2016 Baseball

27 Benny Wanger

  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 190
  • Class First Year
  • Hometown Waban, Mass.
  • Highschool Belmont Hill

Biography

2016: Made 44 appearances and 40 starts at first base for the Bulldogs… Hit .245 with 15 runs, 26 hits, four doubles, one triple, two home runs, and 11 RBI... Recorded two errors on 269 total chances and tied for a team best 22 double plays… Went 2-for-2 with one home run and two RBI against Hartford on March 30… Appeared in 12 games and made eight starts from the mound… Had an ERA of 7.51 in 38.1 innings of work… Had a ball to strikeout ratio of 26-18… Ended his rookie season with a record of 1-4… Recorded a season high six strikeouts against Wesleyan on April 20. 

Before Yale: Played baseball, football and basketball at Belmont Hill... Played three years on the baseball team... Recorded a 0.73 ERA in 48 innings on the mound in his senior season... Pitched first perfect game in school history... Played defensive end in football for three seasons and forward in basketball for one season... Named Boston Globe Prep All-Scholastic 2015... Independent School League MVP in 2015... All-League ISL in 2013, 2014, and 2015... Prep Baseball Report All-Massachusetts First Team in 2015... Team was ISL Champions in 2013 and 2014... High Honors all four years of high school.

Personal: Son of David and Gwen Wanger... David graduated from Harvard in 1984 and Gwen graduated from Brown in 1984... Three high school teammates playing Division I baseball at Princeton, Bucknell and Northeastern... Sister, Emily, is a member of the Yale class of 2013... Father pitched one season (1981) at Harvard... Mother played lacrosse and field hockey from 1980-82 at Brown... Hobbies include hiking and backpacking.

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