Junior Year: Helped lead the Wolfpack to a school-record for wins and a share of the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) regular-season championship. After guiding Keuka (22-14) into the NEAC postseason tournament for the first time since the 2009 season, Borchert earned All-New York Region honors from the American Baseball Coaches' Association (ABCA) and Rawlings. ... Borchert, a first basemen who batted .405 (third-highest batting average in school history), was named second-team All-Region by the ABCA and Rawlings. It was Borchert's first time earning ABCA/Rawlings All-Region honors. ... Borchert also was named second-team All-New York Region by D3Baseball.com. It is his second straight D3Baseball.com All-Region honor. ... Borchert started all 36 games and hit .405 (51-for-126) with two home runs, 39 RBI, 28 runs scored, 17 doubles and 2 triples. He set school-records for hits and doubles in a season, while his .619 slugging percentage was the second-highest in a season in school history. ... Borchert led the team in batting average, hits, doubles, triples and RBI, and ranked first in the NEAC in doubles, third in batting average, fourth in RBI and slugging percentage and eighth in runs scored.
Sophomore Year: Completed one of the best all-around seasons in school history to earn D3Baseball.com third-team All-New York Region honors. The first baseman equaled the school record for home runs in a season (7) and set school records for runs batted in (42), slugging percentage (.701) and total bases (82) while starting all 31 games. Recorded the third-highest single-season batting average in school history (.393) after picking up 46 hits in 117 at-bats. … Led the Storm in batting average, hits, home runs, RBI, slugging percentage and doubles as the Green compiled an impressive .305 team batting average. … Equaled Dominick Dashnaw’s school record of 11 doubles, set in 2006. … Facing Hilbert College in the regular-season finales, batted 6-for-8 with one HR and six RBI as Keuka (12-19) won the most games in a season since 2006. With his home run, Borchert matched Frank Saccone’s (2002) school record of seven home runs. … Recorded at least one hit in 25 of 31 games, including 11 of the last 12 games. During that stretch, Borchert batted .468 (22-for-47) with three HRs and 23 RBI.
Freshman Year: Earned Keuka’s Rookie of the Year honors after batting .296 (24-for-81) with six doubles, two triples, one home run and 14 RBI.
Personal: Son of Daniel and Lori Borchert of Hilliard and Arlington, Ohio. … Has one brother and one sister. … Garnered both First-Team and Second-Team All-Ohio Capital Conference (OCC) honors during time at Upper Arlington High School. … Was chosen team’s MVP and both Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year during high school career.
