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2012 Baseball Roster

27 Dustin Hunter

  • Position Right-Handed Pitcher
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Senath, Mo.
  • Highschool Senath-Hornersville

Biography

Awards & Recognition
2011 Summit League Winter/Spring Academic All-League Selection
Summit League Pitcher of the Week - Feb. 27, 2012

At Western Illinois
2012 (Senior): Appeared in 14 games with 13 starts... struck out a then career-high six batters in 3.1 innings at Georgia State during game two... Summit League Pitcher of the Week following his start against host Alabama A&M at the Bulldog Classic... 7.0 IP, two hits, two unearned runs, two walks and a then career -high 12 strikeouts against the Bulldogs... needed nine pitches to get through fifth and sixth inning combined... struck out the side in the first and seventh inning... allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits in 7.0 innings of work at Georgia... eight strikeouts to just four walks allowed... stuck out six at WKU on Saturday in five innings in a no-decision... earned the win over Xavier on 3/24 with six innings and nine strikeouts... struck out eight over 4.1 innings on 3/31 vs. Bradley but drew the loss... saddled with the loss vs. SUU on 4/7 with eight strikeouts... picked up his first complete game on 4/14/ vs. NDSU with nine strikeouts and getting the win... also had his shortest start of the season at ORU on 4/22, going just four innings and allowed five earned runs and four strikeouts... went 3.1 innings at Oakland on 4/28 and allowed five earned runs while getting the loss... collected the second most strikeouts in a game in program history vs. IPFW with 15 in a seven-inning game while picking up the complete game victory... eight strikeouts in 5.2 innings in his start at Illinois State and broke Western's 44-year old strikeout record (100) ... finished with 106 Ks in 76.0 innings... went 3.1 innings and allowed five earned runs while striking out five at South Dakota State on 5/18.

2011 (Junior): Made 11 appearances and four starts in his first season at Western Illinois... had a no-hitter through 5.1 IP at Georgia State... has 28 K's in his 26.2 innings... tossed 2.0 scoreless innings at Oakland and struck out three... recorded five punch outs in 3.2 innings against Illinois State... added another five K's at NDSU on May 21... recorded five strikeouts in each of his last two outings and combined for 13 over his last three appearances.

At Mineral Area CC
Recorded 5-1 record during his Freshman season and a 5-3 record during his Sophomore season.

High School
All-Conference in 2007 and 2008... All-District in 2008... All-State during 2008... Named Mr. Baseball in 2008... Lettered four years in baseball  and basketball... team MVP in 2008.

Personal
Son of Lester and Lisa Hunter... born August 8, 1989... majoring in Business Marketing.

Career Statistics

Year era w-l app gs cg sho sv ip h r er bb so 2b 3b hr bf bavg wp hbp bk sfa sha
2011.... 4.72 0-3 11 4 0 0/0 0 26.2 21 22 14 32 28 6 0 0 142 .214 6 10 0 0 2
2012.... 4.38 4-6 14 13 2 0/0 0 76.0 68 49 37 52 106 15 0 3 357 .242 11 11 1 1 12
TOTAL... 4.47 4-9 25 17 2 0/0 0 102.2 89 71 51 84 134 21 0 3 499 .235 17 21 1 1 14
 

Statistics

Season:
2012

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Historical Player Information

  • 27

    2011Junior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'3" 210 lbs
    27
  • 27

    2012Senior

    Right-Handed Pitcher
    6'3" 210 lbs
    27