2022 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
2024 Season:
• Appeared in 14 games, starting 12, in his final collegiate season.
• capped his career with a double in his final at-bat against Stephen F. Austin on May 18.
• drew a career-high three walks and scored two runs in an April 23 win against Grambling.
• drove in his first run of the season in a March 24 win against Southeastern.
• delivered the first multi-hit game of his career, going 2-for-3 in Game 2 of a March 10 doubleheader at Little Rock.
• made his first career start against Southern Illinois on Feb. 18.
• had a pinch-hit double in his season debut against Southern Illinois on Feb. 17.
2023 Season:
• Appeared in five games, seeing his first Division I action, as a redshirt sophomore.
• singled and drove in a run in his first career at-bat, coming in his NSU debut -- a March 21 win against LSU-Alexandria.
2022 Season:
• Did not see game action, redshirted.
Prior to NSU:
• Played two seasons at Paris Junior College.
• helped lead the Dragons to their first regional championship in more than two decades.
• graduated with a 3.88 grade point average.
High School:
• Two-year letterman for coaches Mike Pirtle and JJ Pierce’s War Eagles.
• team offensive MVP as a senior, hitting .357 with five home runs to earn honorable mention all-district honors.
• Oak Ridge went 23-11 and won the district title in his senior season.
• graduated with a 3.4 grade point average.
Personal:
• Born March 8, 2000.
• son of Debbie and Jim Starnes.
• has two brothers, Johnathon and Justin, and one sister, Kelly.
• majoring in business administration.
• wants to start his own business.
• life’s ambition is “to live somewhere by the water where I can fish and live on the land.”
