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Baseball
11 a.m.
vs Cal State Fullerton
Grand Canyon University Athletics
Friday, May 1
Brazell Stadium
6:30 p.m.
Grand Canyon
27-19, 14-4
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Seattle
22-22, 13-6
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Coley Bruns picked up his seventh win of the season Friday.
Photo by: Darryl Webb
GCU Extends First-Place Lead Over Seattle U
5/1/2015 10:11:00 PM | Baseball
In a battle between the top two teams in the Western Athletic Conference, Grand Canyon (27-19, 14-4) defeated Seattle U (22-22, 13-6) 12-8 in the opening game of a three-game series at Brazell Stadium Friday.
GCU extended its WAC lead to one and one-half games ahead of the second-place Redhawks.
"(Getting the first one) you can exhale a little bit," said GCU head coach Andy Stankiewicz. "It's going to be a big battle the next two ballgames."
A six-run fifth inning gave GCU an 8-4 lead, but the Lopes had to add some insurance runs – one in the sixth, two in the seventh and one more in the eighth - to hold off Redhawk rallies in the sixth and eighth innings.
"They kept coming and we had to keep answering," added Stankiewicz. "Our guys did a nice job of responding. They started scoring runs and our guys started putting some good at-bats together."
Coley Bruns went five innings to earn the win, his seventh of the season. Travis Garcia-Perreira picked up his second save.
"Coley was okay. He wasn't really himself and weathered some storms," said Stankiewicz. "The job that Travis did was huge. He came in and got some big ground-ball outs."
Greg Saenz highlighted the big fifth with a three-run home run, his first of the season. He had five RBI on the night with a pair of RBI-groundouts. GCU had 14 hits with five players getting multi-hit games. Chad De La Guerra had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 20 games. Leadoff hitter Thomas Lerouge had three hits.Paul Panaccione, David Walker and Garrison Schwartz each had two. Panaccione had a double.
Seattle U had 13 hits, but left 12 runners on base.
GCU and SU continue the series with a 6:30 p.m. contest Saturday and a noon start on Sunday. The games can be found on radio at KXXT 1010 AM (also via the KXXT TuneIn Radio App), the home of Antelope men's basketball and baseball. Live stats and a video link will be available at www.gculopes.com.
GCU 12, SU 8
GCU extended its WAC lead to one and one-half games ahead of the second-place Redhawks.
"(Getting the first one) you can exhale a little bit," said GCU head coach Andy Stankiewicz. "It's going to be a big battle the next two ballgames."
A six-run fifth inning gave GCU an 8-4 lead, but the Lopes had to add some insurance runs – one in the sixth, two in the seventh and one more in the eighth - to hold off Redhawk rallies in the sixth and eighth innings.
"They kept coming and we had to keep answering," added Stankiewicz. "Our guys did a nice job of responding. They started scoring runs and our guys started putting some good at-bats together."
Coley Bruns went five innings to earn the win, his seventh of the season. Travis Garcia-Perreira picked up his second save.
"Coley was okay. He wasn't really himself and weathered some storms," said Stankiewicz. "The job that Travis did was huge. He came in and got some big ground-ball outs."
Greg Saenz highlighted the big fifth with a three-run home run, his first of the season. He had five RBI on the night with a pair of RBI-groundouts. GCU had 14 hits with five players getting multi-hit games. Chad De La Guerra had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 20 games. Leadoff hitter Thomas Lerouge had three hits.Paul Panaccione, David Walker and Garrison Schwartz each had two. Panaccione had a double.
Seattle U had 13 hits, but left 12 runners on base.
GCU and SU continue the series with a 6:30 p.m. contest Saturday and a noon start on Sunday. The games can be found on radio at KXXT 1010 AM (also via the KXXT TuneIn Radio App), the home of Antelope men's basketball and baseball. Live stats and a video link will be available at www.gculopes.com.
GCU 12, SU 8
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Bruns, Coley (7-2)
L: Dennis, Will (5-4)
S: Garcia-Perreira, Travis (2)
Batting:
2B: Olson, Brian 2 ; Peterson, Colin 1
RBI: Cray, Landon 2 ; Olson, Brian 1 ; Stober, Sheldon 1 ; Carpenter, Brock 1 ; Peterson, Colin 1
SH: Stober, Sheldon 1
SF: Carpenter, Brock 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Andreychuk, Griffin 1 ; Cray, Landon 1 ; Hurd, Dalton 1 ; Olson, Brian 1 ; Sutton, Sean 1 ; Carpenter, Brock 1 ; Peterson, Colin 2
Batting:
2B: Panaccione, Paul 1
HR: Saenz, Greg 1
RBI: Lerouge, Tom 1 ; Panaccione, Paul 1 ; Haggerty, Matt 2 ; Schwartz, Garrison 1 ; Saenz, Greg 5 ; Aranda, Humberto 1
SH: Schwartz, Garrison 1 ; Saenz, Greg 1
SF: Schwartz, Garrison 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Walker, David 2 ; Panaccione, Paul 2 ; De La Guerra, Chad 2 ; Haggerty, Matt 1 ; Schwartz, Garrison 2 ; Saenz, Greg 1 ; Mauseth, Ben 1 ; Aranda, Humberto 1
CS: Haggerty, Matt 2
HBP: De La Guerra, Chad 1 ; Haggerty, Matt 1 ; Aranda, Humberto 1
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