BACK BASEBALL TO BACK CHAMPS GAME NOTES 2015 • 2017 • 2018 Josh Hauser, Director of Creative Media · Office: (602) 639-8328 · Cell: (503) 734-8587· E-mail: [email protected] 2019 SCHEDULE MAY 14 | RIVERSIDE SPORTS COMPLEX | RIVERSIDE, CALIF. (31-20 OVR / 18-12 H / 13-7 A / 0-1 N / 17-7 WAC) Feb. 15 Wichita State ^ W, 9-1 GRAND CANYON UC RIVERSIDE Feb. 16 Ball State ^ W, 12-2 Feb. 16 vs. Wichita State ^ (Tempe, Ariz.) L, 8-7 LOPES HIGHLANDERS Feb. 18 (#12/9) Stanford ^ L, 14-4 (31-20, 17-7 WAC) (17-31, 6-12 BWC) Feb. 22 at (#18/17) TCU W, 4-1 A Feb. 23 at (#18/17) TCU L, 17-9 Feb. 24 at (#18/17) TCU L, 6-5 » Head Coach: Andy Stankiewicz (8th at GCU, 247-184-1, .573) T » Head Coach: Troy Percival (5th at UCR, 79-167, .321) Feb. 26 UC Riverside L, 5-3 March 1 at USC W, 4-2 AVERAGE POWER SPEED AVERAGE POWER SPEED March 3 at USC W, 7-3 Quin Cotton Cuba Bess Preston Pavlica Dean Miller Connor Cannon Travis Bohall March 3 at USC L, 7-1 .346 AVG (74 x 214) .662 SLUG% 17-for-20 SB .360 AVG (62 x 172) .677 SLUG% 13-for-17 SB March 6 Nevada W, 3-2 March 8 Illinois L, 6-3 GAME 1 | 6 P.M. MST March 9 Illinois L, 5-2 Big West TV March 10 Illinois L, 9-2 GCU: TBA March 13 Xavier L, 7-3 UCR: TBA March 14 Xavier W, 6-0 March 15 Xavier W, 7-2 SERIES HISTORY AT A GLANCE March 16 Xavier W, 25-18 March 18 Utah W, 11-2 » vs. UC Riverside (42 previous meetings) » Grand Canyon has won 14 of its last 16 games overall and March 22 California Baptist* W, 3-0 GCU record in series: 20-22 its last 12 games in WAC play. March 23 California Baptist* L, 8-0 At GCU: 17-16 | At UC Riverside: 3-6 » The Lopes are currently tied for second in the WAC stand- March 24 California Baptist* L, 4-1 Last: UCR wins 5-3 in Phoenix on Feb. 26, 2019 ings with California Baptist but are only one game back of March 25 Team Italy (exhib. at Hohokam) 1 p.m. March 27 at Nevada W, 8-2 first. The top two teams get a bye at the tournament. March 29 at Utah Valley* W, 9-4 PROJECTED STARTERS » GCU honored eight seniors last weekend: Austin Bull, March 30 at Utah Valley* W, 11-4 by number of starts, last three games Tyler Wyatt, Pikai Winchester, Preston Pavlica, Marc March 31 at Utah Valley* W, 14-4 Mumper, Dalton Chapman, Nick Ohanian and Josh April 2 UNLV W, 11-5 11 Pavlica Andrews. The eight have combined for 928 games played April 5 at New Mexico State* W, 7-4 24 Quiggle 27 Cotton with Wyatt (197) and Bull (193) leading the way. April 6 at New Mexico State* L, 9-4 April 7 at New Mexico State* L, 9-2 7 Weaver 2 Bull » GCU won its 2,000th game at New Mexico on May 1. April 9 Arizona L, 14-13 5 Wyatt 34 Bess » GCU leads the conference with a 3.27 ERA in WAC play. April 12 UT Rio Grande Valley* L, 3-2 » The Lopes rank third nationally with 126 doubles. Junior April 13 UT Rio Grande Valley* L, 8-5 (13) Kona Quiggle leads with 19 doubles, tied for 19th. Six April 14 UT Rio Grande Valley* L, 9-7 (10) Designated Hitter 6 Burton more Lopes join Quiggle in the double digits. April 18 Seattle U* W, 14-4 (8) April 19 Seattle U* W, 6-0 23 Avitia » Senior outfielderPreston Pavlica has reached base in 24 April 20 Seattle U* W, 5-4 (10) consecutive games, most since Pavlica reached safely in STAT COMPARISON April 23 at Arizona W, 11-9 26 straight games (24 to end 2018, 2 to start 2019). April 26 at Chicago State* W, 10-1 » GCU has won five games via shutout this year, most in the OFFENSE April 28 at Chicago State* W, 7-0 program’s D1 history and second-most in last 17 years. April 28 at Chicago State* W, 3-0 GCU is tied for 16th in shutouts this season. April 30 at New Mexico L, 9-8 .282 AVERAGE .270 » GCU is 28-4 when holding its opponent to five or less runs. May 1 at New Mexico W, 9-7 .462 SLUGGING .407 May 3 CSU Bakersfield* W, 6-4 » With 52 home runs, GCU has hit its most homers since .385 ON-BASE .347 May 4 CSU Bakersfield* W, 12-2 (7) 1999 when it hit 64. Cuba Bess leads the team with 11, May 5 CSU Bakersfield* W, 6-3 RUNS | AVG. 6.9 5.7 most since Chad De La Guerra’s 11 in 2015. May 7 at Cal State Fullerton L, 11-3 9.7 HITS | AVG. 9.6 » The Lopes rank No. 29 in slugging percentage (.462), May 10 Northern Colorado* W, 11-1 (8) 52 HOME RUNS 45 holding their highest mark since the 2007 season (.463). May 11 Northern Colorado* W, 5-4 (10) May 12 Northern Colorado* W, 13-2 (7) 7.3 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 8.8 » Quiggle has 57 RBIs, most since Cody Johns (59) in 2006. »May 14 at UC Riverside 6 p.m. 5.1 WALKS | AVG. 3.3 » Junior Kade Mechals is one of five pitchers in the country May 16 at Sacramento State* 7 p.m. 57 STOLEN BASES 30 with 10 wins this season. May 17 at Sacramento State* 6 p.m. » The Lopes have won 22 of their last 25 conference series May 18 at Sacramento State* 12 p.m. PITCHING and claimed the last two WAC regular season titles. May 22-26 WAC Tournament (Mesa, Ariz.) 4.45 ERA 6.76 LAST TIME OUT Home games in bold 6.8 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 6.9 All times listed in Phoenix Time (MST) » GCU won two games via the 10-run mercy-rule in a series .265 OPP. AVERAGE .321 * WAC game sweep of Northern Colorado at home. ^ Angels College Classic (GCU Ballpark and Tempe Diablo Stadium) FIELDING » The Lopes collected 20 extra-base hits in the series .977 PERCENTAGE .953 including five home runs. Tyler Wyatt homered twice. rankings are in format: D1Baseball.com / USA Today Coaches ‹ 1 › #LOPESUP BASEBALL // MEDIA INFORMATION at SUMMED UP LAST THREE GAMES WAC placing t-2nd Friday, May 10 Saturday, May 11 Sunday, May 12 Current streak W-3 Longest winning streak W-7 (4/18-4/28) GCU breaks out the bats Burton’s second walk-off Lopes send off seniors Longest losing streak L-6 (4/6-14) in series-opening win clinches series in style with run-rule win Overall series (3+ games, single opponent) 7-5 8 inn. R H E 10 inn. R H E 7 inn. R H E Home series 4-3 No. Colo. 1 7 1 No. Colo. 4 9 2 No. Colo. 2 8 1 Away series 3-2 GCU 11 14 1 GCU 5 9 1 GCU 13 14 1 Sweeps 5-2 Last 5 4-1 Last 10 9-1 BROADCAST INFO Series openers 9-3 Series finales 6-6 Game 1: BigWest.tv In weekend games 24-14 In mid-week games 7-5 Day games (before 6 p.m.) 15-11 Night games (6 p.m. or later) 16-8 vs. top-25 teams 1-3 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 Baseball Contact Josh Hauser promote the individual and team accomplishments of season for every sport on GCULopes.com. Specific Email [email protected] student-athletes, coaches and staff. Our staff will fulfill information not readily available on the website may Office Phone (602) 639-8328 all reasonable requests. be available through the communications office. 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