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Grand Canyon University Athletics
Tuesday, May 9
Phoenix, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Grand Canyon
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San Jose State
Grand Canyon hosts San José State in final home games
5/9/2017 8:15:00 AM | Baseball
| TUESDAY, MAY 9 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 | ||||
| SAN JOSÉ STATE SPARTANS 15-30-1 (8-17-1 Mountain West) Notes SERIES RELEASE |
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GRAND CANYON LOPES 24-22 (18-3 WAC) Notes SERIES RELEASE |
| GAME ONE | GAME TWO |
| Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. MST | Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. MST |
| LHP Graham Gomez (0-1, 7.14) vs. |
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| LHP Gabe Benavides (0-1, 4.67) | LHP Tyler Hansen (0-4, 5.40) |
| Stats Stats | Video WAC Digital Network | Stats Stats | Video GCU.tv |
A 23-game home schedule comes to completion when the Lopes host San José State in a two-game non-conference series at Brazell Stadium on Tuesday and Wednesday. Being the final home contest of the season, Wednesday's game will be Senior Day with Grand Canyon honoring its lone senior, AJ Franks. Additionally, the team will play its final two games in Brazell Stadium as it is known today with the facility undergoing massive renovations in the offseason. The Lopes and Spartans will open the series on Tuesday at 7 p.m. MST on the WAC Digital Network with Wednesday's home finale set for 2 p.m. MST.
GCU is coming off of its seventh consecutive conference series win, topping Seattle U two games to one. After the Redhawks claimed the series opener on Friday night, the Lopes came back with a vengeance on Saturday. Grand Canyon dismantled Seattle U 19-0, posting the program's biggest shutout victory since topping Westmont 21-0 on Jan. 31, 2004. The Lopes improved to 4-0 in rubber matches on the year, winning Sunday's finale 9-6. Jake Repavich and Jack Schneider combined to toss 13.0 innings of eight-hit, one-run baseball in Saturday and Sunday's games.
San José State, on the other hand, was on the wrong end of a three-game series sweep at the hands of San Diego State. Entering the series a perfect 3-0 in extra-inning games, the Spartans dropped each of the final two games of the series in extra frames.
The Spartans are wrapping up a rebuilding season under first-year head coach Jason Hawkins, who spent the previous two seasons on the staff of 2015 Pac-12 Champion, Utah. Hawkins is looking to lead the program to its first winning season since 2011. San José State has a pair of series victories on the season, defeating Mountain West foes UNLV and Nevada at home in March.
The two teams met up for a similar two-game mid-week series in San Jose last season. The Lopes and Spartans split the two games with both contests coming down to the wire. In the opener, what was a pitcher's duel quickly transformed into a shootout. GCU scored four in the eighth before allowing the Spartans to send the game to extras with a two-run ninth. Grand Canyon quickly put the game to rest with five runs in the 10th inning. In Game 2, Grand Canyon mounted a furious ninth-inning comeback, turning a 7-0 deficit into a 7-6 score only to leave the tying run in scoring position.
AJ Franks represents the team's only senior on another young squad for head coach Andy Stankiewicz. The program will honor Franks' two seasons with GCU on Wednesday. In two years, the side-arming right-hander has made 53 relief appearances to date, picking up six wins and three saves along the way. This season in WAC play, Franks has a spotless 0.00 ERA, the only qualifying pitcher to feature a perfect ERA.
Grand Canyon will bid farewell to many aspects of Brazell Stadium in the two-game series. While the prestine playing surface will remain going forward, everything else from the seating section to the dugouts and bullpens to the press box will be demolished in the offseason. Brazell Stadium has existed in its current location since prior to the 1962 season. It was named Brazell Field, after the founder of GCU Baseball Dr. Dave Brazell, at the beginning of the 1970 season. With the installation of permanent seating in 1987, it was named Brazell Stadium.
Following the final mid-week action of the season, Grand Canyon will play its final six games on the road. The Lopes will wrap up conference play with a three-game series at Utah Valley before finishing the year at UC Davis. GCU's magic number to claim the outright conference title is down to three, needing a combination of three victories or New Mexico State losses to win the WAC Regular Season title for the second time in three seasons.
For more news and notes, click here for the 2017 GCU Baseball Media Guide and click here for the series release.
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