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Ben Orloff finished his fifth year atop the Anteater baseball program as head coach and 10th season with the program for the 2022-23 school year. Orloffassumed the reins of UC Irvine Baseball in July of 2018 as the ninth head coach in program history. Orloff initially joined the coaching staff in 2014 as an assistant rising to associate head coach in the five years since. In his first year in 2019, he took the team to a second-place finish in the Big West going 37-17 overall with 21 home wins.
The Anteaters returned to the postseason stage in 2021 reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in his coaching career, ninth time in Division I, and 14th time in program history. The team was crowned Big West champions winning an all-time conference record 32 games. UCI finished with an overall record of 43-18 reaching the Stanford Regional taking the hosts to the Regional Final. His efforts scored his first Big West Coach of the Year accolade, the fourth for the program and third since joining the Big West.
Coach Orloff and the Anteaters had their season shortened like every collegiate program in 2020. After just 15 games, the 'Eaters were 8-7.
Spearheading the Anteater recruiting efforts, Orloff played at UCI from 2006-09 and became the program’s first Big West Player of the Year. An accomplished shortstop, Orloff won the 2009 Brooks Wallace Award and was also the first Anteater player to win an American Baseball Coaches Association Gold Glove award. A three-time All-American, Orloff also was named to two NCAA Tournament teams and helped UCI to four post-season berths.
Recognized for his defensive talents, Orloff also evolved into a potent offensive threat, ending his collegiate career with a lifetime .320 batting average. Orloff is UCI’s all-time hit leader with 281 and owns the top mark in runs scored with 178. He leads all players with 241 games played and 877 at-bats. With 62 stolen bases, he is second in the UCI career annals and also dots the single-season records in multiple categories. Orloff led the nation two consecutive years in sacrifice hits and holds the NCAA single-season mark of 34 set in 2007 and in a career with 86.
Orloff was drafted in the ninth round by the Houston Astros. He climbed to Double-A Corpus Christi, hitting .298 this season with 11 RBI on 39 hits with 20 runs scored before finishing out his professional career playing 355 games over five seasons. Orloff was also a participant in the World Baseball Classic in 2012 as a member of Team Israel. Israel was eliminated in the qualifying round with Orloff starting one of the three games
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Ben Orloff finished his fifth year atop the Anteater baseball program as head coach and 10th season with the program for the 2022-23 school year. Orloffassumed the reins of UC Irvine Baseball in July of 2018 as the ninth head coach in program history. Orloff initially joined the coaching staff in 2014 as an assistant rising to associate head coach in the five years since. In his first year in 2019, he took the team to a second-place finish in the Big West going 37-17 overall with 21 home wins.
The Anteaters returned to the postseason stage in 2021 reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in his coaching career, ninth time in Division I, and 14th time in program history. The team was crowned Big West champions winning an all-time conference record 32 games. UCI finished with an overall record of 43-18 reaching the Stanford Regional taking the hosts to the Regional Final. His efforts scored his first Big West Coach of the Year accolade, the fourth for the program and third since joining the Big West.
Coach Orloff and the Anteaters had their season shortened like every collegiate program in 2020. After just 15 games, the 'Eaters were 8-7.
Spearheading the Anteater recruiting efforts, Orloff played at UCI from 2006-09 and became the program’s first Big West Player of the Year. An accomplished shortstop, Orloff won the 2009 Brooks Wallace Award and was also the first Anteater player to win an American Baseball Coaches Association Gold Glove award. A three-time All-American, Orloff also was named to two NCAA Tournament teams and helped UCI to four post-season berths.
Recognized for his defensive talents, Orloff also evolved into a potent offensive threat, ending his collegiate career with a lifetime .320 batting average. Orloff is UCI’s all-time hit leader with 281 and owns the top mark in runs scored with 178. He leads all players with 241 games played and 877 at-bats. With 62 stolen bases, he is second in the UCI career annals and also dots the single-season records in multiple categories. Orloff led the nation two consecutive years in sacrifice hits and holds the NCAA single-season mark of 34 set in 2007 and in a career with 86.
Orloff was drafted in the ninth round by the Houston Astros. He climbed to Double-A Corpus Christi, hitting .298 this season with 11 RBI on 39 hits with 20 runs scored before finishing out his professional career playing 355 games over five seasons. Orloff was also a participant in the World Baseball Classic in 2012 as a member of Team Israel. Israel was eliminated in the qualifying round with Orloff starting one of the three games
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