BASEBALL @GCU_Baseball GAME NOTES @gcubaseball Josh Hauser, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications · Office: (602) 639-8328 · Cell: (503) 734-8587· E-mail: [email protected] MARCH 23-25 | BRAZELL FIELD AT GCU BALLPARK (3,500) | PHOENIX, ARIZ. 2018 SCHEDULE CHICAGO STATE GRAND CANYON (7-13 OVR / 6-7 H / 0-6 A / 0-0 WAC) Feb. 16 4/7 TCU (TV: YurView, ESPN3) L, 3-2 COUGARS LOPES Feb. 17 4/7 TCU L, 14-6 4/7 (4-13, 0-0 WAC) (7-13, 0-0 WAC) Feb. 18 TCU W, 9-8 (12) A Feb. 20 Washington State L, 5-4 Feb. 24 vs. Cal Poly^ W, 5-1 » Head Coach: Steve Joslyn (6th) T » Head Coach: Andy Stankiewicz (7th) Feb. 24 at San Diego^ L, 8-4 Feb. 25 at San Diego State^ L, 5-4 AVERAGE POWER SPEED AVERAGE POWER SPEED March 2 Cal State Northridge# W, 13-8 Matt Paciello Matt Paciello 3 tied Quin Cotton Quin Cotton Zach Malis March 3 Cal State Northridge# L, 4-1 .345 AVG .466 SLG% 2 stolen bases ea. .349 AVG .482 SLG% 5-for-5 SB March 3 Valparaiso# L, 12-6 March 4 Valparaiso# L, 11-7 GAME 1 | 6 P.M. GAME 2 | 2 P.M. GAME 3 | 12 P.M. March 8 Penn State W, 8-1 GCU.tv, WAC Digital Network GCU.tv, WAC Digital Network GCU.tv, WAC Digital Network March 9 Penn State W, 8-7 RHP [JR] Jake Wong (2-1, 2.02) LHP [SR] Jake Repavich (0-2, 7.50) LHP [R-SR] Ethan Evanko (0-0, 5.73) March 10 Penn State W, 8-7 (11) RHP [FR] Dylan Cumming (1-2, 5.40) RHP [JR] Edward Kang (1-1, 6.52) LHP [SR] Zach Thomas (1-3, 3.23) March 14 at UC Riverside L, 9-8 (14) March 16 at Cal State Fullerton L, 7-3 SERIES HISTORY AT A GLANCE March 17 at Cal State Fullerton L, 10-2 March 18 at Cal State Fullerton L, 2-0 vs. Chicago State » Grand Canyon opens WAC play where it has won nine March 20 Kansas W, 12-2 » 11 previous meetings consecutive series dating back to the 2016 season. March 21 Kansas L, 6-5 »March 23 Chicago State* 6 p.m. » Overall: 8-3; Home: 5-1; Away: 3-2 » GCU has won its WAC opener in three straight seasons » First: March 28-30, 2014 (at GCU), GCU wins series 3-0 »March 24 Chicago State* 2 p.m. and WAC home opener in four straight seasons. »March 25 Chicago State* 12 p.m. » Last: April 13-15, 2017 (at CSU), GCU wins series 2-1 » The Lopes have won four of their last five games at home. March 29 at Northern Colorado* 2 p.m. PROJECTED STARTERS » Defensively, the Lopes rank 25th in the nation with a .979 March 30 at Northern Colorado* 1 p.m. by number of starts, last five games fielding percentage. GCU has made just four errors in its March 31 at Northern Colorado* 11 a.m. last seven games. April 3 UNLV 6 p.m. 11 Pavlica April 4 UNLV 2 p.m. » Ethan Evanko is set to get his first start since March 12, 6 Burton 27 Cotton April 6 Utah Valley* 6 p.m. 2016 which will be 743 days between starts. The redshirt April 7 Utah Valley* 2 p.m. 18 Mumper 2 Bull senior made the first start of his career at Fresno State April 8 Utah Valley* 12 p.m. 13 Malis 9 Evans on Feb. 18, 2014, over four years ago. April 10 RV/NR Arizona (TV: YurView, ESPN3) 6 p.m. » The Lopes have stolen 14 bases in their last seven games. April 13 at UTRGV* 5 p.m. Speedsters Zach Malis and Preston Pavlica have April 14 at UTRGV* 4 p.m. Designated Hitter April 15 at UTRGV* 10 a.m. 3 Winchester combined to steal 10 of 11 bases for the season. April 18 UC Riverside 2 p.m. 14 Barnes » GCU was one of two teams to beat a D1Baseball Top-10 April 20 at Illinois 4 p.m. STAT COMPARISON team over opening weekend. Top-10 teams went 30-2. April 21 at Illinois 1 p.m. » GCU is picked to win the WAC by all major national pub- April 22 at Illinois 9 a.m. lications as well as the conference’s head coaches. Ian April 24 RV/NR New Mexico 6 p.m. OFFENSE RV/NR Evans (Sr., 1B), Austin Bull (Jr., 2B) and Jake Wong (Jr., April 25 New Mexico 2 p.m. SP) were all named to the Preseason All-WAC team. April 27 New Mexico State* 6 p.m. .215 AVERAGE .262 April 28 New Mexico State* 2 p.m. .274 SLUGGING .352 » The Lopes are coming off of a 2017 WAC Championship in April 29 New Mexico State* 12 p.m. their final season of transition from Division II. GCU went .307 ON-BASE .343 May 4 at CSU Bakersfield* 6 p.m. 20-4 in WAC play, the top winning percentage in the WAC May 5 at CSU Bakersfield* 6 p.m. 3.6 RUNS | AVG. 5.8 since eventual national champ, Rice, went 25-5 in 2003. May 6 at CSU Bakersfield* 12 p.m. RV/NR 6.7 HITS | AVG. 9.3 » GCU was one of four schools in 2017 to win every confer- May 8 at Arizona 6 p.m. 4 HOME RUNS 7 ence series (Oregon St., North Carolina, Long Beach St.). May 11 Sacramento State* 6 p.m. May 12 Sacramento State* 2 p.m. 8.2 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 7.8 LAST TIME OUT May 13 Sacramento State* 12 p.m. 3.6 WALKS | AVG. 3.9 May 15 at Loyola Marymount 6 p.m. 10 STOLEN BASES 24 » GCU split a two-game mid-week series with Kansas. May 17 at Seattle U* 5 p.m. May 18 at Seattle U* 2 p.m. PITCHING » The Lopes cruised by Kansas with 12 runs on 13 hits, its biggest margin of victory of the season at 12-2 on Tuesday. May 19 at Seattle U* 12 p.m. May 23-27 WAC Tournament (Mesa, Ariz.) 6.65 ERA 5.86 » GCU fell 6-5 on Wednesday, its fifth one-run loss. 6.6 STRIKEOUTS | AVG. 8.7 Home games in bold All times listed in Arizona Time (MST) .264 OPP. AVERAGE .300 WHAT’S NEXT * denotes WAC game FIELDING » WAC play takes to the road for the first time as GCU ^ denotes Tony Gwynn Classic (San Diego, Calif.) travels for a Thu.-Fri.-Sat. series at Northern Colorado. # denotes GCU Classic .948 PERCENTAGE .979 rankings in format USA Today Coaches / D1Baseball.com ‹ 1 › BASEBALL // MEDIA INFORMATION vs. SUMMED UP LAST THREE GAMES Current placing -- Tuesday, March 20 Wednesday, March 21 Current streak L-1 Sunday, March 18 Longest winning streak 4 games (3/14-18) GCU pitches well, leaves GCU breaks out the bats, Lopes can’t capitalize on Longest losing streak 3 games (3/4-5) tying run on base in 9th cruises past Kansas Jayhawks’ six errors Overall series (3+ games, single opponent) 1-2 R H E R H E R H E Home series 1-1 GCU 0 7 0 KANSAS 2 5 5 KANSAS 6 15 6 Away series 0-1 CSF 2 7 2 GCU 12 13 0 GCU 5 7 1 Sweeps 1-1 Last 5 1-4 Last 10 4-6 BROADCAST INFO Series openers 1-2 Series finales 2-1 Game 1: GCU.tv, WAC Digital Network | Michael Potter (play-by-play) Game 2: GCU.tv, WAC Digital Network | Michael Potter (play-by-play) In weekend games 6-10 Game 3: GCU.tv, WAC Digital Network | Michael Potter (play-by-play) In mid-week games 1-3 Day games (before 6 p.m.) 3-6 Night games (6 p.m. or later) 4-7 vs. top-25 teams 1-2 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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