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PORTLAND PILOTS (17-29, 3-18 WCC)
at SANTA CLARA BRONCOS (20-26, 7-14 WCC)
Dates: Friday-Sunday, May 13-15, 2016
Location: Santa Clara, Calif.
Ballpark: Stephen Schott Stadium
Live Video: TheW.tv
Live Stats: SantaClaraBroncos.com
Series: SCU 47-33
2015: SCU 5-1, SCU 7-2, SCU 8-6 (May 8-10 at Portland)
 
PROBABLE STARTERS (W-L, ERA)
Friday • May 13 • 6 PM
POR: LHP Jordan Horak (1-6, 5.58)
SCU: RHP Steven Wilson (4-4, 3.58)
 
Saturday • May 14 • 6 PM
POR: RHP Davis Tominaga (4-8, 4.19)
SCU: RHP Mitchell White (2-6, 3.79)
 
Sunday • May 15 • 1 PM
POR: RHP Kevin Baker (0-3, 5.95)
SCU: LHP Jason Seever (6-2, 4.62)
 
THIS WEEK IN PILOTS BASEBALL
• The Pilots travel to Northern California this week for their final West Coast Conference road trip of the season to face the Santa Clara Broncos at Stephen Schott Stadium.
• The three-game series opens Friday night at 6 p.m.; first pitch on Saturday night is also set for 6 p.m., while Sunday's finale will begin at 1 p.m.
 
LAST WEEK IN PILOTS BASEBALL
• On Tuesday night in Keizer, Ore., the Pilots snapped a 25-game, 10-year skid to the Oregon State Beavers with a 7-5 win at Volcanoes Stadium.
• The Pilots scored six runs in the fourth inning, which was fueled by a bases-clearing, three-run double by Grant Taylor; Taylor also hit a solo home run in the eighth.
• Jackson Lockwood fanned eight in 7.0 innings of relief to earn the win over the No. 24 team in the country.
• Previously the Pilots took one of three against the USF Dons at home last weekend.
• After the Dons won the opener on Friday night, Portland recovered to win 5-2 on Saturday, behind a stellar performance on the mound by starter Davis Tominaga.
• The junior righty struck out eight in 8.0 innings, allowed just five hits and yielded only one earned run; Brian Pozos and Brady Kerr each had four hits during the win.
• USF then claimed the finale on Sunday to win the series.
 
ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Tuesday's win over the Beavers was Portland's first over Oregon State since a 20-13 victory in Corvallis, back in 2006; OSU had won 25 straight against the Pilots.
• It was also Portland's first win over a ranked opponent since opening the 2014 campaign with a victory over No. 12 and reigning national champion UCLA in Los Angeles.
• On Thursday, March 31 the Pilots played the 600th game ever at Joe Etzel Field, which opened in 1989.
• The crowd of 1,092 for Portland's game with No. 3 Oregon State on Tuesday, March 22 was the largest in Joe Etzel Field history; the attendance surpassed the previous best of 1,002, which was also against Oregon State back in 2007.
• The Pilots, who only stole 21 bases all of last season, currently have 66 stolen bases, which leads the WCC.
• On March 5 the Pilots stole 10 bases against UC Riverside, which is a single-game high in the WCC this season.
• Michael Forgione is second in the league with 20 stolen bases and ranks 36th nationally in stolen bases per game (0.5); Forgione has only been caught stealing three times.
• Portland has already surpassed last year's win total of 12.
• Caleb Whalen, who returned last weekend from an injury is tied for the most career triples in program history with 14 after claiming a three-bagger at UC Davis on Feb. 20; Whalen is tied with Larry Farrell (1958-61) and needs just one more triple to become the program leader.
• Whalen was named the WCC Position Player of the Week (Mar. 7) after hitting .462 to help lead the Pilots to a series win over UC Riverside; he also had three doubles, a home run, four runs scored and five RBI's.
• Whalen returned from injury last Friday, going 2-for-3 with a run scored and a walk in his first action since April 1.
• Cooper Hummel had a day on March 26 when the junior catcher went 4-for-4 with three doubles, three RBI's and three runs scored during a 7-3 win over CSUN at Joe Etzel Field; the three doubles match the program's single-game record, and he becomes the first Pilot since Rocky Gale in 2010 to accomplish the feat.
• Hummel has reached base safely during 43 of UP's 46 games, and he walked four times during a game earlier this season (at Utah Valley, March 12).
• Hummel, a career .168 hitter entering the season, currently leads the team with a .337 batting average and 26 RBI's.
• Freshman Cody Hawken joined the list of Portland baseball players to hit two home runs in a game when he left the yard during his first two at-bats at Joe Etzel Field vs. Oakland on Feb. 26; Hawken became the first Pilot to accomplish the feat since Cody Lenahan last May, and no Portland player has ever hit three home runs in a game.
• Freshman Grant Sutton, who had missed the entire season recovering from an injury, homered in his first collegiate at-bat at Oregon on Wednesday, April 6.
• Portland's game against the Oregon Ducks on April 13 at Ron Tonkin Field in Hillsboro was suspended after eight innings by rain with the Ducks leading 3-1; the game will be concluded on May 17 in Eugene before a previously scheduled game between the two in-state rivals.
• UP Athletics Hall of Famer Geoff Loomis is in his first season as head coach of the Pilots.
• Loomis spent the past 13 seasons at the helm of the Pacific Lutheran Lutes; he led the Lutes to 11 winning seasons during his tenure, including NCAA Regional appearances in 2007 and 2015 and Northwest Conference Championships in 2007, 2009 and 2015.
• Loomis (1990-92) still holds the program career record for batting average (.376) and he earned Pacific-10 North Division Player of the Year honors in 1992.
 
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
• The Broncos have dropped six of their last seven games and are currently batting .246 as a team; opponents are batting .275, while the staff ERA is 4.26.
• Senior infielder TC Florentine leads the team in batting average (.297), RBI's (24), and doubles (13).
• Head coach Dan O'Brien is in his fifth year at the helm of the Broncos.