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Jersey Number 24
Kade Kretzschmar
- Class:
- First-Year
- Position:
- Outfielder
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-1 / 170
- B/T:
- L/R
- Hometown:
- Carlsbad, Calif.
- High School:
- San Marcos
- Major:
- Economics
Bio
ABCA All-Region Second Team (2022)
Ivy League Player of the Year (2022)
All-Ivy League First Team (2022)
Best Offensive Player (2022 team award)
Ivy League Player of the Week (May 16, 2022)
2x DartmouthSports.com Male Athlete of the Week (April 12, 2022 and May 18, 2022)
SENIOR (2022) | Game-by-Game Stats
Voted the Ivy League Player of the Year and an All-Ivy League First Team member while earning a spot on the ABCA All-Region Second Team … teammates selected him as the Big Green’s Best Offensive Player … ranked among the top five in the Ancient Eight in triples (5, first), RBIs (46, third), total bases (106, third), extra-base hits (28, third), slugging (.635, third), OPS (1.041, third) and batting (.353, fifth) … even better in conference play only, finishing first in runs (29) and OPS (1.249), and second in batting (.405), hits (34), doubles (12), RBIs (25), total bases (65) and slugging (.774) … had at least two hits in half the games in which he played (21 of 42) … led the squad with 15 multi-RBI games … ripped a game-winning two-run triple in the seventh inning of a 6-4 victory at Louisville … cranked his first of seven long balls on the season in the opener at Gardner-Webb … enjoyed a career-best 11-game hit streak into early April, going 18-for-44 (.409) with 16 RBIs … that also started a streak of reaching base in 25 straight games … drove in four runs in a 19-4 drubbing of Bowdoin … came up clutch in the Ivy opener against Brown, blasting a tie-breaking, opposite-field, two-run bomb in the seventh to lift the Big Green to a 5-3 triumph … finished the series with the Bears 5-for-12 (.417), producing thre more RBIs in final game, a 14-1 win … drove in both runs in the 2-1 win at Penn … began another 11-game hit streak after playing the Quakers, hitting even better than his first at 20-for-44 (.455) with nine doubles, a triple and two homers for a slugging percentage of .841 … first three-hit game of his career helped clinch the series at Yale, scoring three times in the 11-4 win as he ended the three games 6-for-14 (.429) and was named the DartmouthSports.com Male Athlete of the Week … closed out the Princeton series with a career-high five RBIs as Dartmouth completed a sweep with a 16-7 triumph … doubled and homered in an 11-4 victory over Siena … was a perfect 2-for-2 with a big fly, walk, and hit by pitch while scoring three runs and driving in three in a 12-2 rout at Cornell … scored the winning run in the eighth of the rubber match as he walked, stoled second and came around thanks to two wild pitches, plus drove in an insurance run in the ninth of a 10-8, series-clinching win in Ithaca … doubled and homered in an 8-6 win to start the series at Harvard … banged out a career-high four hits in the final game against the Crimson, scoring three runs, driving in two and finishing a double shy of the cycle in a 15-2 rout of the Crimson … ended the season going 6-for-14 (.429) with six runs and three RBIs against eventual Ivy champion Columbia, helping the Green take the series, earning Ivy League Player of the Week and DartmouthSports.com Male Athlete of the Week honors for his efforts … trailing by six runs in the eighth of the season finale, he started a four-run rally with a leadoff single, then started a two-run ninth-inning rally with a double, allowing Dartmouth to walk the game off in the 10th, 12-11.
JUNIOR (2021)
Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SOPHOMORE (2020) | Game-by-Game Stats
Statrted six of the seven games, all in right field … went 2-for-3 with a sacrifice fly to help Dartmouth defeat Chicago State, 6-2 … stroked a two-run single in the 8-1 triumph over Omaha … singled and drove in a run in the tough 4-3 loss at Virginia, the Big Green’s final game before the season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic … named to the All-Decade First Team for the North Shore Navigators in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.
FRESHMAN (2019) | Game-by-Game Stats
Appeared in 31 games, starting 16, including the first six games of the season … went 2-for-4 in the season opener to help the Big Green defeat UTSA, 4-3 … contributed a single, walk, RBI and stolen base to the 4-2 win over St. Joseph’s … scored a pair of runs at Holy Cross … came off the bench to drive in a pair of runs — the first of which came on a sacrifice fly in the 13th to tie the score — in the wild 21-15 loss in 21 innings against Penn … gunned a Middlebury batter down trying to stretch a single into a double … ended the season on a high note, going 2-for-4 with a double in the opener against Cornell.
HIGH SCHOOL
Two-year letterman at San Marcos High School for coach Jeff Dufek ... helped team to a 77-20-1 record over three seasons, winning three Avocado East League championships and a pair of CIF San Diego Section Division II titles in the process … member of the CIF San Diego Section All-Star Team as a senior when he led the team with 41 hits to go with a .376 average, 10 doubles, four homers, 29 runs and 35 RBIs … earned Perfect Game Preseason All-America Honorable Mention before his senior campaign … chosen for coaches' association all-south team as a junior … hit .545 with three homers, five runs and seven RBIs during the postseason as a junior as well … two-time San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic Team … member of travel teams that won 15U and 17U Team USA West Baseball championships in Phoenix, Arizona.
PERSONAL
Son of Kevin and Kandi Kretzschmar has two brothers ... born June 9, 2000 in San Diego, California ... active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes … played as a graduate transfer at Cal in 2023, earning All-Pac-12 honors after hitting .322 with 13 homers on the season and National Player of the Month honors in April.
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