USD Baseball 2004

THE 2004 TOREROS

Joey Prast Senior Outfielder 5'11"- 1801bs R/ R

Ortegaconl.. multi-hit games and si.,x mu lti-RBI outings ... Posted a batting average of 265 Prep/ College: In arguably the best junior college conference in the state o f Ca lifornia, O rtega led Rive rside CC to back-to-back state champion– ships ... Played in the Orange Empire Confe re nce at Rive rside for two seasons ... Comes to USD as a natural sho rtstop, may also play second base ... Prepped at Rubiclour High School in the Riverside area ... Named team MVP in both his junio r and se nio r seasons... He lped the Fa lcons reach the p layoffs as a junio r... Coached by Ray Marisnik as a pre p . . Selected to compete in Amateur Baseball Development (ABD) and won the Junior O lympic Championship in 1995. Personal: Born on December 29, 1980 in Santa Ana, California ... Son of Maria and Ignacio Onega ... Business Administration majo r.

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2003 FIRST TEAM ALL-wee OUTFIELDER 3RD-TEAM PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN (COLLEGIATE B ASEBALL N EWS) USD SINGLE-SEASON RECORD HOLDER (DOUBLES, HITS, AT-BATS) ' 03 wee LEADER- HHS (90), RBI (57), DOUBLES (26), BASES (154) N AMED THE wee PLAYER OF W EEK lWICE AS A JUNIOR 2001 wee FRESHMAN OF THE Y EAR

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Prast's Collegiate Batting Stats Year G-GS AB R H

2B

SB-A

BA 365 275

3B HR RBI

34 38

4 3

4-8

2001 2002 2003

48-41 49-38 6Ui2

62 38

16

1

170 138

38 24

9

9-14

I

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16-21)

355

12/',

57"' 119

Career 159-141 568 Te<1111Le,uler ' USDSchool lkcord " LSI) all-time top 10

132 190

19

29-42 334"

51"

3

HIT FOR A ,312 AVERAGE AS A TRUE FRESHMAN

Junior in 2003: Ho no red as a First Team All-West Coast Conference outfielder after a phenomenal junior season ... Led the league in hits (90), RBI (57), doubles (26), tota l bases (154) ... His 26 doubles, 90 hits and 260 at-bats were all new USD single-season school records ... 51 career doubles and a .334 career batting average are both USD top 10 marks all- time ... USD team leader in virtually every offensive category as a jun- ior... Named the WCC Player of the Week twice, (3-31-03) after leading USD past divisio n rival Loyola Marymount in a three-game series in Los Angeles ... During that LMU series, Prast went 8-for-13 with two hom– e rs, three doubles and six RBI. .. WCC Player o f the Week (4-21-03) tearing up St. Mary's pitching for six hits, five RBI and four steals during a series win at home . .. On the season, posted an average of .402 with RBI opportunities on base. .. Clash of the Conferences Tournament MVP (3- 3-03; Lancaste r, Ca lif.) , hitting a grand slam against Washington (2-28- 03) in the tourney opener and leading San Diego to a d1ree-game weekend sweep over UW, Oregon State and host Nonhriclge . .. TI1e weekend per– formance in Lancaster sparked an 11-game hitting streak from Feb. 28- March 16 ... Had a pair of multi-homerun games, vs. UC Irvine (2-21-03) and at Peppercline (5-24-03).. During the WCC Championship Series at Pepperdine, Prast hit a pair of homeruns and drove in tl1ree eluting game two ... Through the first 21 WCC contests Prast hit .422 with a .750 slugging %. .. Posted 30 multi-hit games, a team high, including 11 games with three hits or more .. . Enjoyed 16 multi-RBI games w ith seven games of three RBI or more... Played and started in all 62 games as USD's right fielder. .. Primarily hit second in the order (43 games) ... Struck out o nly 23 times in a school record 260 at-bats. Sophomore in 2002: Key component to USD's 2002 WCC Champion– ship team ... Hit .333 during conference play ... Enjoyed a five game hit– ting streak during conference in which he posted tl1ree consecutive multi-

Pike's Collegiate Batting Stats Year G-GS AB R H

2B

3B

HR RBI

SB-A

BA .312 3 12

4 4

10 10

1

0 0

0 0

3 3

2003

20-9

32 32

0-0 0-0

Career 20-9

Freshman in 2003: Hit .312 as a true freshman ... Played in 20 games with nine starts, all at catcher ... USD was 6-3 in those nine starts ... Hit .333 in 18 at-bats during West Coast Conference play ... Went 2-for-5 with a double , RBI and a run scored vs. St. Mary's (4-19-03)... Registered back- to-back multi-hit games, going 2-for-4 vs. San Diego State (4-22-03) .. Macie the most of his playing time as a freshman ... The bulk of his action came in the month of April. Prep: Grossmont High School team MVP as a senio r... Two-time first– team all league selection ... Batted .360 w ith eight homeruns as a senior leading Grossmont to a league championship... Earned a gold glove during his junio r yea r while batting .375 w ith three homers ... Coached by Rob Phillips at Grossmont. Personal: Born December 28, 1983 in San Diego, California ... Son of Brian and Judy Pike ... Chose to atte nd USD because of the location , academics and the baseball program ... Was also recruited by Long Beach State ... Lette red in basketball as a sophomore and junior at Grossmo nt High School.

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