Jason Bour
31 Jason Bour
Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Centreville, Va.

High School:
Westfield

Last College:
Hampden-Sydney

Height / Weight:
6-3 / 215

Position:
C

B/T:
R/R

Jason Bour enters his third season with the Patriots and is expected to start at catcher for Mason... A strong defensive catcher with an excellent arm... Hit for average his first season and last year added the long ball to his arsenal.

2007: Finished the season among the national leaders in home runs per game and was second on the team in batting average, doubles and slugging percentage, third on the team in hits, RBI and runs and fourth in home runs... Named first-team All-CAA at catcher... Hit .366 with 13 homers, 50 RBI< 17 doubles, 74 hits and 40 runs while slugging .673... Had game-winning homer in Mason's 5-1 win over then-No. 1 Clemson on Feb. 17... Had 24 multi-hit games, 17 multi-RBI games and a 14-game hitting streak... Over a 22-game stretch from March 30-May 4, hit .494 with seven homers, 27 RBI, nine doubles, 22 runs and a .904 slugging percentage... Had a hit in 26 of the season's final 29 games... Will enter his senior season seventh all-time at Mason in career batting average with a .345 mark.

2006: Played in 37 games for the Patriots and started 31 of those contests... Was third on the team in batting with a .313 average... Was fourth on the team with a .470 slugging percentage.. More than one-third of his hits went for extra bases... Had 42 hits with 11 doubles, two triples and two homers... Was third on the team in doubles and tied for first in triples... Raised his batting average 30 points over his final six games and was 12 for 28 (.429) in May... Both homers came on May 5 against Georgia State as he was 4 for 6 with five RBI and three runs scored... Also had a double in that game as Mason won 17-14... Never went more than four games all season without an extra-base hit and was hitless in back-to-back games only once all season.

AT HAMPDEN-SYDNEY: Batted .356 with 33 RBI and a .967 fielding percentage... Old Dominion Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year... First-team All-ODAC and second-team All-South.

PREP: Earned four letters in baseball while playing for the Bulldogs... As a senior, named first-team All-District and second-team All-Region... Batted .408 with 6 HR and 21 RBI while fielding .993 as a senior... Member of the National Honor Society, Future Business Leaders of America and named Marine Corps Most Distinguished Male Athlete.

PERSONAL: Full name is Jason Michael Bour... Born July 2, 1986... Parents are Tracey and Jim Bour... Both parents played volleyball at Mason while mother also played softball... A 2004 graduate of Westfield High School... Brother, Justin, plays for Mason... Was named MVP of the AAABA World Series in 2006... Hobbies include ping-pong and playing cards... Major is undeclared.

	CAREER MASON BATTING STATISTICS

YEAR GP/GS AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB/SBA 2006 36/31 .316 133 13 42 11 2 2 20 7 26 2/3 2007 53/51 .366 202 40 74 17 3 13 50 6 24 0/0 TOTALS 89/82 .346 335 53 116 28 5 15 70 13 50 2/3

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