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2005 Baseball

18 Matt Horn

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown North Hollywood, Calif.
  • Highschool Harvard-Westlake

Biography

2005: Played in 36 of Penn's 37 games this season and threw out the most batters attempting to steal (15) ... Was 1-for-3 at Cornell for two games (April 23, 24) ... Went 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI in the doubleheader against Princeton (April 16) ... Had three RBIs and one home run off a 3-for-4 performance against St. Joseph's (April 13) ... Went 1-for-2 against Yale (April 10) ... Went 2-for-5 with a double vs. Brown (April 9) ... Had a pinch-hit home run against La Salle. The home run is his second of the season (April 6) ... Hit a double and scored a run in a 1-for-3 performance against Dartmouth (April 4) ... Went 3-for-8 with two RBI and four runs scored in Ivy opening doubleheader with Columbia (March 25-26), also recorded 34 put outs defensively ... Single in the bottom of the 10th put winning run at third base against Lafayette (March 22) ... Scored a pair of runs in Penn's 8-3 win over Hartford (March 19) ... Went 1-for-4 with a run scored and eight defensive put outs against Temple (March 16) ... Recorded eight defensive put outs, including gunning down three attempts at stolen bases against Hartford (March 19) ... Went 2-for-5 with a double against Monmouth (March 12) ... Hit first home run of the season against Dallas Baptist (March 11) ... Slapped a pair of singles and drove in a run at Fresno State (March 8) ... Went 2-for-3 with an RBI against Monmouth (March 6) ...  Opened the season with a 4-for-5 hitting performance, scoring two runs and recording three RBI against Southern Utah (March 5). 

2004: Started 28 of 30 games played as a catcher for the Red and Blue ... Named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America District II team ... Received honorable mention at catcher for the All-Ivy League team ... Opened the season with a 1-for-5 performance against West Virginia Wesleyan (March 6), scoring one run and driving in another ... Recorded the first of four multi-hit games, going 2-for-3 with two runs scored at South Florida (March 9) ... Went 2-for-3 with an RBI against Georgetown (March 11) ... Collected a double and a single in five at bats against Long Island (March 14) ... Went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs scored and a double against Columbia (March 27) ... Went 1-for-3 with a double and eight defensive put outs at Harvard (April 10) ... Followed up with a 2-for-3 performance to go along with 10 put outs against Brown (April 15) ... Hit 6-for-15 (.400) with two runs scored in a four-game weekend against Cornell (April 17-18) ... Collected his second career triple in the back end of Sunday's double-dip with the Big Red ... Was a perfect 4-for-4 with two runs scored and another driven in Penn's 8-3 win over Princeton at Clarke Field (April 25) ... Named to the Ivy League weekly honor roll (April 27) ... Finished the season, hitting .326 and .385 in Ivy League competition, ranked ninth ... Registered career-highs in at bats (92), batting average, runs (16) and hits (30) ... Led the team in defensive chances (174) and put outs (135) ... One of two Quakers to receive the Joseph Rullo Most Improved Player Award. 

2003: Played in 27 games during 2003 season, starting 23 ... Most career HRs of all current Quakers (6) ... Led all returnees in HRs in 2003 (four), which were most in the Ivy League among any player with fewer than 100 at-bats ... Recorded 20 RBI in just 80 at-bats ... Made only two errors in 188 chances (.989 FA) ... Threw out 12 would-be base-stealers, leading the team ... Blasted a grand slam against Columbia (March 29) ... At Brown (April 13), recorded two hits, including his first career triple, as well as four RBI and two runs in win over the Bears ... Connected for his second Ivy League walk off-HR in as many years when he took Princeton first-team reliever Thomas Pauly deep to the opposite field, handing the pitcher his only HR allowed and loss of the season. 

2002: Played in 23 games, making 13 starts ... Had 11 hits and 12 RBI ... Went 2-for-4 with four RBI, including a game-winning three-run homerun against Brown (April 6) ... Went 1-for-5, including a homerun and three RBI against Cornell (April 20). 

High School: Three-year letterwinner ... Received All-Mission League honors in 2001. 

Personal: Son of David and Susan Horn ... Born March 6, 1983 ... Enrolled in Wharton.

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