Baseball to Back Champs Game Notes 2015 • 2017 • 2018
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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 APRIL 2 | BRAZELL FIELD AT GCU BALLPARK | PHOENIX, ARIZ. (15-12 OVR / 8-8 H / 7-3 A / 0-1 N / 4-2 WAC) Feb. 15 Wichita State ^ W, 9-1 UNLV GRAND CANYON Feb. 16 Ball State ^ W, 12-2 Feb. 16 vs. Wichita State ^ (Tempe, Ariz.) L, 8-7 REBELS LOPES Feb. 18 (#12/9) Stanford ^ L, 14-4 (17-13, 5-7 MWC) (15-12, 4-2 WAC) 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: Stan Stolte (4th, 96-105, .478) T » Head Coach: Andy Stankiewicz (8th, 231-176-1, .567) 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 Jack-Thomas Wold Max Smith James Gamble Kona Quiggle Kona Quiggle Preston Pavlica March 3 at USC L, 7-1 .344 AVG (44-128) .563 SLUG% 5-for-6 SB .346 AVG (37-107) .673 SLUG% 9-for-10 SB March 6 Nevada W, 3-2 March 8 Illinois L, 6-3 GAME 1 | 2 P.M. March 9 Illinois L, 5-2 GCU.tv March 10 Illinois L, 9-2 UNLV: RHP [FR] Troy Balko (1-1, 8.33) March 13 Xavier L, 7-3 GCU: RHP [FR] Brodie Cooper-Vassalkis (0-1, 11.57) 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. UNLV (36 previous meetings) » Grand Canyon and UNLV reunite for the fifth straight year. March 22 California Baptist* W, 3-0 GCU record in series: 15-20-1 » The Lopes have won nine of their last 11 games overall and March 23 California Baptist* L, 8-0 At GCU: 5-4 | At UNLV: 10-15-1 five of the last six against Mountain West teams. March 24 California Baptist* L, 4-1 Last: GCU sweeps two-game series in Phoenix in 2018 March 25 Team Italy (exhib. at Hohokam) 1 p.m. » GCU is 14-3 when holding its opponent to five or less runs. March 27 at Nevada W, 8-2 » The Lopes committed just one error in their three-game March 29 at Utah Valley* W, 9-4 PROJECTED STARTERS series at Utah Valley and have gone 11 straight games March 30 at Utah Valley* W, 11-4 by number of starts, last three games without committing multiple errors in a game. GCU’s .977 March 31 at Utah Valley* W, 14-4 fielding percentage ranks 35th in the country. »April 2 UNLV 2 p.m. 11 Pavlica » Not yet halfway through the season, GCU has matched April 5 at New Mexico State* 5 p.m. April 6 at New Mexico State* 1 p.m. 24 Quiggle 27 Cotton last year’s home run total of 25. The Lopes are launching April 7 at New Mexico State* 11 a.m. 18 Mumper 2 Bull home runs at their fastest pace (0.93 per game) since April 9 (RV) Arizona 6 p.m. 5 Wyatt 34 Bess 1999 when they finished with 64. April 12 UT Rio Grande Valley* 6:30 p.m. » Kona Quiggle, Quin Cotton and Austin Bull each have April 13 UT Rio Grande Valley* 6 p.m. five-game hitting streaks and have combined to go 32 for April 14 UT Rio Grande Valley* 12 p.m. Designated Hitter 9 Winchester 70 (.457) over the streak. April 16 at UNLV 2:05 p.m. April 18 Seattle U* 6:30 p.m. 23 Avitia » Quiggle was named WAC Hitter of the Week for the April 19 Seattle U* 6:30 p.m. second time this season after a 10-for-19 (.526) week. STAT COMPARISON April 20 Seattle U* 12 p.m. » Quiggle’s 13 doubles rank 11th nationally, helping lead GCU April 23 at (RV) Arizona 6 p.m. to the nation’s No. 9 mark with 63 doubles. OFFENSE April 26 at Chicago State* 1 p.m. » Junior pitcher Cole Hoskins is used more than almost April 27 at Chicago State* 12 p.m. anyone, ranking t-23rd nationally with 15 appearances. April 28 at Chicago State* 10 a.m. .296 AVERAGE .274 April 30 at New Mexico 6 p.m. » Junior outfielderQuin Cotton was named a Preseason .410 SLUGGING .441 May 1 at New Mexico 1 p.m. All-American by Perfect Game after hitting .390 (14th- .375 ON-BASE .372 May 3 CSU Bakersfield* 6:30 p.m. best), the first such recognition in GCU’s D-1 history. May 4 CSU Bakersfield* 6 p.m. 6.1 RUNS | AVG. 6.4 » GCU is picked to win the WAC and Cotton is the Player of May 5 CSU Bakersfield* 12 p.m. 10.6 HITS | AVG. 9.4 the Year in the WAC preseason poll. Senior infielderPikai May 10 Northern Colorado* 6:30 p.m. 17 HOME RUNS 25 Winchester earned first-team preseason recognition. May 11 Northern Colorado* 6 p.m. May 12 Northern Colorado* 12 p.m. 7.3 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 7.7 » The Lopes have won 18 of their last 19 conference series and claimed the last two WAC regular season titles. May 14 at UC Riverside 6 p.m. 4.1 WALKS | AVG. 4.8 May 16 at Sacramento State* 7 p.m. 17 STOLEN BASES 27 LAST TIME OUT May 17 at Sacramento State* 6 p.m. May 18 at Sacramento State* 12 p.m. PITCHING » GCU swept a three-game series at Utah Valley, posting no May 22-26 WAC Tournament (Mesa, Ariz.) 4.67 ERA 4.43 less than 13 hits in any game and hitting .353. Home games in bold 7.4 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 7.0 WHAT’S NEXT All times listed in Phoenix Time (MST) .275 OPP. AVERAGE .274 » The Lopes resume conference play at New Mexico State, * WAC game FIELDING one of three other teams along with GCU that is in a four- ^ Angels College Classic (GCU Ballpark and Tempe Diablo Stadium) way tie for first place early on in the WAC standings. .973 PERCENTAGE .977 rankings are in format: D1Baseball.com / USA Today Coaches ‹ 1 › #LOPESUP BASEBALL // MEDIA INFORMATION vs. SUMMED UP LAST THREE GAMES WAC placing t-1st Saturday, March 30 Sunday, March 31 Current streak W-4 Friday, March 29 Longest winning streak W-4 (2x, last: 3/27-pres) 15-hit outburst leads Lopes to Lopes clinch series Lopes use 10-run 9th to break Longest losing streak L-4 (3/8-13) win in opener with 13 more hits late-game tie Overall series (3+ games, single opponent) 3-3 R H E R H E R H E Home series 1-2 GCU 9 15 1 GCU 11 13 0 GCU 14 13 0 Away series 2-1 UTAH VALLEY 4 11 0 UTAH VALLEY 4 7 6 UTAH VALLEY 4 11 4 Sweeps 1-1 Last 5 4-1 Last 10 8-2 BROADCAST INFO Series openers 4-2 Series finales 2-4 Game 1: GCU.tv, WAC Digital Network In weekend games 11-9 In mid-week games 4-3 Day games (before 6 p.m.) 7-8 Night games (6 p.m. or later) 8-4 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. 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