Jamie Gay Season 2009

Sophomore Season [2010]
A deep and talented Husker infield equaled less playing time for Jamie Gay in 2010. After appearing in 33 games and starting 15 contests at third base as a freshman, Gay made only two starts and 22 appearances in her sophomore campaign. Gay’s playing time increased as the season progressed and she earned a plate appearance in each of the last five games, including all three NCAA Tournament games.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>

Gay finished the year with two hits in 18 at bats. Both his came as a pinch-hitter, as Gay ranked second on the squad with two pinch hits and 13 pinch-hit at bats. She also added one run scored and finished with a career-high two walks, double the total of her freshman season in less than half as many plate appearances.

Defensively, Gay made only three appearances in the field, including her lone position start at third base against Virginia Tech on Feb. 28. She was error-free in only two chances.

Freshman Season [2009]
Gay saw the most action of any of the Husker freshman position players in 2009, as she appeared in 33 games and earned 15 starts. Gay emerged over the latter half of the season, as she started 12 of the final 15 games, including 11 at third base and one as the designated player. Gay finished her freshman season with a .196 average, but four of her 10 hits went for extra-bases. She recorded three doubles and one home run to post a .314 slugging percentage. Gay also drove in five runs, while scoring 10 times. Defensively, Gay posted a .943 fielding percentage, but in the Big 12 season, Gay earned nine starts at third base and was perfect in 44 chances.

Gay was hit by a pitch in the first plate appearance of her career on the first day of the season, but she didn’t earn her first official at bat until a month later. She scored her first run as a pinch-runner against UNLV in the second weekend of the season. Gay picked up her first career hit - a double- in a pinch-hitting role against North Dakota. She then earned her first career start in the next game, going 0-for-4 but recorded three putouts and six assists without an error in the infield.

Gay saw limited action again until making mid-week starts against South Dakota and South Dakota State in mid-March. She went 0-for-3 but scored a run against the Coyotes before finishing 1-for-2 with a run scored and her first career RBI against the Jackrabbits.

Gay made a statement in her Big 12 debut, picking up her first career multi-hit game with a 2-for-3 effort that included a double and scoring the game-winning run against a ranked Texas squad. She then helped NU secure a sweep in the series with a 1-for-2 effort with a walk and a run scored in game two. Gay kept rolling in the next game at Iowa State, when she hit her first career home run - a three-run shot that marked her first career multi-RBI game. During Big 12 play, Gay picked up five of her 10 hits on the season, two of her three doubles, her only home run and walk, and three of her five RBIs.

In the postseason, Gay pinch hit and drove in the Huskers’ lone run in an NCAA Tournament loss at No. 18 Tennessee. The RBI highlighted Gay’s success in her rookie year against ranked teams, as she hit .313 (5-for-16) with a pair of doubles, four runs scored and an RBI against top-25 opponents. She was also perfect defensively in 25 chances against ranked foes.

Before Nebraska
Gay became the sixth Beatrice native to join the Husker program after starring for Beatrice High School. She was a first-team infielder on the Lincoln Journal Star’s Super-State team and on the Omaha World-Herald’s All-Nebraska team, one of four Husker sophomores named to both teams.

As a senior, Gay batted .495 with 16 doubles, two home runs and 30 RBIs. She set Beatrice records for average, hits and doubles and ranked second in Class B in hits and doubles, fifth in average and sixth in RBIs. Gay helped lead Beatrice to a runner-up finish at the state tournament, where the Lady Orange lost to four-time state champion Elkhorn, led by fellow Husker sophomores Ashley Hagemann and Nikki Haget. In the championship game, Gay gave Beatrice an early lead by hitting a first-inning home run off Hagemann.

In her junior season, Gay was a second-team Super-State selection while batting .444. She was also a standout on the tennis court, as she went 19-1 with her lone loss coming in the state finals of the Class B No. 1 doubles tournament. Gay was Beatrice’s No. 1 singles player as a freshman, sophomore and junior. She went 24-5 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the state tournament as a junior following a 30-7 mark with a fourth-place state finish as a sophomore. Gay also advanced to the second round of the Class B state tournament as a freshman.

Personal
Jamie Leigh Gay was born on June 19, 1990, in Beatrice, Neb. She is the daughter of Craig and Sheryl Gay. Jamie has two sisters, Megan (24) and Michelle (23) and one brother, David (18). Jamie is a psychology major.

Year

Avg.

GP-GS

AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR

RBI

BB

SO

OB%

SLG%

SB-ATT

FLD%

2009

.196

33-15

51

10

10

3

0

1

5

1

7

.236

.314

0-0

.943

2010

.111

22-2

18

1

2

0

0

0

0

2

5

.200

.111

0-0

1.000

Total

.174

55-17

69

11

12

3

0

1

5

3

12

.227

.261

0-0

.944