A member of the Sacramento State Baseball Hall of Fame, Aurelio Jackson played four years for the Hornets from 1998-2001. A center fielder and career .321 hitter, Jackson hit above .300 all four seasons of his tenure. He remains Sacramento State’s all-time leader in career stolen bases (85) while ranking third in runs scored (138) and fifth in hits (229). After Jackson’s final season of 2001, he was the program’s all-time leader in each of those categories.
Jackson also owns the program’s Div. I era single-season record for stolen bases when he swiped 44 bags in 2001. During his senior season, he reached base safely 16 straight times, one shy of the NCAA Div. I record. The streak began with a pair of hits and walks at Cal Poly. He then reached five times against Hawai’i, six times vs. Stanford, and once at UC Riverside.
Jackson had five hits in a game three times, connected on an inside-the-park home run vs. UC Santa Barbara in 2000, and led the Hornets in stolen bases all four seasons. He also owned a career .400 on-base percentage while playing four seasons in one of the toughest baseball conferences in the nation (Big West).
A member of the Sacramento State Baseball Hall of Fame, Harvey Hargrove played three seasons for the Hornets from 1995-97. The second baseman/outfielder was selected in the sixth round (193rd overall pick) of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft by the Seattle Mariners. Hargrove is one of just eight Hornets to be selected in the sixth round or better in program history.
A 1997 All-American, Hargrove hit .361 that year while setting the Sacramento State single-season record with 26 home runs. He remains the only Hornet to ever reach 20 home runs in a season. Hargrove, who had a 16-game hitting streak during his junior year, remains tied atop the Sacramento State record book with 35 career home runs. His career slugging percentage of .608 is the fifth best mark.
He started all 99 games in which he appeared during his sophomore and junior years, and also ranks in the Sacramento State top 10 single-season leaders in slugging percentage (2nd, .753 in 1997), RBIs (8th, 62 in 1997) and doubles (10th, 19 in 1996). His seven RBIs at Nevada in 1997 remain the fifth best single-game mark in school history.