Kansas State University Athletics
Friday, March 1
Fort Worth, Texas
3 p.m.
Kansas State University
vs
San Francisco
K-State, San Francisco to Meet in Fort Worth
Feb 28, 2019 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – After relocating its home-opening series, K-State will meet San Francisco in Fort Worth, Texas, at Lupton Stadium to begin a three-game series on Friday at 3 p.m.
The Wildcats (3-5) will send junior Tyler Ekberg to the mound for the series opener for the third straight weekend, while freshman lefty Jordan Wicks will get the nod in Game 2. Junior Will Brennan is scheduled to start the series finale at 3 p.m. Admission is free to all three games at the home of the TCU Horned Frogs.
K-State won one of three games at the Tony Gwynn Legacy over the weekend in San Diego, Calif., defeating Utah 6-4 on Saturday. The Wildcats and Dons (4-3) met in San Francisco last season, with the Cats taking two of three games.
The entire series can be heard on New Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) or streaming free online at K-StateSports.com/watch.
GAME #9
K-STATE (3-5) vs. SAN FRANCISCO (4-3)
Friday, March 1 // 3 p.m. // Lupton Stadium (4,500) // Fort Worth, Texas
Projected Starters: RHP Tyler Eckberg (0-1, 12.38 ERA) vs. RHP Riley Ornido (1-1, 0.75 ERA)
Watch: N/A
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner and Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #10
K-STATE (3-5) vs. SAN FRANCISCO (4-3)
Friday, March 1 // Lupton Stadium (4,500) // Fort Worth, Texas
Projected Starters: LHP Jordan Wicks (1-0, 2.25 ERA) vs. LHP Scott Parker (0-0, 2.84 ERA)
Watch: N/A
Radio: N/A
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // Mitch Fortner and Christopher Brown
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #11
K-STATE (3-5) vs. SAN FRANCISCO (4-3)
Saturday, March 2 // 3 p.m. // Lupton Stadium (4,500) // Fort Worth, Texas
Projected Starters: LHP Will Brennan (0-2, 7.36 ERA) vs. LHP Grant Young (1-0, 8.64 ERA)
Watch: N/A
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner and Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State (3-5) was forced to move its home-opening series against San Francisco to Fort Worth, Texas, due to winter weather conditions in Manhattan ... The Wildcats enter the weekend following an eight-game road trip through Southern California, going 3-5, including a 1-2 weekend at the Tony Gwynn Legacy in San Diego against Fresno State, Utah and co-host San Diego State ... After an 11-3 loss Friday to Fresno State, the Wildcats rebounded with a 6-4 victory over the Utah Utes ... In the tournament's finale, the Cats fell to SDSU 10-7, following an eight-run sixth by the Aztecs ... Over the weekend, freshman Dylan Phillips posted a team-high .429 average, going 3-for-7 to go with three walks and two runs scored ... Junior Cameron Thompson picked up five hits with a triple and an RBI in all three games ... K-State has held a lead at some point in seven of eight games this season.
A LOOK AT SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco enters the weekend 4-3 following a Wednesday night loss to Stanford ... USF dropped two of three games to San Diego State in the seasons' opening weekend before taking two of three from CSU Bakersfield at home ... Offensively, the Dons are led by Jack Winkler with a .435/.552/.652 slash line to go with two doubles, a homer and five driven in ... San Francisco boasts a team ERA of 3.63 (21 ER, 52.0 IP) with an opponent batting average of .260 ... Junior Riley Ornido, who was voted to the All-WCC Preseason Team, is 1-1 with a 0.75 ERA and 1.08 WHIP ... In two starts, Ornido has a team-high 13 strikeouts against five walks over 12 innings pitched ... Senior catcher and infielder Riley Helland was also named to the All-WCC Preseason Team.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
K-State and San Francisco have split four all-time meetings in the series' history after the Wildcats took two of three game last season at USF ... K-State claimed the first two games of the series at Benedetti Diamond before the Dons took the Sunday finale ... All four games took place in San Francisco and this will be the first neutral site series between the teams ... Kasey Ford turned in a quality start, going six innings with just one earned run allowed on three hits in a win ... Will Brennan earned his first career save, tossing three innings of shutout baseball on two hits ... Tyler Eckberg, Friday's starter, made two relief appearances and allowed two hits and no runs over a 1 2/3 innings pitched.
THROW UP THE Z
Senior Mitch Zubradt has thrown the final out in all three of K-State's wins this season ... Zubradt entered the game with runners on base and struck out the only batter he faced to collect his first career save and preserve a 6-5 win over CSUN on Feb. 16 ... In the finale at CSUN, Zubradt tossed three innings of shutout baseball, allowing just one hit while picking up five strikeouts in earning the win ... Of his 44 pitches in the victory, 32 of them went for strikes ... Zubradt recorded a five-out save, without yielding a hit, in a 6-4 win over Utah in San Diego.
IMPACT LEFTY
Freshman left-handed pitcher Jordan Wicks has posted back-to-back Saturday starts to open the season, going 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA (3 ER, 12.0 IP) while collecting 13 strikeouts ... Against Utah last Saturday, Wicks turned in his first quality start as he went seven innings and gave up two earned runs on six hits with six strikeouts ... In his season debut, Wicks did not surrender a walk and struck out seven ... The Conway, Ark., product is tied for the team lead with 13 strikeouts with a 6.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio ... The Cats are 2-0 in games Wicks starts and he is slated to start Saturday vs. San Francisco.
LITTLEJIM, BIG BAT
Junior two-way player Caleb Littlejim leads the Cats with two home runs, with his second coming in a 6-4 win over Utah on Saturday ... In his first season playing in the field, Littlejim is hitting .300 (9-for-30) with four extra-base hits and six RBI ... His .567 slugging percentage ranks second on the team while his six RBI are tied for first ... In his first two seasons, Littlejim was exclusively a pitcher but did appear as a pinch runner ... In 2019, he has started every game and has moved into the No. 2 spot in the lineup.
SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST
K-State has scored more runs in the ninth inning (13) than any other inning ... Conversely, the Cats have only allowed two runs in the ninth inning for a +11 run differential - best of any single inning this season ... Of the team's seven home runs, three have come in the ninth (most of any single inning).
IRONMAN
Junior Cameron Thompson is the only current Wildcat to have started every game of his K-State career, starting all 117 games now in his third season ... Thompson, who was tabbed a Freshman All-Americans by Collegiate Baseball in 2017, started all 54 games at shortstop last year after starting all 55 games at center and second base his freshman season ... Thompson has seven starts at second base and one in center field in 2019 ... Thompson has hit safely in his last six games and has a run driven in in each of his last three.
POWER SURGE
With a roster that retained just six home runs, K-State has his seven home runs (hit by six different players) over the season's first eight games ... Five different players to belt home runs in the first four games vs. CSUN ... All six players to hit home runs marked the first of their respective careers: Caleb Littlejim, Will Brennan, Dylan Phillips, Thomas Hughes, Terrence Spurlin and Jeffrey Boggess.
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY
Junior Will Brennan has already put his name in the K-State record books after just two seasons as a Wildcat ... Brennan broke the program's freshman hitting record in 2017 (.350), which had stood since 1977 ... Brennan's .359 average in his sophomore campaign led the team and upped his career average to .364 - which currently ranks sixth in K-State history ... The 6-foot left-handed hitter has moved to the three hole in the lineup and ranks second in the Big 12 in hitting at .484 ... Brennan leads the team in a number of offensive categories, including hitting, on-base percentage and slugging ... He entered 2019 in seventh in the program charts with a career on-base percentage of .454 and has upped that to .462 (5th).
The Wildcats (3-5) will send junior Tyler Ekberg to the mound for the series opener for the third straight weekend, while freshman lefty Jordan Wicks will get the nod in Game 2. Junior Will Brennan is scheduled to start the series finale at 3 p.m. Admission is free to all three games at the home of the TCU Horned Frogs.
K-State won one of three games at the Tony Gwynn Legacy over the weekend in San Diego, Calif., defeating Utah 6-4 on Saturday. The Wildcats and Dons (4-3) met in San Francisco last season, with the Cats taking two of three games.
The entire series can be heard on New Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) or streaming free online at K-StateSports.com/watch.
GAME #9
K-STATE (3-5) vs. SAN FRANCISCO (4-3)
Friday, March 1 // 3 p.m. // Lupton Stadium (4,500) // Fort Worth, Texas
Projected Starters: RHP Tyler Eckberg (0-1, 12.38 ERA) vs. RHP Riley Ornido (1-1, 0.75 ERA)
Watch: N/A
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner and Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #10
K-STATE (3-5) vs. SAN FRANCISCO (4-3)
Friday, March 1 // Lupton Stadium (4,500) // Fort Worth, Texas
Projected Starters: LHP Jordan Wicks (1-0, 2.25 ERA) vs. LHP Scott Parker (0-0, 2.84 ERA)
Watch: N/A
Radio: N/A
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // Mitch Fortner and Christopher Brown
Listen Online | Live Stats
GAME #11
K-STATE (3-5) vs. SAN FRANCISCO (4-3)
Saturday, March 2 // 3 p.m. // Lupton Stadium (4,500) // Fort Worth, Texas
Projected Starters: LHP Will Brennan (0-2, 7.36 ERA) vs. LHP Grant Young (1-0, 8.64 ERA)
Watch: N/A
Radio: KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) // Mitch Fortner and Christopher Brown
Listen Online: K-StateSports.com/watch // 1350KMAN.com
Listen Online | Live Stats
A LOOK AT K-STATE
K-State (3-5) was forced to move its home-opening series against San Francisco to Fort Worth, Texas, due to winter weather conditions in Manhattan ... The Wildcats enter the weekend following an eight-game road trip through Southern California, going 3-5, including a 1-2 weekend at the Tony Gwynn Legacy in San Diego against Fresno State, Utah and co-host San Diego State ... After an 11-3 loss Friday to Fresno State, the Wildcats rebounded with a 6-4 victory over the Utah Utes ... In the tournament's finale, the Cats fell to SDSU 10-7, following an eight-run sixth by the Aztecs ... Over the weekend, freshman Dylan Phillips posted a team-high .429 average, going 3-for-7 to go with three walks and two runs scored ... Junior Cameron Thompson picked up five hits with a triple and an RBI in all three games ... K-State has held a lead at some point in seven of eight games this season.
A LOOK AT SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco enters the weekend 4-3 following a Wednesday night loss to Stanford ... USF dropped two of three games to San Diego State in the seasons' opening weekend before taking two of three from CSU Bakersfield at home ... Offensively, the Dons are led by Jack Winkler with a .435/.552/.652 slash line to go with two doubles, a homer and five driven in ... San Francisco boasts a team ERA of 3.63 (21 ER, 52.0 IP) with an opponent batting average of .260 ... Junior Riley Ornido, who was voted to the All-WCC Preseason Team, is 1-1 with a 0.75 ERA and 1.08 WHIP ... In two starts, Ornido has a team-high 13 strikeouts against five walks over 12 innings pitched ... Senior catcher and infielder Riley Helland was also named to the All-WCC Preseason Team.
A LOOK AT THE SERIES
K-State and San Francisco have split four all-time meetings in the series' history after the Wildcats took two of three game last season at USF ... K-State claimed the first two games of the series at Benedetti Diamond before the Dons took the Sunday finale ... All four games took place in San Francisco and this will be the first neutral site series between the teams ... Kasey Ford turned in a quality start, going six innings with just one earned run allowed on three hits in a win ... Will Brennan earned his first career save, tossing three innings of shutout baseball on two hits ... Tyler Eckberg, Friday's starter, made two relief appearances and allowed two hits and no runs over a 1 2/3 innings pitched.
THROW UP THE Z
Senior Mitch Zubradt has thrown the final out in all three of K-State's wins this season ... Zubradt entered the game with runners on base and struck out the only batter he faced to collect his first career save and preserve a 6-5 win over CSUN on Feb. 16 ... In the finale at CSUN, Zubradt tossed three innings of shutout baseball, allowing just one hit while picking up five strikeouts in earning the win ... Of his 44 pitches in the victory, 32 of them went for strikes ... Zubradt recorded a five-out save, without yielding a hit, in a 6-4 win over Utah in San Diego.
IMPACT LEFTY
Freshman left-handed pitcher Jordan Wicks has posted back-to-back Saturday starts to open the season, going 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA (3 ER, 12.0 IP) while collecting 13 strikeouts ... Against Utah last Saturday, Wicks turned in his first quality start as he went seven innings and gave up two earned runs on six hits with six strikeouts ... In his season debut, Wicks did not surrender a walk and struck out seven ... The Conway, Ark., product is tied for the team lead with 13 strikeouts with a 6.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio ... The Cats are 2-0 in games Wicks starts and he is slated to start Saturday vs. San Francisco.
LITTLEJIM, BIG BAT
Junior two-way player Caleb Littlejim leads the Cats with two home runs, with his second coming in a 6-4 win over Utah on Saturday ... In his first season playing in the field, Littlejim is hitting .300 (9-for-30) with four extra-base hits and six RBI ... His .567 slugging percentage ranks second on the team while his six RBI are tied for first ... In his first two seasons, Littlejim was exclusively a pitcher but did appear as a pinch runner ... In 2019, he has started every game and has moved into the No. 2 spot in the lineup.
SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST
K-State has scored more runs in the ninth inning (13) than any other inning ... Conversely, the Cats have only allowed two runs in the ninth inning for a +11 run differential - best of any single inning this season ... Of the team's seven home runs, three have come in the ninth (most of any single inning).
IRONMAN
Junior Cameron Thompson is the only current Wildcat to have started every game of his K-State career, starting all 117 games now in his third season ... Thompson, who was tabbed a Freshman All-Americans by Collegiate Baseball in 2017, started all 54 games at shortstop last year after starting all 55 games at center and second base his freshman season ... Thompson has seven starts at second base and one in center field in 2019 ... Thompson has hit safely in his last six games and has a run driven in in each of his last three.
POWER SURGE
With a roster that retained just six home runs, K-State has his seven home runs (hit by six different players) over the season's first eight games ... Five different players to belt home runs in the first four games vs. CSUN ... All six players to hit home runs marked the first of their respective careers: Caleb Littlejim, Will Brennan, Dylan Phillips, Thomas Hughes, Terrence Spurlin and Jeffrey Boggess.
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY
Junior Will Brennan has already put his name in the K-State record books after just two seasons as a Wildcat ... Brennan broke the program's freshman hitting record in 2017 (.350), which had stood since 1977 ... Brennan's .359 average in his sophomore campaign led the team and upped his career average to .364 - which currently ranks sixth in K-State history ... The 6-foot left-handed hitter has moved to the three hole in the lineup and ranks second in the Big 12 in hitting at .484 ... Brennan leads the team in a number of offensive categories, including hitting, on-base percentage and slugging ... He entered 2019 in seventh in the program charts with a career on-base percentage of .454 and has upped that to .462 (5th).
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