Rocco Peppi, Long Beach State
Baseball Field Player of the Week
Freshman • Utility • Huntington Beach, Calif. |
- 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.
Also nominated: Nathan Church (UC Irvine), Brooks Lee (Cal Poly), J.D. Mico (UC Davis), AJ Miller (CSU Bakersfield), Bart West (CSUN), Bryce Willits (UC Santa Barbara), Matt Wong (Hawai’i)
Drew Thorpe, Cal Poly
Baseball Pitcher of the Week
Sophomore • RHP • Washington, Utah |
- Cal Poly redshirt sophomore right-hander Drew Thorpe pitched a three-hit shutout at home against Harvard on Friday night as the Mustangs blanked the Crimson, 5-0.
- Thorpe’s first nine-inning complete game gave Cal Poly its first shutout of the season and served as the program’s first individual nine-inning shutout in four years, since May 4, 2018.
- The Utah native struck out 11 without a walk, and did not allow a Harvard runner to reach third base, retiring the first 10 batters he faced and the side in order six times in all.
- Thorpe, now 2-0 with a 2.22 ERA this season, has notched double-digit strikeouts in all four of his starts in 2022 to give him eight such efforts as a collegian, and leads The Big West in the category by 13.
- Thorpe is now a two-time Pitcher of the Week, with a previous distinction on Feb. 24, 2020.
Also nominated: Bryan Green (UC Davis), Ryan Harvey (UC Santa Barbara), Gordon Ingebritson (UC Irvine), Adrian Santa Cruz (CSU Bakersfield), Blaine Traxel (CSUN), Juaron Watts-Brown (Long Beach State)
| 2022 Big West Weekly Award Winners |