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Outstanding career for Westwood native
(by Erin Patricia Griffiths - June 04, 2008)
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Photo Courtesy Of Todd Emr
Westwood native Todd Emr had a .487 batting average for Johns Hopkins this year and led the team with 94 hits and 70 RBIs. Emr broke the
Johns
Hopkins
University single-season hit mark of 81 with his 94 hits, and was just shy of breaking the record for RBIs.
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As a senior third basemen for the John Hopkins Blue Jays baseball team, Todd Emr has had a career filled with achievements in his four seasons at the university.
Son of Linda and Bruce Emr, Todd began demonstrating his extraordinary achievements at the high school level, playing for
Saddle
River
Day School . He was the team MVP in baseball for all four years and an all-state prep pick as a senior. Additionally, in his final year, he helped bring the team to a Patriot League title in 2004.
Emr continued his athletic career starting as a freshman at
John
Hopkins
University , where in the 2005 season he started in three games and appeared in 11 total. He also had his first career multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 against Swarthmore, a game in which he scored two runs. Later in the season he doubled and scored a run at
Catholic
University .
In his second season with the Blue Jays, Emr started in 23 games as third basemen, in addition to playing innings as shortstop and first basemen.
A season-ending injury in a game against
SUNY
College at Brockport on March 14, 2007 brought Emr’s beginning success of his third season to an end. Through only the first five games, he had hit a team-best .529 and recorded a double in each of the games played, before a broken arm prematurely ended his season.
But Emr returned in his senior year stronger than ever. While serving as captain of the team, he was named First Team All-Centennial and selected to the NCAA South Regional All-Tournament team. In 49 games he has a .487 batting average and leads the team with 94 hits and 70 RBIs. Emr broke the
Johns
Hopkins
University single-season hit mark of 81 with his 94 hits, and was just shy of breaking the record for RBIs with his single-season mark of 70. His season record for stolen base attempts is 12-of-15.
Most recently, Emr was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association-Rawlings Mid-Atlantic All-Region Teams. It is the first time in his career that he is earning all-region honors, and is also advancing to the national ballot, giving him a chance to earn All-American status.
Emr played with the Blue Jays for the second appearance in program history at the College World Series in
Appleton, Wisconsin May 23-25. In the six games played, the Blue Jays won the first two, lost the third, came back to win the fourth and fifth, and finished out the competition with an unfortunate loss in the sixth game. Emr says of the competition, “We are in the depression stage, because we are sad that it is over.”
After having dedicated himself tirelessly to the sport he loves all season and his academic studies of the past four years, Emr has completed his degree in applied mathematics and statistics and is looking to pursue an MBA degree at
Johns
Hopkins
University . Because he was medically redshirted in his third season, he still has one more year of eligibility for collegiate baseball. Emr hopes to play another season while studying for his master’s at the university.
Despite the sadness of his season coming to an end, Emr is pleased with where his team’s hard work and dedication brought them saying, “We all worked hard together, pushing each other and it was definitely everyone around me who helped me get here.”
Erin Griffiths' e-mail address is griffithse@northjersey.com.
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