2014 Baseball Roster
Roster
Blake Sipe
- Position:
- Outfielder
- Height:
- 5-9
- Weight:
- 170
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Weyers Cave, Va.
- High School:
- Fort Defiance
2013 Highlights
Batted .259 in 158 at bats ... Drove in 22 runs ... Registered three hits on two separate occasions ... Had two hits, two runs, and two RBIs in two at bats against Marshall (3/23) ... Season-high of three hits came at Longwood (5/4) ... Put out 134 and only had two errors on the season.
2012 Highlights
Started in 23 games in RF in the second half of the season … Had eight hits and six RBIs in eight games after cracking the starting lineup full-time April 11 … Hit a bases-loaded triple to key a late-inning rally in a win over North Carolina A&T (April 11) … Drove in both of Radford’s runs in an extra-inning loss at No. 25 Virginia … seventh-inning squeeze bunt RBI tied the game at 2-2 … Went 3-for-3, drove in a run, scored twice and walked twice in a series finale win over Presbyterian (April 28) … Did not pitch in 2012 ... Named team MVP for the Staunton Braves of the Valley Baseball League ... Earned a spot on the Valley League's South Division All-Star Team and was named VBL Player of the Week twice ... Finished second in the league in batting average at .396 and led the circuit in steals with 20
2011 Highlights
Started in 24 games, becoming an everyday player in RF in the final month-plus of the season ... Hit an RBI groundout in his hometown in the loss at JMU (March 1) ... Walked with the bases loaded to drive in a run in the win over Towson (March 4) ... Picked up his first career hit and drove home a run in the series finale against Hartford (March 12) ... Went 3-for-3 in his first career start with a pair of RBI singles in the second game of the ETSU doubleheader ... Came in to the game as a defensive replacement in the second game against Presbyterian, went 2-for-4 with a fifth inning RBI single (April 2) ... Scored the go-ahead run in the finale against Winthrop (April 17), replacing an injured Cory Turner with a 2-2 count in the seventh ... walked in the at-bat, stole a base, and scored ... Was 2-for-3 with a walk and scored a run in the second game of the Gardner-Webb series (April 30) ... Made his pitching debut in the eighth inning of the series opener against Hartford (March 12) ... Tossed his first Big South innings in the series opener against CSU (March 25)
High School
Coached by Vic Spotts at Fort Defiance ... First Team All-Southern Valley District as an outfielder and pitcher in 2010 ... Was the 2009 Southern Valley District batting champion, hitting .487 for Fort Defiance ... High school teammate of Radford catcher Daniel Wright ... All-district and all-region first team outfielder, also named second team all-state ... Named to the 2009 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg) all-area team ... Played for the West team at the 2009 Coventry Commonwealth Games ... Played for Hurricanes summer/fall team coached by Jeff Petty in '08 and '09
HITTING STATISTICS
| Year | Avg | GP | GS | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | TB | SLG% | BB | HBP | SO | GDP | OB% | SF | SH | SB | ATT | PO | A | E | FLD% |
| 2011 | .227 | 39 | 24 | 88 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 20 | .227 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 0 | .313 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 47 | 2 | 1 | .980 |
| 2012 | .191 | 34 | 23 | 68 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 17 | .250 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | .309 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 52 | 0 | 1 | .981 |
| TOTAL | .212 | 73 | 47 | 156 | 17 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 37 | .237 | 18 | 5 | 22 | 2 | .311 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 99 | 2 | 2 | .981 |
PITCHING STATISTICS
| Year | ERA | W | L | App | GS | CG | SHO | CBO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | 2B | 3B | HR | BF | B/Avg | WP | HBP | BK |
| 2011 | 6.75 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | .222 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 6.75 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | .222 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
