Rider University Athletics

2022
Made 17 appearances on the mound as a graduate student, including 14 starts.
Went 6-5 with a 6.57 ERA and a save.
Led Rider and was sixth in the MAAC in wins.
Struck out 67 batters in 75.1 innings.
Had three scoreless outings on the year.
Started the Broncs first game of the MAAC Tournament, throwing six shutout innings, allowing two hits, and striking out nine to earn the win over Monmouth.

2021
- Made nine appearances on the mound as a senior, five of them starts.
- Went 4-2 with a 4.67 ERA and a save.
- Struck out 35 batters in 34.2 innings.
- Won a pair of games in the MAAC Tournament, earning the win as the Broncs walked off against Canisius, then starting the following game against Fairfield.
- Struck out nine in four innings against Niagara allowing three runs, one earned, to earn a victory.

2020
- Made eight appearances out of the pen as a junior.
- Struck out eight in 9.2 innings.
- Pitch two-thirds of an inning and struck out a batter against Charleston Southern to record a save.

2019
- In his second season with the team, he made 16 appearances on the mound, including 15 starts, for the Broncs.
- In 62 innings of work, he went 0-6 with a 4.50 ERA. He struck out 51 hitters.
- He went five or more innings in five of his starts, including each of his last three.
- Tossed a season-best six innings and allowed just one earned run against Manhattan on May 4. He struck out four hitters and scattered five hits.
- Versus Richmond on March 3 he went five and third innings and struck out a career-high nine batters.
- Against UC Riverside on March 10 he tossed four and two-thirds scoreless innings and struck out six batters while scattering three hits.  

2018
- Made 14 appearances and nine starts on the mound as a freshman.
- He went 2-6 with a 5.72 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 56.2 innings of work.
- Tossed five innings and allowed two earned runs in his collegiate debut to pick up the win against Ohio on February 16.
- Pitched three scoreless innings out of the bullpen with one strikeout to earn the victory versus Saint Peter’s on April 14.
- Tossed six or more innings in a game twice, including out of the bullpen in the season finale versus Quinnipiac.
- Struck out five or more batters in a game twice, including his collegiate debut against Ohio.

Before Rider
Three-year letter winner in both baseball and basketball at Old Bridge High School…played outfield and pitched…posted a career ERA of under two and hit .250 at the plate…earned All-Red Division honors…plays club for Warehouse Matrix Baseball.

Personal
Son of Joe and Alisa Papeo.