The Weekend Series: The University of San Francisco baseball gets back to West Coast Conference action as the head down to Los Angeles to take on Loyola Marymount. First game is set for Friday, April 13 at 6 p.m.
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April 13-15, 2018
USF at LMU
George C. Page Stadium
Los Angeles
Gameday Links
Friday, April 13 – 6 p.m.
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Saturday, April 14 – 6 p.m.
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Sunday, April 15 – 1 p.m.
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Career Series against the Lions: The Lions have had the Dons' number in recent years, winning four of the last five series over USF. Last year, the two teams would go into the final game of the series both having won. USF jumped out to an early lead, but LMU would score the winning run in the eighth inning to win the game and series. Overall the Lions have a 88-61 advantage in the career series. USF will look to continue their strong start to WCC play when they take on the Lions this weekend.
Conference Success: USF has now won their first four conference series', sweeping the first two over Pacific and Portland. This past weekend, the Dons took another two out of three from East Bay rivals, Saint Mary's. After the Gaels tied up the score in game one of the series in the eighth inning, USF would score three in the ninth to win. The two teams played a doubleheader on Sunday with the Dons taking one of two games to win the series. USF is leading the WCC with a record of 10-2.
Perfect Pair: Thomas Ponticelli and
Riley Ornido come into their starts against LMU boasting a pair of flawless records so far this season. Ponticelli (5-0), the WCC's leader in innings pitched, did not get the win in his start against Saint Mary's but the junior went 7 1/3 innings, striking out one and allowing just two runs. Ornido, still top in the league in wins, has continued his impressive season in a 1-0 near complete game win for the sophomore last weekend.
The Key Three: The top of the order,
Jonathan Allen,
Riley Helland and
Michael Perri have been catalysts of the offense this year. The three all own above .300 batting averages, while being in the top-four in hits, batting average, RBIs and runs. With those three getting on base, they have provided clean-up hitter,
Ross Puskarich, many opportunities to drive runs in, which the senior has done to the tune of 26 RBIs.
Gem Twirler: Sophomore
Riley Ornido improved on his team leading strike out tally to 61 this weekend in a 1-0 win over Saint Mary's. His 61 strikeouts is good for fourth in the conference. Ornido leads the WCC in wins (7) and batting average against (.128). Nationally, Ornido ranks third in hits allowed per nine innings (3.83), fourth in WHIP (.69), and 32nd in ERA (1.50).
Rawlings WCC Pitcher of the Week: On the back of his outing against Saint Mary's this weekend,
Riley Ornido earned conference honors as pitcher of the week. He threw 7 2/3 innings of no-hit ball, while striking out six and keeping the Gaels scoreless in a 1-0 win.
