BASEBALL BACK TO CHAMPS BACK GAME NOTES 2015 • 2017 • 2018 Josh Hauser, Director of Creative Media · Office: (602) 639-8328 · Cell: (503) 734-8587· E-mail: [email protected] 2018 SCHEDULE MAY 23-27 | HOHOKAM STADIUM | MESA, ARIZ. (33-22 OVR / 20-11 H / 12-11 A / 19-5 WAC) Feb. 16 4/7 TCU (TV: YurView, ESPN3) L, 3-2 #4 SEATTLE U #1 GRAND CANYON Feb. 17 4/7 TCU L, 14-6 REDHAWKS LOPES Feb. 18 4/7 TCU W, 9-8 (12) Feb. 20 Washington State L, 5-4 (33-21, 13-11 WAC) (33-22, 19-5 WAC) Feb. 24 vs. Cal Poly^ W, 5-1 V Feb. 24 at San Diego^ L, 8-4 Feb. 25 at San Diego State^ L, 5-4 » Head Coach: Donny Harrel (9th, 224-262-2, .461) S » Head Coach: Andy Stankiewicz (7th, 216-162-1, .571) March 2 Cal State Northridge# W, 13-8 AVERAGE POWER SPEED AVERAGE POWER SPEED March 3 Cal State Northridge# L, 4-1 Justin Mazzone Dalton Hurd Dalton Hurd Quin Cotton Quin Cotton Preston Pavlica March 3 Valparaiso# L, 12-6 .343 AVG .512 SLUG% 8-for-10 SB .393 AVG .581 SLUG% 15-for-18 SB March 4 Valparaiso# L, 11-7 March 8 Penn State W, 8-1 March 9 Penn State W, 8-7 GAME 1 | 7 P.M. March 10 Penn State W, 8-7 (11) WAC Digital Network March 14 at UC Riverside L, 9-8 (14) LHP [JR] Jake Prizina (7-1, 4.00) March 16 at Cal State Fullerton L, 7-3 RHP [JR] Jake Wong (9-2, 3.09) March 17 at Cal State Fullerton L, 10-2 March 18 at Cal State Fullerton L, 2-0 SERIES HISTORY AT A GLANCE March 20 Kansas W, 12-2 March 21 Kansas L, 6-5 vs. Seattle U (10-5) » GCU won the WAC Regular Season title for the third time March 23 Chicago State* W, 3-2 » 15 previous meetings, dating back to 2014 in four seasons after going 19-5, the first WAC team to win March 24 Chicago State* W, 13-5 » Home: 4-2; Away: 6-3 back-to-back titles since Fresno State in 2010-11. March 25 Chicago State* W, 11-2 » Last: GCU sweeps three-game series at Seattle U » For the second straight year, GCU is home to the WAC March 29 at Northern Colorado* W, 18-1 (7) 5/17-19, 2018 - W 12-3, W 5-3, W 7-5 Player and Coach of Year. Sophomore Quin Cotton took March 30 at Northern Colorado* W, 9-6 PROJECTED STARTERS home the award and Coach Andy Stankiewicz repeated. March 31 at Northern Colorado* L, 7-4 April 3 UNLV W, 5-3 by number of starts, last five games » GCU has won 17 consecutive conference series dating April 4 UNLV W, 10-6 back to 2016, the longest active streak in the nation. GCU April 6 Utah Valley* W, 5-2 11 Pavlica is 39-9 in conference games over the last two years. April 7 Utah Valley* W, 11-2 5 Wyatt 27 Cotton » The Lopes won 33 games in the regular season -- the most April 8 Utah Valley* W, 5-2 5 Mumper 2 Bull in their 13 Division I baseball seasons (32 in 2015). April 10 Arizona (TV: YurView, ESPN3) L, 16-1 13 Malis 9 Evans » For the first time since April 2015, GCU has won six April 13 at UTRGV* W, 8-3 April 14 at UTRGV* L, 9-1 consecutive games. April 15 at UTRGV* W, 5-0 Designated Hitter » Tyler Wyatt recorded GCU’s third 5-for-5 game of the April 18 UC Riverside W, 6-1 3 Winchester season, joining Cotton’s two previously. The first team April 20 at 25Illinois W, 5-1 14 Barnes All-WAC outfielder bested his career high of three hits. April 21 at 25Illinois L, 3-2 April 22 at 25Illinois W, 5-3 STAT COMPARISON » Quin Cotton has multiple hits in his last five games, the first for a GCU batter since Paul Panaccione had eight April 24 New Mexico W, 7-3 straight multi-hit games in April 2015. He ranks third April 25 New Mexico L, 10-4 April 27 New Mexico State* W, 13-1 (8) OFFENSE nationally with 92 base hits and has a top-20 average. April 28 New Mexico State* L, 13-3 (7) .284 AVERAGE .298 » The Lopes have struck out 479 batters in 2018, the highest April 29 New Mexico State* W, 8-4 mark among GCU’s 13 D-I seasons and the highest total May 4 at CSU Bakersfield* W, 13-4 .408 SLUGGING .407 since striking out 483 in 1990 (70 games). GCU’s strike- May 5 at CSU Bakersfield* L, 9-7 .385 ON-BASE .370 out-per-nine ratio is at its highest (8.8) since 1966 when May 6 at CSU Bakersfield* W, 8-5 (10) 6.1 RUNS | AVG. 6.7 GCU fanned 351 batters in 303.0 innings (10.4). May 8 at Arizona L, 20-6 May 11 Sacramento State* L, 9-5 9.3 HITS | AVG. 10.3 » GCU finished conference play with the WAC’s top batting May 12 Sacramento State* W, 8-5 32 HOME RUNS 24 average (.328) and third-ranked ERA (4.35). May 13 Sacramento State* W, 10-2 8.0 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 6.2 » The program is competing in its first postseason game May 15 at Loyola Marymount W, 11-5 4.2 WALKS | AVG. 3.7 since May 29, 2013 -- some 1,821 days ago -- when it was in May 17 at Seattle U* W, 12-3 the Division II World Series. May 18 at Seattle U* W, 5-3 34 STOLEN BASES 75 » GCU was one of four schools in 2017 to win every confer- May 19 at Seattle U* W, 7-5 PITCHING ence series (Oregon St., North Carolina, Long Beach St.). WAC Tournament (Mesa, Ariz.) »May 24 vs. (4) Seattle U 7 p.m. 4.58 ERA 5.07 LAST TIME OUT Home games in bold 8.3 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 8.7 » GCU went 4-0 to make the biggest seven-day RPI jump in legend: * WAC game | ^ Tony Gwynn Classic | # GCU Classic .266 OPP. AVERAGE .277 the country, moving up 40 spots to 115. FIELDING » The Lopes swept Seattle U to close out the regular season, .968 PERCENTAGE .976 clinching their second straight WAC title. ‹ 1 › BASEBALL // MEDIA INFORMATION SUMMED UP LAST THREE GAMES Final WAC placing 1st Friday, May 18 Saturday, May 19 Current streak W-6 Thursday, May 17 Longest winning streak 6 games, 5/12-pres Four-run first inning Lopes clinch second straight Lopes win record 33rd game, Longest losing streak 4 games (3/14-18) fuels GCU WAC regular season title outright WAC title Overall series (3+ games, single opponent) 10-2 R H E R H E R H E Home series 5-1 GCU 12 16 0 GCU 5 10 1 GCU 7 15 1 Away series 5-1 SEATTLE 3 8 3 SEATTLE 3 6 1 SEATTLE 5 11 0 Sweeps 4-1 Last 5 5-0 Last 10 7-3 BROADCAST INFO Series openers 9-3 Series finales 10-2 Game 1: WAC Digital Network | Adam Young (play-by-play), Russ Ortiz (analysis), Rachel Vigil (reporter) In weekend games 27-16 In mid-week games 6-6 Day games (before 6 p.m.) 19-10 Night games (6 p.m. or later) 14-12 vs. top-25 teams 3-3 QUICK FACTS TO THE MEDIA ONLINE The Grand Canyon Athletics Department is served by Updated bios, notes, rosters, schedules, statistics, ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS a communications office staff that works diligently to quotes, etc., will be available throughout the season Baseball Contact Josh Hauser promote the individual and team accomplishments of for every sport on GCULopes.com. 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