three Big Green runs in a 3-2 win to finish the four-game sweep of the Bulldogs … first extra-base hit was a double against UMass Lowell in a 4-2 triumph … went 5-for-13 with a triple and two RBIs in the four-game sweep of Brown … also drove in the decisive run in the 6-5 win over the Bears … scored three runs and drove in four in the four-game sweep of Harvard … stroked the game-winning two-run single in the final inning in a 6-4 win over the Crimson.
HIGH SCHOOL
Two-year letterman at prestigious Loyola High … played in the Jesse Flores Memorial All-Star Game and the Westside All-Star Classic … named to SoCal Easton All-Tournament Team … 19U Palomino World Series batting champion with a .741 average … lifetime member in California Scholarship Federation … Cum Laude.
PERSONAL
Full name is Dustin Alexander Shirley … son of Jacque and Rhoda Shirley has one brother … born Dec. 15, 1995 in Los Angeles … older brother Brandon hit .319 in 48 games for UC San Diego as a redshirt-freshman in 2014 … avid ping-pong player.