Pete Guy - Baseball Coach - UNC Asheville Athletics

Pete Guy

Title:
Student Assistant Coach
Email:
baseball@unca.edu
Phone:
250-2309

Following a successful stint as a player at UNC Asheville, Pete Guy joined the Bulldog baseball staff in 2017.

During the 2018 season, UNC Asheville earned multiple honors throughout year, including a Big South Player of the Week (Danny Wilson, April 30), two Starting Pitcher of the Weeks (Jordan Carr, Feb. 19 and Greg Gasparro, April 30), an All-Academic Team member (Jesse Juday) and a Freshman of the Week (Cody Wilson, April 9).

The 2017 Bulldogs were probably a year ahead of where head coach Scott Friedholm and others expected them to be as evidence by UNC Asheville being picked to finish 10^th in the conference prior to the season by the league’s coaches. With a young roster that featured 16 underclassmen, including nine freshmen, the Bulldogs mounted a successful campaign that saw them claim 25 victories, including six series wins, en route to finishing tied for fifth in the regular-season league standings with an 11-13 record. UNC Asheville capped the year by advancing to the Big South Conference Baseball Championship for the first time since 2012.

The 25 wins is tied for sixth-most in program history and marked the second time in the Scott Friedholm era that a team had collected at least 20 wins, becoming just the fourth Bulldog head coach to win 20 or more games in multiple seasons. More importantly, the Bulldogs were not swept during the season and were the only Big South Conference team to defeat every other program in the league during the campaign.

During the season, the Bulldogs took series wins over Iona, UMBC and Longwood at home and also claimed road series over Presbyterian and Campbell and won two-of-three in Spartanburg in the second weekend of the season. The Bulldogs also posted a winning record at home (12-11) for the first time since 2012, when UNC Asheville also finished 12-11.

The 2017 Bulldogs went 11-13 in Big South Conference action, finishing tied for fifth in the league standings to earn the No. 6 seed in the league tournament. The 11 wins in conference action were the most since the Bulldogs won 12 league games in 2012.

Earning a berth into the postseason was not enough for the Bulldogs as the team won a game in the postseason tournament for the first time since 2008 and then took it another step further by winning multiple games (2) while advancing to the semifinal round for the first time since the 2007 season.

Following the season, Joe Tietjen was named an honorable mention All-Big South player and earned his second Big South Conference All-Academic Team honor. Freshman Brandon Lankford earned Big South Championship All-Tournament honors for his efforts during the tourney. During the season, freshman Chris Troost was named the Big South’s first-ever Freshman of the Week and Lankford earned the honor the following week.

Statistically, the Bulldogs saw a 10-year low in errors in the field and posted a 10-year high in fielding percentage as a team. UNC Asheville’s pitching corps continued to make strides as they combined for a 6.05 team ERA, the lowest under Friedholm’s watch, and struck out 365 batters, the most in the last 10 campaigns. On offense, the Bulldogs posted the most stolen bases (56) since the 2010 team swiped 58 and had the most extra-base knocks (134) since the 2008 team recorded 178.

As a player over three seasons (2014-16), Guy appeared in 114 games, earning 104 starts. He boasted a .245 career batting average in 351 trips to the plate and registered 86 hits and 66 runs scored. For his career, he tallied 39 extra base knocks, including 22 doubles and 17 home runs. He also drove in 74 runs and finished his three-year career with 226 putouts in the field. During his sophomore and senior campaigns, Guy led the team in home runs, collecting 12 in his final year.

As a junior in 2016, Guy set the UNC Asheville single-season record for most walks drawn (53) and most times hit by a pitch (20). In his debut in 2014, Guy drove in seven runs, hit two home runs, including a grand slam, and collected three hits while also scoring three runs in a game on March 12, 2014, against East Tennessee State.

Prior to joining the Bulldogs’ program, Guy played 30 games at Louisburg College located in Louisburg, N.C.