4/10/2025 11:00:00 AM
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Mustangs are approaching a gauntlet of three opponents predicted within the Huge West Preseason Coaches’ Ballot to complete together with Cal Poly within the high 4 this season: UC Santa Barbara (1), UC Irvine (2), and Hawai’i (4).
The primary of these opponents involves Baggett Stadium this weekend with the Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors, tied with Cal State Fullerton for third within the Huge West at 9-6 to date.
Led by Wealthy Hill, considered one of NCAA Division I Baseball’s ten winningest energetic coaches, Hawai’i enters the three-game sequence with an equivalent 23-8 document to Cal Poly.
As of this launch, Cal Poly continues to be comfortably within the high 20 for RPI (19) and is the one Division I program within the nation nonetheless unbeaten in its convention.
Cal Poly has received 9 consecutive video games to tie LSU for the third-longest energetic win streak in Division I baseball, throughout which the Mustangs tallied double-digit hits in each sport.
With a fourth straight sequence sweep final weekend, the Mustangs are off to the 2nd greatest begin in Huge West historical past! ??
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The Mustangs tempo the Huge West for hits (355) and doubles (79), with their 2.52 doubles per sport sitting at ninth in Division I baseball. They’re additionally ninth for fielding proportion (0.982).
Alejandro Garza elevated his hitting streak to 14 video games throughout the 8-5 midweek win over San Jose State on Tuesday. Garza tallied his team-leading seventeenth multi-hit sport in opposition to the Spartans, whereas Ryan Fenn notched his sixth three-hit sport this 12 months.
Garza, the reigning Huge West Freshman Discipline Participant of the 12 months and ending because the second hardest batter to strike out in Division I baseball final season, continues to be battling arduous in each at-bat whereas sixth in these rankings this 12 months.
Of all Mustang batters with a minimum of 40 at-bats this season, ten are hitting a few .280 clip with Zach Daudet, Jake Downing, Jack Collins, Alejandro Garza, Cam Hoiland, Nate Castellon, Ryan Fenn, and Dante Vachini all at a .300 common or larger.
Over the weekend, Garza surpassed Collins for the group lead in hits (45), however the catcher nonetheless paces the group for residence runs (10), doubles (13), and RBIs (41). Collins’ residence runs complete ties for first within the convention, whereas his 13 doubles are solely within the lead.
What was thought to doubtlessly be a weak spot after shedding the Friday and Saturday starters from 2024, the Mustang pitching workers has been a pleasing shock because the season continues.
Mustang pitchers who’ve began a minimum of one sport this season mixed for a 14-5 document. Bolstering the beginning rotation of Griffin Naess, Josh Volmerding, and Etham Marmie are three relievers with double-digit video games performed already.
Chris Downs has gifted Cal Poly scoreless baseball in 10-of-14 appearances this season and leads all Mustang pitchers with a 0.94 WHIP. Jake Torres additionally holds a sub-1.00 WHIP (.98).
Tanner Sagouspe, tied for second within the Huge West with 5 saves, has made 16 appearances on the mound and is tied for third on the group with 31 strikeouts.
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Hawai’i is as harmful of an opponent as Cal Poly will face this season and represents the primary of the three “closing bosses” within the Huge West. The Rainbow Warriors have surrendered double-digit runs in simply three video games this season.
The Rainbow Warriors, led by ace starter Liam O’Brien, are one of many nation’s premier pitching staffs, thirteenth in Division I baseball for ERA (3.73). O’Brien, himself, is seventeenth for particular person ERA (2.04) and stands alone on the high of the faculty baseball panorama with the most effective H/9 (3.31).
Simply as spectacular is high reliever Isaiah Magdaleno who boasts an eye-popping 0.71 WHIP (#1 in Division I) by way of 13 appearances and 34 innings. The sophomore has posted strikeouts in each single look this season and is third within the nation with a 0.79 BB/9 ratio.
Although not as astonishing at their pitching, the Rainbow Warriors are additionally harmful on the plate, third within the convention for group batting common (.301).
With an arsenal of constant contact hitters led by Ben Zeigler Namoa (40 hits, .339 avg.), Hawai’i has six common starters with a minimum of a .320 batting common and 30+ hits.
Hawai’i is coming off a hard-fought 5-3 midweek win at Santa Clara after dropping two of three to Lengthy Seashore State within the islands. Earlier than shedding that sequence, Hawai’i strung collectively sequence wins over CSUN, UC Davis, and previously #15 UC Santa Barbara.
Since their first assembly in opposition to Hawai’i in 1995, the Mustangs are 31-16 all-time over this weekend’s opponents and 19-9 over the past decade. Hawai’i has taken every of the final two sequence in 2023 and 2024.
Towards Santa Clara, the Mustangs path 44-52 within the all-time sequence and 6-11 within the final ten years. Cal Poly cut up the home-and-home sequence in 2024, profitable the sport at Baggett 9-3.
This 12 months, the Broncos are 13-16 (2-4 WCC) heading into the weekend. They’ve misplaced 5 of their final six however lately beat UC San Diego 3-1 in a sequence.
The Broncos are barely struggling offensively with a .245 group batting common and simply three constant starters over a .270 common. Dylan Joyce leads Santa Clara batters with 34 hits, 5 residence runs, and 28 RBIs.
Victor Martinez holds a 2.87 ERA as a semi-consistent starter, however the limelight is totally on Max Bayles who’s seventeenth within the nation with 64 strikeouts and fifth for Ok/9 (15.03).
All video games this weekend, together with the midweek affair in opposition to Santa Clara, might be live-streamed on ESPN+.
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