Troy University Athletics
2021 Baseball Roster
Roster
Easton Kirk
- Position:
- IF
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-0 / 215
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Piedmont, Ala.
- High School:
- Wallace Hanceville
- Prev School:
- Wallace Hanceville CC
2022 (Senior)
Played in 55 games, starting in 53, all at third base… Posted a .267 batting average with a .392 on-base percentage and a .460 slugging percentage… One of three players to lead the Trojan offense with eight home runs… Drove in 31 runs on 50 hits with 12 doubles in 187 at-bats… Earned his first Sun Belt Player of the Week honor after recording eight hits, two home runs, and four RBIs against ULM and scoring a team-high six runs. Kirk's 11th-inning single broke an 8-8 deadlock in the series finale against ULM, and he would come around to score the winning run… Matched his career-high with three RBIs in a game twice, coming against Jacksonville State and UT Arlington.
2021 (Junior)
Played in 24 games, starting in 18... Drove in 11 runs, registering 13 hits and three home runs with two coming in the first two games of the season against Youngstown State... Registered three multiple hit games with three singles also coming against Tulane... Saw playing time at first, and third base recording a .985 fielding percentage
2020 (Junior)
Started all 17 games at third base … Posted a .281 batting average with a .395 on base percentage and a .422 slugging percentage … Drove in 15 runs, including a season-high three in the series finale against Northern Kentucky … Registered six doubles and a home run … Doubled twice in his first game as a Trojan, including a bases-clearing three-run double off the right-field wall in his first at-bat … Recorded three multi-hit games in the first four games of the season and was held hitless just four times on the season … Registered a hit in each game in the series at No. 1 Florida as well as an RBI in two of the three games
*Had season cut short after 17 games due to COVID-19
Prior to Troy (Wallace State – Hanceville CC)
Played at Wallace State Community College where he helped the Lions to a 76-25 mark over two seasons … Played catcher, third base and first base … Batted .480 with 19 home runs and 64 RBIs during his sophomore campaign … Won the Alabama Community College Conference triple crown … NJCAA Third-Team All-American selection … Named the 2019 ACCC Player of the Year, ACCC North Division Player of the Year and was selected to the ACCC All-Southeastern District team
High School
Attended Piedmont High School where he helped lead the Bulldogs to a state runner-up finish his senior season … Holds the school record in batting average, RBIs and home runs … An all-state selection his junior and senior seasons … Also played football and basketball … Won the 3A state football title during his junior and senior seasons
Personal
Full name is Easton Shane Kirk … Born Sept. 24, 1998 … Son of Kellie and Shane Kirk … Has two brothers, Kyle and Weston … Majoring in social science
