PLAYER PROFILE

 

 

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.