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PORTLAND PILOTS (10-34, 4-17 WCC)
vs. OREGON DUCKS (34-13, 13-8 PAC-12)
Dates: Wednesday, May 7, 2014
First Pitch: 3 p.m.
Location: Portland, Ore.
Field: Joe Etzel Field
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Series: ORE leads 85-26
2014: @UO 8, UP 2 (2/25); @UO 15, UP 10 (4/8); UO 3, @UP 0 (4/9)
 
PORTLAND PILOTS (10-34, 4-17 WCC)
vs. PACIFIC TIGERS (23-22, 12-9 WCC)
Dates: Fri-Sun, May 9-11, 2014
First Pitch: 3 p.m./1 p.m./1 p.m.
Location: Portland, Ore.
Field: Joe Etzel Field
Live Audio  I  Live Stats:  Game 1  Game 2  Game 3
Series: PAC leads 14-12
Last: POR 10-9, POR 9-7, POR 6-4 (March 11-13, 2005 @POR)
 
PROBABLE STARTERS (W-L, ERA)
Wednesday • May 7 • 3 PM
POR: LHP Travis Radke (1-2, 3.57)
ORE: LHP Clayton Porter (0-1, 5.41)
 
Friday • May 9 • 3 PM
POR: RHP Colin Feldtman (2-6, 3.96)
PAC: RHP Mike Hager (3-4, 4.48)
 
Saturday • May 10 • 1 PM
POR: RHP Chad Kjemhus (1-2, 2.29)
PAC: RHP Jake Jenkins (5-2, 2.78)
 
Sunday • May 11 • 1 PM
POR: RHP Jackson Lockwood (3-2, 5.53)
PAC: RHP Will Lydon (2-4, 4.67)
 
THIS WEEK IN PILOTS BASEBALL
• The Pilots return to the field this week for four straight home games, beginning with a non-conference tilt with the Oregon Ducks on Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Joe Etzel Field.
• This weekend the Pilots welcome the Pacific Tigers to Joe Etzel Field for a three-game West Coast Conference series.
• The opener is set for 3 p.m. on Friday, while first pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
 
LAST WEEK IN PILOTS BASEBALL
• The Pilots took last week off for finals and graduation.
• Previously, Portland won two of three against the San Francisco Dons at Joe Etzel field to record the Pilots first WCC series win of the season.
• Both Portland wins were 3-2 walk-off victories.
• During Friday's opener, Cody Lenahan drove in the winning run with a single after the two teams entered the ninth tied 2-2.
• Then on Saturday, the Pilots rallied from 2-1 down in the ninth, courtesy a game-tying single by Kevin Wade and a game-winning single from Ryan Barr.
• USF won the finale 7-0, which was the second game of a double header played on Saturday, April 26.
 
ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Portland's last three 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 have registered four walk-off wins this 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 leads the team in most offensive categories, including batting average (.295), hits (49), home runs (4), doubles (12), triples (3) and runs scored (22).
• 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 this spring.
• Portland features a young pitching staff with only two seniors in the regular rotation of starters and relievers.
• Several UP pitchers have missed time this season due to injury or illness, including Kody Watts, Travis Radke, Kurt Yinger, Austin Kelly and Brandon Snyder.
• 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 333 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).