ZAGS SEEK TITLE IN FINAL YEAR IN WCC
- Gonzaga currently has a three game lead USF in the standings, needing just two wins in this series to clinch at least a share of WCC regular season title and the one seed in the WCC tournament.Â
- A series sweep (or two wins and losses at any point over the weekend by Pepperdine and Pacific) would outright guarantee Gonzaga the regular season title with a week still remaining in the season
- The Zags hold a tiebreaker over both third place teams after series wins against Pacific and Pepperdine. Whichever team wins this weekend's series between USF and GU would hold the tiebreaker if the season standings end up for first.
-Gonzaga has gone 24-6 in their last 30 games
- The Bulldogs have won the past 10 meetings with the Dons, with a combined score of 85-39 across the ten meetings
- Gonzaga held USF to less than three runs in five of those games
HOT HITTING HELPS GONZAGA TO TOP OF WCC
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Ryder Young leads the WCC in Home Runs (12) and RBIs (50)
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Maddox Haley has the highest slugging % in the WCC (.696)
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Karsten Sweum has struck out 84 batters, tied for the most in the WCC
-GU has 497 hits on the year, 25th overall in Division 1 baseball
- The team's .305 batting average ranks 28th in Division 1 and is the best Gonzaga team average since 2008.
-Gonzaga has had the Home Runs in a season since 2002 with 57
DOING DAMAGE WITH DOUBLES
-The Zags rank 12th nationally in Doubles per Game with 2.33
- Gonzaga has 107 doubles this year, with 13 players logging a 2B
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Mikey Bell has the eighth most doubles of any D1 player with 20
- Bell,
Ryder Young (15),
Maddox Haley (13) and
Noah Meffert (11) have each hit double digits in doubles on the season
HITTING A STRIDE AT THE PLATE
- Gonzaga's 1.24 home runs per game is the 73rd best rate in D1
- GU's .482 Slugging Percentage ranks 53rd overall nationally
- The Bulldogs's 32 sacrifice flies is the tenth most in Division 1 baseball
- The Bulldogs have outhit their opponent in 36 of their 46 games this year
- Gonzaga has scored at least six runs in 24 of the last 31 games
- There have been five different Zags with a multi-home run game this season
- Gonzaga has had four games with four or more home runs as a team this year
- GU has had a five hit game from a player five times this year, with Ricky Sanchez,
Maddox Haley,
Ryder Young, and
Mikey Bell (twice) all tying the program record single game hits
- Six Zags (Sanchez, Bell, Young, Haley,
Hudson Shupe and
Noah Meffert) have 10 or more multi-hit games this season
ZAGS GOT DEFENSE
- The Bulldog's 8.64 hits allowed per nine innings is the 65th best rate in Division 1
- Gonzaga's 9.7 strikeouts 9 Innings Pitched ranks 41st in Division 1
- GU's 1.50 WHIP is also good for 92nd overall nationally
- Gonzaga pitchers average exactly two strikeouts for every walk they give up
- A combined staff ERA of 5.18 ranks as the 92nd best in college baseball
- The team's .976 fielding percentage is 63rd best in the country
- Gonzaga lets their pitching staff work deep into games, with a pitcher throwing 100 or more pitches 14 times in a game this season.
- A Gonzaga pitcher has tossed over ninety pitches in a game 25 times this year