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...He started with a triple in the first, homered in the third, then singled in the fifth before a seventh-inning double...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...Also picked up first-career HCAC Hitter of the Week Award for the performance as well as D3Baseball.com Team of the Week...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

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.

High School: 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.

Personal: Son of Rachel and Nathan Gregg... Majoring in business management.