Pacific-10 Honors OSU's Gillespie
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State’s Cole Gillespie has been named the Pacific-10 Conference Baseball Player of the Week for May 23-29, conference commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.
Gillespie (West Linn, Ore./West Linn HS), a junior outfielder, batted .500 (4-for-8), as Oregon State split two games with UCLA. In Friday’s series opener, Gillespie went 3-for-5 with a home run, a triple, a double, three RBI and two runs scored to help the Beavers defeat the Bruins, 9-2, and clinch the Beavers’ second straight Pac-10 title.
Gillespie’s two-run homer, which capped a three-run fourth inning that put OSU up 5-1, was his 11th of the season to tie him for 10th place on the Beavers’ all-time list of career leaders. The run was Gillespie’s 68th of the season, setting a new OSU single-season record. He also had a run-scoring triple in the bottom of the sixth inning and then doubled and scored in the eighth.
The Player of the Week honor is the first of Gillespie’s career, while it is the 52nd such honor for Oregon State. It’s the second straight week that OSU has had the Player of the Week; the previous week, catcher Mitch Canham had been the conference’s Player of the Week and teammate Dallas Buck had been the Pitcher of the Week.
