16 Randi
Gillespie
Outfield/Catcher 5-6 R/R Senior
San Jose, Calif. West Valley CC
As a Junior in 2006: Northeast
Conference Player of the Year... First Team All-NEC... Also named to the Mid-Atlantic
All-Region
team by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association... Started
56 of 57 games... Led the team in hits (62), good for fifth in
the NEC and tied for second in single-season LIU history... First
on the team and seventh in the NEC with a .360 batting average...
Had 11 home runs, tops on the team and second in the league...
Also first on team with 42 RBI, placing third in the NEC... First
on team and second in the NEC with 107 total bases... Posted
a .622 slugging percentage, first on team and third in the league,
and a .443 on-base percentage, good for fourth on the team and
in the NEC... Led team with 26 walks and placed third in the
league... Registered eight doubles... Recorded two nine-game
hitting streak from 3/9 to 3/17 and then again from 4/10 to 4/18...
Posted nine multi-RBI games, tops on the team... Also led the
team with 17 multiple-hit games, including three games with three...
Tallied two hits, two runs and a triple against Florida Atlantic
(2/18)... Went 2-for-3 with a home run, double and four RBI versus
Cal Poly (2/25)... Legged out her second triple of the season
versus Wright State (3/9)... Was 2-for-3 with a home run and
three RBI against Iowa (3/17)... Had back-to-back contests two
RBI versus Fairfield (3/26)... Went combined 4-for-6 against
Sacred Heart (3/31) with two home runs and seven RBI... Hit a
home run in three consecutive games (3/29-31)... Went 3-for-4
while posting two doubles in game two of the Wagner doubleheader
(4/10)... Was a perfect 2-for-2 with a pair of home runs and
season-best five RBI at St. Francis (PA) (4/15)... Drove in three
more RBI and scored three runs in the next contest against the
Red Flash (4/15)... Went 2-for-3 against Fairleigh Dickinson
(4/18)... Smashed her 11th home run of the season against Mount
St. Mary’s on 4/29... Collected a run batted in four consecutive
contests from 4/30 to 5/5... Struck out only 22 times in 179
at-bats.
As a Sophomore in 2005: First
Team All-NEC...
Saw action in 50 games with 49 starts .. Led team with 52 hits
and 32 runs
scored ... Also paced team in at-bats with 149 ... Second on
the squad with a .349 batting average and 31 RBI ... Had 85 total
bases, team second-best and sixth in the Northeast Conference
... Also second on the team in home runs with eight- fourth in
the NEC ... Averaged 1.04 hits a game, eighth-best in the league...
Seventh in the conference in runs scored ... Recorded a .570
slugging percentage and a .409 on-base percentage ... Had a .968
fielding percentage with 70 putouts ... Batted .443 in NEC games
with 27 hits and 21 RBI... Registered nine doubles ... Recorded
a seven-game hit streak from April 20 to May 1 .. Posted eight
multi-RBI and a team-tying 13 multi-hit games ... Had team-best
20 two-out RBI’s ... Batted .393 with two outs on the board
and hit .429 with a runner on third ... Went 3-for-4 with two
RBI and two runs scored versus Illinois-Chicago (3/13) ... Had
home runs in back-to-back games versus St. Francis (PA) on April
3 & 5 ... Went combined 4-for-8 against the Red Flash with
five RBI ... Had season-best four RBI on April 3 versus St. Francis
(PA) ... Went 2-for-3 versus Monmouth, including a home run,
collecting two RBI and scoring twice ... In the next outing versus
Sacred Heart, was a perfect 2-for-2 with two RBI ... Had three
RBI versus Central Connecticut State on April 24, connecting
on fifth home run of season ... Drilled sixth homer two games
later versus Quinnipiac, adding three RBI (4/25) ... Was 3-for-4
with three RBI and two runs scored at Wagner on May 1 ... Had
season best two home runs versus Wagner ... Had 3-for-4 performance
versus Hawks in NEC Tournament action on May 13, adding a double
and an RBI ... Struck out just 10 times in 149 at-bats.
High School/College/ASA/Personal: Comes from
West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif... Batted .479 with
nine home runs and a league-best
61 RBIs in 2004... A 2004 California Community College (CCFCA)
All-State selection... Also named to the 2004 Easton All-America
third team... Selected to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association
(NFCA) California JC All-America team... Played high school softball
at Prospect High School where she was BVAL Freshman of the Year...
A Second Team BVAL honoree in 2002... Also an All-League selection
in soccer... A member of Don Ford’s Strike Zone Gold ASA
team out of Northern California... Daughter of Debbie and Randy
Gillespie... Has one older sister, Mandy. |