Dallas Baptist University Athletics

CAREER HONORS
2011:
Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American
First Team All-Summit League
Louisiana Sports Writers Association All-Louisiana Second Team
 
2013 (JUNIOR)
Played in 45 games, making 38 starts … Started six games at shortstop to start the season before transitioning to second base … Hit .261 with three doubles, two triples, and drove in 16 runs … Went two for four with an RBI as DBU’s Opening Day starter at shortstop versus Creighton on February 15 … Drove in a career-high three runs in game two of the Creighton series … Went one for two and scored a run in a 6-4 win at Rice on February 19 … Tripled and scored three runs on February 21 versus Mississippi Valley State … Delivered a triple an RBI and scored two runs against Texas Southern on March 5 … Went two for three with three runs driven in an 18-4 win versus Sam Houston State on March 14 … Put together a two hit day with a double and two runs scored in the series finale against Sam Houston State … Had two hits and doubled
at San Jose State on March 22 … Tied a career-high with 3 RBI’s and doubled in a 10-0 win over Sacramento State on March 28 … Went two for four on March 30 against Sacramento State … Helped DBU to a 12-10 extra-inning win at New Mexico State on April 7 going two for five and driving in a pair of runs … Collected two hits versus Seattle on April 13.
 
2012 (SOPHOMORE)
Saw action in 36 games and hit .267 with a homerun and five doubles... First hit as a Patriot came on a fourth inning double on February 18 against Southeast Missouri, a 3-1 win that was shortened due to rain ... Went three for six in two games against Rice with a stolen base... Went three for five against UT-San Antonio on February 28... Opened series against Texas A&M-Corpus with three hits, including a solo homerun... Singled and drove in another run in the second game against Corpus... Doubled against Texas on March
6 in Austin... Scored three runs against Houston Baptist on March 11... Had two hits and was hit by pitch against Oklahoma in Dallas, a Patriot 7-6 walk-off win... Had a six-game hit streak from March 11 through March 17... Three of those games with hits came in the Charlotte series where he collected four hits and scored three runs... Had three hits, including a double, on April 1 against Missouri State... Went three for seven in the two-game series against Prairie View... Doubled and drove in two runs, while scoring two,
against Indiana State on April 20... Singled, scored, and drove in a run to close the series against Wichita State, a 4-1 Patriot win.
 
2011 (FRESHMAN – CENTENARY COLLEGE)
Earned Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America honors and First Team All-Summit League after hitting .353 in 43 games … Was 2nd in the Summit League with a .404 average in conference action … Ranked fifth in the nation in stolen bases and stolen bases per game … Ended the season on a 16 game hitting streak.

HIGH SCHOOL
Three-year letterman at Colleyville Heritage High School … Played for Head Coach Alan McDougal … Named 1st Team All-District following his junior season … Selected as the 2010 Defensive Player of the Year for the district… Part of a team that ranked #1 in nation for a short time … Led the district with 27 stolen bases in 2009.
 
PERSONAL
Born on February 8, 1992 … Parents are Roland and Mary Talamantes … Majoring in Finance … Favorite Bible passage is Proverbs 3:5-6.