Thursday, May 17
San Francisco, Calif.
5 p.m.
Kansas State University
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San Francisco
K-State Wraps Up Season at San Francisco
May 16, 2018 | Baseball
SAN FRANCISCO – K-State baseball concludes its 2018 season with a road nonconference series at San Francisco beginning Thursday at Benedetti Diamond.
K-State (21-30) enters the final weekend of the regular season on a three-game winning streak after a 7-3 victory Tuesday at Wichita State after taking two of three games against Kansas over the weekend.
San Francisco (27-26) has won its last two games overall after snapping a five-game skid. This will be the second all-time meeting between the teams, as USF won the only previous matchup, 7-6, in San Francisco back in 2014.
The series will mark the final games in 15-year head coach Brad Hill's career at K-State. The program's all-time winningest coach and two-time Big 12 Coach of the Year announced he will step down at the end of the season.
The entire three-game series will be streamed live on WCCSports.com and can be heard live on KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with free, live audio available at k-statesports.com.
GAME #52
K-STATE (21-30, 5-19 BIG 12) at SAN FRANCISCO (27-26, 15-12 WCC)
Thursday, May 17, 2018 // 5 p.m. CT // Benedetti Diamond (1,000) // San Francisco, Calif.
Projected Starters: RHP Hudson Treu (1-2, 5.97 ERA) vs. LHP Haydn King (0-1, 7.62 ERA)
Watch: WCCSports.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller and Christopher Brown
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GAME #53
K-STATE (21-30, 5-19 BIG 12) at SAN FRANCISCO (27-26, 15-12 WCC)
Friday, May 18, 2018 // 5 p.m. CT // Benedetti Diamond (1,000) // San Francisco, Calif.
Projected Starters: RHP Kasey Ford (4-2, 5.01 ERA) vs. RHP Riley Ornido (8-3, 2.51 ERA)
Watch: WCCSports.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller and Christopher Brown
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GAME #54
K-STATE (21-30, 5-19 BIG 12) at SAN FRANCISCO (27-26, 15-12 WCC)
Saturday, May 19, 2018 // 3 p.m. CT // Benedetti Diamond (1,000) // San Francisco, Calif.
Projected Starters: RHP Jared Marolf (2-5, 3.26 ERA) vs. RHP Landen Bourassa (7-4, 3.26 ERA)
Watch: WCCSports.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller and Christopher Brown
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A LOOK AT K-STATE
Kansas State (21-30, 5-19 Big 12) enters its final weekend series of the season having won its last three game after a 7-3 victory at Wichita State Tuesday ... Senior starter Justin Heskett tossed his first career complete game on a career-high 132 pitches ... Heskett shut down a potent Shockers' lineup over the final eight innings after a three-run first ... The Wildcat offense scored seven unanswered runs in the 7-3 win ... K-State completed its Big 12 schedule by taking the final two games of a three-game series from in-state rival Kansas over the weekend ... K-State won the final two games of the series, snapping a seven-game skid and earning its second Big 12 series win ... All three games in the series were decided by a single run, with two games going to extra innings ... Sunday's rubber match saw the Wildcats erase an early 4-0 deficit courtesy of Kyle Barfield's two-out grand slam in the fourth ... Barfield put the Cats ahead with an RBI triple two innings later before KU scored a run in the ninth to force extra innings ... Trailing 6-5 in the bottom of the 10th, Drew Mount and Trent McMaster each tripled to push the game to the 11th, where Hanz Harker delivered a walk-off single with the bases loaded to clinch the Sunflower Showdown ... The four-run hole was the Cats' largest come-from-behind victory this season ... Saturday, sophomore starter Jared Marolf tossed a five-hit shutout, striking out three and walking none in a 1-0 win ... It was Marolf's second straight complete game and the first shutout tossed by a Wildcat since Parker Rigler's no-hitter last season.
A LOOK AT SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco (27-26) enters its final weekend series havig won its last two games, snapping a five-game losing skid ... The Dons are led offensively by Michael Perri, who has a slash line of .347/.391/.559 and leads the team with eight homers and 41 RBI ... He, along with Jonathan Allen and Riley Helland, are all hitting above .300 on the season ... On the mound, USF has a team ERA of 3.80, led by Riley Ornido and his team-low earned run average of 2.51 ... Ornido will get the start opposite Kasey Ford on Friday ... Opponents are hitting just .245 against Dons pitchers.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
San Francisco took the only all-time meeting between the teams, winning 7-6 in San Francisco in on February 18, 2014.
THE NEXT OHTANI
K-State sophomore Will Brennan is already known as one of the nation's best hitters, but he has earned a spot in the weekend rotation as he has started each of the last four Sundays in Big 12 play ... Brennan turned in his first-career quality start in the series finale at Oklahoma, going a career-long 6 1/3 innings with just one earned run allowed while striking out a career-best nine hitters in a no-decision ... In his first career start at Nebraska on April 17, Brennan retired all six batters he faced over two innings on just 21 pitches ... Sunday, he struck out four over four innings in his second straight no-decision ... Brennan owns a team-best 4.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio to go with a team-low 2.2 walks per nine and 1.28 WHIP ... At the plate, he continues to be among the Big 12 leaders in hits and average, leading the Wildcats with a .372 average and 77 base hits ... His average, on-base percentage and hit total all rank in the league's top 10 ... Batting leadoff, Brennan is the toughest player in the Big 12 to strikeout, going 18.8 at-bats per strikeout (207 AB, 11 K), which is the ninth-best rate in the nation.
SEEING 20/10
K-State's Drew Mount is one home run away from becoming just the second Wildcat to have 20 stolen bases and 10 home runs in a season, joining Todd Fereday who stole 21 bases and hit 11 home runs in 1997 ... With his next homer, Mount will be just the sixth player in NCAA Division I to have 10 or more home runs and 10 or more steals this season and the first to have 20 steals with 10 homers.
NON-CON SUCCESS
K-State has a 16-11 record in nonconference action, including a 6-3 mark away from Tointon Family Stadium ... The Cats have a +16 run differential ... Brennan has a team-best .436 batting average in nonconference games while TK McWhertor is hitting .309 ... Seven of Drew Mount's team-best nine homers have come against non-Big 12 opponents as he is slugging .577 in those games to go with 34 runs driven in ... Freshman Alex Belch has an ERA of 1.86 with a save while Jaxon Passino and Jared Marolf each have an earned run average under 3.00 and two saves each in that span.
MAROLF GOES THE DISTANCE... AGAIN
Sophomore Jared Marolf is coming off back-to-back complete games in the first two Big 12 starts of his career ... Saturday, Marolf tossed a five-hit shutout of KU with three strikeouts and no walks, earning him Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honors ... He got the first Big 12 start of his career last Saturday at Oklahoma and turned in his first career complete game, going eight full innings in a 2-0 loss to the Sooners ... Marolf scattered six hits over his eight innings, allowing just two earned runs ... Marolf's shutout of the Jayhawks was the first thrown by a Wildcat since Parker Rigler tossed a no-hitter against Eastern Illinois on March 5, 2017 ... Over his last two starts, Marolf has lowered his ERA from 4.50 to a team-low 3.26.
GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES
Drew Mount added two more triples in the weekend series with Kansas, upping his league-leading total to seven ... The junior outfielder's seven triples are the most by a Wildcat since 1997 (Heath Schesser, 8) ... Mount's total is fourth-highest in the country and he is four from matching K-State's single-season record of 11 triples.
SAYING GOOD BYE
After 15 seasons as the Wildcats' skipper, head coach Brad Hill announced Tuesday that he will be stepping aside at the end of the season ... The two-time Big 12 Coach of the Year is the program's all-time winningest coach, taking K-State to four NCAA Regionals in five seasons to go with a 2013 Super Regional berth and the program's only Big 12 title (2013).
TALE OF TWO HALVES
In the first 25 games of the 2018 season, K-State was 13-12 with a team average of .275 to go with 18 homers and 154 runs scored ... Over the last 25, the Wildcats are 7-18 with eight homers and 110 runs ... The team ERA rose from 5.22 to 6.88 in the second half.
K-State (21-30) enters the final weekend of the regular season on a three-game winning streak after a 7-3 victory Tuesday at Wichita State after taking two of three games against Kansas over the weekend.
San Francisco (27-26) has won its last two games overall after snapping a five-game skid. This will be the second all-time meeting between the teams, as USF won the only previous matchup, 7-6, in San Francisco back in 2014.
The series will mark the final games in 15-year head coach Brad Hill's career at K-State. The program's all-time winningest coach and two-time Big 12 Coach of the Year announced he will step down at the end of the season.
The entire three-game series will be streamed live on WCCSports.com and can be heard live on KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with free, live audio available at k-statesports.com.
GAME #52
K-STATE (21-30, 5-19 BIG 12) at SAN FRANCISCO (27-26, 15-12 WCC)
Thursday, May 17, 2018 // 5 p.m. CT // Benedetti Diamond (1,000) // San Francisco, Calif.
Projected Starters: RHP Hudson Treu (1-2, 5.97 ERA) vs. LHP Haydn King (0-1, 7.62 ERA)
Watch: WCCSports.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller and Christopher Brown
Watch | Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #53
K-STATE (21-30, 5-19 BIG 12) at SAN FRANCISCO (27-26, 15-12 WCC)
Friday, May 18, 2018 // 5 p.m. CT // Benedetti Diamond (1,000) // San Francisco, Calif.
Projected Starters: RHP Kasey Ford (4-2, 5.01 ERA) vs. RHP Riley Ornido (8-3, 2.51 ERA)
Watch: WCCSports.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller and Christopher Brown
Watch | Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #54
K-STATE (21-30, 5-19 BIG 12) at SAN FRANCISCO (27-26, 15-12 WCC)
Saturday, May 19, 2018 // 3 p.m. CT // Benedetti Diamond (1,000) // San Francisco, Calif.
Projected Starters: RHP Jared Marolf (2-5, 3.26 ERA) vs. RHP Landen Bourassa (7-4, 3.26 ERA)
Watch: WCCSports.com
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Brian Smoller and Christopher Brown
Watch | Listen Online | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
Kansas State (21-30, 5-19 Big 12) enters its final weekend series of the season having won its last three game after a 7-3 victory at Wichita State Tuesday ... Senior starter Justin Heskett tossed his first career complete game on a career-high 132 pitches ... Heskett shut down a potent Shockers' lineup over the final eight innings after a three-run first ... The Wildcat offense scored seven unanswered runs in the 7-3 win ... K-State completed its Big 12 schedule by taking the final two games of a three-game series from in-state rival Kansas over the weekend ... K-State won the final two games of the series, snapping a seven-game skid and earning its second Big 12 series win ... All three games in the series were decided by a single run, with two games going to extra innings ... Sunday's rubber match saw the Wildcats erase an early 4-0 deficit courtesy of Kyle Barfield's two-out grand slam in the fourth ... Barfield put the Cats ahead with an RBI triple two innings later before KU scored a run in the ninth to force extra innings ... Trailing 6-5 in the bottom of the 10th, Drew Mount and Trent McMaster each tripled to push the game to the 11th, where Hanz Harker delivered a walk-off single with the bases loaded to clinch the Sunflower Showdown ... The four-run hole was the Cats' largest come-from-behind victory this season ... Saturday, sophomore starter Jared Marolf tossed a five-hit shutout, striking out three and walking none in a 1-0 win ... It was Marolf's second straight complete game and the first shutout tossed by a Wildcat since Parker Rigler's no-hitter last season.
A LOOK AT SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco (27-26) enters its final weekend series havig won its last two games, snapping a five-game losing skid ... The Dons are led offensively by Michael Perri, who has a slash line of .347/.391/.559 and leads the team with eight homers and 41 RBI ... He, along with Jonathan Allen and Riley Helland, are all hitting above .300 on the season ... On the mound, USF has a team ERA of 3.80, led by Riley Ornido and his team-low earned run average of 2.51 ... Ornido will get the start opposite Kasey Ford on Friday ... Opponents are hitting just .245 against Dons pitchers.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
San Francisco took the only all-time meeting between the teams, winning 7-6 in San Francisco in on February 18, 2014.
THE NEXT OHTANI
K-State sophomore Will Brennan is already known as one of the nation's best hitters, but he has earned a spot in the weekend rotation as he has started each of the last four Sundays in Big 12 play ... Brennan turned in his first-career quality start in the series finale at Oklahoma, going a career-long 6 1/3 innings with just one earned run allowed while striking out a career-best nine hitters in a no-decision ... In his first career start at Nebraska on April 17, Brennan retired all six batters he faced over two innings on just 21 pitches ... Sunday, he struck out four over four innings in his second straight no-decision ... Brennan owns a team-best 4.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio to go with a team-low 2.2 walks per nine and 1.28 WHIP ... At the plate, he continues to be among the Big 12 leaders in hits and average, leading the Wildcats with a .372 average and 77 base hits ... His average, on-base percentage and hit total all rank in the league's top 10 ... Batting leadoff, Brennan is the toughest player in the Big 12 to strikeout, going 18.8 at-bats per strikeout (207 AB, 11 K), which is the ninth-best rate in the nation.
SEEING 20/10
K-State's Drew Mount is one home run away from becoming just the second Wildcat to have 20 stolen bases and 10 home runs in a season, joining Todd Fereday who stole 21 bases and hit 11 home runs in 1997 ... With his next homer, Mount will be just the sixth player in NCAA Division I to have 10 or more home runs and 10 or more steals this season and the first to have 20 steals with 10 homers.
NON-CON SUCCESS
K-State has a 16-11 record in nonconference action, including a 6-3 mark away from Tointon Family Stadium ... The Cats have a +16 run differential ... Brennan has a team-best .436 batting average in nonconference games while TK McWhertor is hitting .309 ... Seven of Drew Mount's team-best nine homers have come against non-Big 12 opponents as he is slugging .577 in those games to go with 34 runs driven in ... Freshman Alex Belch has an ERA of 1.86 with a save while Jaxon Passino and Jared Marolf each have an earned run average under 3.00 and two saves each in that span.
MAROLF GOES THE DISTANCE... AGAIN
Sophomore Jared Marolf is coming off back-to-back complete games in the first two Big 12 starts of his career ... Saturday, Marolf tossed a five-hit shutout of KU with three strikeouts and no walks, earning him Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honors ... He got the first Big 12 start of his career last Saturday at Oklahoma and turned in his first career complete game, going eight full innings in a 2-0 loss to the Sooners ... Marolf scattered six hits over his eight innings, allowing just two earned runs ... Marolf's shutout of the Jayhawks was the first thrown by a Wildcat since Parker Rigler tossed a no-hitter against Eastern Illinois on March 5, 2017 ... Over his last two starts, Marolf has lowered his ERA from 4.50 to a team-low 3.26.
GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES
Drew Mount added two more triples in the weekend series with Kansas, upping his league-leading total to seven ... The junior outfielder's seven triples are the most by a Wildcat since 1997 (Heath Schesser, 8) ... Mount's total is fourth-highest in the country and he is four from matching K-State's single-season record of 11 triples.
SAYING GOOD BYE
After 15 seasons as the Wildcats' skipper, head coach Brad Hill announced Tuesday that he will be stepping aside at the end of the season ... The two-time Big 12 Coach of the Year is the program's all-time winningest coach, taking K-State to four NCAA Regionals in five seasons to go with a 2013 Super Regional berth and the program's only Big 12 title (2013).
TALE OF TWO HALVES
In the first 25 games of the 2018 season, K-State was 13-12 with a team average of .275 to go with 18 homers and 154 runs scored ... Over the last 25, the Wildcats are 7-18 with eight homers and 110 runs ... The team ERA rose from 5.22 to 6.88 in the second half.
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