2024 Baseball Roster

15 David Kruis

  • Class Year '23
  • Position Pitcher
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 185
  • Hometown Midland Park, NJ
  • Prev School Midland Park

Biography

Honors & Awards
Empire 8 President's List (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
2022 Empire 8 First Team All-Conference
D3baseball.com Team of the Week (3/31/21)
Empire 8 Rookie of the Week (3/2/20)

2024 Season
Made eight appearances and three starts for the Soaring Eagles during his fifth season at Elmira…Tossed 28.1 total innings, picking up a win vs. Hood (2/16) and a save vs. Wells (2/23)…Went a season-high 7.1 innings in a win vs. Keuka (3.30), allowing two earned runs on four hits while striking out a batter…Posted a season-best nine strikeouts in a six-inning performance against St. John Fisher (4/7)…Threw 3.1 scoreless innings against Houghton (4/15), allowing one hit and striking out four.

2023 Season
Made a career-high 18 appearances and four starts for the Soaring Eagles...Matched his career-high with three wins on the season and recorded a pair of saves...Tossed 39 innings and recorded 37 strikeouts while facing 189 batters...Had his best series of the season at home against Medaille (4/7-4/8) recording a pair of wins in the first two games and a save in the final game...Recorded a two-inning save against Wells (4/19) and a win in his final appearance of the season against Keuka (5/6)...He ranks fourth all-time in program history in wins and holds the record for saves and saves in a single-season. 

2022 Season
Made 17 appearances with one start for Elmira as a junior...Recorded six saves to go along with a 3-1 record...Worked 28.1 innings and notched 27 strikeouts while limiting opposing hitters to a .239 batting average...The 17 appearances tied for the second-most in a single season in program history...His six saves paced the conference and set both the single-season and all-time records at Elmira.

2021 Season
Made 12 appearances to go along with three starts for the Soaring Eagles...Finished with a 1-4 record and one save through 31.1 innings pitched...Worked a season-high six innings and recorded the win against Houghton (5/1) after allowing just one earned run off five hits.

2020 Season
Made three appearances, including his first collegiate start, as a freshman during the shortened 2020 campaign...Finished the spring 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA and a team-low .167 batting average against...Began his college career with back-to-back hitless innings, both of which came in a doubleheader at Stevenson (3/1)...Struck out one in the opening contest against the Mustangs and produced a season-best two strikeouts in the nightcap...Tossed 2.0 innings with three runs allowed on two hits in his first start at York (Pa.) (3/8).

Before Elmira
Played soccer, basketball and baseball at Midland Park Junior-Senior High School in Midland Park, New Jersey...Earned all-star accolades in all three sports, including All-Division honors as a sophomore, junior and senior in each sport...As a senior, he was named All-Patriot Division Second Team for soccer, the NorthJersey.com Boys All-Group 1 Team for basketball, the All-Bergen County Second Team for baseball, and was an Honorable Mention for the NorthJerseySports.com Male Athlete of the Year in 2019...In his final season on the diamond, he struck out 57 in 50.1 innings of work with a 1.79 ERA, while batting .355 with 28 RBIs.

Personal
David is an Inclusive Special Education major with a Mathematics concentration.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 15

    2020Freshman

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'1" 185 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2021Sophomore

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'1" 185 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2022Junior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'1" 185 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2023Senior

    Pitcher
    6'1" 185 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2024Graduate Student

    Pitcher
    6'1" 185 lbs
    15