2013 (Senior): Selected as a 2013 DaktronicsFirst-Team All-American ... Tabbed First-Team Capital One DivisionII Baseball Academic All-American ... Chosen as asemifinalist for the TIno Martinez award … Honored as aCapital One Academic NCAA Division II Baseball District ThreeFirst-Team and Peach Belt Conference All-Academic Team selectionfor work in the classroom … Selected to the Peach BeltConference All-Conference and Daktronics All-Southeast RegionFirst-Teams … Also honored as All-Southeast Region Selectionby the ABCA and NCBWA … Started all 55 games for the Pacers… Led the Pacers with a .380 (81-for-213) batting average,good for seventh in the PBC … His 81 hits were in the top-15nationally in the category … Tied for ninth nationally andfirst in conference with 21 doubles … Collected 25 multiplehit games and 16 multiple-RBI games (most on team) … Ownedan 20-game hitting streak during the year and reached base safelyin the first 33 games of the season … Owned a .596 sluggingpercentage (sixth in PBC) with 127 total bases … Hit sevenhome runs and two triples … Claimed a .453 on-basepercentage which was 10th in the conference and best onthe team … Scored 53 runs and drove in 54 runs, both secondbest on the team … Led the team with seven sacrifice flies… Went 3-for-4 in stolen base attempts during the year… Chosen USC Aiken Athletic Department Co-Student Athlete ofthe Month for March … Chosen South Carolina EducationLottery USC Aiken Athletic Student-Athlete of the Week on March17.
2012 (Junior): One of three Pacersto play in every game, while starting 53 of the 55 ... Batted .307in 202 at-bats, while compiling a .455 slugging percentage good forfifth on the team ... Fourth on team in walks (21), RBIs (40), andhome runs (6), while scoring 27 runs ... Also contributed 12doubles and six sacrifice flies ... Highlight came with a walk-offthree-run home run off of PBC All-Conference Relief Pitcher BraxtonLewis to defeat UNC Pembroke, 7-6, on April 14, 2012.
Mercyhurst College: Batted .388during freshman campaign … Hit .312 during sophomore seasonwith four home runs.
Solon High School: First-TeamAll-State during senior season and honorable mention All-State as ajunior … Two-time First-Team All-Conference and All-Sun… Awarded Conference MVP title.
Personal: Bill is the son of Billand Lisa Gerstenslager … Born September 9, 1990 ... He ismajoring in Business Administration.
