Katy HS grad Carter Jurica rocks the Empire
Carter Jurica
Katy High School graduate Carter Jurica helped lead San Jose to an easy, 11-2, rout of the Inland Empire 66ers Saturday.
Jurica went 2-for-5, with two RBIs, and scored three runs in the victory.
On the season, Jurica is batting .283 with three home runs and 35 RBIs.
Jurica is a 2007 graduate of Katy High School. He went on to play college baseball at Kansas State for three seasons (2008 to 2010) posting a career average of .333 with 20 home runs and 131 RBIs. As a junior, 2010, Jurica was named a Big XII Conference all-star left fielder after batting .363 with 13 homers and 69 RBIs.
He was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the third round (105th overall) of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft. Jurica played 62 games during 2010 with the Giants Low Single-A affiliate, Salem-Kaiser, of the Northwest League. He batted .216 with three home runs and 31 RBIs. Jurica was born Sept. 23, 1988, in Houston.
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