2018 Baseball Roster
Jesper Horsted
- Position:
- Outfield
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 225
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Roseville, Minn.
- High School:
- Roseville
At Princeton:
2018: Started every game except for one … Team leader in average (.324), hits (44), total bases (53) and on-base percentage (.408) … Was one of the best players in Ivy play recording a .390/.478/.455 slash line … Opened the season with a four-game hitting streak at UNCW (Mar. 2-4) including a three-hit and two RBI performance (Mar. 3) … Posted three straight two-hit outings (Mar. 17-19) … Scored four times at Georgetown (Mar. 17) … Opened Ivy action with three hits vs. Cornell (Mar. 31) … Snagged three hits at Brown (Apr. 7) … Scored twice vs. Seton Hall (Apr. 11) … Impressive 10-game hitting streak (Apr. 14-28) including five multi-hit games … Dropped in three knocks vs. Penn (Apr. 14) … Walked three times at Columbia (Apr. 21) … Recorded two hits, two RBI and stole a base vs. Harvard (Apr. 24) … Helped the squad with five hits at Dartmouth (May 5-6).
2017: Saw time in 31 games …. Finished third on the team in hitting (.281) … Began season with three-game hitting streak at Duke (Mar. 3-5) … Scored a run in three consecutive contests at Old Dominion and Navy (Mar. 21-24) …. Had a two-run double at Navy (Mar. 26) … Started Ivy League with hits in four straight games (Apr. 2-8) …Touched home twice vs. Brown (Apr. 2) …. Went on a six-game hitting streak (Apr. 2-8) … Recorded multi-hit games at Harvard and at Penn (Apr. 9-15) … Amassed two runs scored vs. Rider (Apr. 9) … Ripped a double in back-to-back-to-back games vs. Cornell (Apr. 28-29) …. Just missed the cycle, adding four RBI and two runs scored vs. Cornell (Apr. 28) … Hit .352 in the month of April with seven extra-base hits.
2016: Saw time in 35 games and made 29 starts … Finished ninth in the Ivy League in hitting and led the team (.326) … First collegiate hit at No. 4 Louisville (Mar. 5) … Had first career RBI vs. Penn State (Mar. 12) … Laced three hits at Old Dominion (Mar. 16) … Tallied three consecutive multi-hit outings (Mar. 30-Apr. 2) … Tagged two hits and scored twice vs. Dartmouth (Apr. 2) … Mustered up a 11-game hitting streak (Apr. 3-20) … Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week (Apr. 5) … Scored a run in five straight outings (Apr. 10-17) … Went 5-of-16 (.313) with three runs vs. Penn (Apr. 16-17) … Season-high four hits at Columbia (Apr. 23) … Helped the Tigers clinch the Gehrig Division title with three hits and two runs at Cornell (Apr. 29) ... Collected two hits and two RBI vs. Yale in game one of the Ivy League Championship Series (May 14).
Before Princeton:
Roseville Area: A 2015 graduate of Roseville Area … Played three sports, baseball, basketball and football … A two-time all-conference in baseball and was an all-state player … Had a .596 batting average as a junior that set a school record … Two-time MVP in basketball …. All-conference twice and an all-state player in basketball … Basketball team was a sectional champion in 2015 … Football state record for catches (19) and yards (296) in a game … Set all the school receiving records … Two-time all-conference and all-state football player … Football team was the 2014 sectional champion.
Personal: Full name is Jesper Ellis Horsted … Birthday is February 27, 1997 … Son of Kyia Downing and Kirk Horsted … Has a sister, Elsa … National Honor Society.
