Career:

• Four-year starter for Merrimack, totaling 331 at-bats over 109 games played
• Versatile defensively, playing in both the infield and outfield during his career
• 83 career hits, 57 runs, 38 RBI, 24 steals and nine doubles 

2017:

• Appeared in 32 games, making 89 plate appearances
• Posted the second-highest average (.270) and on-base percentage (.391) of his career
• Totaled 24 hits while scoring 22 runs and knocing in 10 more 
• Drew the sixth-most walks on the team (12) while finishing fourth on the Warriors with seven steals

2016: Appeared in 17 games, making 51 player appearances, before his season was cut short due to injury … Posted a slash line of .294/.410/.333, all of which were on pace to be career highs … Totaled 15 hits and five RBI while scoring 11 runs … Split time between the outfield and second base … Registered a .977 fielding percentage, committing only one error in 43 chances

2015: Appeared in 26 games during his second season … Finished with a .192 batting average and a .292 slugging percentage … Registered 15 hits in 78 at-bats, including two doubles … Collected six RBI, nine walks, nine runs scored and four steals … Split time between shortstop and left field as a sophomore 

2014: Enjoyed a solid debut season appearing in 34 games with 30 starts in all three outfield spots and second base ... Finished with a .257 batting average and a .283 slugging percentage … Scored 15 runs and totaled 17 RBI … Recorded nine stolen bases and a .343 on-base percentage … Tallied 29 hits and three doubles ... Held a .943 fielding percentage ... Struck out only eight times in 137 plate appearances.

Before Merrimack: Played four years as a varsity starter at Leicester High School … Three-time SWCL Conference All-Star … Worcester Telegram & Gazette All-Star his sophomore & senior Years …Team Captain his senior year… Hit .531 as a senior with 5 homeruns which tied for best in central Massachusetts… Most Valuable Player of the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association Senior All-Star Game… Member of the MBCA Team Massachusetts Senior All-Star Game…Captain of the 2013 Paul N, Johnson Sr. Ruth League Champion Worcester Eagles… Member of the Paul N. Johnson All-Star team which finished second in the New England Senior Ruth Regional All-Star Tournament, just missing a bid to the World Series… Is the Founder/Head Coach of Mini Warrior Baseball Clinics at Double Play Sports in Leicester, a week long camp designed for kids to learn the fundamentals of baseball.

Personal: Born December 8, 1994 ... Son of Ray and Lisa Petrone ... Has one sister, Nicole ... A Finance and Organizational Communications Double Major.

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CAREER HIGHS:

Hits: 3, 5 times
Doubles: 1, 9 times
Total bases: 4, vs St. Anselm, 3/30/14; at Queens (N.Y.), Mar 19, 2016
RBI: 3, Saint Rose, 4/5/14
Runs scored: 3, at Queens (N.Y.), Mar 19, 2016
Walks: 2, 4 times
Hit by pitch: 2, at Bentley, 04/28/15; at Franklin Pierce, Apr 12, 2014
Sac flies: 1, 6 times
Sac bunts: 1, 7 times
At bats: 6, vs Caldwell College, 03/15/14; at Queens (N.Y.), Mar 19, 2016
Stolen bases: 2, vs Nyack, 03/07/15; Dominican, 03/13/16
Field chances: 9, Dominican, 03/13/16
Putouts: 5, 4 times
Assists: 5, Dominican, 03/13/16; vs Wilmington, Mar 08, 2015