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As a Senior in 2018: Started one game for the Ravens, before missing the remainder of the season due to injury...Went 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, scored twice, drove in a run and stole a base in the season opener against Felician on 2/22.
2018 Statistics

As a Redshirt Junior in 2017: Appeared in 37 games for the Ravens, including 31 starts, primarily in center field...Fall Northeast-10 Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll selection...Finished tied for the team lead in sacrifice hits (4)...Hit .277/.320/.353 over 119 at-bats (33-for-119) with five doubles and two triples for 42 total bases...Scored 20 runs and drove in 16...Drew seven walks and was hit by one pitch, against 35 strikeouts...Had one sacrifice fly and went 6-for-8 in stolen bases...Appeared as a pinch runner in his Franklin Pierce debut, in the second game of a doubleheader against Queens (N.Y.) on 2/24...Made his first start as a Raven and went 1-for-5 -- with his first hit in a Franklin Pierce uniform -- and scored twice at Adelphi on 3/2...Hit 2-for-5, scored one run and drove in two others at Saint Augustine's on 3/11...Hit 2-for-4 with a triple and scored a run at Mount Olive on 3/14...Went 2-for-4 with a double, scored twice and drove in a run against Post on 3/21...Hit 3-for-4 with a double and scored a run against Stonehill on 4/23...Went 2-for-5, scored twice and drove in two runs at Bentley on 4/28...Hit 4-for-6, scored twice, drove in two runs and stole a base in the second game of a doubleheader at Bentley on 4/29...Hit 2-for-3 with a double at Southern New Hampshire on 5/2...Hit 2-for-5 and drove in two runs in the front end of a doubleheader against Saint Michael's on 5/3...Hit 2-for-4, scored a run and stole a base in the first round of the NE10 Championship against Merrimack on 5/9...Hit .438 (14-for-32) over a seven-game hitting streak from 4/28 through 5/9.
2017 Statistics

As a Junior in 2016: Did not play.

As a Sophomore in 2015 at Northern Essex CC: Played in 25 games for the Knights...NJCAA All-America Second Team selection...Hit .398/.474/.566 over 83 at-bats (33-for-83) with six doubles and four triples, scored 24 runs and drove in 19...Drew seven walks against nine strikeouts and stole 13 bases without being caught...Hit 3-for-5 with a triple, scored one run, drove in three more and stole a base against Utica JV on 3/16...Went 3-for-4 with a double, drove in three runs, drove in two and stole a base in the front end of a doubleheader against Vermillion CC on 3/17; hit 2-for-3, scored three runs, drove in another and stole three bases in the second game...Went 2-for-3 with a double and a triple and scored twice in the first game of a doubleheader against Sussex County CC...Hit 2-for-3 with a double and scored a run in the first game of a doubleheader against Muscatine CC on 3/19...Went 2-for-4 and scored a run against Holyoke CC on 4/11...Hit 2-for-5 with a pair of triples, scored once, drove in two runs and stole a base against Bunker Hill CC on 4/15...Went 2-for-3 with a double, scored one run, drove in another and stole a base in the first game of a doubleheader against Massasoit CC on 4/18; hit 2-for-3, scored twice and stole two bases in the second game...Hit 2-for-2 with a walk, scored once, drove in a run and stole a base against Quinsigamond CC on 4/23.
2015 Statistics

As a Freshman in 2014 at Northern Essex CC: NJCAA All-New England First Team selection.

Before College: Played four years of baseball and football at Burlington (Mass.) High School.

Personal: Son of Debra Smoske...An accounting-finance major.