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UA tops GCU; game draws 2,819
4/10/2018 10:36:00 PM | Baseball, Paul Coro
Lopes' 5-game win streak ends in rout
Grand Canyon played Tuesday night as the Western Athletic Conference leader in front of a crowd of 2,819 fans at GCU Ballpark and left Brazell Field with the same distinction.
In between, the Lopes took a hard baseball lesson about how much a slip in their usual defense and recent pitching could cost them. GCU lost 16-1 to Arizona in non-conference play and ended an eight-game home winning streak and five-game overall winning streak.
The Wildcats (20-11) pounced on the Lopes (17-15) for 10 runs in the first three innings with the help of three errors by GCU, which did not make an error last weekend in a sweep of Utah Valley. Arizona was coming of winning a weekend series against No. 4 Oregon State and entered Tuesday with the nation's eighth-lowest earned run average but the Lopes still expected more from their marquee home game.
"We've got to be more competitive in that environment," GCU head coach Andy Stankiewicz said. "That's the one thing that I'm probably most frustrated about. We've been playing well. It didn't look like it tonight but we have been. I thought we were going to come out with a little more fight and give our fans and family a nice ball game."
UA and GCU each has won 10 of its past 12 games but the Wildcats dominated Tuesday by getting into the Lopes' bullpen quickly. GCU's nine pitchers tallied 14 strikeouts, the Lopes' third-highest total of the season.
GCU senior Jeramy Smith posted a 1 2/3 shutout innings to follow up throwing two shutout innings against UNLV last week. Lopes freshman Coen Wynne added a shutout innings to follow up throwing two shutout innings Saturday against Utah Valley.
Otherwise, GCU pitchers had a rough night by allowing 15 hits, walking six and hitting four batters. UA third baseman NIck Quintana homered twice, giving him seven home runs in the past nine games.
"The things that we've done well to get back over .500 and gain a little bit of momentum, we abandoned tonight," Stankiewicz said. "We didn't pitch well and we didn't play good defense. If you do that against that type of team, you're going to be in trouble.
"We've got to get better. We've got to let this go. We've got to learn from it, though."
The Lopes resume WAC play this weekend at Texas-Rio Grande Valley and play again at home on April 18 against California-Riverside. GCU still has won 12 of its past 14 games at GCU Ballpark, where Tuesday's crowd was the second largest in porgram history and even topped the Saturday night crowd of the season- and stadium-opening TCU series.
The Lopes get another crack at UA on May 8 when they play in Tucson.
"It's awesome for a couple reasons," Wildcats head coach Jay Johnson said of playing GCU in a home-and-home series. "No. 1, first and foremost, we've got to do what's best for us and this is a program that's going to win a lot of games in the WAC so it's going to help our quality of program. The stadium (GCU Ballpark) is unbelievable. They (the Lopes) are just going to keep getting better."
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In between, the Lopes took a hard baseball lesson about how much a slip in their usual defense and recent pitching could cost them. GCU lost 16-1 to Arizona in non-conference play and ended an eight-game home winning streak and five-game overall winning streak.
The Wildcats (20-11) pounced on the Lopes (17-15) for 10 runs in the first three innings with the help of three errors by GCU, which did not make an error last weekend in a sweep of Utah Valley. Arizona was coming of winning a weekend series against No. 4 Oregon State and entered Tuesday with the nation's eighth-lowest earned run average but the Lopes still expected more from their marquee home game.
"We've got to be more competitive in that environment," GCU head coach Andy Stankiewicz said. "That's the one thing that I'm probably most frustrated about. We've been playing well. It didn't look like it tonight but we have been. I thought we were going to come out with a little more fight and give our fans and family a nice ball game."
UA and GCU each has won 10 of its past 12 games but the Wildcats dominated Tuesday by getting into the Lopes' bullpen quickly. GCU's nine pitchers tallied 14 strikeouts, the Lopes' third-highest total of the season.
GCU senior Jeramy Smith posted a 1 2/3 shutout innings to follow up throwing two shutout innings against UNLV last week. Lopes freshman Coen Wynne added a shutout innings to follow up throwing two shutout innings Saturday against Utah Valley.
Otherwise, GCU pitchers had a rough night by allowing 15 hits, walking six and hitting four batters. UA third baseman NIck Quintana homered twice, giving him seven home runs in the past nine games.
"The things that we've done well to get back over .500 and gain a little bit of momentum, we abandoned tonight," Stankiewicz said. "We didn't pitch well and we didn't play good defense. If you do that against that type of team, you're going to be in trouble.
"We've got to get better. We've got to let this go. We've got to learn from it, though."
The Lopes resume WAC play this weekend at Texas-Rio Grande Valley and play again at home on April 18 against California-Riverside. GCU still has won 12 of its past 14 games at GCU Ballpark, where Tuesday's crowd was the second largest in porgram history and even topped the Saturday night crowd of the season- and stadium-opening TCU series.
The Lopes get another crack at UA on May 8 when they play in Tucson.
"It's awesome for a couple reasons," Wildcats head coach Jay Johnson said of playing GCU in a home-and-home series. "No. 1, first and foremost, we've got to do what's best for us and this is a program that's going to win a lot of games in the WAC so it's going to help our quality of program. The stadium (GCU Ballpark) is unbelievable. They (the Lopes) are just going to keep getting better."
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Aguilera, Juan (4-0)
L: Hull, Nick (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Quintana, Nick 1
HR: Quintana, Nick 2
RBI: Stevenson, Cal 1 ; Rivas, Alfonso 2 ; Quintana, Nick 4 ; Salazar, Cesar 2 ; Romo, Seve 1 ; Fraizer, Matt 1 ; Blas, Jacob 2
SH: Blas, Jacob 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Stevenson, Cal 2 ; Cannon, Cameron 1 ; Rivas, Alfonso 2 ; Morimoto, Mitchell 1 ; Quintana, Nick 3 ; Salazar, Cesar 1 ; Haug, Ryan 2 ; Fraizer, Matt 2 ; Blas, Jacob 2
HBP: Quintana, Nick 1 ; Haug, Ryan 2 ; Blas, Jacob 1
Batting:
2B: Cotton, Quin 1 ; Malis, Zach 1
RBI: Bull, Austin 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Wyatt, Tyler 1
Game Leaders
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