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2008 (Sophomore): Played in 53 of Western's 57 games on the year, making 50 starts including 30 at first base, 19 at third and once at second ... Hit .258 in his second season with 47 hits in 182 at bats and 35 RBI to rank fifth on the team ... Recorded a career-long, five-game hitting streak in mid-March ... Tallied 11 multiple hit games including four, three-hit outings, with seven multiple RBI games ... Drove in a career-high five runs in game one of a double-header against Hartford, blasting two home runs in his first career multi-home run game as WCU scored a school-record 32 runs in the win ... Ranked third on the team with eight home runs, adding eight doubles for a .434 slugging percentage ... Played for the Winchester Royals of the Valley League during the summer.
2007 (Freshman): Started ten of the 28 games he appeared in as a freshman...Finished the season with a .209 batting average, including four doubles and nine RBIs...Recorded his first career hit vs. Columbia in a game in which he also scored the first run of his Catamount career...Connected on his only home run of the season in the second game of the Columbia series to drive home a career-high three runs...Had a season-high two hits against The Citadel, going a perfect 2-2 with a pair of doubles and two RBIs...
Prior to Western: Spent the summer after hs senior season playing with future Catamount teammate Reid Rollison on the Gastonia Grizzlies of the Coastal Plain League...Made 28 starts and 30 appearences on the season, batting .151 with three homr runs and nine RBIs...Defensively, made 31 put outs with 60 assists for a fielding perenetage of .958... Named first team North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association 3A All-State as both a senior and junior ... Tabbed second team All-Mecklenburg County by the Charlotte Observer after his junior season ... Rated 31st by IMPACT BASEBALL.com on the North Carolina top 50 prospects list ... Led Charlotte Christian to back-to-back state championships in 2005 and '06 ... As a sophomore, played at Independence High, who was state runner-up.
Personal: Born Michael Tyler Kirkpatrick in Charlotte, N.C. ... Son of Marty Kirkpatrick and Karen Harvey.
