2007: Ferguson earned first-team all-region honors as a utility player after splitting time in right field and first base. The Empire 8 and ECAC both picked awarded him first-team all-star recognition as an outfielder. Ferguson batted a team-best .400 and added team-leading totals of 66 hits (Ithaca’s sixth-highest single-season total), 12 doubles, 44 runs and 38 RBI’s. His 14 extra-base hits were second on the team and his 12 steals ranked third. He was named to the all-tournament team at the NCAA regionals after hitting a team-high .500 with 11 hits. He collected 14 hits on Ithaca’s eight-game spring trip, posting two three-hit games and two two-hit efforts. Ferguson was named Empire 8 Player of the Week after going seven-for-17 with nine RBI’s and nine runs scored in a pair of doubleheader sweeps at Utica. During the summer, Ferguson was a second-team all-star for the Brockport Riverbats of the New York Collegiate Baseball League, hitting .338 with a .432 slugging percentage and a .391 on-base percentage.
2006: Ferguson earned third-team all-region honors after batting .348 with 34 RBI’s. He led Ithaca with 12 doubles and third with 41 runs scored and fourth with 54 hits. He was named Empire 8 Player of the Week after going seven-for-10 with four RBI’s in a weekend series at Gettysburg and Washington (Md.). Ferguson led the team with 18 multi-hit games, including eight three-hit efforts. He drove in a career-best five wins in a win over Utica, hitting his first career grand slam in the bottom of the first. His two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth tied the score as Ithaca went on to beat Rensselaer in 11 innings in the NCAA regionals.
2005: Ferguson led the Bombers in slugging percentage his first year on the team with a .565 mark; his .323 batting average was good for sixth. He finished the season with a six-game hitting streak that included all five playoff games; he started four games and recorded five runs, four RBIs and a home run in the tournament. Ferguson went 4-for-5 with four RBIs, two runs, a double and a home run in the win over Cazenovia. He led Ithaca with three pinch hits.
High School: A 2004 graduate of Columbia High School, Ferguson was coached by George Czerno (whose son Todd is Ferguson’s Bomber teammate).
Personal: A physical education/health education major, he is the son of Frank and Joanne Ferguson.