Completed Event: Baseball at Stanford on May 9, 2025 , Win , 4, to, 3
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Grand Canyon University Athletics
Saturday, May 3
Phoenix, Ariz.
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26-20, 12-8
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Photo by: Sebastian Molinar
GCU falls to hot Sacramento State bats
5/3/2025 10:42:00 PM | Baseball
Lopes look to salvage game in series on Sunday's Senior Day
Grand Canyon dropped Saturday night's game against Sacramento State 14-4 at Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark.
GCU (26-20, 12-8 WAC) is 1 1/2 games back of the WAC lead with four conference games remaining.
An uncharacteristic run for Lopes pitching continued, as the red-hot Hornets (28-19, 12-5 WAC) struck for 14 runs on 23 hits. GCU allowed back-to-back 20-hit performances by its opponent for the first time since returning to Division I for 2014. Sacramento State clinched a critical conference series and is alone in first place in the WAC standings.
Graduate center fielder Eddy Pelc was one of four Lopes with multi-hit games. Pelc homered in the fifth inning to narrow the deficit to 8-4. He has homered in three consecutive games and four of the last five, bringing his season total to 12.
Senior left fielder Michael Diaz, junior right fielder Josh Wakefield and sophomore second baseman Billy Scaldeferri each had two hits apiece at the Nos. 6-8 spots in the batting order. Filling in for Troy Sanders at second base, Scaldeferri has racked up eight hits in his last four games to raise his batting average to .382.
The Hornets got off to a quick start with a pair of hits and a run scored in the first inning. Sacramento State added two more runs in the second to build a 3-0 lead.
GCU responded with two runs of its own in the second. Scaldeferri drove in a run and sophomore catcher Marcus Galvan executed a sacrifice bunt to make it 3-2.
Sacramento State scored five runs in the fourth inning to jump out to a big lead that it wouldn't relinquish. The Hornets capitalized on four hits, a hit batter and a walk.
The Hornets played add on with two runs each in the sixth, eighth and ninth innings.
GCU has allowed seven opponent innings of four or more runs in the last four games.
The Lopes will honor seven seniors in the home conference finale on Sunday at 12 p.m., looking to salvage the final game in the series.
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GCU (26-20, 12-8 WAC) is 1 1/2 games back of the WAC lead with four conference games remaining.
An uncharacteristic run for Lopes pitching continued, as the red-hot Hornets (28-19, 12-5 WAC) struck for 14 runs on 23 hits. GCU allowed back-to-back 20-hit performances by its opponent for the first time since returning to Division I for 2014. Sacramento State clinched a critical conference series and is alone in first place in the WAC standings.
Graduate center fielder Eddy Pelc was one of four Lopes with multi-hit games. Pelc homered in the fifth inning to narrow the deficit to 8-4. He has homered in three consecutive games and four of the last five, bringing his season total to 12.
Senior left fielder Michael Diaz, junior right fielder Josh Wakefield and sophomore second baseman Billy Scaldeferri each had two hits apiece at the Nos. 6-8 spots in the batting order. Filling in for Troy Sanders at second base, Scaldeferri has racked up eight hits in his last four games to raise his batting average to .382.
The Hornets got off to a quick start with a pair of hits and a run scored in the first inning. Sacramento State added two more runs in the second to build a 3-0 lead.
GCU responded with two runs of its own in the second. Scaldeferri drove in a run and sophomore catcher Marcus Galvan executed a sacrifice bunt to make it 3-2.
Sacramento State scored five runs in the fourth inning to jump out to a big lead that it wouldn't relinquish. The Hornets capitalized on four hits, a hit batter and a walk.
The Hornets played add on with two runs each in the sixth, eighth and ninth innings.
GCU has allowed seven opponent innings of four or more runs in the last four games.
The Lopes will honor seven seniors in the home conference finale on Sunday at 12 p.m., looking to salvage the final game in the series.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Lucchesi, Noah (5-2)
L: Ahern, Garrett (6-3)
Batting:
2B: White, Tyler 2 ; Pimentel-Guerrero, L 1 ; Cortez, Jacob 1 ; Christiansen, Ryan 1
3B: Poturnak, Jakob 1
HR: Poturnak, Jakob 1
RBI: White, Tyler 3 ; Perazzo, Michael 1 ; Smith, JP 2 ; Masciangelo, Matt 1 ; Poturnak, Jakob 4 ; Sewell, Cameron 3
Base Running:
RUNS: White, Tyler 2 ; Pimentel-Guerrero, L 2 ; Walton, Myles 1 ; Smith, JP 2 ; Masciangelo, Matt 2 ; Poturnak, Jakob 1 ; Sewell, Cameron 1 ; Cortez, Jacob 2 ; Christiansen, Ryan 1
HBP: Pimentel-Guerrero, L 1 ; Masciangelo, Matt 1 ; Sewell, Cameron 1
Batting:
2B: Diaz, Michael 1
3B: Andeel, Maxwell 1
HR: Pelc, Eddy 1
RBI: Pelc, Eddy 1 ; Scaldeferri, Billy 2 ; Galvan, Marcus 1
SH: Galvan, Marcus 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Pelc, Eddy 1 ; Diaz, Michael 2 ; Wakefield, Josh 1
SB: Pelc, Eddy 1
HBP: Pelc, Eddy 1
Game Leaders
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