#27 • Mike Daxenbichler

Senior • IF/OF • 5-8

Bartonville, Ill. • Limestone H.S.

Junior (2011): Played in all 36 games, starting the final 35 contests of the season as a utility player ... Hit .311 with two doubles and 20 RBI ... Compiled 23 runs scored and four stolen bases ... Recorded his first collegiate hit as part of a 5-for-8 showing with two doubles and seven RBI in a doubleheader sweep at Kentucky State on March 17 ... Hit safely in eight straight contests from March 17-27 ... Drove in three runs at Lincoln Christian on March 22 ... Went 3-for-4 with two RBI versus Greenville on April 5 ... Hit .458 (11-for-24) with four runs scored during a six-game hit streak between April 9-16 ... Drove in three runs against MacMurray on April 21 ... Scored three times against Spalding on May 3. 

Limestone High School: Earned All-Mid-Illini Conference Second Team honors ... Participated in the McDonald’s All-Star Game ... Led the Rockets to a pair of regional championships (2007-08) and a sectional title as a junior in 2007. 

Personal: The son of Mike Daxenbichler and Laura Daxenbichler, Mike was born Nov. 18, 1989 in Peoria, Ill. ... Has two siblings, Megan (25) and Andrew (19) ... Majoring in accouting.