Big West Baseball: Composite Schedule || Standings || Stats 

Friday, March 25
UC Santa Barbara at UC Davis,l 2:30 p.m.
Long Beach State at CSUN, 3 p.m.
Utah Valley at CSU Bakersfield, 6:05 p.m.
Cal Poly at UC San Diego, 6:30 p.m.
UC Riverside at Cal State Fullerton, 7 p.m.
UC Irvine at Hawai’i, 9:35 p.m.

Saturday, March 26
UC Santa Barbara at UC Davis, 1 p.m.
Long Beach State at CSUN, 2 p.m.
Cal Poly at UC San Diego, 2 p.m.
Utah Valley at CSU Bakersfield (DH), 2:05 p.m.
Utah Valley at CSU Bakersfield (DH), 5:05 p.m.
UC Riverside at Cal State Fullerton, 6 p.m.
UC Irvine at Hawai’i, 9:35 p.m.

Sunday, March 27
Utah Valley at CSU Bakersfield, 12:05 p.m.
Long Beach State at CSUN, 1 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at UC Davis, 1 p.m.
UC Riverside at Cal State Fullerton, 1 p.m.
Cal Poly at UC San Diego, 1 p.m.
UC Irvine at Hawai’i, 4:05 p.m.

Tuesday, March 29
UC Davis at San Jose State, 2:05 p.m.
Long Beach State at Pepperdine, 3 p.m.
UC San Diego at San Diego State, 6 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at UC Riverside, 6 p.m.
Santa Clara at Cal Poly, 6 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara at UCLA, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 30
San Jose State at Cal State Fullerton, 6 p.m.

All times Pacific, and subject to change; E+ - Streamed on ESPN PLUS

Friday, March 18
Cal State Fullerton 1, at UC Santa Barbara 3
CSU Bakersfield 9, at UC Riverside 3
Hawai’i 0, at Long Beach State 4
CSUN 4, at Cal Poly 6

Saturday, March 19
UC Davis 7, at UC Irvine 10
CSUN 4, at Cal Poly 8
Hawai’i 4, at Long Beach State 5 (10 inn.)
Cal State Fullerton 2, at UC Santa Barbara 7
CSU Bakersfield 7, at UC Riverside 5
Connecticut 8, at UC San Diego 7
UC Davis 0, at UC Irvine 8

Sunday, March 20
UC Davis 6, at UC Irvine 12
CSUN 4, at Cal Poly 6
Hawai’i 6, at Long Beach State 3
CSU Bakersfield 12, at UC Riverside 8
Cal State Fullerton 7, at UC Santa Barbara 6
Connecticut 3, at UC San Diego 2

Monday, March 21
No. 25 Connecticut 7, at UC San Diego 8

Tuesday, March 22
UNLV 6, at UC Riverside 2
Dixie State 4, at CSUN 6
UC Santa Barbara 5, at Saint Mary’s 3
Cal Poly 14, at California 4
San Diego State 14, at UC San Diego 7
Cal State Fullerton 10, at USC 11
UC Irvine 5, at San Diego 6 (10 inn.)
Long Beach State 19, at Fresno State 7
Pepperdine 10, at CSU Bakersfield 9

Big West wins in BOLD

What 2 Watch 4
The second week of The Big West Baseball starts on Friday, March 25, with all 11 squads in action. UC Davis hosts UC Santa Barbara and CSUN welcomes in Long Beach State matinee affairs. That night, UC San Diego entertains an in-form Cal Poly squad that boasts the conference’s longest current win streak of four games, with UC Riverside at Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine on O’ahu to take on Hawai’i inside Les Murakami Stadium. CSU Bakersfield is the odd man out from league play, and the Roadrunners will host Utah Valley of the Western Athletic Conference for a four-game set with a Saturday doubleheader.

Six teams will be in non-conference action on Tuesday, highlighted by UC Santa Barbara’s trip over to UCLA. UC Davis, Long Beach State and UC San Diego will also be on the road, while Cal Poly and UC Riverside await primetime home dates. Cal State Fullerton hosts San José State at Goodwin Field to round out the month on Wednesday, March 30, at 6 p.m.

Poll Chatter
Long Beach State, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara are all still receiving votes outside of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) top 30. UCI is also getting a vote beyond USA Today’s top 25.

Pair of Big West Tilts Announced for ESPNU
On Wednesday, Feb. 16, The Big West announced two baseball telecasts on ESPNU this spring which feature the top three teams in the preseason coaches’ poll. Defending conference champion UC Irvine will play at preseason favorite Long Beach State at 1 p.m. PT on Sunday, May 1. Then on May 6, UC Irvine hosts UC Santa Barbara under Friday night lights in a 7 p.m. PT showdown at Cicerone Field. The Anteaters and Gauchos represented The Big West in the NCAA postseason in 2021. Games aired on ESPN networks are available on the ESPN App, accessible on computers, smartphones, tablets and connected devices to fans who receive their video subscription through an authenticated provider.

Big West History
The Big West has sent at least one team to the College World Series in 21 seasons, including a stretch of eight consecutive years from 1988-95 and four in a row from 2014-17. Four current members have represented the Big West at the CWS - Cal State Fullerton (1975, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2017), Long Beach State (1989, 1991, 1993, 1998), UC Irvine (2007, 2014) and UC Santa Barbara (2016). In 2007, CSF and UCI played in the longest game in CWS history - a five-hour and 40-minute marathon that lasted 13 innings and ended in a 5-4 Anteater victory. The Big West has won two national titles, both by the Titans, in 1995 and 2004.

 Last Week, Today
The first week of The Big West conference schedule saw three-game sweeps at home by Cal Poly and UC Irvine over CSUN and UC Davis, respectively, and a road sweep for CSU Bakersfield at UC Riverside. Long Beach State beat Hawai’i and UC Santa Barbara downed Cal State Fullerton, both at home, with the visitors salvaging the Sunday finale in each set.

- UC Irvine’s doubleheader sweep on Saturday over UC Davis to get that series off to a later-than-normal start because of final exams, gave 2021 Big West Coach of the Year Ben Orloff 100 wins in his fourth year in charge at his alma mater. Michael Frias combined with three relievers on a two-hit shutout in the nightcap. Relief ace Gordon Ingebritson picked up the other two winning decisions. The ‘Eaters outscored the Aggies, 30-13, for the weekend.

- Friday night’s opener in Riverside ended 9-3 in favor of visiting CSU Bakersfield and featured a quartet of three-run frames. Sophomore Roadrunner centerfielder Jashia Morrissey reached base safely in all nine plate appearances on Saturday and Sunday (three singles, first collegiate triple, second home run, four walks) to earn his first Big West Field Player of the Week award.

- Cal Poly rallied after surrendering a fourth-inning grand slam to CSUN slugger Gabe Gonzalez on Friday night to score one in the sixth and five in the eighth en route to a 6-4 triumph that ignited 3-0 weekend. John Lagattuta’s sacrifice fly tied that one just ahead of Collin Villegas’ pinch-hit, two-out, two-run double to account for the winning margin.

- Chris Jimenez’s walk-off home run to left field with one away in the 10th completed the Dirtbags’ rally from a 4-1 deficit on Saturday afternoon and clinched their series victory over the Rainbow Warriors. Five walks, the last two with two outs and the bases full, had tied the game in the ninth. Second-time Big West Pitcher of the Week Luis Ramirez (7.0 IP, 2 H, 10 K) and Matt Fields partnered on Friday night’s two-hit shutout. UH trotted out to a 6-0 lead behind a solo home run by Matt Wong and three-run blast by Jacob Igawa and won 6-3 on Sunday.

- Long balls in the fifth by Kyle Johnson and Jason Willow were all the offense UC Santa Barbara needed in a 3-1 win Friday that sent the Gauchos on their way to a series success. Ace Cory Lewis tossed 5.2 scoreless frames with 10 more strikeouts. The hosts would bang out three more home runs on Saturday before Cal State Fullerton cobbled together a three-run ninth to pull out the back-and-forth Sunday showdown in dramatic fashion, 7-6.
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Michael Fuhrman’s eighth-inning sacrifice fly plated fellow senior Ryan McNally and Izaak Martinez shut the door with a 1-2-3 ninth as UC San Diego snapped its 10-game skid and salvaged the finale of a three-game non-conference series with visiting UConn on Monday afternoon, 8-7. The Huskies had moved into the D1 Baseball poll at No. 25 that morning.

- The Big West squads went 4-5 on Tuesday. Arguably most notable was a season-best fourth consecutive win for Cal Poly, an impressive 14-4 road dismantling of the California Golden Bears, who had just taken two out of three at USC. Ryan Harvey notched his league-best seventh save to cap UC Santa Barbara’s 5-3 win at Saint Mary’s. Long Beach State ran roughshod over host Fresno State, scoring eight in the first, six in the second, and a season-high 19 in all off a season-best 20 hits. CSUN edged Dixie State in Northridge, 6-4, with the game’s scoring bookended by first-pitch solo home runs from Gonzalez and Bart West.

Andrew Allanson belted two grand slams, one from each side of the plate with the latter coming in the ninth, but CSU Bakersfield still dropped a narrow 10-9 decision at home to Pepperdine. The redshirt freshman designated hitter’s eight RBI broke the single-game program record. Justin Torres’ three-run shot pulled UC Irvine even at San Diego in the ninth, before the host Toreros walked it off in the 10th, 6-5. The Titans led 10-6 at USC before a two-run Trojan seventh and a three-run eighth did them in.
 

Ranked Wins
Here is a look at Big West teams with wins over nationally-ranked non-conference opponents this season, based on the D1Baseball poll.

Feb. 18 - 
No. 24 Long Beach State 3, at No. 4 Mississippi State 0

Feb. 19 - 
No. 24 Long Beach State 13, at No. 4 Mississippi State 3
Cal State Fullerton 11, at No. 6 Stanford 0

March 4 -
CSUN 9, at No. 6 Stanford 3

March 6 -
UC Irvine 3, at No. 13 Oregon State 2 (10)

March 12 -
No. 25 Gonzaga 3, at Long Beach State 13

March 13 -
No. 25 Gonzaga 0, at Long Beach State 1

March 21 -
No. 25 Connecticut 7, at UC San Diego 8