Northwestern State University of Louisana

2016 Preseason Southland Conference Co-Player of the Year (Collegiate Baseball)
2016 Preseason First-Team All-Southland Conference OF
2015 Southland Conference Hitter of the Year
2015 Southland Conference Baseball Student-Athlete of the Year
2015 First-Team Academic All-Southland Conference OF
2015 First-Team All-Southland Conference
2015 First-Team LSWA All-Louisiana

Records:
• Career hit by pitches (49).
• Hit streak (29, March 15-May 9, 2015). 

2016 Season:
• Appeared in and started 56 games at first base (47), left field (7) and designated hitter (2).
• finished his career with the school career record for hit by pitches (49) and top-10 career marks in games played (211, 6th), at-bats (793, T-2nd), hits (238, 3rd), RBIs (122, 6th), runs (118, 9th), doubles (50, T-2nd) and total bases (338, 5th).
• led the team in hits (67) and ranked second on the team in batting average (.306), RBIs (36) and on-base percentage (.378).
• hit safely in the final seven games of the season.
• tied his season highs with three hits and four RBIs in a 13-4 thumping of Nicholls on May 13.
• posted his second four-RBI game of the season in an 8-3 win at Arkansas State on May 6.
• went 4-for-5 with two doubles and three RBIs, including a game-tying eighth-inning RBI double, in a 6-5 win against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on May 1.
• hit his lone home run of the season as the first of back-to-back shots with David Fry in the first inning of a 7-5 win at Central Arkansas on April 24.
• hit safely in a season-long 11 straight games from April 3-24.
• broke open NSU's 11-2 against ULM on March 29 with a three-run, sixth-inning double, part of a 3-for-4 day at the plate.
• started NSU's rally from a five-run deficit with a three-run double in a 9-7 win against CSU Bakersfield at the Arizona Tournament on March 6.
• playing in his hometown, hit safely in all three games at Southern Miss from Feb. 26-28.
• singled, stole second base and scored the only run of the game in NSU's 1-0 opening-night, 11-inning win against Alabama State on Feb. 19.


2015 Season:
• Set the Northwestern State hit streak record of 29 games from March 15-May 9, clipping Eric DeBlanc’s previous mark by one game.
• lined a single into left field off Abilene Christian’s Nate Cole for the record-breaking hit.
• won team’s triple crown, leading the squad in batting average (.350), home runs (9), RBIs (42), slugging percentage (.518), multi-hit games (23) and multi-RBI games (12).
• ranked second on the team in runs scored (35) and extra-base hits (19) and third in doubles (10). 
• his 77 hits tied for the eighth-most in a single season in school history.
• started all 54 games in left field, playing every inning there.
• hammered his ninth home run of the season in a Southland Conference Tournament elimination game against Central Arkansas on May 22.
• collected the first multi-homer game of his career at Southeastern Louisiana on April 3, part of  a 3-for-3, 3-RBI day.
• had two four-hit games and three three-hit games among his 23 multi-hit games.
• in Southland Conference games, led the league in hits (48) and home runs (5), tied for second in at-bats (134), ranked third in RBIs (25), fourth in slugging percentage (.522), sixth in runs scored (22) and eighth in doubles (7).
• had four-hit games against Creighton (Feb. 20) and at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (April 25).

2014 Season:
• Appeared in 47 games and started all 47 of those.
• despite missing 12 games because of arthroscopic knee surgery, led Northwestern State in slugging percentage (.418), tied for the team lead in doubles (12) and ranked second in on-base percentage (.409).
• was hit by 19 pitches, totaling more HBPs than strikeouts (18).
• recorded 16 multi-hit games with a season-high four hits against Stephen F. Austin on March 22.
• set a career high with five RBIs vs. Grambling on March 30.
• homered in home games against Grambling (March 22) and Central Arkansas (April 26) and at ULM (April 8).
• had the second multi-stolen base game of his career March 22 against SFA … finished season 5-for-6 on the basepaths.
 
2013 Season: 
• Started 49 games for the Demons as freshman, played in all 54 games. 
• seventh on the team in batting average (.239) and led the team with three home runs.
• had one home run against Grambling State, it was his lone at-bat.
• had two homers in conference, one against McNeese State and the other at Nicholls.
• six multi-hit games including a 4-of-4 game versus Louisiana Tech.
• two doubles in three at-bats against ULM, two runs scored in that game. 
• two runs batted in against TCU and Nicholls, one hit and each of those games.
• one triple (at Stephen F. Austin) and 15 doubles (two doubles at ULM).
 
High School: 
•  Mississippi 6A and Pine Belt Area Player of the Year his senior year.
• also named 6A all-state catcher, ESPN all-state, and voted to the Mississippi all-star game where he was named MVP his final season at Oak Grove.
• was the first position player at OGHS to start as a freshman, and started all four years as catcher.
• first freshman to start on the varsity baseball team in 15 years.
• 6A all-state catcher, district Player of the Year, and best offensive player junior season.
• team finished senior year with No. 2 ranking in the nation and a state championship (34-3).
• state playoffs every year he played.
• lettered four years in baseball, three in football.
• Oak Grove’s MVP in football and named Pine Belt Sport All-Area linebacker.
• was put into the game on offense as quarterback or running back in goal line packages.
• voted Most Athletic at Oak Grove.
• graduated with a 3.65 gpa as an honor student.
• coached by Chris McCardle.
 
Personal: 
• Born November 20, 1993.
• son of Demarla and Scott Brinson.
• one sister: Lauren Brinson.
• majoring in health and exercise science.
• plans to work in the medical field after his time at NSU.