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Cooper Hjerpe
Oregon State Beavers – No. 26
Pitcher
Born: (2001-03-16) March 16, 2001 (age 23)
Davis, California
Bats: Left
Throws: Left

Cooper Hjerpe (born March 16, 2001) is an American college baseball pitcher for the Oregon State Beavers.

Career

Hjerpe attended Woodland High School in Woodland, California, a city northwest of Sacramento.[1] He committed to play college baseball at Oregon State University as a sophomore.[2] As a junior in 2018, he went 8-0 with a 0.78 ERA and 128 strikeouts over 53+2⁄3 innings alongside hitting eight home runs.[3] In 2019, as a senior, he struck out 105 batters in 44 innings and threw four no-hitters.[4] He went unselected in the 2019 Major League Baseball draft and enrolled at Oregon State to play college baseball.

In 2020, Hjerpe's freshman year at Oregon State, he made six relief appearances and went 1-1 with a 5.25 ERA before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a redshirt freshman in 2021, he was named the Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week as well as the National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper on May 24 after he gave up one run and two hits while striking out 11 in a 3-1 win versus the seventh-ranked Arizona Wildcats.[5] For the season, he pitched in 17 games (making 16 starts) and went 3-6 with a 4.21 ERA and 98 strikeouts over 77 innings.[6] Hjerpe entered the 2022 season as Oregon State's number one starter and garnered numerous preseason All-American honors.[7] On March 22, he was named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week for the second time in his career after pitching seven innings and giving up one hit while striking out 12 in a 21-0 win versus the Arizona State Sun Devils.[8] On April 1, in a 1-0 loss versus the Stanford Cardinal, Hjerpe threw eight scoreless innings and struck out 17 batters, tied for the most in school history, and was once again named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week and National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.[9][10] At the end of the regular season, he was named to the Pac-12 First Team as well as being named an All American.[11] Hjerpe was scheduled to start the first game of Oregon State's Super Regional versus Auburn University, but was scratched due to an undisclosed illness.[12] He passed former Oregon State pitcher Luke Heimlech for the school record for most strikeouts in a season during the Super Regional against Auburn.

Personal life

Hjerpe's father, Carl, played college baseball for the Cal Poly Mustangs in the 1980s.[13]

References

  1. ^ Davidson, Joe (June 5, 2019). "Home run off the church roof, no-hitters make even a humble Cooper Hjerpe beam". The Sacramento Bee.
  2. ^ Nicholson, Ada (August 22, 2018). "LHP Cooper Hjerpe talks summer travels & Oregon State commitment". 247Sports.com.
  3. ^ Askeland, Kevin (July 20, 2018). "2018 MaxPreps California Small Schools All-State Baseball Teams". MaxPreps.
  4. ^ Ray, Mike; Pecoraro, Nick (July 5, 2019). "Local players earn MaxPreps All-State Baseball honors". Gold Country Media.
  5. ^ Freeman, Joe (May 24, 2021). "Oregon State's Cooper Hjerpe earns Pac-12 and national player of the week honors". The Oregonian.
  6. ^ Freeman, Joe (February 18, 2022). "Oregon State baseball season opener: Mystery lineups, freshman hype, COVID protocols". The Oregonian.
  7. ^ Freeman, Joe (February 1, 2022). "Oregon State's Cooper Hjerpe earns more preseason All-American accolades". The Oregonian.
  8. ^ Sowa, Jesse (March 22, 2022). "OSU baseball notebook: Melton tops Pac-12 offensive lists". Corvallis Gazette-Times.
  9. ^ Freeman, Joe (April 1, 2022). "Stanford spoils Cooper Hjerpe's historic night, deals Oregon State 1-0 extra-inning loss". The Oregonian.
  10. ^ Freeman, Joe (April 4, 2022). "Oregon State's Cooper Hjerpe earns national and Pac-12 weekly honors". The Oregonian.
  11. ^ Freeman, Joe (June 2, 2022). "Oregon State's Cooper Hjerpe, Jacob Melton named All-Americans". The Oregonian.
  12. ^ https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2022/06/11/cooper-hjerpe-auburn-baseball-oregon-state-pitcher-super-regional-out-illness/7599062001/
  13. ^ Daschel, Nick (May 17, 2019). "Oregon State baseball signs 11 players, including Tualatin senior Kyle Dernedde". The Oregonian.
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