Getting your player ready...
Columbine baseball coach Chuck Gillman figured that if his son, C.J., wanted to see the world, he should have joined the U.S. Navy. But the younger Gillman’s odyssey — Littleton to Coastal Carolina to New Mexico to Garden City (Kan.) Community College — has landed him as a Dayton Flyer, and a productive one.
As of Wednesday, the former Denver Post All-Colorado football and baseball player, a switch-hitting junior, ranked sixth in the Atlantic 10 Conference in overall batting average (.371).
In 15 conference games, the switch-hitting junior ranked No. 1 in batting (.443). Now playing first base, he also had a Flyers-leading 17 stolen bases.
Neil H. Devlin, The Denver Post
