Sal Iacono

Position:
Infielder/Catcher
Height:
5-9
Weight:
190
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Staten Island, N.Y.
High School:
Tottenville

At Princeton

2006: Played in and started every game during the season … split time between catching and playing third base … named second-team All-Ivy … hit a career-high .278 with 49 hits in 176 at-bats … drove in 26 runs and scored 25 … had 15 extra-base hits, including four home runs … drove in two runs in a win at Richmond … recorded four three-hit games, the first coming against Harvard … had three hits, including a pair of doubles and drove in four runs in a win at Yale … had three hits, including a home run, in a win over Penn … went 3 for 4 with a home run, three RBIs and four runs scored in a win at Cornell … had three hits and drove in four runs against Harvard in the Ivy League Championship Series … homered against Oklahoma State in the NCAA tournament.

2005: Played in 41 games, starting all at third base and catcher … batted .253 with 37 hits and 17 RBIs … named an honorable mention All-Ivy pick at third base … had 14 extra-base hits, including three home runs … had two hits, two RBIs and a homer in a win at Old Dominion … had six hits, including three doubles, in a league weekend against Yale and Brown … a home run was one of his three hits in a doubleheader at Harvard … had a double, triple and three RBIs against Seton Hall … scored three runs, had five hits and plated four runs in a doubleheader sweep at Penn … hit a single, double and home run in Princeton’s season finale against Rider … tied for the team lead in walks with 15 and triples with three.

2004: Appeared in 43 games at third base … batted .244 with 38 hits and 23 RBIs … had two hits, including a double, in his collegiate debut against Old Dominion … had six RBIs in a four-game stretch against North Carolina A&T and Va. Commonwealth … hit his first home run at Va. Commonwealth … had a home run, a double and three RBIs in a win over Monmouth … posted two doubles and four RBIs and scored three runs in a win over Penn … had three hits and two RBIs in Princeton’s sweep of Dartmouth for the Ivy League championship … had four hits in the three games of the NCAA regional.

At Tottenville

Batted above .500 as a sophomore, junior and a senior … a member of two New York City championship teams … hit a walk-off home run at Shea Stadium to win the city championship as a sophomore.

Personal

Son of John and Linda Iacono … father attended St. John’s and is a car dealer … mother is a homemaker … has a younger brother Rob who attends Fordham and two younger sisters, Diana and Olivia … born March 4, 1985.