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Jersey Number 38
Matt Sparling
- Position:
- Pitcher
- Bats/Throws:
- R/L
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 200
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Palm Coast, Fla.
- High School:
- Matanzas
- Prev School:
- Daytona State College
- Birthday:
- 2/24/98
- Major:
- Public Management
2021Â (Second Redshirt Junior Season)
- Had a healthy season, finishing second on the team with 12 starts, and third with 63.0 innings and 52 strikeouts
- Was named a Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week after his second outing, striking out 10 Seton Hall hitters and allowing just three hits, a walk and a run
- Those 10 K's were the most by an Owl pitcher all season
- Also recorded eight in a win over Indiana State, in six innings, and seven the following week (also in six IP) at USF
- Eight times, threw five or more innings in a start, including a stretch of four in a row during C-USA play
- Signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Diego Padres
2020Â (Redshirt Junior)
- Drew one start, in the second game of the year, versus Delaware
- Pitched three innings and allowed three runs, though none were earned
- Struck out two Blue Hens
2019 (Junior)
- Redshirted due to injury
Prior to FAU
- At Daytona State, for coach Tim Touma, was a 2017 JC All-Star after a freshman year that saw him go 5-2 with a 3.88 ERA
- Struck out 53 in 48 2/3 innings, limited opposing hitters to a .201 batting average
- Was also a member of the 2016-17 FCSSA All-Academic Team, and earned the Mid-Florida Conference Scholar Athlete Award
- Played for Matanzas High and coach Jim Perry
- Was Second Team All-Area his junior year, and Honorable Mention All-Area his senior year
- Was Saint Johns River First Team All-Conference as a senior as well
Personal
- Son of Patty Sparling and Tom Sparling
- Born in Ware, Massachusetts
- Public management major
- Likes the Boston Red Sox and Michael Lorenzen is his favorite pro athlete
- Favorite movie is Good Will Hunting; favorite TV show is Lost
- Last read The Bible
- Hobbies include reading, fishing and weightlifting
- Most people don't know that he can solve a Rubik's Cube in around a minute
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