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  Justin Behm

Justin Behm

Player Profile

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Downers Grove, IL

High School:
North

Height / Weight:
6-3 / 220

Position:
C

Experience:
3L

B/T:
R/R

2007: Ranked fourth on NIU squad with five home runs ... Hit .273 with seven doubles and 22 RBI in 39 games including 32 starts ... Batted .372 and slugged .535 with four doubles, one home run and five RBI in 15 MAC games ... Five of his eight multi-hit games came in league contests ... Drove in seven runs in four games at the MAC Tournament ... Hit safely in seven consecutive games (3/31-4/20) ... Hit .435 with three doubles and two home runs in 23 at-bats when leading off an inning ... Collected 14 RBI in 19 at-bats with runners in scoring position and two outs ... Went two-for-three as a pinch-hitter for a team-best .667 average ... Blasted a solo home run estimated at 425+ feet over the center field wall in a 3-for-4 outing at Texas Tech (2/24) ... Drove in two runs and scored a run vs. Maine (3/10) ... Homered and had two RBI vs. New Jersey Tech (3/15) ... Scored two runs and doubled in a 2-for-2 performance vs. Ohio (3/24) ... Had a RBI double and went 2-for-3 against Ohio (3/25) ... Doubled in a two-hit game at Akron (3/31) ... Had a pinch-hit RBI single vs. Eastern Michigan (4/29) ... Delivered a pinch-hit at UW-Milwaukee (5/2) ... Homered as part of a three-hit, three-RBI outing with two runs scored vs. Chicago State (5/15) ... Belted a solo home run and went 2-for-4 at Toledo (5/18) ... Collected two hits, including a double, and two runs scored at Toledo (5/19) ... Blasted a grand slam and produced five RBI and two runs scored vs. Toledo at the MAC Tournament (5/24) ... Had two hits, including a double, with two RBI and a run scored vs. Miami at the MAC Tournament (5/25) ... Played in 27 games and had two home runs with seven RBI for the Green Bay Bullfrogs of the Northwoods League during the summer season.


2006: Played in 38 games with 15 starts and batted .246 with five doubles, one home run and 19 RBI on 17 hits in his first collegiate season ... Started nine of 19 MAC games played and hit .289 with a home run and 12 RBI on 11 hits ... First collegiate at-bat resulted in a RBI ground out at Arizona State (2/3) ... Went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored at Nevada (3/17) ... Delivered his first collegiate pinch hit at Nevada (3/19) ... Hit his first collegiate home run and had two RBI in game two of a doubleheader at Ohio (3/25) ... Drove in two runs on a single at Ohio (3/26) ... Delivered a game-winning walk-off sacrifice fly in the eighth-inning of game one of a doubleheader vs. Bradley (3/28) ... Collected three RBI on his double vs. Akron (4/2) ... Had a hit, RBI, and a run scored vs. Illinois State (4/4) ... Doubled twice and scored two runs with one RBI at UW-Milwaukee (5/2) ... Went 2-for-3 with a run scored at Western Michigan (5/7) ... Had a RBI double and one run scored vs. Ball State (5/13) ... Went 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored vs. Toledo (5/19) ... Delivered a RBI on a pinch-hit sacrifice fly vs. Toledo (5/20).

High School: Named to Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association "Cream of the Crop" team as a senior ... Member of Team Illinois and considered one of the state's top catching prospects ... Tabbed as an all-area selection by the Daily Herald and All-West Suburban Silver Conference choice after hitting .427 with four home runs and 59 RBI as a senior co-captain ... Hit .375 with three home runs during his junior season ... Earned three letters in basketball and was all-conference as a junior and team captain as a senior.

Personal: Marketing major ... Born Dec. 7, 1986 in Houston, Texas ... Son of Michael and Mae Behm ... Admires Michael Jordan and Jorge Posada.

BEHM'S CAREER STATISTICS
YR	AVG	G/GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO
2007	.273	39/32	121	17	33	7	0	5	22	0	12	23
2006	.246	38/15	69	10	17	5	0	1	19	0	11	20
Career	.263	77/47	190	27	50	16	0	6	41	0	23	43

Long Hit Streak: 7 (2007); Grand Slams: 1 (2007)

BEHM'S CAREER HIGHS Hits: 3, 3x, last vs. Chicago State, 5/15/07 Runs Batted In: 5, vs. Toledo (MAC Tournament), 5/24/07 Runs Scored: 2, 6x, last vs. Toledo (MAC Tournament), 5/24/07 Doubles: 2, at Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 5/2/06 Home Runs: 1, 6x, last vs. Toledo (MAC Tournament), 5/24/07