SAN FRANCISCO 2011 BASEBALL
Pepperdine @ USF Games 48, 49 & 50 Fri. May 13-Sun. May 15 Benedetti Diamond San Francisco, CA BASEBALL CONTACT: Stacy Hicklin, Asst. Director, Media Relations smhicklin@usfca.edu (415) 422-6161 (office); (415) 422-2929 (fax)
2011 BASEBALL SCHEDULE Record: 25-22 Home: 12-3 Road: 9-15 Neutral: 4-4 WCC: 11-4 Home: 7-2 Road: 4-2 Neural: 0-0 DATE DAY OPPONENT TIME FEBRUARY (2-5) 18 Fri. No.1 UCLA L 0-1 19 Sat. No.1 UCLA L 1-4 20 Sun. No.1 UCLA L 0-3 21 Mon. Cal State Bakersfield L 2-6 26 Sat. UC Davis L 2-4 27 SUN. UC DAVIS W 6-2 27 SUN. UC DAVIS W 8-4 MARCH (9-9) CARDINAL CLASSIC - BEAUMONT, TX 3 Thurs. Lamar W 3-1 (11) 4 Fri. New Mexico State W 12-1 5 Sat. New Mexico State L 6-7 5 Sat. Cal State Northridge L 2-3 (10) 8 TUE. SACRAMENTO STATE W 3-2 CAL BASEBALL CLASSIC - AT&T PARK 11 Fri. UC Santa Barbara W 3-2 12 Sat. Long Beach State L 4-5 13 Sun. Louisiana-Lafayette W 4-0 DANTE BENEDETTI CLASSIC - AT&T PARK 15 Tue. San Jose State W 10-0 16 Wed. No. 15 California W 7-6 (11) 19 Sat. No. 11 Arizona L 0-14 20 Sun. No. 11 Arizona L 0-7 21 Mon. No. 15 Arizona L 5-8 23 WED. OREGON L 1-6 25 Fri. Pacific W 11-3 26 Sat. PACIFIC W 4-2 27 SUN. PACIFIC L 0-3 29 TUE. No. 13 CALIFORNIA L 0-4 APRIL (12-6) 1 Fri. No. 9 Fresno State L 3-5 2 Sat. No. 9 Fresno State L 3-4 3 Sun. No. 9 Fresno State W 4-3 5 TUE. CAL POLY SLO W 4-0 8 FRI. SAINT MARY’S* L 9-4 9 SAT. SAINT MARY’S* W 1-0 10 SUN. SAINT MARY’S* L 6-5 12 Tues. San Jose State L 10-0 15 Fri. Portland* W 19-2 16 Sat. Portland* W 6-1 17 Sun. Portland* W 6-1 18 Mon. Oregon L 4-0 21 THUR. SANTA CLARA* W 5-4 (13) 22 FRI. SANTA CLARA* W 9-5 23 SAT. SANTA CLARA* W 15-4 26 TUE. SAN FRANCISCO STATE W 8-4 29 FRI. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT* W 11-7 30 SAT. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT* W 5-4 (10) MAY (2-2) 1 SUN. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT* W 7-6 (13) 6 Fri. San Diego* W 4-3 7 Sat. San Diego* L 5-7 8 Sun. San Diego* L 8-12 13 FRI. PEPPERDINE* 3:00 P.M. 14 SAT. PEPPERDINE* 1:00 P.M. 15 SUN. PEPPERDINE* 1:00 P.M. 17 Tue. Stanford 5:30 p.m. 24 TUE. CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD 3:00 P.M. 27 Fri. Gonzaga* 6:00 p.m. 28 Sat. Gonzaga* 1:00 p.m. 29 Sun. Gonzaga* 1:00 p.m. *West Coast Conference Game All times listed in Pacific Time (PT) ALL HOME GAMES IN BOLD CAPS AT BENEDETTI DIAMOND
USF @ No. 25 Stanford Game 51 Tues. May 17 • 5:30 p.m. Sunken Diamond Palo Alto, CA
USF To Celebrate Its Nine Seniors on May 15
Dons host Waves for final WCC series of the season at Benedetti Stadium; San Francisco to travel to No. 25 Stanford for 11th Pac-10 game this year GAME NOTES THIS WEEK: The Dons return home to host Pepperdine in a three-game series beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 13 at Benedetti Diamond. Games two and three are set for 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15th. Saturday’s game is designated family day for those related to a current USF baseball player and on Sunday, USF will celebrate its nine seniors on Senior Day. USF then travels to Sunken Diamond for a 5:30 p.m. game against Stanford on Tuesday, May 17. LOOKING AHEAD: San Francisco hosts Cal State Bakersfield in a non-conference game at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 24th before traveling to Spokane, WA to play a three-game series at Gonzaga. Game one takes place at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 27, followed by 1 p.m. games on Saturday & Sunday, May 28-29. LOOKING BACK: USF lost its first series since early April after winning game one against San Diego 4-3 and then dropping games two and three by scores of 5-7 and 8-12. LIVE RADIO/STATS: Fans can visit http://sports.yahoo.com/top/collegebroadcast/teams/saf to listen and watch the Dons’ three-games series against Pepperdine and can use that same link to listen to USF’s game at Stanford. Visit http://usfdons.com/sports/m-basebl/2010-11/schedule for the links for live stats for this week’s action. SENIOR CLASS OF 2011: A distinguished class of nine seniors have led the Dons this season: Jonathan Abramson, Connor Bernatz, Sean Burns, Travis Higgs, Matt Hiserman, Pete Lavin, Garrett Luippold, Matt Lujan and Stephen Yarrow. Seven of those players have spent their entire four-year collegiate careers on the Hilltop. Their names appear in the USF Baseball career record book 13 times and by season’s end that number could increase to 18 times.
DONS’ PROBABLE LINEUP:
PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS:
1. #20 Pete Lavin CF .357 BA, 35 R, 70 H, 16 2B, 4 3B, 20 RBI, 27 BB, 16 SB* 2. #5 Connor Bernatz RF FRIDAY: .292 BA, 29 R, 52 H, 10 2B, 2 3B, 23 RBI, 19 BB, 6 SB* 3. #12 Stephen Yarrow 3B .268 BA, 26 R, 48 H, 13 2B, 4 HR, 32 RBI, 31 BB* Soph. RHP Kyle Zimmer vs. 4. #22 Travis Higgs DH
Jr. LHP Aaron
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.291 BA, 41 H, 15 2B, 4 HR, 24 RBI, 10 BB, 7 HBP*
5. #45 Nik Balog 1B .270 BA, 20 R, 48 H, 13 2B, 26 RBI, 14 BB, 1 SB* SATURDAY: 6. #29 Jason Mahood 2B .231 BA, 29 R, 42 H, 7 2B, 2 HR, 14 RBI, 13 BB, 7 SB* Sr. RHP Matt Hiserman vs. Soph. RHP Jon Moscot 7. #9 Ted LeMasters LF .222 BA, 8 R, 18 H, 5 2B, 3 HR, 11 RBI, 7 BB* 9. #2 Aritz Garcia SS SUNDAY: .301 BA, 14 R, 25 H, 3 2B, 1 3B, 10 RBI, 4 BB* 8. #17 Mason Morioka C .229 BA, 7 R, 16 H, 4 2B, 6 RBI, 8 BB* *2011 Season Statistics
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