2009: Played in 35 games with 34 starts ...second in hitting with a .310 average on team-high 35 hits in 113at-bats ... led the team for the second straight year with 30 runsscored while driving in a fourth-best 16 runs ... second with 15stolen bases ... tallied eight doubles and four triples ... eightmultiple hit games and three multiple RBI games ... season-highfour hits vs. Mary Washington ... career-high three RBI vs. Wilkes... .953 fielding percentage in 171 chances.
2008: Second team All-CAC ... CAC All-AcademicTeam ... saw action in 36 games with 33 starts at shortstop ...finished third with a .300 batting average with a second-best39 hits and team-high 130 at-bats ... led the team with 31 runsscored while ranking sixth with 14 RBI ... second with 13 stolenbases ... recorded six doubles, three triples, and one homerun ... nine multiple hit games as well as three multiple RBIgames ... career-highs of five hits, four runs, and three RBI atVilla Julie [game 2] ... .901 fielding percentage in 182chances.
Huntingtown HS: 2007 graduate ... Huntingtown'sOutstanding Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year as well as the U.S.Army Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... honorable mention All-Metby Washington Post as a senior after batting .350with 27 hits, seven doubles, and a triple ... two-timeAll-Washington Post Southern Maryland Extra as wellas two-time All-Southern Maryland Athletic Conference(SMAC) ... two-time first team All-Calvert County (at secondbase in 2006, at shortstop in 2007) ... selectedto Maryland Brooks Robinson Senior All-Star Game ... ledHuntingtown to Maryland 3A South Region Championship twice(2006, 2007) and the 2007 SMAC Championship ... memberof National Honor Society ... honorable mention MarylandDistinguished Scholar ... tabbed HHS' Physical EducationStudent of the Year.
Personal: Matthew David Baden ... aspiresto be an orthopaedic doctor ... serves as SAAC secretary ... memberof SMCM 3.0 Club ... born April 27, 1989 in Silver Spring, Md. ...son of David and Susan Baden ... his father played football atFrostburg State.
Why St. Mary's?: "To get a good education andto play baseball all four years."
