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2024 Baseball Roster

Bob Shallenberger
Bob Shallenberger
Bob Shallenberger
Bob Shallenberger

0 Brendan Hord

  • Position Catcher
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 205
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Lexington, Ky.
  • Highschool Paul L. Dunbar HS

Biography

Northwoods League Great Plains All-Star Selection (2023)
Northwoods League Great Plains All-Star Home Run Challenge Participant (2023)
 
2023 (At Evansville)
  • Played in 48 games with 45 starts, splitting time between catcher and DH
  • Started 38 games behind home plate, and seven games at DH overall
  • Hit .208 with 12 doubles, five home runs, 30 RBI and 21 runs scored
  • Third on the team with seven HBPs
  • Produced 10 multi-hit games, including five two-hit contests, four three-hit games, and one four-hit game
  • Tied for fourth on the team with nine multi-RBI contests
  • Opened the year going 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBI at Troy (2/17/23)
  • Hit .333 (5-for-15) with a home run, two doubles and eight RBI through UE’s first four games at Troy and Kentucky (two NCAA Tournament teams from 2023)
  • Hit home runs in back-to-back games against Eastern Michigan (2/26/23) and at Southeast Missouri State (3/1/23)
  • Went 5-for-9 with a pair of doubles in a two-game home series against Purdue (3/17-19/23)
  • Went a career-best 4-for-6 with two home runs and four RBI at SIUE (3/22/23)
  • Also went 3-for-5 with a double and three RBI at Purdue in a mid-week game (4/4/23)
  • Had back-to-back multi-hit games against Butler (2-for-3 - 5/3/23) and at Illinois State (2-for-5 – 5/5/23)
  • Started UE’s four-run ninth-inning rally against nationally-ranked Indiana State in the MVC Tournament with a two-out pinch-hit walk (5/27/23)
  • Had an outstanding summer playing for the Mankato MoonDogs of the Northwoods League
  • Earned Northwoods League Great Plains Mid-Season All-Star status and participated in the Great Plains All-Star Home Run Challenge
  • Hit .286 with 14 doubles, 10 home runs, 56 RBI and 41 runs scored in 54 games for the MoonDogs
  • Ranked fifth in the Northwoods League in home runs this past summer with 10
2022 (At Evansville)
  • Played in 53 games with 52 starts in his first season in a Purple Aces’ uniform
  • Hit .253 with 15 doubles, four home runs, 29 RBI and 34 runs scored
  • Ranked fourth on the team with 15 doubles
  • Tied for third on the team with 11 HBPs
  • Had 11 multi-hit games (eight two-hit games and three three-hit contests)
  • Produced eight multi-RBI games (seven two-RBI outings and one three-RBI game)
  • Posted the fourth-longest streak of reaching base safely at 17 games
  • Had a multi-hit game in his first game as an Ace, going 2-for-4 with a double at #10 N.C. State (2/18/22)
  • Went a season-best 3-for-4 with his first home run and a season-best three runs scored and three RBI in UE’s home opener against Dayton (2/26/22)
  • Roped a pair of doubles while going 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI against UIC (3/4/22)
  • Had three-hit games in Valley play at Indiana State (3-for-3, HR, 2 RBI – 4/23/22) and against Bradley (3-for-4, 2 2Bs, three runs scored – 5/1/22)
  • First career MVC home run came against Southern Illinois (4/9/22)
  • Opened MVC play hitting safely in his first seven Valley games (4/8/22 – 4/23/22), and had at least one hit in every MVC series
  • Hit. 309 in Valley play with six doubles, two home runs and 13 RBI in 20 starts
  • Played for the Mankato MoonDogs of the Northwoods League during the summer, and hit .316 with three home runs and 28 RBI
2021 (At Univ. of Kentucky)
  • Squad member who did not appear in a game
  • Played in the College Summer League at Grand Park
  • Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll
2020 (At Univ. of Kentucky)
  • Appeared in one game, recording a single against Norfolk State (3/7/20)
  • Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll
2019 (At Univ. of Kentucky)
  • Redshirted
  • A member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll
PREP
  • Played high school baseball for Paul L. Dunbar HS in Lexington, Kentucky
PERSONAL
  • Son of Melia and Chuck Hord
  • Has two brothers – Chris and Will
  • His older brother, Chris, pitched at Eastern Kentucky from 2007-2011
  • Graduated from UE last May with a degree in Civil Engineering and is currently pursuing a Master's in Leadership
  • Also played football and swam growing up
  • Lists football as his second-best sport
  • Wants to be a college baseball coach when his playing days are done
  • Hobbies include weightlifting
  • Favorite food is his mom’s Chicken Parmagiano
  • Wears #19 to honor his high school teammate, Travis Gaines, who was paralyzed in a Spring Break boating accident in his school during his senior year.  Travis had signed to play baseball collegiately at Centre College (KY), but was not able to do so.  Travis wore #19 in high school at Dunbar HS

Statistics

Season:
2024

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Historical Player Information

  • 19

    2022Redshirt Sophomore

    Catcher
    5'10" 205 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2023Redshirt Junior

    Catcher
    5'10" 205 lbs
    19
  • 0

    2024Graduate Student

    Catcher
    5'10" 205 lbs
    0
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