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Cole Foster Season 2022

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Cole Foster Season 2022

PositionIF
Weight190 lbs
Height6-1
ClassSophomore
HometownPlano, Texas

HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 ABCA Second Team All-Region
2023 SEC All-Tournament Team
2023 Brooks Wallace Award Semifinalist

2023 - JUNIOR SEASON
Turned in a career-best season with a .336/.429/.570 slash line in 55 games … entered the season as the No. 40 college prospect for the MLB Draft according to D1 Baseball … registered 57 runs, 75 hits, 13 doubles, 13 home runs and 49 RBI … his run total was good for second on the team while he ranked third in hits, doubles and homers and tied for third in RBI … collected 20 multi-hit games, including four hits on three occasions, and 13 multi-RBI efforts … earned Second Team ABCA All-Southeast Region honors and was named a semifinalist for the Brooks Wallace Shortstop of the Year Award … started the season 1-for-10 but hit .524 (22-for-42) with 16 runs and 16 RBI in his next 11 games from Feb. 21-Mar. 10 … went 5-for-13 with five runs and five RBI in three games vs. USC (Feb. 24-26) … hit his first home run of the season vs. Florida A&M (Mar. 1) … was named the Brooks Wallace Award Shortstop of the Week after going 7-for-16 with five runs, a double, homer, five RBI and three walks in four games from Mar. 1-5 … registered four hits in back-to-back games at Jacksonville State (Mar. 8) and vs. Southeastern (Mar. 10), becoming the first Auburn player since 2010 to accomplish the feat … went 8-for-9 with four runs and five RBI in the two contests … missed three games with an abdominal injury from Mar. 11-16 … hit .285 with 28 runs, 35 hits, eight doubles, seven homers and 22 RBI in 30 SEC games … went 4-for-12 with five runs and three doubles vs. Georgia (Mar. 23-25) … went 3-for-5 with three runs and a homer vs. North Alabama (Mar. 28) … hit his first home run of SEC play in the series opening win at Alabama (Apr. 15) … went 3-for-4 with three runs and a homer vs. Samford (Apr. 18) … hit a walk-off double in the 9th inning of the series-clinching win vs. Miss. State (Apr. 23), starting a span of five straight series wins for the Tigers … collected five hits, including a pair of homers, and drove in five runs at South Carolina (Apr. 28-30) … went 4-for-5 with a double, two homers and matched a season high with four RBI in the series opener at Ole Miss (May 12) … collected three hits and homered for the third time on the weekend in the finale (May 13) … went 9-for-15 and scored seven runs in the series against the Rebels, en route to being named the Brooks Wallace Award Shortstop of the Week for the second time … doubled and homered in the series-clinching win vs. Missouri (May 19) … hit a go-ahead, three-run home run in the SEC Tournament win vs. Missouri (May 23) … went 4-for-11 with four runs, two homers and five RBI in three games en route to being named to the SEC All-Tournament Team … went 2-for-4 and reached base three times in the Auburn Regional vs. Penn (June 3) … finished the season on an 11-game hitting streak, matching a season high, and led the team with a .417 average to go along with six homers and 14 RBI during the span … eight of his 13 homers came in the final 17 games of the season … turned in a .976 fielding percentage in 55 games at shortstop, committing just five errors in 212 chances.

2022 - SOPHOMORE SEASON
Turned in a .267/.395/.488 slash line in 53 games and 52 starts at second base … ranked second on the team in RBI (47) and third in home runs (9) … added 11 doubles and scored 40 runs … hit .309 in 21 SEC games, good for third on the team … got Auburn’s scoring started with a RBI single in the second inning the team’s win vs. Texas Tech in Arlington (Feb. 19) … went 2-for-3 with a double and three RBI in the home opener against Troy (Feb. 23) … went on a six-game hitting streak from Feb. 26-Mar. 5 and reached base 15 times during the span … hit the first homer of his career against Alabama State (Mar. 1) and drove in a then season-high four runs in the contest … after missing five games with any injury, returned to the lineup for the last two games at Texas A&M (Mar. 26-27) and went 5-for-10 with two homers and five RBI against the Aggies … hit a solo homer to start the scoring in a series-opening win against Vanderbilt (Apr. 8) … went 3-for-4 with a go-ahead solo homer in the eighth inning of the series opener at Mississippi State (Apr. 14) … went 2-for-4 with his sixth homer of the season against South Carolina (Apr. 23) … went 2-for-2 and reached base four times in the series opener against Arkansas (May 6) … left the series opener against Alabama (May 13) with an injury and missed the next six games … returned to the lineup for the Auburn Regional and went 6-for-15 with six runs, three doubles, three homers and 12 RBI in the three games, earning a spot on the All-Tournament Team … hit a two-run homer from the right side of the plate and grand slam from the left side of the plate in the first inning against Southeastern (June 3), becoming the first Auburn player to homer from both sides of the plate in the same inning … hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning, becoming the first Auburn player to homer three times in a game since 2011 and the first to drive in nine runs in a game since 2011 … his three homers and nine RBI were single-game NCAA Tournament records … adding a double in the contest, he tied Bo Jackson among others for the single-game total bases record (14) … scored a pair of runs in the opening game of the Corvallis Super Regional (June 11) … went 2-for-3 with two doubles in the College World Series win against Stanford (June 20), hitting the go-ahead, three-run double with two outs in the sixth inning.

2021 - FRESHMAN SEASON
Appeared in 15 games and started four … saw time at shortstop, second base, the designated hitter role, and also came in as a pinch hitter … hit .292 (7-for-24) with five runs, three doubles and a RBI … made his collegiate debut as a defensive replacement in the season opener against Presbyterian (Feb. 19) ... made his first career start and went 1-for-3 with a run and RBI vs. Alabama A&M (FEb. 23) ... came off the bench the following day and went 2-for-2 with three runs and a double (Feb. 24) ... had a three-game hit streak from Mar. 21-Apr. 13  that included a pinch-hit double against Mississippi State … came in as a pinch hitter vs LSU and was 1-for-1 with a double (May 6) … recorded a .923 fielding percentage with three putouts and nine assists.

HIGH SCHOOL
Product of Plano Senior High School and the Dallas Tigers ... rated by Prep Baseball Report as the No. 26 overall player in the class, including the No. 5 player in Texas ... tabbed the No. 71 rated high school prospect by Baseball America, including the sixth-best player in Texas, and the No. 169 player in the class by Perfect Game, including the 14th best in his home state ... ranked the No. 166 overall prospect in the 2020 MLB Draft by Baseball America ... named a 2019 Perfect Game Preseason First Team All-American ... competed for the Texas Rangers Area Code Team ... named the District Newcomer of the Year after hitting .405 as a freshman at Plano ... went on to be named Second Team All-District as a sophomore and hit .305 with a .452 on-base percentage as a junior. 

PERSONAL 
Son of Toby and Kathy Foster ... has two siblings, Corbin and Caden ... enrolled in College of Liberal Arts ... born Oct. 8, 2001.