Matthew Dalquist Award Pitcher of the Week Week Of 3/7/2022 Sport Baseball School UC San Diego Year Freshman Position RHP Hometown Redondo Beach, Calif. High School Redondo Union HS UC San Diego true freshman right-hander Matthew Dalquist provided season highs of 7.0 innings and 10 strikeouts in just his third collegiate start at Santa Clara on Friday night. The Redondo Beach product allowed just one run on five hits and one walk, posting a trio of 1-2-3 frames and exiting with a 4-1 lead before the Broncos rallied in the final two innings for a 5-4 walk-off victory. Dalquist posted the first double-digit strikeout performance by a Triton arm of the program’s Division I era. Dalquist becomes the second UC San Diego hurler to earn Big West Pitcher of the Week distinction in as many years since the Tritons joined the conference, after Cameron Leonard on March 15, 2021.