2024: Started in 11of 20 games played…had 50 at-bats with 15 hits and 11 runs, while adding five extra base hits, 10 RBI, and six walks with 21 total bases…batted .300 with an OPS of .837, slugging percentage of .420 and on-base-percentage of .417…went 8-for-9 in stolen base attempts…season high of three hits, going 3-for-5 against Bard College, with two RBI, on April 6, against Lehman, along with two runs and three RBI, on April 17, and against Cortland, along with four runs and one RBI, on May 12…defensively, totaled 12 catches, 10 put outs, and one assist for a fielding percentage of .917...named to the 2024 SUNYAC Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll...earned a spot on the Hawks Academic Honor Roll for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semester... enshrined into the Chi Alpha Sigma National Honor Society.
2023: Started in 10 out of 11 games played…totaled a .190 batting average…had nine runs, eight hits, and had five RBIs and stolen bases…defensively had 27 catches and 27 putouts…earned a spot on the Hawks Academic Honor Roll for the spring 2023 semester…named to the 2023 SUNYAC Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll.
2022: Started all 28 games played… with a .274 batting average… had an OPS of .727, slugging percentage of .381 and an on base percentage of .346… totaled 31 hits, 26 runs and 12 RBI… had seven doubles… had 113 at-bats with five walks… defensively had seven catches, seven put-outs for a fielding percentage of 1.00… named to the 2022 SUNYAC Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll… earned a spot on the Hawks Academic Honor Roll for the fall 2021 semester.
2021: Played in all 20 games, starting 19... batted .279, and was tied for second on team with hits at 19 and third on team in at-bats with 68... second in runs scored with 18... tied for team lead in doubles with four... led team in stolen bases with 12... had three multi-hit games and three multi-RBI games... has eight game hitting streak going into 2022... has on-base safely streak of 10 going into 2022... had three hits, three stolen bases, with two RBIs May 7 at Plattsburgh... stole six bases and scored three runs April 28 at Cobbleskill... scored four runs May 7 at Plattsburgh (two in first game of double-header, two in second game)... defensively had 27 putouts on 39 chances for a .974 fielding percentage... earned a spot on the SUNYAC Commissioner's Academic Honor-Roll.
High School Accolades: Varsity MVP at Archbishop Molloy High School (2019)… JV MVP (2018).
Personal: From Wantagh, NY… graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School in 2020… enjoys golfing...son of Daniel and Myrna Ortiz.
Fun Fact: “Happy owner of five German Shepard's.”
