Rocco Peppi Award Field Player of the Week Week Of 5/30/2022 Sport Baseball School Long Beach State Year Position Hometown Huntington Beach, Calif. High School Marina HS Rocco Peppi batted .417 (5-for-12) and slugged .833 with five runs, two doubles, one home run, seven RBI, two walks, two hit-by-pitches and a .563 on-base percentage while guiding Long Beach State to its fifth straight series victory to end the 2022 campaign, as the Dirtbags swept UC Davis on the road. The redshirt freshman led LBSU in runs, RBI, extra-base hits and slugging, and made four clean putouts in the outfield. Peppi, a Huntington Beach native, produced at least one hit in all three meetings with the Aggies, with a pair of two-hit efforts on Friday and Saturday. In the middle contest, a 13-1 run-rule affair in eight innings, he went 2-for-3 with a double, his fifth home run, four RBI, and season-high-tying totals of four runs and two walks. Peppi drove in all three runs in Saturday’s season finale, a 3-0 shutout, on a third-inning single and a two-run, first-pitch, seventh-inning double. His two hit-by-pitches in the series put him in a three-way tie for first in The Big West with 19 on the year. Peppi started all 54 games he appeared in, missing just two contests, and led the Dirtbags with a .321 batting average. Long Beach State’s late-season surge moved it into a fourth-place tie with CSUN in the standings. The final sweep had the Dirtbags finish above the .500 mark both overall (29-27) and in The Big West (17-13). Peppi is now a two-time Big West Field Player of the Week, having previously earned the honor back on March 14. He bookended the award this season with fellow Dirtbag Jonathon Long (Feb. 21), with LBSU also picking up four pitcher distinctions during this 2022 campaign.