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Kunert

Utility 5-8 • 170 • Sr.-3L • R/R Watson, La. • Live Oak HS Lenni KUNERT

2019 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll 2018 NCAA Corvallis Regional All-Tournament Team 2018 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll 2017 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll 2019 Season: • Appeared in 43 games, starting a career-high 39. • tied for fourth on the team in multi-RBI games (7) and was fifth in multi-hit games (11). • ended the season on an 11-game hitting streak, going 15-for-37 (.405) during the run. • batted .333 (44-for-132) after a 1-for-20 start to the season. • drove in five runs, including his second home run of the season, as the Demons split a regular-season-ending doubleheader at Sam Houston State on May 17. • connected on his first home run of the season and drove in two runs in the second game of a May 12 doubleheader against Incarnate Word. • set a season high with three hits, scoring twice and driving in a run in a 7-6 win against Incarnate Word on May 10. • drove in single runs in four straight games from May 5-10. • enjoyed a strong series, going 5-for-11 with two walks and a pair of RBIs at Stephen F. Austin from April 26-28. • hit safely in 10 straight games, going 12-for-37 (.324), from April 2-17. • scored a career-high three runs against Mississippi Valley State on April 3. • tallied three consecutive two-hit games against ULM and Little Rock from Feb. 26-March 2. 2018 Season: • Appeared in 43 games, starting 34 after becoming NSU’s primary left fielder in late March. • had eight multi-hit games, including three three-hit games in the final four games. • named to the NCAA Corvallis Regional All-Tournament team after going 7-for-12 (.583) with three runs scored, two home runs, two RBIs and a double in three games. • gave the Demons a 3-2 lead with a tie-breaking solo home run in the sixth inning against LSU on June 3 and finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored. • reached base in all four plate appearances, going 3-for-3 with a solo home run in a 9-3 loss to No. 3 national seed Oregon State on June 1. • started a four-run second inning in the Southland Conference Tournament title game with an infield single and went 3-for-4 against the Privateers. • tripled and cranked his first Brown-Stroud Field home run, driving in four runs in a 34-0 win against Mississippi Valley State on April 25. • collected three straight two-hit games from April 22-25. • made his first start in left field and went 2-for-4 with a double in an 8-3 loss to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on March 25. • delivered a walk-off RBI single to give the Demons a 7-6 win against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on March 24. • sparked a ninth-inning rally with a two-run, pinch-hit double in a 5-4 March 9 loss at Nicholls. 2017 Season: • Appeared in 30 games, starting 13, and made four pitching appearances, all in relief. • hit safely in three straight games on two occasions (April 15-21 and May 6-14). • delivered a pinch-hit, ninth-inning home run at Oklahoma State on March 19 as part of back-to-back, pinch-hit home runs with Carter Hankins. • notched his first multi-hit game, going 2-for-5, in a 10-3 win at Abilene Christian on May 12. • drove in a career-high three runs in a 6-2 win at Abilene Christian on May 14. 2016 Season: • Redshirted. High School: • Four-year letterman in baseball for coaches Greg Briggs, Lafayette Duhe and Michael Palermo. Both Briggs and Palermo are NSU baseball alumni. • led Live Oak to the playoffs in three seasons, including a state runner-up finish as a junior. • three-time first-team all-district, all-parish and all-metro selection. • two-time first-team all-state selection (junior and senior). • as a senior, batted .485 with 12 doubles, 3 triples, 5 home runs and 35 RBIs. • battled .386 with 14 doubles, 3 home runs and 48 RBIs as a junior. • after batting .300 as a freshman, hit .360 with 15 doubles and 3 home runs as a sophomore.

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nsudemons.com // @NSUDemonsBsB • summa cum laude honors graduate finished high school with a 3.6 GPA. Personal: • Born Nov. 20, 1996. • son of Alicia and Jimmy Aldy. • two brothers – Sam and Jake Aldy – and one sister, Lyla Kunert. • majoring in general studies and has a 3.2 grade point average. • career plans are to play professional baseball or to work in sales for Marucci. • life’s ambition is “to be the best person I can and never give up.”

Hitting YR AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG BB HP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO E FLD% 2017 .200 30-13 60 11 12 1 0 1 6 16 .267 12 2 10 2 .347 1 1 0-0 1 0 1.000 2018 .288 43-34 132 19 38 6 2 3 24 57 .432 16 1 19 3 .367 1 1 1-1 41 3 .938 2019 .296 43-39 152 24 45 9 2 2 23 64 .421 10 8 18 2 .368 1 0 1-2 58 3 .954 TOT. .276 116-86 344 54 95 16 4 6 53 137 .398 38 11 47 7 .364 3 2 2-3 100 6 .949

Game Highs: At-Bats: 6, vs. Southern G1, Feb. 24, 2019 Hits: 3, 4x (last vs. Incarnate Word, May 10, 2019) Runs Scored: 3, vs. Mississippi Valley State, April 3, 2019 RBI: 4, vs. Mississippi Valley State, April 25, 2018 Stolen Bases: 1, 2x (last at Abilene Christian, March 8, 2019) Walks: 3, 2x (last vs. Mississippi Valley State, April 25, 2017) Home Runs: 1, 6x (last at Sam Houston State G2, May 17, 2019)

Pitching YR. ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR WP HP BK 2017 5.40 0-0 4 0 0 0/0 0 5.0 4 5 3 7 5 0 0 1 1 1 0 TOT. 5.40 0-0 4 0 0 0/0 0 5.0 4 5 3 7 5 0 0 1 1 1 0

Game Highs: Innings Pitched: 2.0, vs. Mississippi Valley State, April 25, 2017 Strikeouts: 3, vs. Mississippi Valley State, April 25, 2017