Left-hander Zach Thornton, in his first season with the Lopes, won the most games with nine. He will take the mound on Wednesday night with a 7-1 record and 4.13 ERA and an opposing-team batting average of. The sophomore right-hander from Phoenix Alhambra High School ended up making first-team All-WAC. He'll be taking the mound Wedneseday night. With the Lopes as healthy as they've been all year and some arms out of the bullpen emerging, they hope to minimize damage and let their bats get going.ĭaniel Avitia, who started the season with an ankle injury, is now at his best. GCU then got swept out of the NCAA Oklahoma State regional, going 0-2, as its pitching imploded. 25 national ranking, losing to fourth-seeded Abilene Christian 15-8 in a Sunday semifinal elimination game. GCU has never won an NCAA Tournament game, and last year, as the top seed, it got tripped up in the WAC Tournament after gaining the No. GCU (36-19) wants to make more history under coach Gregg Wallis, who became the first first-year head coach to win the WAC Baseball Coach of the Year honor, leading his team to a three-game sweep of California Baptist in the final weekend of the regular season to erase a 1 1/2-game deficit to Sam Houston and win the school's fifth regular-season WAC title in the past six seasons. "All nine guys in our lineup hit every game. Yorke said that Bush set the tone with his ability to reach base at the top of the order all year. He is just under Yorke in batting average at. He was the only GCU player to play in all 55 games, starting all of them, and hitting leadoff. Junior center fielder Homer Bush Jr., also expected to be taken high in the MLB draft, set a season Division I school record with 24 stolen bases. Jacob Wilson returned during this streak after being out with injuries and now holds the school record for all-time hits with 221. 296 as a team with production up and down the lineup, especially during this 13-game winning streak that included a 12-inning win at home against Arizona. having breakout year after big offseason gains I played my game every day, and good things happened." But great coaches always had my back all year. "But, no, I didn't expect such a good year. "I definitely had confidence coming into my freshman year," Yorke said. 378, which is second on the team to junior shortstop Jack Wilson (.425), who is expected to be taken among the top 10 picks in the Major League Baseball draft this summer. He never expected a freshman season like it, hitting. Yorke, who committed to GCU when he was living in San Jose, played catcher all three years at Archbishop Mitty, and his last high school season at Glendale Mountain Ridge last year. "We get to play in the tourney and they can watch us from their couches at home."
"We're playing for more than individual awards," Yorke said. Yorke didn't win the WAC Freshman of the Year award, but he's happy to be helping in any way he can to try to get GCU into the NCAA Tournament for a third consecutive year. 6 UT Arlington 14-4 in seven innings on Tuesday. 7 UT Rio Grande Valley, which defeated No. GCU, on a school record, Division I record 13-game winning streak, opens as the top seed Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Yorke comes into the WAC Baseball Tournament at Mesa's Hohokam Stadium reaching base in 35 consecutive games. He made the Western Athletic Conference's All-Defensive team as a freshman.He needs two hits to break Blake Woods’ 1998 school freshman mark of 71 hits in a season.He needs two RBI to break Tim Salmon's freshman school record of 61.He needs two home runs to break Jon Hamel’s 1996 Division I school record of nine in a season.He set the school Division I record for RBI in a season with 60.With a spot open at first base, Yorke, who is 6-foot-2, 290 pounds, became an everyday player for Grand Canyon during what has become a historic freshman season.
It was probably a pretty good thing for him." We had a good idea early in his career, if he wasn't going to be the everyday catcher, we could try him out at first base. "I saw his hands were really good," Wallis said. He was always a catcher in baseball, growing up in Northern California.īut the first time Grand Canyon coach Gregg Wallis went to see Yorke play in high school at San Jose's Archbishop Mitty, the big guy was at first. Zach Yorke never played first base more than two games in a row during his high school career.
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