Fresno State Athletics
Friday, May 4
Fresno, Calif.
6:00 PM
Fresno State
vs
UNLV
Bulldogs close home schedule hosting UNLV, will honor seniors Sunday
5/2/2018 11:58:00 AM | Softball
UNLV (26-17, 8-10 MW) at Fresno State (30-18, 13-5 MW)
May 4-6, 2018 | Fresno, Calif. | Margie Wright Diamond (3,288)
First Pitch:Â Fri: 6:00Â p.m., Sat: 3:00 p.m., Sun: 12:00 p.m.
Video: Mountain West Network (Fri: Eric Bentley, Sat/Sun: Matt Norville)
Radio:Â 790 AM ESPN2 (Saturday only)
Live Stats:Â Sidearm
Series History: Fresno State leads 58-15
Streak:Â Fresno State Won 3
Complete Game Notes (PDF): Fresno State | UNLV
Promotions
Friday, May 4 - Game Sponsored by My Kid's Dentist
• Fresno State leads the MW with a 13-5 conference record while San Jose State is 14-6 and Boise State is 12-6. The Bulldogs and Broncos have six games remaining while the Spartans have four.
• Samantha Mejia and Danielle East rank 1st and 2nd in the MW, respectively, in ERA in MW games. Mejia has a 1.30 ERA and a 5-1 record in league while East is 8-3 with a 1.89 ERA and 81 strikeouts.
• In 23 home games this year the 'Dogs are 17-6, having outscored the opposition 141-75 while hitting .310 with 15 home runs and tallying a 2.86 team ERA. Fresno State is 7-2 in home MW games.
• Fresno State ranks in the top-25 in NCAA Div. I in hit-by-pitches (2nd-61), on-base pct (8th-.413), double plays (T10th-26), triples (T15th-15), slugging pct (24th-.478), and doubles (T24th-72).
• Senior Katie Castellon leads NCAA Div. I with 16 sacrifice bunts and in MW play she leads the league in slugging percentage (.478), is third in batting average, and is fourth in on-base percentage.
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Scouting UNLV (26-17, 8-10 MW)
• UNLV enters the week in sixth place in the MW having won each of its last two series, including taking 2-of-3 games at Boise State. The Rebels have won five of their last seven games.
• Under first-year head coach Kristie Fox UNLV was picked eighth in the preseason MW poll after going 25-27 (8-16 MW) last season. The team had an 18-7 record in pre-conference games this year but for the season UNLV has played the second easiest schedule among MW teams in terms of opponent winning percentage.
• Overall this season the Rebels lead the MW with a 2.95 ERA and with a .973 fielding percentage, but in MW games the team is just fourth in ERA (3.36) with a .284 opposing batting average. UNLV has hit just .257 in MW games, averaging only 3.8 runs per game in MW play.Â
• Janine Petmecky leads the MW with a 17-6 record and has a 2.27 ERA overall but is 6-5 with a 3.69 ERA in MW games. Mia Trejo is the only UNLV starter hitting above .300 this year at .361.
• Fresno State swept UNLV in Las Vegas last year and is 11-4 vs. the Rebels since joining the MW.
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Atop the Mountain
• At 13-5 in MW games the Bulldogs open the week with a one game lead over Boise State (12-6). At 14-6, San Jose State has one more win but also one more loss than the 'Dogs. Fresno State and Boise State have six games remaining while San Jose State has just four.
• Fresno State owns the tiebreaker over San Jose State but would lose a tiebreaker against Boise State. If the three teams ended in a three-way tie for first place, the 'Dogs would have that tiebreaker based on a 4-2 record against SJSU and BSU.
• Boise State plays at Colorado State this weekend while San Jose State is at Utah State. The Spartans will play their final regular season game at Nevada next Tuesday (May 8) to make up a game that was rained out earlier this season.
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Beating the Broncos
• Boise State entered the series vs. Fresno State leading NCAA Div. I with 7.11 runs per game and a .360 batting average, but Danielle East limited the Broncos to just two earned runs over 14.2 innings pitched and beat Boise State with no earned runs allowed on Sunday.
• In two starts in the series East allowed just four runs (two earned). She permitted just 11 hits and walked only two batters with a 0.95 ERA and .220 opposing batting average.
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Senior Moment
• Fresno State will honor its five seniors in a ceremony prior to first pitch of the last home game of the season on Sunday.
• Katie Castellon, Brooke Coates, and Chase LeeHong have been four-year Bulldogs while Savannah McHellon and Sarah Santana were transfers that joined the program as juniors.
• All five seniors helped the team reach the NCAA Regionals last year while Castellon, Coates, and LeeHong were also part of the 2015 and 2016 MW champion and NCAA Regional teams.
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30 for 37
• With their win on Sunday at Boise State the Bulldogs have a 30-win season for the 37th consecutive year. The 'Dogs have also clinched an overall winning record in 2018, something that the program has achieved in all 41 years of its existence.
• The Bulldogs are looking to qualify for the NCAA Regionals for the fourth straight year and the 31st time in the last 34 seasons.
• In its storied history Fresno State has won 23 conference titles, 59 NCAA Regional games, and 93 total postseason games, reaching the Women's College World Series 12 times with four runner-up finishes and winning the 1998 NCAA title.
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Doing it All
• Hitting second in the lineup, Katie Castellon leads NCAA Div. I lead with 16 sacrifice bunts this season.
• When she doesn't bunt she's been tearing the cover off the ball as, in MW play, she leads the league with an .824 slugging percentage, is third in batting average (.431), and is fourth in on-base percentage (.525). She has three homers, two triples, and seven doubles with 17 RBIs in 18 league games.
• Castellon has had at least one hit, walk, hbp, and/or sacrifice in all but one MW game and in 41 of the 48 total games this year.
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Home Cooking
• In 23 home games this year the 'Dogs are 17-6, having outscored the opposition 141-75 while hitting .310 with 15 home runs and tallying a 2.86 team ERA.
• The win over Monmouth on Mar. 11 was the 900th home victory in program history. The 'Dogs are 909-236-1 all-time at home over 41 seasons.
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Dominant Duo
• In MW play LHP Danielle East and RHP Samantha Mejia have confounded hitters from both arms as the pair has combined for a 1.70 ERA over 99.0 innings pitched.
• The two are a combined 13-4 in MW games and have 101 total strikeouts and four shutouts. Mejia leads the league with a 1.30 ERA in conference while East is second at 1.89.
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Super Support
• The red wave has averaged 1,050 fans per game this season, the most among all 20 NCAA Div. I schools in California and the 15th highest attendance average in the nation. No other MW team has averaged more than 471 fans, less than half of the 'Dogs average.
• All three games of the SDSU series had over 1,000 fans with a season-high 1,561 for Bark in the Park. Fresno State has averaged more than 1,000 fans per game for 25 consecutive seasons.
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On Base a Lot
• As a team the Bulldogs lead the MW and rank 8th in NCAA Div. I with a .413 on-base percentage. The Dogs have a .427 OBP in league games after having a .399 on-base percent in non-conference play.
• Hayleigh Galvan leads the MW and is 20th in Div. I with a .525 on-base percentage this year while five other Bulldog starters have an on-base percentage above .415.
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In the Polls
• Fresno State earned votes in last week's USA Today/NFCA Coaches Poll. The 'Dogs were the 10th team receiving votes, making the team essentially ranked No. 35 in the nation.
• The Bulldogs have received votes in the Coaches Poll in three weeks this season and appeared in the national rankings on Feb. 20 as D1softballnews.com chose Fresno State as the No. 25 team in the nation.
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Taking Several for the Team
• Fresno State batters rank second in NCAA Div. I with 61 hit-by-pitches this season, trailing only South Carolina (69 HBP). No other MW team has been hit more than 29 times.
• The 'Dogs broke the MW single season hit-by-pitch record on March 31, just 34 games into the season, topping the previous record of 47 set last year by San Jose State.
• Katie Castellon has been hit 11 times, tied for sixth most in a season in program history, while Schuylar Broussard and Hayleigh Galvan have both have 10 HBP this year.
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Gone Streaking
• Fresno State had a 10-game winning streak March 30 - April 15 that included eight straight MW wins.
• The 10-game winning streak was the longest recorded by the Bulldogs since a program-record 23-game winning streak in 2016.
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Samtastic
• In MW play Samantha Mejia is 5-1 with a 1.30 ERA, allowing just six earned runs and 25 hits in 28.1 innings.
• In her last 10 pitching appearances (39.0 innings) Mejia has allowed just 28 hits (26 singles) with a 1.08 ERA and .206 opposing batting average. In three relief appearances in MW play Mejia is 3-0, throwing 14.1 scoreless innings with a .091 opposing average.
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Galvan-izing the Offense
• Sophomore Hayleigh Galvan reached base in 20 consecutive games and had an 18-game hitting streak, the fifth-longest streak in program history.
• Galvan leads the MW and ranks 20th in NCAA Div. I with a .525 on-base percentage this season while also leading the team in batting average (.388) and ranking second in home runs (8) and RBIs (35).
• In 18 MW games Galvan is hitting .408 with a .531 on-base percentage.
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Doubling Up
• Fresno State leads the MW and is tied for 10th in NCAA Div. I with 26 double plays turned this year. The Bulldogs have also only hit into 10 double plays this season.
• The 'Dogs have turned a pair of double plays in four games this season, three of them against Power 5 opponents.
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East Meets (Mountain) West
• In her first 11 starts against MW opponents, freshman Danielle East is 8-3 with a 1.89 ERA and a .203 opposing batting average.
• East has recorded 81 strikeouts in 66.2 innings pitched against MW batters. She has tallied double-digit strikeouts in five MW games and has three shutouts in conference.
• East's 81 strikeouts in MW games have broken the MW record for freshman strikeouts in league play, which had been 75 by New Mexico's Hayley Punter in 2001. The overall record is 128 and the MW freshman strike out record for all games is 180 (East has 139).
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Irregular Innings
• Fresno State was played 20 games this season were not completed in the standard seven innings. The team has played 11 5-inning games, five 6-inning games, three 8-inning games, and one 9-inning game.
• The Bulldogs did not play a seven-inning game until their fifth contest of the season.
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Working the Field
• Fresno State ranks second in the MW and 41st in NCAA Div. I with a .971 fielding percentage this year.
• The Bulldogs have 23 error-free games this season and have committed multiple errors just six times over the last 38 games.
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High RPI
• In the most recent NCAA Rating Percentage Index (RPI) rankings Fresno State is No. 69, the second highest in the MW behind only No. 45 San Jose State.
• The RPI rankings reflect quality wins and strength of schedule as the 'Dogs played a very difficult non-conference slate and have wins over highly ranked teams, including a victory over Notre Dame (No. 42) and three wins against the Spartans.
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May 4-6, 2018 | Fresno, Calif. | Margie Wright Diamond (3,288)
First Pitch:Â Fri: 6:00Â p.m., Sat: 3:00 p.m., Sun: 12:00 p.m.
Video: Mountain West Network (Fri: Eric Bentley, Sat/Sun: Matt Norville)
Radio:Â 790 AM ESPN2 (Saturday only)
Live Stats:Â Sidearm
Series History: Fresno State leads 58-15
Streak:Â Fresno State Won 3
Complete Game Notes (PDF): Fresno State | UNLV
Promotions
Friday, May 4 - Game Sponsored by My Kid's Dentist
- Kids get in FREE with My Kid's Dentist Voucher
- Season Ticket Holder Fan Appreciation Night
- Join us as we spotlight some of the fans who make Fresno State softball special! Â
- Youth Jersey Friday
- All kids (8th grade and under) get in FREE with a jersey!
- 40 Year Anniversary Game
- Join us as we celebrate the 40 year anniversary of Bulldog Softball!
- Salute to Service Saturdays
- All active military and veterans receive FREE admission with ID
- Senior Day
- Get there early to help us honor our Bulldog seniors!
- JR Bulldog Kids Club Sunday
- Post-game all JR Bulldogs are invited to run the bases!
• Fresno State leads the MW with a 13-5 conference record while San Jose State is 14-6 and Boise State is 12-6. The Bulldogs and Broncos have six games remaining while the Spartans have four.
• Samantha Mejia and Danielle East rank 1st and 2nd in the MW, respectively, in ERA in MW games. Mejia has a 1.30 ERA and a 5-1 record in league while East is 8-3 with a 1.89 ERA and 81 strikeouts.
• In 23 home games this year the 'Dogs are 17-6, having outscored the opposition 141-75 while hitting .310 with 15 home runs and tallying a 2.86 team ERA. Fresno State is 7-2 in home MW games.
• Fresno State ranks in the top-25 in NCAA Div. I in hit-by-pitches (2nd-61), on-base pct (8th-.413), double plays (T10th-26), triples (T15th-15), slugging pct (24th-.478), and doubles (T24th-72).
• Senior Katie Castellon leads NCAA Div. I with 16 sacrifice bunts and in MW play she leads the league in slugging percentage (.478), is third in batting average, and is fourth in on-base percentage.
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Scouting UNLV (26-17, 8-10 MW)
• UNLV enters the week in sixth place in the MW having won each of its last two series, including taking 2-of-3 games at Boise State. The Rebels have won five of their last seven games.
• Under first-year head coach Kristie Fox UNLV was picked eighth in the preseason MW poll after going 25-27 (8-16 MW) last season. The team had an 18-7 record in pre-conference games this year but for the season UNLV has played the second easiest schedule among MW teams in terms of opponent winning percentage.
• Overall this season the Rebels lead the MW with a 2.95 ERA and with a .973 fielding percentage, but in MW games the team is just fourth in ERA (3.36) with a .284 opposing batting average. UNLV has hit just .257 in MW games, averaging only 3.8 runs per game in MW play.Â
• Janine Petmecky leads the MW with a 17-6 record and has a 2.27 ERA overall but is 6-5 with a 3.69 ERA in MW games. Mia Trejo is the only UNLV starter hitting above .300 this year at .361.
• Fresno State swept UNLV in Las Vegas last year and is 11-4 vs. the Rebels since joining the MW.
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Atop the Mountain
• At 13-5 in MW games the Bulldogs open the week with a one game lead over Boise State (12-6). At 14-6, San Jose State has one more win but also one more loss than the 'Dogs. Fresno State and Boise State have six games remaining while San Jose State has just four.
• Fresno State owns the tiebreaker over San Jose State but would lose a tiebreaker against Boise State. If the three teams ended in a three-way tie for first place, the 'Dogs would have that tiebreaker based on a 4-2 record against SJSU and BSU.
• Boise State plays at Colorado State this weekend while San Jose State is at Utah State. The Spartans will play their final regular season game at Nevada next Tuesday (May 8) to make up a game that was rained out earlier this season.
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Beating the Broncos
• Boise State entered the series vs. Fresno State leading NCAA Div. I with 7.11 runs per game and a .360 batting average, but Danielle East limited the Broncos to just two earned runs over 14.2 innings pitched and beat Boise State with no earned runs allowed on Sunday.
• In two starts in the series East allowed just four runs (two earned). She permitted just 11 hits and walked only two batters with a 0.95 ERA and .220 opposing batting average.
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Senior Moment
• Fresno State will honor its five seniors in a ceremony prior to first pitch of the last home game of the season on Sunday.
• Katie Castellon, Brooke Coates, and Chase LeeHong have been four-year Bulldogs while Savannah McHellon and Sarah Santana were transfers that joined the program as juniors.
• All five seniors helped the team reach the NCAA Regionals last year while Castellon, Coates, and LeeHong were also part of the 2015 and 2016 MW champion and NCAA Regional teams.
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30 for 37
• With their win on Sunday at Boise State the Bulldogs have a 30-win season for the 37th consecutive year. The 'Dogs have also clinched an overall winning record in 2018, something that the program has achieved in all 41 years of its existence.
• The Bulldogs are looking to qualify for the NCAA Regionals for the fourth straight year and the 31st time in the last 34 seasons.
• In its storied history Fresno State has won 23 conference titles, 59 NCAA Regional games, and 93 total postseason games, reaching the Women's College World Series 12 times with four runner-up finishes and winning the 1998 NCAA title.
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Doing it All
• Hitting second in the lineup, Katie Castellon leads NCAA Div. I lead with 16 sacrifice bunts this season.
• When she doesn't bunt she's been tearing the cover off the ball as, in MW play, she leads the league with an .824 slugging percentage, is third in batting average (.431), and is fourth in on-base percentage (.525). She has three homers, two triples, and seven doubles with 17 RBIs in 18 league games.
• Castellon has had at least one hit, walk, hbp, and/or sacrifice in all but one MW game and in 41 of the 48 total games this year.
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Home Cooking
• In 23 home games this year the 'Dogs are 17-6, having outscored the opposition 141-75 while hitting .310 with 15 home runs and tallying a 2.86 team ERA.
• The win over Monmouth on Mar. 11 was the 900th home victory in program history. The 'Dogs are 909-236-1 all-time at home over 41 seasons.
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Dominant Duo
• In MW play LHP Danielle East and RHP Samantha Mejia have confounded hitters from both arms as the pair has combined for a 1.70 ERA over 99.0 innings pitched.
• The two are a combined 13-4 in MW games and have 101 total strikeouts and four shutouts. Mejia leads the league with a 1.30 ERA in conference while East is second at 1.89.
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Super Support
• The red wave has averaged 1,050 fans per game this season, the most among all 20 NCAA Div. I schools in California and the 15th highest attendance average in the nation. No other MW team has averaged more than 471 fans, less than half of the 'Dogs average.
• All three games of the SDSU series had over 1,000 fans with a season-high 1,561 for Bark in the Park. Fresno State has averaged more than 1,000 fans per game for 25 consecutive seasons.
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On Base a Lot
• As a team the Bulldogs lead the MW and rank 8th in NCAA Div. I with a .413 on-base percentage. The Dogs have a .427 OBP in league games after having a .399 on-base percent in non-conference play.
• Hayleigh Galvan leads the MW and is 20th in Div. I with a .525 on-base percentage this year while five other Bulldog starters have an on-base percentage above .415.
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In the Polls
• Fresno State earned votes in last week's USA Today/NFCA Coaches Poll. The 'Dogs were the 10th team receiving votes, making the team essentially ranked No. 35 in the nation.
• The Bulldogs have received votes in the Coaches Poll in three weeks this season and appeared in the national rankings on Feb. 20 as D1softballnews.com chose Fresno State as the No. 25 team in the nation.
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Taking Several for the Team
• Fresno State batters rank second in NCAA Div. I with 61 hit-by-pitches this season, trailing only South Carolina (69 HBP). No other MW team has been hit more than 29 times.
• The 'Dogs broke the MW single season hit-by-pitch record on March 31, just 34 games into the season, topping the previous record of 47 set last year by San Jose State.
• Katie Castellon has been hit 11 times, tied for sixth most in a season in program history, while Schuylar Broussard and Hayleigh Galvan have both have 10 HBP this year.
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Gone Streaking
• Fresno State had a 10-game winning streak March 30 - April 15 that included eight straight MW wins.
• The 10-game winning streak was the longest recorded by the Bulldogs since a program-record 23-game winning streak in 2016.
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Samtastic
• In MW play Samantha Mejia is 5-1 with a 1.30 ERA, allowing just six earned runs and 25 hits in 28.1 innings.
• In her last 10 pitching appearances (39.0 innings) Mejia has allowed just 28 hits (26 singles) with a 1.08 ERA and .206 opposing batting average. In three relief appearances in MW play Mejia is 3-0, throwing 14.1 scoreless innings with a .091 opposing average.
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Galvan-izing the Offense
• Sophomore Hayleigh Galvan reached base in 20 consecutive games and had an 18-game hitting streak, the fifth-longest streak in program history.
• Galvan leads the MW and ranks 20th in NCAA Div. I with a .525 on-base percentage this season while also leading the team in batting average (.388) and ranking second in home runs (8) and RBIs (35).
• In 18 MW games Galvan is hitting .408 with a .531 on-base percentage.
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Doubling Up
• Fresno State leads the MW and is tied for 10th in NCAA Div. I with 26 double plays turned this year. The Bulldogs have also only hit into 10 double plays this season.
• The 'Dogs have turned a pair of double plays in four games this season, three of them against Power 5 opponents.
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East Meets (Mountain) West
• In her first 11 starts against MW opponents, freshman Danielle East is 8-3 with a 1.89 ERA and a .203 opposing batting average.
• East has recorded 81 strikeouts in 66.2 innings pitched against MW batters. She has tallied double-digit strikeouts in five MW games and has three shutouts in conference.
• East's 81 strikeouts in MW games have broken the MW record for freshman strikeouts in league play, which had been 75 by New Mexico's Hayley Punter in 2001. The overall record is 128 and the MW freshman strike out record for all games is 180 (East has 139).
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Irregular Innings
• Fresno State was played 20 games this season were not completed in the standard seven innings. The team has played 11 5-inning games, five 6-inning games, three 8-inning games, and one 9-inning game.
• The Bulldogs did not play a seven-inning game until their fifth contest of the season.
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Working the Field
• Fresno State ranks second in the MW and 41st in NCAA Div. I with a .971 fielding percentage this year.
• The Bulldogs have 23 error-free games this season and have committed multiple errors just six times over the last 38 games.
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High RPI
• In the most recent NCAA Rating Percentage Index (RPI) rankings Fresno State is No. 69, the second highest in the MW behind only No. 45 San Jose State.
• The RPI rankings reflect quality wins and strength of schedule as the 'Dogs played a very difficult non-conference slate and have wins over highly ranked teams, including a victory over Notre Dame (No. 42) and three wins against the Spartans.
"Just the Ticket to Build Our Community" – The Bulldog Scholarship Fund gives Bulldog alumni, fans and friends the opportunity to support Fresno State Athletics and the student-athletes who inspire them. For information about how you can support the Bulldog Scholarship Fund, please visit www.bulldogscholarshipfund.com or call 559-278-7160.
Follow us on:
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