Derek Cease Season 2024

2023 (SOPHOMORE)
Season: Played in 17 games, including two starts in the outfield…Collected four hits, including three doubles, three RBI and five runs…Had a .467 slugging percentage.
 
Game-By-Game: vs. Brown (3/10): Entered the game as a pinch-runner and scored a run. Binghamton (3/21): Recorded a pinch-hit single and scored a run. Indiana (4/2): Scored a run as a pinch-runner. Delaware State (4/8): Ripped a two-run double to left-center in the sixth. at Purdue (4/14): Scored a run as a pinch-hitter and lined a double in the ninth. at Omaha (5/10): Notched an RBI double and scored a run in the seventh.

2022 (FRESHMAN)
Awards: Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week (5/4).
 
Season: Played in 42 games, including 28 starts, mostly at second base…Collected 21 hits, including two doubles, 17 runs and seven RBI…Added 19 walks and three steals…Had five multi-hit games...Made one appearance on the mound vs. Monmouth (2/18).
 
Game-By-Game: at VMI (3/8): Recorded a double and a run. Rutgers (3/25): Drew a walk and scored a run. Bucknell (4/6): Collected two hits, two runs and a stolen base. Purdue (4/14): Notched a single and a run. at Minnesota (4/23): Registered an RBI single and a run. Bucknell (4/26): Had an RBI single and a walk. Omaha (4/29-30): Notched two hits, including an RBI single, two runs and two walks in game one…Recorded two hits, two runs and a steal in game two. Michigan State (5/8): Drove in a run with an RBI single, adding a run and a walk, in game one of a doubleheader…Tallied two hits, including a double and an RBI single, a run and a steal in game two. vs. Pitt (5/17): Collected three hits, including a pair of RBI singles. vs. Iowa (5/28): Had a single, a run and two walks.

HIGH SCHOOL
Played three years at Greater Nanticoke Area High School for head coach Joe Yudichak…Was an All-Conference selection…Batted .400 as a senior…Hit .317 with 51 hits as well as a 3.63 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 98 innings in his prep career…Played travel ball for North East Pride…Named Diamond Nation MVP and Team MVP three times for North East Pride…Finished the 2020 summer with a 1.03 ERA and led the team in stolen bases and runs, while batting .400.
 
PERSONAL
Son of Laura and Jim Cease…Has a brother, Ben…Intending to major in communications…Planning to pursue a career in real estate.