San Diego (3-1, 0-0 WCC)  •  UNLV (1-3, 0-0 Mountain West) •  Fresno State (3-1, 0-0 Mountain West)

Fowler Park (1,700) • San Diego, CA

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SAN DIEGO — Fresh off a convincing series victory over Oregon, San Diego baseball is set to begin play in the Tony Gwynn Legacy tournament on Friday, hosting UNLV and Fresno State for a three-game weekend series.

The Toreros will face the Runnin' Rebels on Friday night in a 6 p.m. matchup, play the Bulldogs on Saturday evening in a 5 p.m. contest, and wrap up the weekend with another game against UNLV on Sunday, with first pitch coming at 1 p.m. from Fowler Park.

All three contests will be streamed live on the WCC Network, with new broadcast duo Jack Cronin and Braden Surprenant working together on the call for the first time. Live statistics will be available on USDToreros.com.

ALL-TIME SERIES VERSUS UNLV
• USD is 14-15 against UNLV all-time but is 7-2 against the Running Rebels across the teams' last nine matchups.

• The two programs' most recent meeting was in April of 2016 at Fowler Park, a 13-7 San Diego win.

• The Toreros are 2-0 all-time against UNLV at Fowler Park after also defeating the Running Rebels 6-3 in March of 2013.

ALL-TIME SERIES VERSUS FRESNO STATE
• USD is 6-21 against Fresno State all-time, and is 3-10 against the Bulldogs across the teams' last ten matchups.

• The Toreros enter Saturday night's matchup on a three-game losing streak versus Fresno State dating back to the two programs' most recent meeting in February of 2011, a 7-4 USD loss at Pete Beiden Field/Bob Bennett Stadium.

• While San Diego has never hosted the Bulldogs at Fowler Park, the Toreros won the last matchup between the two teams in San Diego — a 10-7 USD victory in March of 2010 at Cunningham Field.

FOR STARTERS (PROBABLE)
FRIDAY: Senior right-hander Garrett Rennie (1-0) is set to reprise his role as the Toreros' Friday night starter after turning in the team's most dominant pitching performance of the weekend on Opening Night in what marked his return from Tommy John surgery and just his second appearance in a USD uniform.

• The Los Alamitos, California native tossed 6.1 innings while allowing just one unearned run against the Ducks, scattering six hits while walking only two and striking out five before he earned the win.

• Rennie joined USD from Long Beach City College, where he was named the 2019 South Coast Conference Pitcher/Athlete of the Year, the 2019 LBCC Pitcher of the Year, and to the 2019 First Team All-State Team.

• While at Long Beach City College in 2018 and 2019, Rennie went 14-5 with four saves, one complete game, 142.1 innings pitched, 135 strikeouts, 19 walks, a 8.54 K/9, and a 2.40 ERA.

SATURDAY: Sophomore left-hander Bryson Mautz (1-0) will take the mound for the Toreros against the Bulldogs after dazzling against the Ducks last weekend.

• The San Diego, California native set a new career high with 12 strikeouts in his first outing of the season, allowing three earned runs, eight hits, and a single walk across 5.2 innings of work before he earned the win.

• Mautz, who attended nearby Westview High School, went 3-1 with a 4.67 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 27 innings pitched last year, including five perfect frames and nine Ks against UC Riverside in mid March.

SUNDAY: Graduate left-hander Ian Churchill is set to start on Sunday against UNLV in the Toreros' weekend finale.

• Churchill allowed three earned runs across 6.1 innings last Sunday, scattering eight hits, striking out five, and walking only one.

• He joined the Toreros from the University of Arizona, where he won the 2021 Pac-12 Championship with the Wildcats and appeared in the Tucson NCAA Super Regional versus Ole Miss along with a College World Series outing against Stanford.

• While in Tucson he recorded 13 relief appearances and went 0-1 with an 8.56 ERA.

• Prior to Arizona, he attended Santa Barbara City College, where he was named the 2019 California Community College Athletic Association Pitcher of the Year and was tabbed as a first team All-American.

A DOMINANT SHOWING AGAINST THE DUCKS
• USD won its first three games of the 2022 season last weekend at Fowler Park, beating Oregon 11-1 on Opening Night on Friday, 10-4 on Saturday, and 5-4 on Sunday before dropping a tough series finale by 21-11 margin on Monday in a game that was shortened to eight innings due to travel restrictions for Oregon.

• The four-game series victory marked San Diego's most dominant performance against a Pac-12 team since 2002, when USD swept Oregon State in a three-game set at Cunningham Field.

VASQUEZ SHINES IN SERIES FINALE
• Redshirt sophomore outfielder Camden Vasquez notched hits in each of the Toreros' last three games against the Ducks and put together a career performance in the series finale on Monday afternoon, going 4-for-4 with a run scored, a home run, and a career-best four RBIs.

• The Gilbert, Arizona native went 1-for-3 with a single and a run scored on Saturday, 1-for-2 with a single and an RBI on Sunday, and notched his first career home run on Sunday, a two-run shot over Fowler Park's right field wall that was the first of two go-ahead hits he had in the contest.

• For the season, Vasquez is batting .667 (6-for-9) with two runs scored, one home run, five runs batted in, two walks, and nine total bases. He boasts a perfect 1.0000 slugging percentage and a .667 on-base percentage heading into Friday night's action.

COSTELLO PICKS UP WHERE HE LEFT OFF
• Sophomore Jack Costello has gotten off to a hot start so far in 2022, batting .500 (8-for-16) with a double, five RBIs, a hit by pitch, a walk, and nine total bases, which is tied with Vasquez for the team lead.

• The Simi Valley, California native notched multi-hit performances in each of the Toreros' first three games, including a 2-for-5 effort on Friday with a run scored and a RBI, a 2-for-3 night on Friday with a  pair of runs scored and a RBI, and a 3-for-4 afternoon on Sunday with a pair of RBIs before he went 1-for-4 with a double and two runs scored in the series finale on Monday.

• Costello, who was designated as a Freshman All-American last June by College Baseball Newspaper and earned All-WCC Preseason Team honors this spring, erased an early Oregon lead on Sunday with a clutch, go-ahead RBI double to right field that gave his team an advantage it would not relinquish.

ALLEN KEY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL
• Sophomore Dustin Allen put together a dynamic series against the Ducks last weekend, going 4-for-13 (.308) with a double, a triple, four runs scored, and five RBIs in addition to three spectacular defensive plays in center field.

• On Saturday night versus Oregon, the Arcadia, California native cleared the bases with a booming double into the right-center field gap, pushing the USD lead to 8-0 as part of a seven-run third inning.

• He flashed his defensive prowess the following afternoon, nabbing a Ducks runner at home plate with a strong throw from center field as he attempted to tag up on a would-be sacrifice fly.

• The throw, which halted an Oregon rally in its tracks and kept the deficit at just one run for the Toreros in a game in which they'd go on to win, reached freshman catcher Ariel Armas' glove perfectly from deep center field on a single hop for the double play.

• The night before, he made an athletic running catch in the left-center field gap to take a hit away and keep an Oregon runner at first base, and in the series finale on Monday, Allen completed a daring catch on the right field warning track, securing the ball to deny the Ducks extra bases before he slammed into the wall.

ARMAS MEETS THE MOMENT
• True freshman catcher Ariel Armas (Saint Augustine High School) looked like a seasoned pro in his college debut on Sunday, going 1-for-3 with a single and a pair of RBIs in addition to a key defensive play at the plate that denied the Ducks a run.

• The Chula Vista, California native shot an RBI single back up the middle for his first college hit to put the Toreros' up 4-1 in the fourth inning on Sunday, plating sophomore Will Worthington.

• Armas then put together the at-bat of the game in the bottom of the eighth, working a full count before he drew a walk with the bases loaded to give USD a 5-4 lead it would not relinquish.

• Behind the dish, the true freshman was on the receiving end of a perfect throw from Allen as part of a double play in the top of the third, successfully withstanding a hard slide from the Ducks' Jacob Walsh as he applied the tag.

HYDE SHINES OUT OF THE 'PEN
• Sophomore Jack Hyde (Grossmont High School) made the most of his lone outing last weekend, extinguishing the Oregon offense when he took over for Brycen Mautz in the sixth inning on Saturday, working his way out of a jam with a pair of runners on base to end the frame before he tallied a trio of strikeouts in 3.1 innings of one-hit ball.

QUALITY CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE MOUND
• Three of the Toreros' four starting pitchers last weekend threw at least five innings and allowed no more than three earned runs.

• Rennie allowed just one unearned run across 6.1 innings of work, Mautz surrendered three earned runs across 5.2 innings, and Churchill gave up three earned runs in 6.1 innings of work.

PURE THEFT
• After a week of play, San Diego ranks 19th nationally with 10 total stolen bases, and 24th nationally with an average of 2.50 stolen bases per game.

OFFENSE LEADS THE WAY
USD also leads the West Coast Conference in several offensive categories, including
• Walks (27)
• Runs scored (37)
• Scoring average (9.2)
• On-base percentage (.444)

BEST IN THE WEST (COAST CONFERENCE)
• From the beginning of the 2019 season until now, no team in the West Coast Conference has had a better record than San Diego baseball. Combining their 2019 record (32-21), their abbreviated 2020 totals (12-4), their 33-12 mark in 2021, and their 3-1 record so far in 2022, the Toreros are a conference-best 80-38 (.677) in that 118-game span.

• Next best within that timeframe are Gonzaga (73-53, .579), and Saint Mary's (72-58, .553)

NEW DUO TO BROADCAST TORERO BASEBALL
• Longtime San Diego broadcaster Jack Cronin and local talent Braden Surprenant will be the voices of San Diego baseball in 2022 as the team's play-by-play announcers on the WCC Network, USD Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Athletics Bill McGillis announced this week.

• Cronin, the "Voice of the Toreros," enters the broadcast booth at Fowler Park with more than 20 years of broadcasting experience, including 15 seasons as the voice of USD football, eight seasons as the voice of USD men's basketball, and several more as the play-by-play broadcaster for San Diego's nationally ranked women's volleyball team, as well as the men's and women's soccer programs. Cronin also works as a play-by-play announcer for the Pac-12 Network and serves as the voice of the San Diego Loyal USL Soccer Club, in addition to working as a reporter and anchor at NewsRadio 600 KOGO in San Diego.

• He spent nine years at The Mighty 1090 & ESPN Radio 1700, including five years hosting the San Diego Padres Pre-Game and Post-Game Shows.

• Surprenant, who serves as the executive producer of the John Kentera Show alongside the Coach John Kentera on the San Diego Padres' flagship radio station, 97.3 The Fan , joins San Diego baseball as a broadcaster after two seasons broadcasting USD volleyball, women's basketball, and soccer. Surprenant, a San Diego native who has spent time as a pre and postgame show host for Padres baseball on 97.3 The Fan, attended Cathedral Catholic High School and graduated from Texas Christian University's Bob Schieffer College of Communication.

Cronin and Surprenant will work in tandem for 20 of the Toreros' 27 home games in 2022, with Surprenant working by himself on select dates while Cronin fulfills broadcasting responsibilities with the San Diego Loyal and San Diego men's basketball.

All 27 of USD's home contests in 2022 will be broadcast live on the WCC Network.

UNGRICHT ERA BEGINS FOR SAN DIEGO
• February 18th's  season opener versus Oregon marked new USD head coach Brock Ungricht's first game at the helm after being promoted on July 3, 2021.

• Ungricht was elevated to head coach after spending the previous three seasons (2019-2021) as USD's assistant coach (hitting) and recruiting coordinator, helping the Toreros to a West Coast Conference-best 77-37 (.675) record in that span.

• A San Diego native, Ungricht was a Southern California Area Scout for the Saint Louis Cardinals organization in 2017 and 2018.  Prior to that, he spent six seasons at Stanford University; the final two as a full-time assistant coach under longtime Cardinal skipper Mark Marquess.