Game Times (Mountain):
Friday (DH) – 1 p.m., 4 p.m.
Saturday (DH) – 1 p.m., 4 p.m.
 
Game Times (Mountain):
Tuesday (DH) – 11 a.m., 2 p.m.


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Western Oregon baseball will make Porter Park their home away from home for the next six games in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play. The Wolves will be the home team this Friday and Saturday (April 21-22) against Concordia on their turf and return to Portland to make up games with Saint Martin's on Tuesday, April 25.

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WOUWolves.com/Live will have live stats and video for all six games, with video courtesy of the sports information staff of Concordia. Also, follow @WOUWolves on Twitter for in-game updates.
 
WEEK IN REVIEW
WOU had a great week, going 6-1 during a six-day span. The Wolves defeated Saint Martin's in two games played in Newberg and won four out of five games contested last weekend in Billings to increase its lead to three game in the GNAC with three weeks left in the regular season.
 

• The Wolves have their first chance to clinch a spot in the GNAC Championships this week. They can do so by winning all four games and either Saint Martin's gets swept or Montana State Billings loses three games.
• Senior Trey Smith became the GNAC leader in ERA after throwing six shutout innings against Montana State Billings before tossing a 3-run complete game in the series finale for his second and third wins of the season. Smith now has a 2.70 ERA with a 3-1 record and two complete games.
• 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 didn't strikeout once this week, moving up to No. 4 in the nation in toughest to strikeout. He has struck out just three times this season in exactly 100 plate appearances. Pradere now leads the team in batting average at .346 and on-base percentage at .448. 

 
CU NOTES
Concordia snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 6-5 win in the series finale against Northwest Nazarene on Saturday. The Cavaliers have now won a quarter of their conference games with a 7-21 record. James Brooks has made 14 appearances this season and has a 3-5 record with a 4.91 ERA in 36.2 innings pitched. Concordia scored one run in the top of the eighth for the extra-inning victory. Ben Koerner reached on a single and advanced to third base on a throwing error. Tanner Williams drove in the game-winning run with a fielder's choice. Gerhett Moser has made four starts this year and has taken a no-decision in each start. He has a 3.38 ERA with six innings pitched per outing. He has also struck out eight batters and only allowed two extra-base hits. Cole Crosby hit his sixth double of the season in the series to reach 10 extra-base hits, the first player on the team to reach double digits

SMU NOTES
The Saints won the series opener and series finale in a split with Central Washington to move to within a game of fourth place Montana State Billings. The Saints scored a GNAC season-high 18 runs on a season-high 23 hits in the series opener. The Saints' first five positions in the batting order each had at least three hits, including Adam Eskil's 5-for-6 effort with six RBIs. The Saints hit 20 singles and three doubles with just four walks to produce the 18 runs. Benjamin Wadowski now has a 3.66 ERA  with 13 strikeouts in 19.2 innings pitched. The Saints took their seventh one-run loss of the season in Saturday's opener, falling 14-13 despite Brandon Witherspoon and Steven Sordahl going a combined 7 for 10 at the top of the lineup.

NCAA RANKINGS
Western Oregon as a team is ranked in the too-100 in the country in a number of categories:
 

• 15^th in sacrifice bunts - 39
• 34^th in hits allowed per nine innings – 8.60
• 43^rd in fielding percentage - .967
• 45^th in on-base percentage - .402
• 70^th in WHIP (walk & hits in innings pitched) – 1.44
• 76^th in team ERA – 4.51
• 76^th in hit by pitch - 45
• 77^th in strikeouts per nine innings – 7.9
• 88^th in double plays per game – 0.74
• 93^rd in stolen bases per game – 1.26

 
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 144-97 overall record in his tenure, including a 109-51 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.