2017 Baseball
Michael Sanderson
- Height:
- 6-null
- Weight:
- 190
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Pleasant Valley HS
- Experience:
- 1V
Expected to be Cal Poly's starting third baseman in final season as a Mustang.
2016 -- Sanderson started all 57 games at third base as a junior in his first season at Cal Poly ... a .296 hitter with 12 doubles and one triple en route to second-team All-Big West Conference honors ... knocked in 33 runs, second most on the team ... 15 multiple-hit games, including four-hit game against San Francisco, andeight multiple-RBI contests, knocking in three in that San Francisco game with a double and triple ... eight-game hitting streak in early April ... walked 29 times for an on-base percentage of .381 ... went 7-for-13 with three RBI in UC Riverside series ... hit .309 against right-handers and .314 in night games ... did not play summer ball.
Community College — A .337 hitter as a freshman and .344 as a sophomore at Feather River College … in the two seasons combined hit 24 doubles, three triples, a pair of home runs and knocked in 62 runs, including 38 as a sophomore … twice earned All-Golden Valley Conference honors and led Golden Eagles to a pair of Golden Valley Conference titles.
High School — A career .408 hitter in three varsity seasons under head coach Ron Souza at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico … hit .472 as a senior with four doubles, three triples, a pair of home runs and 23 RBI with just four strikeouts in 88 plate appearances … first-team All-Eastern League and first-team All-CIF-Northern Section honors at third base … helped Vikings to 22-8 record, second-place Eastern League finish and a spot in the semifinal round of the CIF-Northern Section Division I playoffs … hit .389 as a junior with nine doubles, two home runs and 22 RBI.
Personal — Son of Scott Sanderson and Olga Wilkinson … father is a San Luis Obispo High School graduate and played football at Utah … grandfather Jim Sanderson was Cal Poly head football coach from 1982-87 … one brother, James … born December 27, 1994, in Chico, Calif. … majoring in sociology.
