“When a freshman college baseball player is sporting a .400 batting average heading into April, people are bound to take notice.

Carnduff’s Carter Beck managed to do exactly that in his first season with the University of Mary Marauders, quickly rising up the batting order in the process.

A Canadian College Player of the Week in mid-March after hitting four home runs and driving in eight runs in four games, the outfielder says confidence was key to his early success.

“Just trusting myself that I can hit good pitches, hitting fastballs early in the count and hitting breakers that I know are going to be in the zone and trying to stay away from chasing,” Beck told Saskatchewan Dugout Stories.”