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Saturday (DH) – 1 p.m., 4 p.m.

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The Western Oregon baseball team makes its annual trip to Big Sky country this weekend to face Montana State Billings in a four-game Great Northwest Athletic Conference series that will follow the resumption of a halted game between the two teams from March 6.

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WOUWolves.com/Live will have live stats and video for all four games on the series, provided by the sports information staff of MSUB. Also, follow @WOUWolves on Twitter for in-game updates.
 
WEEK IN REVIEW
WOU went 2-0 this past weekend against Saint Martin's in a neutral-site affair at George Fox University. The doubleheader sweep extended the Wolves' winning streak to five games and helped the club maintain a 1.5-game lead in the GNAC.
 

• Senior Elias Bedolla earned his second win of the year against Concordia, throwing five innings with two runs allowed on six hits and five walks. He pitched again on Monday, throwing one scoreless inning to earn his third win and bring his ERA down to 4.71 after the Wolves got the walk-off victory.
• The walk-off was the result of a Jacob Martinez single. After Joey Crunkilton singled as well, Martinez came around to score on a throwing error for the 3-2 victory in eight innings.
• Freshman Connor McCord threw six innings of one-run baseball in the opening game of the doubleheader with SMU. He struck out four batters and left the game with a no-decision. His 2.81 ERA this season now ranks second in the conference.
• Brock Pradere suffered just his third strikeout of the season this week. He has only been struck out three times in 89 plate appearances, making him the fourth toughest player in Division II baseball to strikeout.

 
MSUB NOTES
Montana State Billings enters the weekend with a 13-20 record and 11-12 mark in the GNAC after splitting a four-game set at Northwest Nazarene in Nampa last weekend. Offensively, the Yellowjackets are hitting .272 with a balanced lineup. Jalen Garcia leads the team with a .360 average. Ryan Myers has a team-high seven home runs and 25 RBI. Eleven different MSUB players have hit a home run this season. On the hill, Cody Cooper is the defending GNAC Pitcher of the Week after surpassing 200 strikeouts in his career. He is 1-5 on the season with a 6.58 ERA. Bryon Baker has a pair of complete games in his 4-0 record with a 2.83 ERA.

WOLVES AGAINST THE YELLOWJACKETS
Western Oregon has won four straight games against the Yellowjackets dating back to the 2016 GNAC Championships. The Wolves took three games earlier this year in neutral site affairs and leads 7-0 heading to the bottom of the 6^th inning in a halted game that will be resumed in Billings on Thursday. Under head coach Kellen Walker, WOU is 24-14 against Montana State Billings.
 
NCAA RANKINGS
Western Oregon as a team is ranked in the too-100 in the country in a number of categories:
 

• 20^th in hits allowed per nine innings – 7.96
• 29^th in team ERA – 3.66
• 50^th in WHIP (walk & hits in innings pitched) – 1.38
• 52^nd in on-base percentage - .399
• 57^th in stolen bases – 1.52
• 57^th in sacrifice bunts - 24
• 64^th in strikeouts per nine innings – 8.1
• 80^th in fielding percentage - .963

 
WALKER IN YEAR FIVE, GNAC 100 ATTAINED
Head coach Kellen Walker is his fifth year at the helm of the Wolves. Walker had led WOU to a 139-96 overall record in his tenure, including a 104-50 mark in GNAC competition. Walker reached 100 wins in GNAC play with a 9-7 victory in 10 innings at Northwest Nazarene on April 1, 2017.
 
ATOP THE GNAC PACK
Western Oregon has finished either the league champion or league runner-up for 15 consecutive seasons. Under Walker, WOU won the league championship in 2014 and 2015 while making it to the GNAC Championship game in 2016.
 
ROSTER BREAKDOWN
Western Oregon's 37-man opening day active roster features nine seniors, 15 juniors, four sophomores and nine freshmen. The Wolves are a geographically diverse team with six states represented. Twelve players hail from Oregon and nine from California. The states of Arizona and Washington each have six players while Nevada is represented by three and Hawaii has one.
 
PRESEASON RANKS
Western Oregon baseball was selected by the league's coaches to finish second behind defending league champion Northwest Nazarene in the race for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference title in 2017. In the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association vote, Western Oregon ranked in a tie for tenth with NNU. Brady Miller was named to the West Region First Team and took home third-team preseason All-American honors from the same group.