Brian Serven Season 2014

Overview:

• Joins Jerry Mantlo (1970-71) and Petey Paramore (2006-07) as the only three catchers in school history to start the majority of their freshman and sophomore seasons at catcher
• 2015 First-Team All-Pac-12 and Second-Team Pac-12 All-Academic
• Three-time Scholar Baller

Junior (2016)

• #93 2016 College Prospects by D1Baseball.com
• Johnny Bench Award Preseason Watch List
• Started in 58 games, including 56 at catcher and two in outfield
• Recorded a .293 average with 18 extra-base hits, 36 RBI and 28 runs scored
• Placed 3^rd on the team in batting average, hits and 3^rd in RBI
• Pac-12 All-Conference, First Team
• Put together a nine-game hitting streak and went 16-for-39 (.410) in the span (2/26 – 3/11)
• Went 3-for-5 with five RBI, tied for his career high, against Eastern Michigan (3/4)
• Had a walk-off RBI in two consecutive games against UC Davis, including a single in the bottom of the 11th inning (3/11) and a walk with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th inning (3/12)
• Hit his first career triple against Utah (3/25)
• Went 7-for-13 (.538) with two doubles and a home run in the Stanford series, including a go-ahead home run in the 10^th inning of the finale to push the Sun Devils to a 8-7 victory, securing a series sweep over the Cardinal (4/22 – 4/24)
• Hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the 12^th inning against Oregon, finishing the night 2-for-5 with a double (5/6)
• Had three-straight multi-hit games against Oregon, ending the series 6-for-13 (.462) with two doubles (5/6 – 5/8)
• Used a home run and sacrifice fly to knock in three runs for the Devils in an eventual 12-4 victory over UCLA (5/20)
• Received Fort Worth All-Region honors while going 7-for-13 (.538) with three doubles and a home run in the regional with five RBI, including accounting for all four of the Devils’ runs against Oral Roberts (6/3 – 6/5)

Sophomore (2015): 

• First-Team All-Pac-12..Second-Team Pac-12 All-Academic
• Johnny Bench Award Semifinalist
• Appeared in 54 games with 50 starts, including 42 at catcher, five at designated hitter, two at left field and one in right field
• Batted .294 with 34 RBI, second most on the team, 57 hits, including a team-high six home runs and 12 doubles, and scored 26 runs
• First catcher to lead the team in home runs since Carlos Ramirez in 2009, and just the fifth in school history (Ramirez, Casey Myers, Tim Spehr, Tony Alesci)
• Caught 17 runners stealing, the most by a Sun Devil since 2006
• Notched 13 multi-hit games, seven multi-RBI games and 10 two-out RBI, tied for third most on the team
• Between March 29 and April 26, he had a .623 slugging percentage, a .377 batting average, 26 hits, five doubles, four home runs, 19 RBI and 14 runs scored
• Put together a 10-game hitting streak, fourth longest on the team, between March 28 and April 13
• Caught every inning of a pair of five-hour-plus games (5/9 vs UCLA, 5/30 at Cal State Fullerton)
• Started the first two postseason games, including catching all 14 innings in the Devils’ loss to Cal State Fullerton (5/30)
• Collected a pair of RBI in two of the three games vs Washington State (5/14-16), and secured a hit in all of them, including a two-hit, two-RBI night with a double (5/16)
• Had a career high six RBI off three hits, including a three-run double as part of ASU’s 11-run fifth inning vs. Tennessee Tech (4/26)
• Made three game-changing plays in three consecutive innings to help ASU to win at Arizona (4/22): he held on at the plate to tag the lead runner out at home and end the fifth inning, began a four-run rally with a leadoff single in the sixth and drove in the game-winning run with a double in the seventh
• Hit his team-leading fifth home run of the season at Washington (4/19)
• Reached base four times, including two singles, a RBI double and a walk vs. Arizona (4/12)
• Tallied two home runs and set a career high in four different categories with five hits, five RBI, four runs scored and 11 total bases vs Stanford (3/29)
• Delivered a walk-off single in the ninth inning to beat Oregon State (3/14) and cap a two-out, two-RBI game
• Made his first career start at DH and went 2-for-3 with two RBI, two runs and a solo home vs Long Beach (3/8)
• Went 3-for-3 vs Gonzaga (2/28)
• Went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI, including his first RBI of the season, vs Oklahoma (2/18)
• Caught two runners stealing vs Ok St (2/13)
• Two-time Scholar Baller (Fall ‘14, Spring ‘15)

Freshman (2014):

• Third true freshman in the past 20 years at ASU to start the majority of the season, joining Petey Paramore in 2006 and Trevor Pratt in 1999
• Started 45 games at catcher
• His 21 stolen bases against is the second lowest of any starting catcher for ASU since 2008 (Austin Barnes 10 in 2011)
• Finished the season with a .249 batting average, a .355 slugging percentage and a .360 on-base percentage
• Got off to a hot start at the plate and was batting over. 300 midway through the season
• Drove in 27 runs on 42 hits, including nine doubles and three home runs, and scored 27 runs (all rank first among freshmen on the team)
• Caught 15 runners stealing base, which is the most since Carlos Ramirez caught 15 in 2009 and is tied for the most by a Sun Devil since 2006
• Tallied 12 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games, tied for fourth most on the team
• Notched a career-high four RBI behind a grand slam at No. 9 Oklahoma State (5/4)
• Tallied three RBI and scored two runs in a win over Arizona (3/26)
• Scored the eventual game-winning run in the top of the eighth inning against No. 4 Oregon State (3/23)
• Recorded three RBI in a win over Wichita State (3/18)
• Notched a career-high four hits and an RBI vs Gonzaga (2/28)
• Went 6-for-12 with three RBI and two runs scored in three games vs No. 9 Oregon (5/9-5/11), including 2-for-4 with a RBI and two runs scored in the series-clinching win (5/11)
• Earned Scholar Baller recognition in Fall 2013

High School:

• Graduated from Palm Desert High School in 2013
• Three-year letterman in baseball and basketball
• Basketball team captain as a senior
• Named CIF Div. 4 Player of the Year in 2012
• Two-time First Team All-CIF selection in 2012 and 2013
• Two-time First Team DUL selection in 2012 and 2013
• Led team to CIF Championship in 2011

Personal: Majoring in Business…parents are James and Laura Serven…has a younger sister, Kristina, and a brother, Jonathan, who played baseball for Long Beach State...born May 5, 1995…full name is Brian Nicholas Serven.

Career Highs at Arizona State:

Hits: 5, vs Stanford (3/29/15)
RBI: 6, vs Tenn Tech (4/26/15)
Runs: 4, vs Stanford (3/29/15)

Season Highs in 2016:

Hits: 3, three times, last at Stanford (4/23)
RBI: 5, vs Eastern Michigan (3/4)
Runs: 2, five times, last at Stanford (4/24)