Honors and Awards
Summit League Regular Season and Tournament Champion (2019)
All-Summit Second Team (2019)
Buster Posey Award Watch List (2020, 2021)
Summit League Academic Honor Roll (2019-20, 2020-21)
Fifth Year (2021)
Started all 47 games as the Mavericks’ backstop... Averaged .253 at the plate with 41 hits, 21 runs, and 24 RBI... .340 slugging percentage including eight doubles and two home runs... walked 13 times with an on-base percentage of .313... Tied his career high in hits with three against North Dakota State on April 2nd, a game in which he also notched season highs in runs scored with three, and RBI with four... Named to the Buster Posey Award Watch List for collegiate catchers.
As a Senior (2020)
Saw season limited to 14 games to do the COVID-19… Started all 14 contests with a .186 batting average, .326 slugging percentage and a .321 on-base percentage… Recoded six runs, eight hits, six doubles and tied for a team-best 10 RBI through 14 contests… Recorded a double-RBI at Northwestern on Feb. 15.. Tallied two hits for three RBI with two doubles against Chicago State (March 1) and two hits for three RBI in the win over Creighton (March 7)… Named to the Buster Posey Award Watch List for collegiate catchers… Named to The Summit League Academic Honor Roll.
As a Junior (2019)
Started 54 of 55 games this season… Garnered Second Team All-Summit honors at catcher… Summit League Regular Season and Tournament Champion… Batted .238 with a .350 slugging percentage and a .308 on-base percentage… Recorded 49 hits with eight doubles, five home runs, 30 runs scored, 36 RBI and 72 total bases in his debut campaign with the Mavericks… Notched a .993 fielding percentage… Made his Maverick debut Feb. 15, 2019 at USC where he recorded a hit and a run… Tallied a single-game career-high three hits three times… Had a career-best three hits at South Dakota State on April 6, 2019… Recorded his first-career home run March 16, 2019 at home against North Dakota State where he also notched a double… Recorded a career-high of seven RBI and went 2-for-2 with two runs scored with a home run against Western Illinois on March 31, 2019… Followed up with his second-straight homer April 5, 2019 at South Dakota State… Went 2-for-4 with an RBI against No. 1 UCLA in the Los Angeles Regional… Had 14 multi-hit games on the season... Tallied seven sacrifice flies that ranked tied for the third-most by any player in a single season.
Barton County CC
Second-Team All-KJCC as a sophomore… Helped his team to an appearance in the JUCO World Series... Batted a team-leading .410 with 91 hits, 22 doubles, three triples, 11 home runs and a team-high 69 RBI… As a freshman, batted .253 with 15 runs, 25 hits, six doubles, three triples and 17 RBI.
Rose Hill High School
Four-year letterwinner in baseball… Finished first in the league and third at state as a senior where he was named First Team All-League and Second Team All-State… Finished third at state and won the league as a junior where he was Second Team All-League and Second Team All-State… Honorable Mention All-League as a sophomore… Also lettered in football and basketball where he earned All-League honors.
Personal
Born March 19, 1998… Son of Warren and Sarah Bonar… Has a sister, Keelyn, and a brother, Braden… Majoring in marketing… Hobbies include video games, fishing, listening to music and working out.
