Bio

Junior (2024)

• Compiled a career year in numerous offensive categories while playing in 35 games as the team's primary second baseman
• His .353 average topped all Yellow Jacket hitters and also recorded a team-high 48 hits, 10 doubles, 23 runs, 78 total bases, and 15 multi-hit games
• Finished second on the team with six homers, 25 RBIs, .574 slugging percentage, .432 on-base percentage, and 17 extra-base hits
• Among HCAC hitters, six homers finished 10th in the league...Also recorded five saves on the mound, the fifth-most in a season for a Defiance reliever and ranked fifth in the HCAC
• First six pitching appearances of college career and held a 2.70 ERA and struck out eight hitters in 6.2 frames, converting 5 of 6 save attempts
• In the first game of the season-ending doubleheader vs. Earlham on 5/5, Gregg completed the first cycle in DC history in over a decade and drove in three runs of a 7-4 victory, starting with a triple in the first, homered in the third, then singled in the fifth before a seventh-inning double; Earned first-career HCAC Hitter of the Week Award for the performance as well as D3Baseball.com Team of the Week
• Closed season with RBIs in four straight games and went 9-for-18 (.500) with eight RBIs, five runs scored, two doubles and homers in each of the last two games of the year
• Recorded season-long seven-game hitting streak from 3/29-4/14 while hitting .400 (12-for-30)
• Reached base in a season-long 10-game streak from 3/24-4/14
• Recorded back-to-back three-hit games to close a big week from 4/16-4/21, going 9-for-20 with eight RBIs, six walks and four extra-base hits
• Closed season with 12 career home runs, tied for 10th in the program's career rankings
• Named Academic All-HCAC and Second Team All-HCAC

Sophomore (2023)

• One of two Yellow Jackets to appear in all 38 games and the only player to start every contest as the regular shortstop
• Led the team with 35 hits, four home runs and 17 walks while scoring the second-most runs (16), third in doubles (7) and third in RBIs (15)
• Also compiled nine multi-hit games
• 12 errors were second-most on the team
• Knocked first homer of the year on 3/21 at Heidelberg
• .Homered three games later in game two at Rose-Hulman on 3/26
• Homered in both games of a doubleheader on 4/29 at Transylvania to push season total to four
• Doubled in three straight games from 4/29-4/30 and in four games of back-to-back doubleheaders, totaled five extra-base hits (two homers, three doubles) while going 6-for-16
• Longest hitting streak was seven games from 4/22-5/3 and hit .357 over that stretch with five extra-base hits and 10 RBIs, including at least RBI in seven consecutive contests
• Batted .292 (21-for-72) over the last 19 games of the season
• Named Academic All-HCAC

Freshman (2022)

• Played in 25 games and made 19 starts
• Recorded 13 hits, two doubles, two homers, six runs batted in, and 10 runs scored
• Recorded first collegiate hit in a loss to Baldwin Wallace
• Hit first two career home runs in a loss to Ohio Northern
• Had four multi-hit games.

Personal

• Majoring in business management
• Earned three varsity letters in baseball and two in diving at Oak Harbor
• Tied Oak Harbor records for triples in a season with three and most batters struck out in a game with 14
• Son of Rachel and Nathan Gregg