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2024 Baseball Roster

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31 Luke Longo

  • Position C
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 210
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Whitehouse Station, NJ
  • High School Hunterdon Central

Biography

NJIT's All-Time Leader in Home Runs - 39
NJIT Single-Season Leader in Home Runs - 16, 2023

2024:
America East All-Academic...America East All-Tournament Team...named of the Top 50 Catchers in the Nation by D1Baseball.com prior to the season...one of four Highlanders with double-digit home runs (11)...ninth in the America East with 41 RBIs...knocked in seven runs in a win vs. Saint Peter's (4/17)...recorded RBIs on three of NJIT's five runs in America East Tournament win over Binghamton...hit game-winnng home run in bottom of the eighth of NJIT's 8-6 win over UMass Lowell at the America East Tournament...solo home run against Bryant (5/4) tied the game with one out in the bottom of the ninth and NJIT won it in extra innings. 

2023: Team MVP...CSC Academic All-District...hit 16 home runs to break program's single-season record...slugged .600, which led the team and ranked fourth in the America East...finished tied for second on the squad with 36 RBIs...served as primary catcher for First Team All-America East Pitcher Aidan Kidd and Second Team All-America East Pitcher Ryan Fischer...threw out 11 runners on the basepaths. 

2022: America East All-Tournament Team...played in 42 games, making 40 starts primarily at catcher and DH...caught all 95.1 IP from America East Pitcher of the Year Ryan Fischer...was 4-for-4 with a pair of home runs vs. Binghamton (4/22)...also hit two home runs in the America East Tournament win vs. top-seeded Maine (5/27).

2021: Played in 46 games making 42 starts, primarily at catcher and DH...tied for second on the team with six home runs...walk-off single vs. Maine in America East Conference Tournament that sent NJIT to the Championship game...season-high four RBI at UMBC (5/2).

2020: Played in, and started, 14 games in season cut short after 16 contests due to COVID-19 Pandemic...was 4-for-5 with 4RBI in win vs. Bucknell (3/1)...also tallied multi-hit games vs. Bucknell (2/16), at Longwood (2/23), and at UTRGV (3/6)....hit first-career HR in win at Longwood (2/23).

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Historical Player Information

  • 31

    2020Freshman

    C
    6'2" 227 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2021Sophomore

    C
    6'2" 227 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2022Junior

    C
    6'3" 210 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2023Senior

    C
    6'3" 210 lbs
    31
  • 31

    2024Graduate Student

    C
    6'3" 210 lbs
    31