Monmouth University Athletics

Selected to 2012 NJCBA First Team…Earned NEC Player of the Week (3/19/12)…Named to the 2010 NJCBA All-Rookie Squad...Named NEC Player of the Week (4/11/11)

2014: Played in all 49 games, starting 48… Led the team with four home runs, 14 doubles and 36 RBI’s as well as a .453 slugging percentage… Ranked fourth on the club with a .302 batting average… Finishes career tied for fifth all-time in home runs (26), 10th in doubles (46), eighth in RBI's (133), and sixth in walks (90)… Put together a seven-game hitting streak between 4/1 and 4/12… Finished fifth in the MAAC in doubles… Drove in two runs at Florida Atlantic (2/23)… Went 2-for-3 with three RBI’s at George Washington (3/15)… Collected five hits and drove in four runs in weekend set at Saint Peter’s (4/5-4/6)… Homered in first game and drove in three more runs at Manhattan in second game of doubleheader (4/12)… Posted a 3-for-3 day at Fairfield (4/19)… Notched a 3-for-4 day with two RBI’s against Temple (4/25)… Compiled a 4-for-6 afternoon with four runs batted in and two more runs scored at Hofstra (4/29)… Followed that up with 3-for-4 day, scoring four times in Game One win over Rider (5/3)… Homered in second game of twinbill sweep of Rider (5/3)… Lined a home run in victory over Iona (5/10)… Knocked a two-run homer in MAAC Tournament against Siena (5/24).

2013: Saw action in seven games, all at designated hitter, before being shut down for the remainder of the season due to injury… Had an RBI single at No. 2 Vanderbilt on Feb. 23… Went 2-for-4 with a two-run double and a run scored at Delaware on Mar. 3… Scored a run in each of the three games at Delaware (Mar. 1-3).

2012: Named to the New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association First Team… Led the Hawks with eight home runs, 45 RBI’s, 101 total bases, 30 walks, a .486 slugging percentage and .389 on-base percentage, while also finishing second on the team in doubles (17) and third in batting average (.288) and hits (60)… Hit safely and drove in a run in each of the Hawks’ first three games of the season, including doubles against Saint Joseph’s (Feb. 18) and Youngstown State (Feb. 18) and three RBI’s against the Penguins… Erupted for his first two home runs of the season and three RBI’s at Troy (Mar. 11)… Added another round tripper in a 3-for-5, 4-RBI day next time out at Georgia State (Mar. 13)… Knocked in five more RBI’s in the next two games to open NEC play against Fairleigh Dickinson (Mar. 16 and 17) for an impressive four-game total of 12 RBI’s… Ripped the go-ahead bases-clearing double in a 7-4 win at Wagner (Mar. 24)… Went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBI’s in the series opener against Quinnipiac (Apr. 5)… Hit a three-run home run and scored three runs against Saint Peter’s (Apr. 25)… Had three-consecutive multi-hit games, two against LIU Brooklyn (Apr. 28, 29) and another against Bryant (May 4), with two of the games being three-hit efforts… Had consecutive two-hit games against Sacred Heart (May 11, 12), knocking in three runs and scoring twice in the latter contest.

2011: Saw action in 37 games, getting 36 starts... Led the Northeast Conference with nine homeruns...  Finished with 26 hits, four doubles, and 25 RBIs... Doubled at Florida Atlantic for his first extra-base hit of the season (3/5)...  Added a two-bagger and scored a run in win over St. Bonaventure (3/7)... Homered in win over Rutgers (3/13)... Registered a two-run double against Sacred Heart in the opening game of the conference season (3/18)... Went 2-for-3 in both games of a doubleheader against the Pioneers (3/19)... Drove in four runs on three hits and scored three times, including on a homerun, in victory at Bryant (3/25)... Added another homerun in victory against the Bulldogs (3/27)... Recorded a hit in all four games against Central Connecticut State (4/2-4/3)... Connected on two homeruns and plated five in win at Quinnipiac (4/8)... Registered his third round-tripper of the weekend in game two of a doubleheader with the Bobcats, while also scoring twice and driving in a pair (4/9)... Blasted a homerun and scored two times in victory over Saint Peter's (4/20)...  Registered a three-run homerun in win against Iona (4/22).

2010: Saw action in 47 games, getting the starting nod in 45 games...Registered a .218 average...Recorded first career hit, a triple, and RBI while adding two runs against Kentucky (3/6)... Posted a double and a RBI against San Diego (3/8)...Registered first multi-hit game against Iona (3/14)...Recorded first collegiate homerun, a three-run blast, against Bryant (3/27)....Added a solo homerun against the Bulldogs in the second game of a doubleheader (3/27)...Went 3-for-5 including two doubles, four runs, and one RBI at CCSU (4/3)...Tallied three hits against Mount St. Mary's (4/10)... Notched two doubles, two RBIs and a run against the Mountaineers (4/11)... Drove in two runs and scored twice at Princeton (4/13)...Registered RBI doubles at Wagner (4/16) and at Long Island (4/24)...  Recorded a three-run homerun against Quinnipiac (4/30)... Perfect 3-for-3 with two doubles and a run against Quinnipiac (5/1)...Added two hits, scoring three, against the Bobcats (5/2)...Went 2-for-4 at Sacred Heart (5/14)... Scored once and added two hits in the Northeast Conference Tournament game against Sacred Heart (5/27).

High School: Helped lead Colts of Christian Brothers Academy to a 2009 State and A-North Championship... Three-year letterwinner... Tabbed as First-Team All-Shore Conference, First-Team All-Monmouth County, and Third-Team All-State... Batted .440 with nine home runs, 12 doubles and 35 RBIs during senior season.

Personal: Son of Vincent and Carol Avella... Born September 17, 1990... Majoring in criminal justice.

Avella's Game-Bests
At Bats: 6 vs. Mount St. Mary's (4/10/10)
Runs: 4 at CCSU (4/3/10)
Hits: 3, seven times; last vs. Bryant (5/4/12)
RBI: 5 at Quinnipiac (4/08/11)
Doubles: 2, three times; last vs. Quinnipiac (5/1/10)
Home Runs: 2, two times; last at Troy (3/11/12)
Walks: 3 at CCSU (4/2/10)
Stolen Bases: 1, three times; last vs. Sacred Heart (3/19/11)
Hit Streak: 9 games (4/21/12 - 5/5/12)