Fresno State Athletics
Baseball Hosts Nevada This Weekend
4/24/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 24, 2003
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Nevada (21-18, 10-4 WAC) at Fresno State (21-20, 7-8)
Date: April 25-27
First Pitch: 6:35 p.m./6:35/1:05 p.m.
Stadium: Beiden Field (6,575)
Location: Fresno, Calif.
All-Time Record: FS 55, UN 30
Local Radio: KMJ 580 AM
Fresno State vs. Nevada
Fresno State leads the all-time series 55-30 dating back to 1965 ... The 'Dogs swept the season series 6-0 last year outscoring Nevada 41-15 ... The last time the Wolf Pack defeated Fresno State was April 1, 2001, when it posted a 5-4 victory in Fresno ... Also scored a 10-7 victory on March 31, 2000 ... Marks last time Wolf Pack have taken a series from the Bulldogs ... Also took the series in Reno 2-1 earlier that year (March 2-4) ... The last time the Wolf Pack swept the Bulldogs in a three-game series was in 1985 ... Lost a weekday contest at home 6-5 and dropped two one-run decisions in Reno later that season (14-13, 11-10) ... Mike Batesole is 4-6 all-time against Nevada.
Probable Starters
Fri. FS RHP Cody Smith (6-2, 4.02) vs. UN RHP Mateo Miramontes (7-2, 3.94)
Sat. TBA vs. UN RHP Justin Sherman (5-4, 5.63)
Sun. TBA vs. UN RHP Eddie Bonine (4-4, 4.70)
Casey At the Bat
Casey McGehee batted .385 (5-13) for the Hawai'i series and now has 226 hits for his career ... also went 2-3 against UC Irvine last Tuesday ... Singled in the seventh inning Sunday at Hawai'i to move into sole possession of tenth place in school history with 226 career hits ... Doubled in the eighth inning Saturday to tie Eric Fox (1982-83, 85) at 225 ... Nick Garcia (1998-2001) is ninth on the list with 227 hits ... Greg Funk (1980-83) ranks eighth with 234 career hits ... McGehee lined an infield single in the seventh inning in the championship game of the Pepsi/Johnny Quik Classic against Gonzaga to mark career hit No. 200 ... McGehee did not tally an RBI last week and has 119 career RBIs ... Is 6 shy of tying Ben Reynoso (1993-96, 125) for tenth on the school's career leaders list ... Assistant coach Matt Curtis ranks ninth on the list with 127 RBI (1993-96) ... This season, McGehee leads the squad with 58 hits (tied for third in WAC) ... Leads the team with a .362 batting average (fourth in WAC) ... Has tallied 36 career doubles ... Craig da Luz (1995-98) and Brandon Gemoll (1999-2001) are tied for ninth in school history with 42 two baggers ... Has two game-winning hits with an RBI single in the ninth inning against Hawai'i (3/9) and a run scoring double in the elventh against Gonzaga (3/15) ... McGehee has played in Fresno State's last 114 games (164 overall) ... Chris Falco is tenth in Fresno State history with 183 career games played.
Offensive Report
Fresno State scored five runs over three games at Hawai'i and is averaging 4.5 runs a game (185 runs over 41 games) this season ... Over the last 10 games, the Bulldogs have averaged 3.2 runs a game (32 runs) ... in the previous 14 games, averaged 9.5 runs a contest (133 runs) beginning with the PJQ ... averaged 3.44 runs a game entering the tournament ... Fresno State was shut out twice at Hawai'i and have been held scoreless five times this season ... Equals most shutouts since 1976 ... Since 1976, had not been blanked twice in one series ... The Bulldogs' 15 runs against Illinois State (3/11) is a season high ... Casey McGehee leads the team with 58 hits (tied for third in WAC) ... McGehee has a team high 18 multi-hit efforts ... The team led for a season high nine innings against San Jose State (4/4), Hawai'i (3/7), Illinois State (3/11), and Penn State (3/12) ... The Bulldogs have led for 124 out of 372 innings this year (33.3%) ... Led 5 out 27 innings against Hawai'i ... Chase Moore's belted his team leading seventh homer of the season Friday in the fifth inning against Rice (tied for third in WAC) ... Kent Sakamoto hit his first career round tripper Saturday in the ninth against Rice ... Bulldogs now have 24 round trippers on the year (56 in 2002) ... Should Moore finish the season with the team lead in home runs, he would be the first freshman to lead the squad in homers since Giuseppe Chiaramonte paced the squad with 11 round trippers in 1995 ... Through the first 18 games of the season, the Bulldogs recorded a .245 team batting average ... Now hitting at a .262 clip (fifth in the WAC) ... Opponents are hitting .282 and have 46 stolen bases to Fresno State's 22 (22 in 2002) ... Haag and Patrick have five steals each, Smith has four, Beshears has three, McGehee has two and Marcelli, Sakamoto and Moore each have one.
