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2025 Baseball Roster

18 Gage Gillott

  • Position Pitcher/Outfielder
  • Height / Weight 6-0 / 210
  • Class Senior
  • Bats / Throws R/R
  • Hometown Connellsville, Pa.
  • High School Connellsville

Biography

Career Highlights
• 2024 PSAC West Pitcher of the Year
• 3-Time All-PSAC West
• 2-time D2CCA All-American (2024-2025)
• 2024 D2Baseball All-American
• 2-time Consensus All-Region (NCBWA, D2CCA, ABCA)
• 2-Time CSC Academic All-District Team

Personal: Son of Kelli and Michael Gillott … Majoring in biology / pre-pharmacy.

2025: Named to the D2CCA All-America Team … A consensus all-region honoree (D2CCA / NCBWA / ABCA) … Voted a first team All-PSAC West selection as a utility player … Received CSC Academic All-District recognition … Earned a spot on the D2Baseball Preseason All-America Team … Appeared in, and started, 41 games as a position player primarily in left field while making eight starts as a member of SRU’s starting rotation … Slashed .349/.439/.503 with four home runs, 29 runs scored and 25 RBIs … Stole 12 bases and produced an OPS of .942 … Went 4-3 on the mound with a 3.16 ERA and 28 strikeouts over 37 innings … Limited opponents to a .201 opponent batting average while compiling a 1.16 WHIP … Hit .354 with runners in scoring position (17-48) … Led The Rock in hits (52), batting average and on-base percentage while ranking second in slugging percentage, OPS, runs, home runs and stolen bases as well as third in RBI and fifth in walks (17) … Recorded 18 multi-hit games and seven multi-RBI contests … Season-long hitting streak of 15 games and reached base streak of 17 … Went 3-for-4 with two runs, two RBIs and a walk vs. Goldey-Beacom (Feb. 23) … Hit two home runs as part of a 3-for-4, four-run, four-RBI, one-walk, one-stolen base showing at West Virginia State (March 8) … Picked up season-opening win over Kutzotwn (Feb. 21) after limiting the Golden Bears to one run in five innings to go with six strikeouts … Logged six strikeouts in five innings as part of a combined shutout victory over Saint Anselm (March 15) … A PSAC Scholar-Athlete … Game-by-Game Statistics 
 
2024: Made 12 starts as The Rock’s ace in addition to starting 34 games as a position player primarily in left field … Named to the D2CCA All-America Team (Utility-Pitcher) and the D2Baseball All-America Team (Starting Pitcher) … A consensus all-region choice from the NCBWA, D2CCA and ABCA … Selected as the PSAC West Pitcher of the Year in addition to earning first team all-conference honors as a starting pitcher and second team recognition as an outfielder … A CSC Academic All-District award recipient … Earned PSAC West Pitcher of the Week accolades once … Went 7-3 with a 2.44 ERA and a .211 opponent batting average … Posted 70 strikeouts and just 18 walks over 73.2 innings pitched … Tossed six complete games and four shutouts (3 solo / 1 combined) … At the plate, hit .341 with 28 runs scored, one home run, 19 RBI and five stolen bases while slugging .488 with a .382 on-base percentage … Batted .351 (13-37) with runners in scoring position … Had 10 multi-hit games … Recorded a season-long hitting streak of 12 games and reached base streak of 13 contests … Ranked second in the nation in complete games, ninth in WHIP (1.00), 11th in ERA and 27th in hits allowed per nine innings (6.84) … Was also second on The Rock in OPS (.870), slugging percentage and runs as well as third in total hits (42) and batting average … Earned complete-game victories against West Virginia State, Saint Anselm, Mercyhurst and IUP … Struck out a season-high eight batters at California … Pitched into at least the sixth inning in 10 of 12 starts … Went 3-for-4 with four runs, four RBI and a walk in The Rock’s 17-1 victory versus Gannon … A PSAC Scholar-Athlete ... Game-by-Game Statistics

Before The Rock: Began collegiate career at Division I USC-Upstate … Pitched in four games out of the Spartans’ bullpen … Struck out four batters over 4.1 innings pitched with a .188 opponent batting average.
 
High School: A three-sport athlete at Connellsville, lettering in baseball (4x), football (4x) and basketball (3x) … Earned all-conference and all-county accolades twice in baseball … Also a decorated football standout, who received all-county honors three times as well as being a two-time all-conference kicker … A member of both the National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society … Graduated in the top-10 of his senior class … Played in club competition for Team All-American and the East Coast Sandhogs.
 
Top Performances
Date Opponent Stats
3/2/24 Dominican 6 IP, 0 Runs, 7 K, Win
3/8/24 WV State CG, 7 K, Win
3/8/24 WV State 3-3, 1 Run
3/16/24 Saint Anselm CG Shutout, 6 K
3/23/24 Pitt-Johnstown 4-4, 2 Runs, 1 RBI
3/29/24 Mercyhurst 2-Hit CG Shutout, 6 K
4/6/24 IUP 2-Hit CG Shutout, 5 K
4/20/24 Gannon 3-4, 4 Runs, 4 RBI
5/2/24 Clarion 3-Hit, CG, 7 K
3/8/25 WV State 3-4, 4 Runs, 2 HR, 4 RBI
4/25/25 California 3-4, 2 Runs, 1 HR, 3 RBI

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 18

    2024Redshirt Sophomore

    Pitcher/Outfielder
    6'0" 210 lbs
    18
  • 18

    2025Senior

    Pitcher/Outfielder
    6'0" 210 lbs
    18