2014 Baseball Roster

Misty Leigh McElroy
Misty Leigh McElroy

3 Philip Lyons

  • Position INF
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 170
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Thibodaux, La.
  • Highschool E.D. White High School

Biography

Awards
2012 Second Team All-Southland Conference

2013 (Junior): Played and started all 55 games for the Colonels in his junior season at second base... Averaged .274 at the plate with 57 hits, 11 doubles and a home run with 27 RBI and 24 runs scored... Had the longest hitting streak on the team during the season, lasting 12 games from March 13-30... Finished third on the team in multi-hit games with 16 along with reaching base in a team-high 16-straight games... Helped turn a triple play against LSU in Baton Rouge... Finished a triple shy of hitting for the cycle against Towson, going 3-for-4 with a double and home run, driving in three with a run scored... Went 3-for-4 against Southern with two RBI, two doubles and two runs scored.

2012 (Sophomore): Started all 54 games at second base for the Colonels… Finished with a .335 batting average (71-for-212) with 36 RBI, 40 runs scored, five doubles, two triples and a home run… Finished tenth in the Southland in average… Had a .402 on-base percentage, stealing 16 bases on the season… Had a 12 game hitting streak from Feb 25-March 13, the longest of his career… Reached base safely in 45 of the 54, and had a streak of 14 straight this season… From Feb. 24 to March 4 had 11 hits in 19 at bats with five RBI’s and seven runs scored… Finished a triple short of hitting for the cycle against UNO, ending the game with four hits, with a career high five RBI’s in a career best seven plate appearances… Had four four-hit games on the season… Hit his first collegiate home run against the Privateers… Has had five or more at bats in a game 12 times, while having four at bats in a game 29 times … Stole a career-high three bases against ULM… Crossed the plate three times against Alcorn State.

2011 (Freshman):  Hit .233 (24-for-103) with with three doubles, six RBI and 16 runs scored ... Appeared in 40 games and made 32 starts his freshman year ... Had a hand in turning 25 of the Colonels' 63 double plays, the tenth best total in the nation ... Made 52 putouts and 79 assists in 137 total chances ... Made his collegiate debut on Feb. 19 at Louisiana Tech, going 0-for-1 in a pinch-hit appearance ... Made his first career start on Feb. 22 at UL-Lafayette, going 0-for-2 ... Scored his first career run on Feb. 23 against ULL in Thibdoaux ... Recorded his first career hit on Feb. 26 against St. Peter's College, going 1-for-3 with a run scored ... Recorded his first career multi-hit game on March 16 against LSU, going 2-for-4 ... Drove in his first career run on March 18 against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, going 2-for-3 with an RBI ... Scored multiple runs for the first time in his career on April 21 against Sam Houston State, going 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored ... Notched the first and second extra-base hits of his career on May 6 at Southeastern Louisiana, going 2-for-4 with two doubles ... Hit .353 over the final 12 games of the season, going 12-for-34 with three doubles, two RBI and nine runs scored ... Went 3-for-8 (.375 BA) with three runs scored in three games at the 2011 Southland Conference Tournament.

Prior to Nicholls -

E.D. White High School:
  Played baseball and basketball at E.D. White ... A 2008 honorable mention all-district in basketball ... A three-time first-team all-district selection in baseball ... District MVP in baseball and basketball and region MVP in baseball as a senior.

Personal:  The only child of Eddie and Allison Lyons ... Majoring in business.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 19

    2011-12Sophomore

    INF
    6'1" 180 lbs
    19
  • 3

    2012Sophomore

    INF
    6'0" 170 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2013Junior

    INF
    6'0" 170 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2014Senior

    INF
    6'0" 170 lbs
    3