54 Jeffrey ELKINS

Outfielder

5-10 • 195 • Senior • R/R

Lafayette, La. • Ascension Episcopal HS (UL Lafayette)

2023 No. 26 Southland Conference MLB Draft Prospect (D1Baseball.com)

2022 Southland Conference All-Defensive LF

2020 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll

2019 Honorable Mention All-Southland Conference

2019 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll

2022 Season:

• Appeared in 53 games, starting 48, as the Demons’ primary left fielder.

• led Northwestern State in home runs (13) and slugging percentage (.556) and was second in battnig average (.278), raking second in the Southland Conference in home runs.

• homered in back-to-back games at LSU and against Nicholls from May 17-19, his second set of back-to-back homers of the season.

• hit safely in a career-long 12 straight games from April 19-May 7, going 15-for-45 with five home runs and 13 RBIs in that stretch.

• posted his first career multi-home run game, hitting a pair of three-run home runs — one an inside-the-park home run — at McNeese on May 6.

• started back-to-back home runs with Gray Rowlett in the seventh inning of an April 26 win at Grambling.

• blasted a tiebreaking, three-run home run in the eighth inning of NSU’s April 19 win against LSU-Alexandria.

• connected on his sixth home run of the season, matching his career high, on April 10 at Incarnate Word.

• homered as part of a 3-for-6, two-RBI day in a March 27 win at New Orleans.

• homered for the second straight game, connecting on a first-inning solo blast at New Orleans on March 25.

• drilled a game-tying home run over the center-field wall against Grambling on March 23.

• capped a 10-RBI series against Alcorn by going 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs on March 13.

• went 3-for-3 with a home run, a career-best four runs scored and a career-high five RBIs in the second game of a March 12 doubleheader against Alcorn.

2021 Season:

• NSU’s primary left fielder appeared in and started 40 games.

• ranked second on the team with six home runs and in stolen bases (11) and tied for third with 21 RBIs.

• homered in his first at-bat and went 2-for-5 with two RBIs in a 7-3 win at LSU on May 18.

• homered in his final at-bat of the series against Stephen F. Austin on May 16.

• delivered the second walk-off hit of his career, a 10th-inning single, to beat McNeese in Game 1 of a May 9 doubleheader.

• homered twice in the four-game series against Lamar, doing so in Game 1 of back-toback April 10-11 doubleheaders.

• drove in the game-winning run with a two-out, 10th-inning single in an April 3 win at Abilene Christian.

• had his third two-steal game of the season in an April 1 win at Abilene Christian.

• connected on a two-run, seventh-inning single to put the Demons ahead to stay in a win against LSUA on March 30.

• homered and drove in two runs in a March 27 loss to South Alabama.

• notched his second two-steal game of the season in a March 26 loss to South Alabama.

• singled twice and scored three runs in the Demons’ walk-off win against Incarnate Word on March 14.

• had his first two hits of the season -- including a two-run home run -- in a win against Austin Peay on March 5.

2020 Season:

• Started all 15 games he appeared in, playing left field (9) and center field (6).

• drew the second-most walks on the team (11) and finished fourth in RBIs (11).

• opened the scoring with a two-run, fourth-inning home run at Southern on March 3.

• crushed a two-run home run against North Alabama in the Feb. 23 series finale, finishing with a career-high-tying three RBIs.

• lifted NSU to a walk-off win in game one of a Feb. 22 doubleheader against North Alabama with a two-out, two-run single.

2019 Season:

• Appeared in 52 games, starting 49 as NSU’s primary left fielder.

• finished third among Demons qualifiers in batting average (.284), shared the team lead with Caleb Ricca in triples (3) and finished second in doubles (16).

• tied for second on the team with 17 multi-hit games, including five three-hit games.

• snapped a 7-all tie with his first career home run, a two-run shot, against Nicholls on April 5.

• added home runs against McNeese (April 20) and Incarnate Word (May 12, Game 1).

• capped a four-run ninth inning in a 7-5 March 31 win at Houston Baptist with an RBI double.

• swiped three bases in an 8-1 win against New Orleans on March 17.

• delivered the go-ahead two-run double in NSU’s 3-1 win against LSU on March 12.

• tied the school record with two triples against in Game 2 of a doubleheader against Little Rock on March 2, driving in a run and scoring another.

Prior to NSU:

• Spent one semester at UL Lafayette before transferring.

High School:

• Was homeschooled and played one season at Ascension Episcopal for coach Lonny Landry.

• named the Class 1A state championship game Most Valuable Player, Class 1A All-State MVP and first-team All-American.

• graduated with a 3.0 grade point average.

Personal:

• Born May 11, 1999.

• son of Jennifer and Shannon Elkins.

• two sisters, Lauren and Julianna, and one brother, Graham.

• graduated in May 2022 with a degree in business administration.

• plans to pursue a professional baseball career.

• life’s ambition is to make the world a better place.

Game Highs:

At-Bats: 6, 3x (last at New Orleans, March 27, 2022)

Hits: 3, 7x (last at New Orleans, March 27, 2022)

Runs Scored: 4, vs. Alcorn (G2), March 12, 2022

RBI: 6, at McNeese, May 6, 2022

Stolen Bases: 3, vs. New Orleans, March 17, 2019

Walks: 3, 3x (last vs. Nicholls, May 19, 2022)

Home Runs: 2, at McNeese, May 6, 2022