Matt Goulas

Position:
Outfield
Ht./Wt.:
5-11 / 195
Class:
Senior
High School:
Catholic High

2008 SUN BELT COMMISSIONER’S LIST
2010 SUN BELT COMMISSIONER'S LIST

2010
Started all 60 games...Carried a .300-plus batting average for final 48 games of the season...Posted 21 multiple-hit games, reaching three hits five times...Ranked nationally in toughest to strikeout, finishing with the fewest on the team (17 in 283 plate appearances)...Second on the team with 74 base hits and fourth in batting average (.315) and RBI (38)...Hauled in 131 putouts in right field... Recorded four-plus putouts 11 times...Hit by pitch 19 times which established a new school record...Notched 20 extra base hits (13 doubles, 4 triples, 3 home runs) which led to the third-highest slugging percentage on the team (.443)...Finished with career-highs in batting average (.315), runs scored (44), base hits (74), doubles (13) and RBI (38)...Tied for the team lead with four outfield assists...Recorded eight multiple-hit games in March...Posted an RBI in 10 of 12 games from April 2-20...Picked up three triples over the season's first two weekends...Posted three doubles in the South Alabama series...Rolled off an eight-game hitting streak March 28-April 10...Collected two hits in each game of the UALR series...Posted a season-high four hits at Southern on May 11...Scored on Tyler Frederick's walk-off double in the 10^th inning of the series finale with Western Kentucky, giving UL the series win...Scored three runs and tallied three RBI in the season finale win over La.-Monroe that clinched SBC title.

2009
A preseason injury (rib) kept him out of the lineup for the first 16 games...Season debut came at McNeese State on March 17...Collected 12 hits in first eight games back from injury...Started 35 games with the final 25 starts being in the outfield...Finished with 11 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games...Of his 39 hits, 14 were for extra bases...Went 11 straight games without a strikeout (April 1-17)...UALR and UNO series were his best weekends...Hit 6-of-17 with six RBI and two doubles vs. UALR...At UNO, belted two home runs and tallied seven RBI...Recorded at least three RBI five times.

2008
Became one of the top three hitters on the team and took over the lineup's two-hole...Started 54 games in the outfield and appeared in all but one contest...Strung together hitting streaks of four, five (twice), six and seven games...Hit for the team's second-best batting average of .288 and was third on the team in runs scored (34), as well as tied for fourth in home runs (7)...Finished second in hits (61), RBI (31), and total bases (90)...Successfully nabbed 16 of 20 attempted stolen bases, good for second on the team...Was the first Cajun to steal home since 2005 on a successful double-steal play with teammate Scott Hawkins...Sacrificed 12 times, including nine sac bunts.

High School
Lettered four years at Catholic High School (New Iberia) in baseball and football...Guided the Panthers to four state playoff appearances, while earning All-District and All-State honors as an outfielder...Hit .330 with four home runs and 35 RBI as a senior, while posting an 8-0 record on the mound as a junior.

Personal
Full name is Matthew Scott Goulas...Born on April 22, 1989, in Franklin...Son of Jeff and Donna Goulas...Has two younger brothers, Andrew and Micah...Plans to become a physical therapist after graduation.