1.28.2010 | Baseball
IRVINE, Calif. --- Portland junior pitcher Zach Varce is one of 40 players who have been named to the initial watch list for the sixth annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, given to the top relief pitcher in NCAA Division I baseball. As a sophomore last season, the right-handed Varce led the West Coast Conference with a 2.69 ERA and was tied for the league high with nine saves.
1.25.2010 | Baseball
SAN BRUNO, Calif. --- Portland’s middle infield tandem of junior 2B Riley Henricks and sophomore SS Kris Kauppila was selected to the 2010 Preseason All-West Coast Conference Team and San Diego was picked as the favorite to win this year’s WCC regular season title in the preseason baseball poll, as voted on by the league’s head coaches. The Pilots were selected to finish eighth.
1.11.2010 | Baseball
PORTLAND, Ore. --- Former Major League pitcher and Washington native Darcy Fast will be the featured speaker at the University of Portland’s 2010 Diamond Dinner, which marks the unofficial beginning to the baseball season. Now in its ninth year, the event has grown and evolved into Pilot baseball’s premier fund-raiser and annual tradition.