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#22 Kade Scivicque Season 2024

Position
Catcher
Height
5'11
Weight
223
Class
Senior
Hometown
Maurepas, La.
Previous School
SW Mississippi CC
B/T
R
High School
Maurepas HS

2015 First-Team All-American (D1 Baseball)
2015 Second-Team All-American (Collegiate Baseball, Baseball America)
2015 Third-Team All-American (NCBWA, Perfect Game)
2015 Johnny Bench Award Finalist
2015 College World Series All-Tournament Team
2015 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2015 First-Team All-SEC
2015 SEC All-Defensive Team
SEC Player of the Week (Feb. 23, 2015)
2015 Second-Team ABCA All-South Region
2015 First-Team All-Louisiana
2014 SEC All-Tournament Team
2014 Second-Team All-Louisiana

MLB Draft: 4th round in 2015 (Detroit)

Outstanding catcher who enjoyed a brilliant two-year career (2014, 2015) at LSU and emerged as one of the best catchers in the nation … batted .333 (139-for-418) in 116 career games for the Tigers with 30 doubles, 13 homers, 79 RBI and 65 runs … a junior college transfer from Southwest Mississippi College and the first LSU player to hail Maurepas, Louisiana … one of three finalists for the 2015 Johnny Bench Award as the nation’s outstanding collegiate catcher … collected nine doubles, three homers and 14 RBI in 40 games with the St. Cloud Rox over the summer in the 2014 Northwoods League … member of the 2015 SEC Academic Honor Roll as a management major … received his management degree from LSU in May 2015 … selected in the fourth round of the 2015 MLB Draft by the Detroit Tigers and signed with Detroit in the summer of ’15.

2015 Season
Started 60 games (54 at catcher, six at DH) and batted .a team-high .355 (83-for-234) with 21 doubles, six homers, 48 RBI and 33 runs … finished No. 4 in the SEC in doubles (21) and No.6 in the league with a .355 batting average … voted to the College World Series all-tournament team after hitting .500 (6-for-12) in three games with one double, three RBI and two runs … batted .345 (10-for-29) in LSU’s eight NCAA Tournament games with two doubles, one homer, six RBI and five runs … hit .352 (44-for-125) in SEC regular-season games with 10 doubles, one homer, 22 RBI and 11 runs … launched a seventh-inning solo homer to break a 0-0 tie in Game 2 of NCAA Super Regional vs. UL-Lafayette (June 7); LSU went on to 6-3 victory … 2-for-5 with two doubles and three RBI in win at South Carolina (May 15) … compiled a 23-game hit streak, the longest by an LSU player since 2013, that ended in the April 21 LSU win over Tulane … Scivicque batted .382 (40-for-98) during the 23-game streak with nine doubles, two homers and 21 RBI … batted .500 (6-for-12) in the Missouri series (May 8-10) with three RBI and one run scored … hit .714 (5-for-7) in LSU’s doubleheader sweep of Georgia on April 18 with one double, one homer, three RBI and two runs … helped lead LSU to a series victory at Arkansas (March 19-21), batting .538 (7-for-13) with two doubles, one RBI and one run scored … he also excelled behind the plate, throwing out two Arkansas base runners attempting to steal and picking off another runner at second base … hit .500 (6-for-12) in LSU’s series win over Ole Miss (March 13-15) with three RBI and two runs scored … named SEC Player of the Week on Feb. 23 after batting .545 (6-for-11), collecting one double, two homers, four RBI, five runs, a 1.182 slugging percentage and a .538 on-base percentage; in LSU’s three-game sweep over Boston College (Feb. 20-21), Scivicque hit .667 (4-for-6) with two HR, four RBI and five runs … 3-for-4 with two homers, three RBI and three runs in the Tigers’ 16-2 win over Boston College on Feb. 21, and the effort marked the first multi-homer game of Scivicque’s career.

2014 Season
Played in 56 games (52 starts), batting .304 (56-for-184) with nine doubles, seven homers, 31 RBI and 32 runs scored … batted .394 (13-for-33) over the Tigers’ final 12 games with four doubles, three homers, seven RBI and eight runs … voted to the SEC All-Tournament team after hitting .417 (5-for-12) with one double, one homer, four RBI and three runs in helping lead LSU to the tournament title … 3-for-4 in SEC Tournament win over Arkansas (May 24) with one double, one homer, three RBI and three runs scored … collected eight 3-hit games on the season, tied with Mark Laird for the most on the LSU squad … 3-for-4 with a homer, two RBI and two runs in LSU win at Auburn on May 17 … collected seven RBI in four games during the week of April 2-6, including a grand slam, in April 6 win over Mississippi State; he was 3-for-5 at the plate in the April 6 game with four RBI and two runs scored … 3-for-3 in win over South Alabama (March 19) with a homer, two RBI and two runs scored … 3-for-3 with a homer and four RBI versus Yale on Feb. 28.

Prior to LSU
2013 1st Team JUCO All-State and the league Defensive Player of the Year at Southwest Mississippi Community College in Summit, Miss. … batted .321 in 2013 with four homers, 12 doubles, 37 RBI and a .991 fielding percentage … 2012 1st team JUCO All State – batted .333 with five homers, 27 RBI and 10 doubles … received 2012 and 2013 NJCAA Award for Exemplary Academic Achievements … a four-time first-team all-state performer in high school at Maurepas HS … voted the state MVP in 2011 … also a four-time all-Livingston Parish selection … batted .568 in his senior high school season with 13 homers and 57 RBI; posted a 13-2 pitching record on the mound … also played forward for the Maurepas basketball team.

Personal
Full name is Kade Hunter Scivicque … parents are Steve and Missy Scivicque … father is a production supervisor, mother works in the child care industry … has an older brother, Nathan, and a younger brother, Chaz … chose to attend LSU because “I have always dreamed of playing baseball at LSU and winning a national championship; LSU is a great place with a great atmosphere, it wasn’t hard to decide!” … majoring in general management at LSU … born March 22, 1993 in Baton Rouge.

Scivicque’s LSU Career Highs
At-Bats: 6 three times; most recently at Alabama (4/4/15)
Hits: 3 several times; most recently vs. Missouri (5/10/15)
Runs Scored: 3 vs. Arkansas (5/24/14); vs. Boston College (2/21/15)
Doubles: 2 at South Carolina (5/15/15)
Triples: none
Home Runs: 2 vs. Boston College (2/21/15)
RBI: 4 vs. Yale (2/28/14); vs. Mississippi State (4/6/14)

 

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