2020 Baseball Roster
Roster
Jaxen Forrester
- Position:
- RHP
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-0 / 195
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Spanish Fort, Ala.
- High School/Previous School:
- Spanish Fort
- Prev School:
- East Mississippi C.C
- Major:
- Educational Psychology
2020 (Junior Season)
Season: Appeared in seven games...All seven appearances came in relief...Made his Mississippi State debut in the season opener versus Wright State (2/14)...Ranked tied for No. 2 on the team in appearances (7)...Collected holds against Quinnipiac (3/8) and versus Texas Tech (3/11)...Didn’t allow a run in five of seven appearances...Issued one-or-fewer walks in all seven appearances...Allowed three of six inherited runners to score.
Wright State (2/14-16): Appeared in two games...Threw a clean eighth inning with a strikeout in his debut during the season opener...Allowed one hit and struck out one in a scoreless inning of work in the series finale. Oregon State (2/21-23): Tossed 1 2/3 innings in the series finale...Allowed all three inherited runners to score and surrendered a run of his own on two hits and one walk...Struck out one. Alcorn State (2/26): Struck out three in one scoreless inning of work...Allowed one hit and walked one. at Long Beach State (2/28-3/1): Retired the only batter he faced to strand the bases loaded in the eighth inning of the series opener. Quinnipiac (3/6-8): Tossed a clean eighth inning to earn a hold...Fanned one batter. vs. Texas Tech (3/10-11): Appeared in the finale of the two-game, neutral site series...Tossed the eighth inning and allowed one run on one hit...Walked one and struck out two to earn a hold.
2019 (Sophomore Season – East Mississippi C.C.)
Awards: Tabbed first-team All-Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges...Two-time MACJC Pitcher of the Week...Limited Jones College to just two hits with eight strikeouts to earn MACJC Pitcher of the Week (5/3)....Tossed a no-hitter against East Central C.C. to earn MACJC Pitcher of the Week (3/29).
Season: Appeared in 15 games with a team-best 11 starts...Led the team in innings pitched (53.0), strikeouts (76) and batting average (.191)...Ranked No. 2 on the team in appearances, wins (4) and saves (1)...Finished No. 2 on the team among qualifying pitchers in ERA (3.74)...Allowed three-or-fewer runs in nine of 11 starts...Struck out seven-or-more batters in five of 11 starts, including one double-digit strikeout game...Posted victories versus Garden State College (2/15), at East Central C.C. (3/29), against Hinds C.C. (4/22) and at Jones College (5/3)...Posted a save against Meridian C.C. (4/24)...Allowed one unearned run in a no-hit effort at East Central C.C. (3/29) with nine strikeouts in a season-high seven innings of work...Fanned a season-best 11 batters at Mississippi Gulf Coast C.C. (4/19).
2018 (Freshman Season – East Mississippi C.C.)
Awards: Earned NJCAA Division II and Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges Pitcher of the Week after a three-hit shutout of West Alabama JV (2/28).
Season: Appeared in a team-best 15 games with a team-high 11 starts...Led the team in wins (3), complete games (2), shutouts (2), innings pitched (58.1) and strikeouts (70)...Finished second among qualifying pitchers in ERA (7.41) and batting average against (.266)...Ranked No. 2 on the squad in saves (1)...Owned two quality starts...Allowed three-or-fewer earned runs in six of 11 starts...Struck out nine-or-more batters in three starts, including one double-digit strikeout game...Collected victories at University of West Alabama JV (2/28), at Copiah-Lincoln C.C. (3/24) and at Holmes C.C. (4/4)...Collected a save at Hinds C.C. (4/13)...Threw a season-best seven innings in a complete-game shutout of University of West Alabama JV (2/28) with nine strikeouts...Stuck out a season-best 10 hitters at Jones College (3/17) in 4 2/3 innings...Fanned nine batters against Northeast Mississippi C.C. (4/24).
High School
Lettered three times for head coach Brent Boyd at Spanish Fort High School ...Garnered all-county first team as a junior...Tossed a perfect game during his junior season...Also lettered once in football.
Personal
Born Jaxen Clark Forrester on April 4, 1999 in Jasper, Alabama...Son of Melissa and William Wenzel...Has two older sisters, Lauren and Haley...Sister, Haley, lettered in volleyball at Pensacola State College...Uncle, Mark Garner, lettered in baseball at UAB...Brother-in-law, Charles Basford, lettered in baseball at Samford...Majoring in educational psychology.
