Dirtbags To Retire Weaver's Jersey Friday Night; LBSU Hosts #16 UCI & CBU

WHAT'S COMING UP FOR THE DIRTBAGS
GAME 46
#16 UC Irvine (35-10, 15-6 Big West) at Long Beach State (22-22-1, 8-13 Big West)
Friday, May 10 • 6 p.m.
Long Beach, Calif. • Bohl Diamond at Blair Field
Probable Starting Pitchers • Nick Pinto (UCI), 8-2 vs. Owen Geiss (LBSU), 3-2
Live Stats // ESPN +

GAME 47
#16 UC Irvine at Long Beach State
Saturday, May 11 • 6 p.m.
Long Beach, Calif. • Bohl Diamond at Blair Field
Probable Starting Pitchers • Trevor Hansen (UCI), 5-1 vs. Van Larson (LBSU), 2-0
Live Stats // ESPN +

GAME 48
#16 UC Irvine at Long Beach State
Sunday, May 12 • 1 p.m.
Long Beach, Calif. • Bohl Diamond at Blair Field
Probable Starting Pitchers • Tim Grack (UCI), 1-1 vs. Kellan Montgomery (LBSU), 3-2
Live Stats // ESPN +

GAME 49
California Baptist (30-19) at Long Beach State
Monday, May 13 • 6 p.m.
Long Beach, Calif. • Bohl Diamond at Blair Field
Probable Starting Pitchers • TBA (CBU) vs. TBA (LBSU)
Live Stats // ESPN +

BASEBALL NOTEBOOK

FIRST PITCH
The Black & Blue Rivalry Series presented by Duke's of Huntington Beach resumes this weekend as Long Beach State hosts nationally ranked UC Irvine for a three-game series.

The Dirtbags will retire Jerod Weaver's No. 36 at 6 p.m. on Friday. A limited number of Weaver t-shirts will be distributed to fans as they pass through the turnstiles For more click here.

Saturday's 6 p.m. start is the final scheduled Fireworks Night of the season, as it is the Beach XP game.

Sunday's Mother's Day game begins at 1 p.m., and after the game is concluded, the kids will get to run the bases.

ESPN+ will stream the series daily, with Matt Brown and Cody Yates on the call. You can also follow us at BeachLiveStats.com.

The Dirtbags' lone Monday contest of the season is May 13 beginning at 6 p.m., when they welcome California Baptist to Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. Brown and Yates will call the ESPN+ stream.

SCOUTING THE ANTEATERS
UCI begins the week ranked 16th in the D1Baseball.com Top 25, 16th in the USA Today Coaches Poll Top 25, and 16th in the NCBWA Top 25. The Anteaters are 17th in the Perfect Game Top 25, and 18th in the Baseball American Top 25.

The Anteaters are 35-10 after defeating UCLA 9-6 Tuesday night. UCI is 15-6 in Big West play.

Caden Kendle leads the Big West and is 17th in Division I with a batting average of .410. Anthony Martinez is the conference leader in RBI with 55. Woody Haden leads the league in runs scored (59), while Myles Smith is seventh in Division I in on-base percentage (.534).

Lefty Nick Pinto is Friday's probable starter. Pinto is 11th in Division I in wins, 8-2 in 12 starts this season. He is one of four Anteaters to strike out at least 300 in his career, 74 in 71.1 innings.

Trevor Hansen is UCI's probable Saturday starter. He is 5-1 in 12 starts. Hansen has struck out 57 in 55.2 innings.

Brandon Luu is scheduled to start on Sunday for UC Irvine. The lefty is 5-1, starting 10 times in 13 appearances. He has struck out 24 in 43.1 innings.

SCOUTING THE LANCERS
CBU improved to 30-19 overall on Monday after defeating Cal State Bakersfield 7-1. The Lancers host UTRGV in a Western Athletic Conference series this weekend before traveling to Long Beach on Monday.

Mitchel Simon is 13th in Division I in home runs with 21. He leads the team in RBI with 49. Nicolas Dumensil is hitting a team-high .335.

A probable starter has not been announced.

THE LAST TIME OUT
Armando Briseno's two-out single in the bottom of the 12th sent the Dirtbags past USC 7-6 Tuesday night at Blair Field. Here is the recap;

~#skoBags~

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Dirtbags To Retire Weaver's Jersey Friday Night; LBSU Hosts #16 UCI & CBU

Players Mentioned

Armando Briseno

Owen Geiss

Van Larson

Kellan Montgomery

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