Brent Gillespie Biography
2015 (Senior) | Game-By-Game Stats: Played in 47 games while making 41 starts at first base... Batted fourth or fifth in 29 of those starts... Batted .220 with 16 runs scored and 12 RBIs... Posted multiple hits in five games... Improved to hitting .242 versus Horizon League teams... Recorded three hits twice... Went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored at Milwaukee (4/17)... Was 3-for-4 with a run scored at Valpo (5/9)... Scored a career-high three runs and had the first stolen base of his career in a win on Senior Day over Oakland (5/3)... Homered at Valparaiso on March 20 as part of a 2-for-4 day... That home run came in the midst of a seven-game hitting streak.
2014 (Junior) | Game-By-Game Stats: Played in 54 games and tied for the team lead with 49 starts... Started 30 games at first base, nine at third, seven at shortstop, two at second base and one at designated hitter... Was third in the batting order 27 times and hit cleanup 17 times... Batted .260 with 24 runs scored two home runs and 20 RBIs... Led the Penguins and ranked seventh in the Horizon League with 13 doubles... Improved his batting average to .299 in conference play... Had a dozen two-hit games and posted three hits three times... Credited with the Horizon League Championship-winning RBI after a bases-loaded HBP in the top of the ninth against Wright State (May 24)... Had three hits, scored three runs and drove in three during the tournament... Had three hits at NC State (March 2), at Valparaiso (April 12) and versus UIC (May 9)... Homered at Canisius (April 23) and at Milwaukee (April 27)... His homer at UWM was part of a season-high three-RBIs day... Scored multiple runs six times, including against Stanford in the Bloomington Regional (June 1).
Santa Rosa Junior College: Batted .290 with three home runs and 33 RBIs as a sophomore… Named First-Team All-Big 8 Conference… SRJC won the conference title for the first time in school history… Hit .253 in 26 games as a freshman... Led the team to a state championship final four appearance.
High School: Earned three letters for John Morrow… Earned first-team all-league and all-empire honors… Named a Kiwanis All-Star as a senior… Helped lead his team to the North Bay League championship his junior and senior years… Set a school record for most games played... Was a scholar-athlete all four years.
Personal: Son of Rick and Renee… Has a brother (Casey)… Major is communications.
Career Single-Game Highs:
Hits: 3, 5 times
Home runs: 1, at Canisius, Apr 23, 2014 ; at Milwaukee, Apr 27, 2014 ; Valparaiso, Mar 20, 2015
Total bases: 6, at Milwaukee, Apr 27, 2014
RBI: 3, at Milwaukee, Apr 27, 2014
Runs scored: 3, Oakland, May 03, 2015
Walks: 1, 22 times
Stolen bases: 1, Oakland, May 03, 2015
Putouts: 18, at UIC, Apr 06, 2014 ; vs Milwaukee, Mar 15, 2015
Assists: 5, at UAB, Feb 22, 2014
