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2024 – Graduate: Played in 35 games, making 22 starts… Recorded 19 hits in 80 at-bats to post a .238 batting average… Ended the year with two doubles, one triple, and one home run to move his slugging percentage up to .325… Scored 15 runs… Tallied 13 RBIs and 26 total bases… Walked four times and was hit by a pitch six times to improve his on-base percentage to .319… Stole five bases… Had 30 putouts in the field… Hit a base-clearing double vs. Xavier to end the game 2-for-3 from the plate with a season-high four RBIs (5/5)… Had a season-high four hit game at Eastern Michigan (4/16)… Scored two runs and added an RBI against the Eagles… First home run of the season came at home vs. Purdue Fort Wayne (3/5)… Hit a triple and scored a run vs. Dayton (3/23)… Scored a season-high three runs vs. Bradley (3/15)… Hit a sac fly vs. Jackson State (3/9)… Stole two bases in the Alabama A&M series… Had two hits at Southern Illinois (2/27)… Had a multi-hit game with an RBI and a run scored at Villanova (5/11).

2023 (Senior Season at Indiana):  Appeared in nine games ... Appearances came as a pinch runner (5) and pinch hitter (4).

2022 (Junior Season at Indiana): Earned Academic All-Big Ten...  Appeared in 16 games with one start … Started lone game at designated hitter at Rutgers (4/16) … Entered 10 of 16 games as a pinch runner … Owned a season-best three-game reached base streak from Feb. 19-April 5 … Missed 22 games due to injury from Feb. 21-April 1.
 
2021 (Sophomore Season at Indiana): Named Academic All-Big Ten... Appeared in 13 games with four starts … All four starts came at designated hitter … Owned a season-best three-game hitting streak from May 8-14, which was also his longest reached base streak of the season … Posted one multi-RBI game … Homered against Iowa (5/2).
  
2020 (Freshman Season at Indiana): Appeared in 13 games with 10 starts … Started games at designated hitter (4), in right field (4) and left field (2) … Made collegiate debut in a season-opening start at LSU (2/14) … Collected first collegiate hit against UT Martin (2/21) … Owned a season-best three-game reached base streak from February 15-21 … Posted one multi-RBI game.
  
High School: Played for head coach Bob Jones at Edgewood High School, where he was a four-year letterwinner … Helped the Mustangs to the Indiana High School Athletic Association Class 3A state runner-up finish as a junior … Rated the N0. 168 prospect nationally and the No. 34 outfielder by Perfect Game … Ranked as the No. 3 prospect and No. 1 outfielder in the state of Indiana … Named team captain as a junior and senior … Earned team MVP as a senior … Tabbed all-state as a senior … Hit .500 with 10 home runs during his final prep season … Also lettered three times in soccer, once in basketball and once in track and field … Finished No. 7 at the IHSAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the high jump.

Personal: Son of Tara and Steve Vecrumba … Has two sisters, Ashlyn and Amber … Father, Steve, lettered in baseball at Milligan College … Uncle, Seth Miller, lettered in soccer at Milligan College.

Why Vecrumba Chose Butler
“I can continue my education while playing the sport I love.”