Completed Event: Baseball versus Cornell on April 27, 2025 , Win , 7, to, 4
Final

Baseball
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All-Ivy League Honorable Mention (2023)
SENIOR (2025)
Played and started 32 of the Big Green’s 36 games… Finished season with five doubles, his first career triple, two home runs, and 14 RBI… Collected first RBI of season at No. 10 Virginia… Went three straight games with at least one RBI, two at Seton Hall, and one in back to back games at Princeton… Knocked in one of two runs on his first career triple in a win over Penn… Went 1-for-2 in 5-3 win over Cornell, collecting two RBI including one on his first home run of the year… Hit his second home run against Yale’s Jack Ohman.
JUNIOR (2024)
Played in 35 of the Big Green's 39 games this season, making 34 starts mostly in the outfield ... posted a .312 batting average for third best on the team, scattering 39 hits, including seven doubles and one home run, drawing 12 walks, and collecting 24 RBI for second best on the team ... had a three RBI game at LMU after going 2-for-4 with two runs and a double ... collected another multi-RBI game in the Big Green's second conference win over Yale and knocked Dartmouth's first grand slam of the season at UMass Lowell to lead break the game open and lead the Big Green to a 7-2 victory ... also had positive performances in the win over Penn, going 3-for-4 with two RBI and in the season finale against Maine, going 4-for-5 with four runs, a double, and two RBI.
SOPHOMORE (2023)
All-Ivy League honorable mention in the outfield … played in 34 of the 41 games, starting 31, all in the outfield (27 in left, four in right) without committing an error … led the Ivy League in outfield assists with seven … owned the Big Green’s top batting average in conference play at .277, as well as runs (11), doubles (4), homers (2), slugging (.431) and hit by pitches (4) … went 2-for-4 for his first two hits of the year with a run and an RBI in the 6-1 win at South Florida … gunned down a runner at the plate for a double play in the final game at UCF … threw out a Jacksonville batter trying to stretch a double into a triple the very next game … really showcased his arm the next day as well, firing a strike to the plate to keep a run from scoring and nailing a runner at second trying to leg out a double … found his stroke at the plate after returning from the spring trip, going 5-for-6 in a doubleheader at Princeton, including a perfect 4-for-4 performance with a double and a run in the finale … roughed up Harvard with two home runs in the second game of the series, scoring three runs and driving in a career-high three as well … after ripping an RBI double in the first, started the five-run, ninth-inning rally at Columbia by getting plunked, allowing Dartmouth to tie the game and force extra innings … went 2-for-3 with a walk in the finale against the Lions as well … missed last two games of the Brown series with an injury … singled and scored in the 3-2 win over Cornell … collected a single and double with a run and an RBI in the season finale at Sacred Heart.
FIRST-YEAR (2022)
Fielded all 27 chances in the outfield without an error … started all three games of the season-opening series at Louisville, banging out a single and stealing a base in the first game … stroked first extra-base hit — a double — in the 11-7 win at Gardner-Webb … doubled again in the first game of the spring trip against Fairfield … hit by a pitch twice, doubled, scored a run and drove in two in a 15-6 victory over Williams … collected three hits in his multi-hit game, a 19-4 win over Bowdoin … also gunned down a runner at the plate trying to score on a fly ball … reached base three times at Albany on two walks and an HBP, scoring a run in the 12-5 triumph … scored twice to help Dartmouth defeat Siena, 11-4 … singled and scored a run to play a part in the Big Green rallying from six runs down in the eighth to beat Columbia in 10 innings in the season finale, 12-11.
HIGH SCHOOL
Four-year letter winner at McDowell High for coach Mark Sobeleski … also lettered for four years in basketball … won three district championships in each sport … District 10 All-Star as a sophomore and senior … also Big School All-First Team as a senior captain … D-10 All-Star in hoops as a senior as well … earned school’s Scholar-Athlete Award.
PERSONAL
Full name is Jackson David Hower … born on June 1, 2003 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania … son of Robert and Rebecca Hower has one brother … grandfather Barry Grossman played baseball at Cornell in the mid-1960s, where he met Jackson’s grandmother who was on the swim team … two uncles played college football, one at Wake Forest, in the mid-1990s … considering majoring in economics or biology with a career path toward finance or medicine … enjoys golf and working out