CAREER
Appeared in 48 games and started 20 games in his four-year career at LMU... posted a career average of .214 with 17 runs scored and four RBI... stole three bases and drew 10 walks... posted a career .413 on base percentage... 2015 WCC All-Academic honorable mention selection...
LMU
2017... played in 19 games and started six in his senior season... hit .296 with seven runs scored and two RBI... drew four walks... went 2-for-4 with two runs scored vs. San Diego on 4/29... drew game-winning RBI vs. San Diego on 4/30... got the start in LF and went 2-for-3 with a 2B, 2 R, RBI, SB vs. CSUB on 3/29... 1-for-3 with a walk in start vs. Michigan on 3/1... drew a walk and scored vs. Washington State on 2/25...
2016... played in nine games, starting one... hit .250 over four official at bats, but did score four runs... drove in one run and drew three walks... was a perfect 2-for-2 in stolen base attempts... made the start at second base and posted first hit and RBI of the year on 5/10 at UCR... scored two runs after entering as a pinch hitter on 4/20 at CSU Bakersfield... entered as a pinch runner and stole a pair of bases and scored at UC Irvine on 3/22... scored the tying run in the top of the eighth at UCLA on 4/12...
2015... played in 20 games overall while starting 13 at second base... hit .120 with six runs scored and a RBI... also drew three walks and five hit-by-pitches... proved errorless on 57 chances at second base defensively... collected first career hit on 2/15 vs. San Jose State while also drawing a pair of hit-by-pitches in that game... scored twice and collected first career RBI in game two of a doubleheader vs. Saint Joseph's on 2/21... WCC All-Academic honorable mention selection...
2014... did not appear in a game for the Lions as a freshman...
HIGH SCHOOL
A 2013 graduate of Davis High School in Davis, Calif... a two-year varsity letterwinner for head coach Dan Arriola... served as team captain as a senior and was also named Team MVP... garnered All-Conference and All-League honors as a junior and senior... also named All-Area as a senior... hit .344 and collected 10 steals as a junior... hit .409 with six doubles, four triples, and 17 stolen bases in his last year of competition...
PERSONAL
Joseph William Murray was born August 23, 1995 in Davis, Calif... son of Esterlyn and Kenneth Murray... has two brothers, Gabriel and Luke... also considered Long Beach State, University of San Francisco, and Cal Poly Pomona, but chose LMU because of it's academic prestige, small class sizes, and the beautiful campus and location... a political science major with an economics minor.
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