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PORTLAND PILOTS (11-37, 5-19 WCC)
vs. #2 OREGON STATE BEAVERS (38-8, 20-4 PAC-12)
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
First Pitch: 5:35 p.m.
Location: Keizer, Ore.
Field: Volcanoes Stadium
Game Coverage:  Audio  Stats
Series: ORE leads 146-56-1
2014: @OSU 5, POR 0 (3/4); OSU 9, @POR 6 (4/1)
 
PORTLAND PILOTS (11-37, 5-19 WCC)
vs. BYU COUGARS (19-30, 9-15 WCC)
Dates: Thur-Sat, May 15-17, 2014
First Pitch: 3 p.m./3 p.m./11 a.m.
Location: Portland, Ore.
Field: Joe Etzel Field
Video: TheW.tv/live (Friday)
Audio: PortlandPilots.com
Stats: Game 1  Game 2  Game 3
Series: BYU leads 13-10
2013: POR 8-4, BYU 11-7, BYU 7-6 (April 11-13 @BYU)
 
PROBABLE STARTERS (W-L, ERA)
Tuesday • May 13 • 5:35 PM
POR: LHP Travis Radke (1-2, 3.48)
OSU: TBA
 
Thursday • May 15 • 3 PM
POR: RHP Colin Feldtman (2-7, 4.61)
BYU: RHP Jeff Barker (5-5, 4.23)
 
Friday • May 16 • 3 PM
POR: RHP Chad Kjemhus (1-3, 2.84)
BYU: RHP Kolton Mahoney (5-6, 4.37)
 
Saturday • May 17 • 11 AM
POR: RHP Jackson Lockwood (3-2, 5.29)
BYU: TBA
 
THIS WEEK IN PILOTS BASEBALL
• The Pilots conclude the 2014 season this week with a non-conference game against the No. 2 Oregon State Beavers on Tuesday and a West Coast Conference series at home this weekend with Brigham Young.
• The Beavers and Pilots are set to square off at 5:35 p.m. at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer, Ore.
• Portland's three-game series with BYU begins on Thursday at Joe Etzel Field at 3 p.m.; Friday's game is also scheduled for 3 p.m. and first pitch on Saturday has been moved up to 11 a.m.
• Portland will honor seniors J.R. Bunda, Bo Cornish, Colin Feldtman, Chad Kjemhus and Chet Thompson with a ceremony prior to Saturday's finale.
 
LAST WEEK IN PILOTS BASEBALL
• The Pilots dropped a close 3-2 decision at home to the Oregon Ducks on Wednesday before winning one of three against the Pacific Tigers at Joe Etzel Field during the weekend.
• Portland's win against the Tigers came on Sunday in the 11th inning when Devin Kopas drove in the winning run with a single.
• The Pilots had previously rallied from a 5-3 deficit in the bottom of the eighth when Bo Cornish and Michael Lucarelli each came through with a clutch, two-out RBI single to tie the game.
• Pacific previously swept a double header on Saturday 6-1 and 6-2.
 
ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Portland's last four wins have all come in walk-off fashion, including a pair of 3-2 walk-off wins against San Francisco during the weekend of April 25-26.
• The Pilots also recorded walk-off wins against Cal State Bakersfield (March 8) San Diego (April 12) and Pacific (May 11) to give Portland five on the season.
• Caleb Whalen recently registered a career-long 13-game hitting streak (March 28-April 13), during which he hit .396 (21-for-53).
• Whalen currently ranks third all-time at UP with 12 career triples, which is just two shy of Larry Farrell's (1958-61) all-time program career record of 14 triples.
• Whalen's six RBI's at Oregon on April 8 are tied for the fourth most in a game in program history and it's the most RBI's by a Pilot since 2009, when Garrett Queen also drove in six against Hawai'i.
• UP's 13-game losing streak earlier this season was the longest losing streak since also dropping 13 straight during the 2004 season.
• Davis Tominaga registered the second complete-game win by a UP freshman pitcher this season when he went the distance during a 9-1 win at Santa Clara on April 4; the right-hander allowed just four hits, struck out eight and walked only one, while adding an RBI single at the plate.
• Fellow freshman pitcher Austin Kelly, who hails from Happy Valley, Ore., and had a stellar prep career at Clackamas High School, was recently named Oregon's 2013 Prep Baseball Player of the year at the 2013 Oregon Sports Awards; Kelly has UP's other complete-game win by a freshman this spring.
• Several UP pitchers have missed time this season due to injury or illness, including Kody Watts, Travis Radke, Kurt Yinger, Austin Kelly, Brandon Snyder and Davis Tominaga.
• The Pilots were picked to finish seventh in a pre-season poll of the WCC's 10 head coaches, while Radke was selected to the All-WCC Preseason Team.
• Head coach Chris Sperry, a former standout catcher/infielder for the Pilots, notched career win No. 301 last year when Portland defeated LMU 6-3 in LA on April 21.
• Sperry, who has 335 career wins in 16+ years at the helm of the Pilots, trails only long-time Portland coach Joe Etzel, who compiled 378 career wins in 21 seasons (1966-86).
 
CHASING HISTORY
• Junior infielder Caleb Whalen currently has 12 career triples, which is the third most all-time in the 91-year history of the UP baseball program.
• Whalen sits only two triples shy of Portland's all-time leader Larry Farrell, who totaled 14 triples from 1958 to 1961.
• As a sophomore last year, Whalen had six triples, which ranked second in the WCC and was one shy of matching a program record for most triples in a season.
• Whalen has a team-best three triples this spring.
 
YOUNG GUNS
• The Pilots feature a fairly young pitching staff despite returning most of the pitchers from last season, and the Pilots feature only two seniors in the regular rotation of starters and relievers.
• Freshmen Austin Kelly and Davis Tominaga have both been used as Portland's Friday starter and both have a complete-game win to their credit.
• Tominaga has struck out a staff-best 36 this season.
• Both Tominaga and Kelly can play in the field as well and Tominaga is batting a team-best .291.
 
UPDATING THE ETZ
• The University of Portland has announced a three phase renovation of Joe Etzel Field, beginning with a transition to a field turf surface, lights for night games, a new scoreboard and new fencing.
• The University hopes to have phase one finished in time for the 2015 season.
• Phases two and three include a new press box, berm seating down the right field line, new dugouts, a new grandstand, a VIP section, a new entry gate and ticket office, home locker room, coaches offices and a field maintenance building.
• For more info on the project and information on how to make a gift towards the upgrades, please visit http://rise.up.edu/info/default.aspx?cid=12937&pid=2010.