Rocco Peppi Award Field Player of the Week Week Of 3/14/2022 Sport Baseball School Long Beach State Year Position Hometown Huntington Beach, Calif. High School Marina HS Redshirt freshman Rocco Peppi led Long Beach State to a 3-1 week at home, including a series win over No. 25 Gonzaga. Peppi slashed .462/.588/.923 in the four games with two home runs, five RBI and five runs. He walked twice and was hit by a pitch two times without a strikeout, and handled all three putouts cleanly in left field. Against Gonzaga, the Huntington Beach product recorded a two-hit game in Friday night’s opener. Peppi followed that up with a career day on Saturday, going 3-for-4 with his first two collegiate long balls and season highs of three runs, five RBI and nine total bases. Peppi, a first-time Big West Field Player of the Week, wrapped up his weekend by hitting a one-out single in the ninth and scoring the game’s lone run from second in Sunday’s series-clinching finale, on Tyler Porter’s walk-off single.