Hot Start Flipps for Loss in the 4-game series victory

Even in a four-game series that it had already won, Grand Canyon started stronger on Sunday than with the first three victories.

Not to be able to end the GCU from his fifth victory in a row in seven days against a big ten opponent. The Lopes missed a 6-1 lead in the serial finale through four innings when Rutgers unleashed a 17-run attack on the last Inning to achieve their first series victory at the GCU ball park.

The offensive of the Lopes remained hot, collected 11 hits and seven walks, but a pop-up route that prohibited comeback hopes.

“We have done a lot of great things throughout the weekend, so this can be done by us as if it is hungry”, GCU head coach Gregg Wallis said. “You want to avoid the feeling of being disappointed because you have taken three out of four and that is the goal and is really difficult to do. We consider this as an opportunity to react from a game that we are friendly from the Leads away mentally.


GCU (5-3) achieved double-digit hits for the fifth game in a row, which the team did not do last season until March. Since the Monday victory against Nebraska, the Lopes have been playing in five games .356, including several outstanding Rutgers series performances:

• Junior Shortstop Emilio Barreras Went 9 for 15 and meets .500.
• Junior First Baseman Zach Yorke Went 4 for 9 with eight walks.
• Field for Graduate Center Eddy Pelc (Three homes), in the second year on the left Cannon pechery (5 for 11) and senior right field Michael Diaz (5 for 12) broke out of slow starts.

“I'm not trying to do too much,” said Barreras. “I'm not trying to go up there and beat for power. Obviously it is really nice to smash the ball, but you have to understand your identity. I just have a good understanding. And I'm just running the good things that personally Complete, but I wish we can get through today.

The Lopes appeared in this way when Pelc shook his third Homerun in two days-a 398-average shot third in the field of Right-Center after working a 1-2 count for a full count.

This 3-1 lead stretched to 6: 1 in the bottom of the fourth, when the senior third baseman egg paton added a double Homerun to the right field and the lopes were on a run over walks and wild parking spaces.

At that time GCU junior left -handed Random key drove through four innings in his second start. His sink helps to get 11 of the first 12 Rutgers-Outs from Grounders.

Key, a transfer on the Moines Area Community College in Iowa, had only thrown 36 playgrounds until it was marked for a fifth inning of seven runs. A mistake and a walk started with the inning, and it was still only 6-2 with loaded bases and one when he missed a full field to run in one run.

Rutgers followed with three consecutive goals for an 8-6 lead.

“He crossed,” said Valais. “He hit a little wall. It is built up to go over 70 parking spaces. But as soon as the inning runs for a long time, I think that he has only lost his legs a little.”

The Lopes tightened the edge to Peery's RBI victims to 8: 7, but Rutgers followed with a fourth sixth inning with 12: 7. While the lopes were excluded for the last four inner sings, the Scarlet Knights scored 10 unanswered runs with the help of physical and spiritual GCU errors in defense.

“This is a good striking team, and they hit some balls around the yard, but the mental mistakes were the one we talk about to play good baseball,” said Valais. “We played from the baseball and then we were frustrated. When we lost the lead, I had the feeling that we were only so frustrated that we were playing what we had done as we were more than we were . “

GCU played teams with strong offensive reputation in Vanderbilt, San Diego State, Austin Pay, Nebraska and Rutgers and took over an ERA of 4.50 in the series finale at the Sunday finals.

The GCU needed a tie-reakend, eight-sided run to win the start of the series, and gathered to hit Rutgers in each of the Doubleheader games on Saturday before losing a 6-1 lead on Sunday.

“It is a difficult thing to go through because we really wanted to sweep, but to learn what happened today will come through sooner or later,” said Barreras. “It's just a matter of focus. I don't think we were as concentrated as yesterday and Friday. This will definitely be a lesson and it will help us.”


The Lopes will train in Phoenix on Tuesday and Wednesday before you take your first road trip of the season to Texas State, where you will play a weekend series with three games against a program that won the title 2022 Sun Belt.