2023 Baseball Roster
Groover III, LuJames
Auburn Regional Preview: Elliott Avent on ACC PM
Thursday, May 29
Game Three Press Conference: Athens Super Regional
Tuesday, June 11
Game Two Press Conference: Athens Super Regional
Sunday, June 09
Game One Press Conference - Athens Super Regional
Saturday, June 08
Jersey Number 6
LuJames Groover III
- Position:
- INF
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 212
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Morrow, Ga.
- B/T:
- R/R
- Major:
- Sport Management
- High School (Last School):
- The Walker School (Charlotte)
Bio
Drafted 48th Overall in 2023 MLB Draft (Arizona Diamondbacks, 2-48)
2023 Third Team All-ACC
2023 - Junior Season
- One of two players to play and start all 57 games – started 56 games at third base, one at first base
- Led the team with 76 hits, 48 runs scored, 13 home runs, 125 total bases, five sacrifice flies and tied for first on the team with 50 RBI
- Led the Pack with 25 multi-hit games (nine more than the next closest batter) and 14 multi-RBI games
- Ranked second on the team with a .332 batting average and 36 walks
- Held a team-high 13-game hitting streak and 33-game reached base streak during the season
- Tallied at least one hit in 45 of 57 games and reached base safely in 55 of 57 games
- Slugged the second multi-homer game of his career for a career-high nine total bases in a win over Florida State on April 15
- Named Perfect Game Player of the Week and ACC Co-Player of the Week on April 17 after a great weekend against Florida State
- Crushed the third multi-homer game of his career in NC State’s NCAA Tournament victory over No. 12 Campbell on June 4
- Delivered a walk-off single in a 6-5 win over No. 11 Louisville (March 31) for his first of two walk-off hits on the season
- Smacked a walk-off solo home run in a 6-5 win over North Carolina A&T on May 2
- Led NC State with 39 hits while batting .336 with five doubles, three homers and 15 RBI in 29 ACC games
- Registered 10 more walks (36) than strikeouts (26) in 229 at-bats
2022 Second Team All-ACC
2022 - Sophomore Season
- Made 55 starts and appeared in all 57 games - saw the most time at first base
- Led the team with a .364 batting average, 86 hits, 16 doubles and a .440 on-base percentage
- Finished second on the team with 65 runs scored
- Finished with 10 home runs, the fourth-most on the team
- Held a 24-game hit streak from March 11-April 23 and 27-game hit streak from March 5-April 23, and both were the longest streaks on the team
- Tallied at least one hit in 48 of 57 games and reached base safely in 50 out of 57 games
- Led the team with 27 multi-hit games, including a team-high 11 three-hit outings
- Turned in 11 multi-RBI outings, highlighted by a career-best five RBIs with two home runs on May 30 vs. Radford
- Also had four-RBI outings on Feb. 26 vs. Quinnipiac and April 3 at Clemson
- Named Second-Team All-ACC after finishing among the top of the league in conference play in several offensive categories
- Hit the game-winning home run in the team’s extra-inning thriller over Quinnipiac on Feb. 26 to clinch the series, and scored the game-winning runs on April 12 vs. UNCW and April 15 vs. Boston College to help the Pack secure walk-off wins
2021 - Freshman Season (At Charlotte)
- Named to the 2021 Conference USA All-Freshman Team
- Played in 54 games with 50 starts in his rookie season hitting a team-best .351 batting average with four homers and 38 runs driven in
- First two collegiate hits came back-to-back with a runs scored in the 20-4 rout of William and Mary on February 28th
- First RBI followed the following weekend on March 7th vs. Western Carolina
- Hit his first career home run capping off a back-to-back-to-back sequence in a 9-0 win over #14 Tennessee on March 9th
- Re-set career high in hits with four in a 15-5 win over App. State on March 23rd just two days after doing so with three vs. Rhode Island on the 21st
- Hit .357 in four-game sweep of Florida Atlantic with a couple of doubles and three walks in early April
- Followed up with a .333 average in a four-game road sweep at FIU with another double and four RBI before hitting the go-ahead HR in the 6th of an 11-10 game two win over UTSA on April 17th
- Sported a team-best .615 average with two hits in each game of the series at #25 Old Dominion in late April
- Put up a .357 average in the four-game series sweep over Marshall and ended C-USA play with a .375 average at Rice in mid-May
- Put together a team-best 15-game hit streak heading into the C-USA Tournament and ended the year on a four-gamer while reaching base safely in 20-straight heading into 2022
- Led the team hitting a whopping .415 with two outs and recorded 17 two-out RBI
- Hit his .351 with four homers and 14 doubles apart of his 66 hits during the year while driving in 38, scoring 29 times and drawing 11 walks
- Finished second on the team with 18 multi-hit games and third with 12 multi-RBI games.
High School / Prep Career
- Comes up I-85 from The Walker School in Marietta, Georgia as a Silver Slugger, Gold Glover and team MVP hitting .467 in his junior season earning a spot on the all-Cobb County All Star team in the Greater Atlanta area
- Was hitting .381 with a couple of HR's and seven RBI before having his senior season cut short due to COVID-19
- Won The Walker School's Wolverine Award, the highest varsity honor to a student-athlete