2024 Baseball Roster

CJ Halloran / Texas State Athletics

34 Drayton Brown

  • Position RHP
  • B/T R/R
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 215
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Nacogdoches, Texas
  • High School Hallsville HS
  • Prev School Northwestern State

Biography

Career Accolades
- 2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
- 2023 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
- 2022 Southland Conference All-Academic First Team
- 2022 Southland Conference Baseball All-Academic First Team
- 2022 Preseason All-Southland Conference Second Team
- 2022 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Watch List

2024: Pitched in 15 games, starting 11... Went 2-3 with one complete game and one shutout... Posted a staff-low 3.14 ERA in 57.1 innings... Recorded 47 strikeouts and 24 walks... Opponents batted .233 off him... Had a 1.000 fielding percentage with six assists and one putout... Picked off two runners... Threw 2.1 scoreless innings of relief with three strikeouts agianst Youngstown State (2/17)... Punched out a season-high six in 3.1 shutout frames out of the bullpen versus Washington State (2/25)... Struck out three in two innings versus Houston (3/1)... Went five innings and had three strikeouts in first start of the season agianst Sam Houston (3/10)... Tossed five innings with six punch outs and one unearned run allowed at Marshall (4/7)... Threw a seven-inning complete game shutout with four strikeouts to earn first win of the season at Arkansas State (4/27)... Had five strikeouts in five frames to pick up the win agianst Old Dominion (5/4)... Tossed five shutout innings with two strikeouts and one hit allowed against Troy (5/11)... Went five innings with two strikeouts at Southern Miss (5/17).

2023 (Northwestern State): Pitched and started 15 games... Went 6-6 with one complete game... Posted a 5.64 ERA in 81.1 innings... Recorded 70 strikeouts and 20 walks... Opponents batted .248 off him... Had a 1.000 fielding percentage with nine assists and three putouts... Posted three consecutive starts with six strikeouts versus Eastern Kentucky (2/19), Stephen F. Austin (2/26) and UT Arlington (3/5)... Recorded a career-high eight punch outs in six innings against Alabama A&M (3/12)... Struck out seven in five innings against Little Rock (3/19) and at New Orleans (4/2)... Tossed seven shutouts innings and struck out five in victory against Incarnate Word (4/23)... Threw first career complete game as he went nine innings in win over McNeese (5/26) in Southland Conference elimination game.

2022 (Northwestern State): Pitched and started 13 games... Posted 5-6 record... Had a 4.43 ERA in 67.0 innings... Recorded 63 strikeouts and 29 walks... Limited opponents to a .218 batting average... Posted a 1.000 fielding percentage with four assists and two putouts... Worked five scoreless innings with five strikeouts to pick up the win against Alcorn State (3/13)... Struck out a season-high eight in five frames to claim the win against South Dakota State (3/19)... Struck out six in six shutout innings at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (4/3)... Threw a season-high seven scoreless innings with seven strikeouts in a victory against Southeastern Louisiana (5/1).

2021 (Northwestern State): Pitched in 17 games out of the bullpen... Went 2-3 with six saves... Posted a 1.96 ERA in 41.1 innings... Punched out 46 while allowing just 14 walks... Held opponents to a .168 batting average... Had a 1.000 fielding percentage with four assists and one putout... Tossed a scoreless innings with two strikeouts in collegiate debut at Southern Miss (2/21)... Went four innings with five strikeouts to earn first career save against Tarleton State (2/27)... Had four strikeouts in 4.1 hitless and scoreless innings against Incarnate Word (3/13)... Threw 5.2 scoreless frames and had two strikeouts to earn first career victory at Abilene Christian (4/1)... Worked 3.1 innings to pick up the save against Lamar (4/10)... Career-high six punch outs at Houston Christian (4/16)... Tossed three scoreless innings with three strikeouts to earn the save at Central Arkansas (4/30)... Struck out two in a scoreless frame to pick up the save against McNeese (5/7)... Claimed the win after two shutout innings against McNeese (5/8)... Recorded a three inning save at Stephen F. Austin (5/15)... Punched out three in two shutout innings to earn the save at LSU (5/18)... Had three strikeouts in 1.1 innings at Southeastern Louisaina (5/26).

High School: Graduated from Hallsville High School... Named one of the top 10 5A Players to Watch by THSB Magazine in 2020... Chosen as an Under Armour Baseball Factory Preseason All-American and Rawlings Perfect Game Preseason All-American going into his senior year... Led all 5A pitchers in strikeouts and ERA as a junior... Named first team all-state as a pitcher and honorable mention all-state as a first basemen in 2019... Chosen as a finalist for the 2019 USA Today's All-USA Baseball Player of the Year in the Frontier Region... Picked to THSCA Sunbelt Classic Team... Tossed three no-hitters, four one-hitters and batted .341 as a junior... Named to the 2019 Rawlings Perfect Game Preseason All-American Team... Second team all-district pitcher as a sophomore... Also a three-year letterwinner on the football team where he was a first team all-district fullback as a senior and second team all-district center his junior year... Member of the FCA and National Honor Society... Earned UIL 5A Academic All-State football selection, a four-time academic all-district baseball pick and a three-time academic all-district performer.

Personal: Son of Tori and Ricky Brown... Has one sister, Ashton... Born Dec. 16, 2001.

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