2023 Demon Baseball Roster

Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services
Chris Reich, NSU Photographic Services

54 Jeffrey Elkins

54 Jeffrey Elkins

  • Position:
    Outfielder
  • Ht./Wt.:
    5-10 / 175
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Lafayette, La.
  • Highschool:
    Ascension Episcopal HS
  • Prev School:
    UL Lafayette
  • Major:
    Business Administration

Summary

Biography

2023 All-Southland Conference Second-Team OF
2023 No. 26 Southland Conference MLB Draft Prospect (D1Baseball.com)

2022 Southland Conference All-Defensive LF
2020 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
2019 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
2019 All-Southland Conference Team Honorable Mention

2023 Season:
• Finished his Demon career as the school's all-time home run leader with 36.
• left NSU in the career top 10 in RBIs (134, 5th), total bases (357, 5th), runs scored (158, 6th), games played (214, 6th), at-bats (760, 6th), hit by pitch (33, T-6th), doubles (42, T-7th) and hits (199, 9th), .
• his 12 home runs put him in a four-way tie for eighth in NSU single-season history.
• tied for second on the team with 15 multi-hit games.
• reached base in a career-long 26 straight games from April 8-May 26.
• batted .388 (19-for-49) in a career-long 12-game hit streak from April 26-May 14.
• homered in each of the first two games of the Demons' series against McNeese on May 12-13.
• went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI in a May 9 loss at No. 2 LSU, his third career multi-hit game against the Tigers.
• homered in the series opener and scored a season-high four runs in the May 5 series opener at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
• hit his fifth leadoff home run of the season, starting the Demons' May 2 win at Louisiana Tech -- a game where he reached base six times (four hits, two walks).
• drilled the first pitch he saw from Nicholls' Michael Quevedo for a home run on April 29, setting NSU's new career record with 32.
• tied Northwestern State's career home run record with his 31st career blast, a solo shot at UL Lafayette on April 26.
• connected on his third lead-off home run of the season -- and 30th career home run -- in an April 21 loss to UIW.
• blasted his fifth home run of the season and finished with three hits in an April 8 doubleheader against Lamar.
• homered for the fourth time this season and scored three runs in a March 31 win at New Orleans.
• had a career-long, 11-game hitting streak from March 10-25, going 19-for-40 (.475) with three home runs and eight RBIs in that span.
• produced five straight multi-hit games in that run from March 12-19.
• cracked a home run on the first pitch of a March 25 doubleheader at Oregon, his second lead-off home run of the season.
• named Southland Conference Hitter of the Week after batting .471 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBIs in a four-game week from March 14-19.
• homered in his first at-bat as a leadoff hitter and finished 4-for-5 with three RBIs in a March 17 win against Little Rock.
• had his first multi-hit and multi-RBI game of the season, going 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs in a Feb. 25 win against New Mexico State.

2022 Season:
• Appeared in 53 games, starting 48, as the Demons' primary left fielder.
• led Northwestern State in home runs (13) and slugging percentage (.556) and was second in battnig average (.278), raking second in the Southland Conference in home runs.
• homered in back-to-back games at LSU and against Nicholls from May 17-19, his second set of back-to-back homers of the season.
• hit safely in a career-long 12 straight games from April 19-May 7, going 15-for-45 with five home runs and 13 RBIs in that stretch.
• posted his first career multi-home run game, hitting a pair of three-run home runs -- one an inside-the-park home run -- at McNeese on May 6.
• started back-to-back home runs with Gray Rowlett in the seventh inning of an April 26 win at Grambling.
• blasted a tiebreaking, three-run home run in the eighth inning of NSU's April 19 win against LSU-Alexandria.
• connected on his sixth home run of the season, matching his career high, on April 10 at Incarnate Word.
• homered as part of a 3-for-6, two-RBI day in a March 27 win at New Orleans.
• homered for the second straight game, connecting on a first-inning solo blast at New Orleans on March 25.
• drilled a game-tying home run over the center-field wall against Grambling on March 23.
• capped a 10-RBI series against Alcorn by going 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs on March 13.
• went 3-for-3 with a home run, a career-best four runs scored and a career-high five RBIs in the second game of a March 12 doubleheader against Alcorn. 

2021 Season:
• NSU's primary left fielder appeared in and started 40 games.
• ranked second on the team with six home runs and in stolen bases (11) and tied for third with 21 RBIs.
• homered in his first at-bat and finished 2-for-5 with two RBIs in a 7-3 win at LSU on May 18.
• homered in his final at-bat of the series against Stephen F. Austin on May 16.
• delivered the second walk-off hit of his career, a 10th-inning single, to beat McNeese in Game 1 of a May 9 doubleheader. 
• homered twice in the four-game series against Lamar, doing so in Game 1 of back-to-back April 10-11 doubleheaders.
• drove in the game-winning run with a two-out, 10th-inning single in an April 3 win at Abilene Christian.
• had his third two-steal game of the season in an April 1 win at Abilene Christian.
• connected on a two-run, seventh-inning single to put the Demons ahead to stay in a win against LSUA on March 30.
• homered and drove in two runs in a March 27 loss to South Alabama.
• notched his second two-steal game of the season in a March 26 loss to South Alabama.
• singled twice and scored three runs in the Demons' walk-off win against Incarnate Word on March 14.
• had his first two hits of the season -- including a two-run home run -- in a win against Austin Peay on March 5.

2020 Season:
• Started all 15 games he appeared in, playing left field (9) and center field (6).
• drew the second-most walks on the team (11) and finished fourth in RBIs (11).
• opened the scoring with a two-run, fourth-inning home run at Southern on March 3.
• crushed a two-run home run against North Alabama in the Feb. 23 series finale, finishing with a career-high-tying three RBIs.
• lifted NSU to a walk-off win in game one of a Feb. 22 doubleheader against North Alabama with a two-out, two-run single.

2019 Season:
• Appeared in 52 games, starting 49 as NSU’s primary left fielder.
• finished third among Demons qualifiers in batting average (.284), shared the team lead with Caleb Ricca in triples (3) and finished second in doubles (16).
• tied for second on the team with 17 multi-hit games, including five three-hit games.
• snapped a 7-all tie with his first career home run, a two-run shot, against Nicholls on April 5.
• added home runs against McNeese (April 20) and Incarnate Word (May 12, Game 1). 
• capped a four-run ninth inning in a 7-5 March 31 win at Houston Baptist with an RBI double.
• swiped three bases in an 8-1 win against New Orleans on March 17.
• delivered the go-ahead two-run double in NSU’s 3-1 win against LSU on March 12. 
• tied the school record with two triples against in Game 2 of a doubleheader against Little Rock on March 2, driving in a run and scoring another. 

Prior to NSU:
• Spent one semester at UL Lafayette before transferring.

High School:  
• Was homeschooled and played one season at Ascension Episcopal for coach Lonny Landry.
• named the Class 1A state championship game Most Valuable Player, Class 1A All-State MVP and first-team All-American.
• graduated with a 3.0 grade point average.

Personal:  
• Born May 11, 1999.
• son of Jennifer and Shannon Elkins.
• two sisters, Lauren and Julianna, and one brother, Graham.
• majoring in business administration and has a 3.0 grade point average.
• plans to work in real estate.
• life’s ambition is “to be the best I can at anything and everything I do.”
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    2020Sophomore

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