Luke Lowery Selected In 14th Round By Arizona Diamondbacks
June 10, 2015 | Baseball
GREENVILLE, N.C. -East Carolina junior Luke Lowery was selected in the 14th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks Wednesday afternoon during the third day of the 2015 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
Lowery, who earned First-Team All-American and AAC All-Tournament Team honors in 2015, was taken with the 406th and is the second Pirate selected in this year's draft behind Reid Love (10th RD/Baltimore Orioles).
Also selected on day two of the MLB Draft was ECU commitment Isaiah White (Miami Marlins, Round 3, pick 85).
Luke Lowery - 2015 Biographical Sketch
First-Team All-American Conference selection as a designated hitter ... Earned American Athletic Conference All-Tournament Team honors after batting .313 (5-for-16) with a triple, four RBI and a pair of runs scored ... Collected 10 putouts in left field with one assist (vs. Tulane) in the tournament ... Led the Pirates in 10 offensive categories including home runs (12), RBI (49), runs (40), multi-RBI games (12), while tying for first in multi-hit games (19) ... Tallied four game-winning RBI with one walk-off (vs. Duke 4/22 in 10th inning) ... Named Williams Jungle Hitter-of-the-Year ... Ranked among the American league leaders (all games) in RBI (third), home runs (fourth), slugging percentage (4th/.553) and total bases (8th/114) ... On March 16 earned AAC Player-of-the-Week, Collegiate Baseball National Player-of-the-Week, CollegeSportsMadness National Player-of-the-Week and NCAA.com Player-of-the-Week honors ... Also earned AAC Honor Roll accolades on Feb. 22 and Mar. 6 ... Three of 12 home runs were against AAC teams (UCF, Houston/twice) ... Against instate foe Elon, batted .466 (7-for-15) with four home runs, 12 RBI, seven runs scored and three walks over four games ... Also hit home runs against UNC Greensboro (two), Liberty, Albany and Campbell ... Tallied a career-best five RBI at Elon (Mar. 15) which included first career grand slam ... Posted career-best four-hit game vs. Albany (Feb. 28) and Princeton (Mar. 18) ... Had season-high seven-game hit streak from Feb. 21-Mar. 10, which tied his career long from 2014 ... Closed out season with multi-hits in three of last four games ... Reached base safely in a career-long 18 games (Feb. 13-Mar. 21) ... Reached base safely in final 10 games, which was his second-longest streak of the year ... Started all 57 games he played (2/1B, 34/LF, 21/DH) ... Collected at least one hit in 37 of 57 games (2-hit 14, 3-hit 3, 4-hit 2) ... Scored at least one run in 32 games (multiple seven times) with a career-high three against Princeton (Mar. 17) ... Crossed home at least one in nine-straight contests (Mar. 10-21) ... Reached base safely in 49 of 57 games ... Drew a career-best 26 walks including (at least two on four occasions) ... Led club with 24 extra-base hits ... When hitting in the fourth and fifth spots in the lineup, ECU posted a 34-20 record ... Committed two errors in 84 chances for a .976 fielding percentage ... Recorded 79 putouts with three outfield assists ... Ranked 57th nationally in home runs ... First Pirate since 2004 to homer in three-straight at-bats (Feb. 21-22) ... Homered in three consecutive games - all at Elon (Mar. 13-15) ... Swiped 7 of 9 bases ranking second on the team behind Charlie Yorgen (8), which established a new season-high.
Career Notes: First-Team All-American Athletic Conference selection (2015) ... AAC All-Tournament selection (2015) ... Three-year starter (2013-15) that has played four different positions (DH/1B/LF/C) ... Recorded 38 multi-hit and 19 multi-RBI games ... Posted eight game-winning RBI (two walk-offs) ... Played for the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League in summer of 2014 ... Batted .244 (21-for-86) with five home runs and two doubles for the Whitecaps ... Represented the Brewster in the CCBL Home Run Contest finishing second after belting seven homer in the first round ... Two-time ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll recipient (Spring 2014, Fall 2014).
Career Numbers at ECU: .301 (138-for-458), 137 games (122 starts), 20 HRs, 66 Rs, 82 RBI (8 GW/2 WO), 17 2Bs, 4 3Bs, 38 BBs, 13 HBPs, 11-19 SBs, 41 XBHs.
CAREER HIGHS - at-bats: 7 at Southern Miss-1 (5/10/14); runs: 3 vs. Princeton (3/17/15); hits: 4 (3x - last vs. Princeton 3/18/15); RBI: 5 at Elon (3/15/15); home runs: 2 (2x- last vs. UNC Greensboro 2/21/15); stolen bases: 1 (11x- last vs. DUKE 4/22/15).
