San Diego Toreros (15-24, 9-3 WCC)  • Gonzaga Bulldogs (18-19, 10-2 WCC)

Patterson Baseball Complex (1,500) • Spokane, Washington

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SPOKANE, Wash. — Winners of nine games in a row and authors of back-to-back conference sweeps, San Diego baseball will travel to the Pacific Northwest this weekend for a critical West Coast Conference series against Gonzaga at the Patterson Baseball Complex.

First pitch in the series opener on Friday night is set for 6:00 p.m., followed by another 6:00 p.m. start on Saturday and a 1:00 p.m. finale on Sunday afternoon. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+, and live statistics will be available on StatBroadcast.

The second-place Toreros (15-24, 9-3 WCC) enter the weekend just one game back of the first-place Bulldogs (18-19, 10-2 WCC).

THE STREAK
• USD begins its series at Gonzaga on a season-long nine-game win streak that began with a five-hour, 14-inning win at No. 14 UCLA on Sunday, April 6.

• San Diego followed that up with a 9-8 walk-off win over crosstown rival UC San Diego at Fowler Park, then swept both Saint Mary's (in Moraga) and Portland (at Fowler Park).

• The streak reached its current point after a come-from-behind victory over the Toreros' other crosstown rival, San Diego State, on Monday night at Fowler Park.

In total, USD's current win streak has included…

- One win over a Top-25 team
- One extra-innings win
- One mercy-rule win
- One walk-off win
- Four road wins
- Five home wins
- Three one-run wins

• San Diego has batted .302 (95-for-315) as a team during this win streak, has slugged .486, and has gotten on base at a .418 clip.

• Within the current streak the Toreros have outscored opponents 75-36 while recording 18 doubles, two triples, and 12 home runs in addition to drawing 49 walks and being hit by 18 pitches.

• On the mound, USD has posted a 3.75 team ERA during this nine-game, 84-inning stretch and has struck out 87 batters, walked only 32, and held opponents to a .216 batting average.

LAST TIME OUT: A COME-FROM-BEHIND WIN OVER THE AZTECS
• A seventh-inning home run from freshman Rex Watson helped lead San Diego to a 8-6 win over crosstown rival San Diego State on Monday night.

• Watson's three-run blast erased a one-run deficit for the Toreros, who emerged victorious for a ninth consecutive game after squandering an early lead at Fowler Park.

• USD was ahead 5-1 in the third inning courtesy of RBIs from AJ Beltre, AJ Anzai, and Watson before the Aztecs scored five times with two outs in the top of the fifth inning to pull ahead by a 6-5 margin.

• Austin Smith drew a walk and AJ Beltre was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the seventh, then Watson worked a full count. A pitch later, he deposited a go-ahead longball onto the roof of the Manchester Village Apartments beyond the right-field wall. His majestic shot landed adjacent to the sign denoting 452 feet of distance from home plate perched atop the building. 

• That was all the offense San Diego needed in Monday's midweek matchup. Jack McWilliams stranded a pair of baserunners as part of a scoreless eighth, and Fernando Palencia sealed the win with a run-free ninth that was punctuated by an incredible full-extension diving catch from Smith in center field to secure the last out.

OVER THE WEEKEND: SAN DIEGO SWEEPS PORTLAND AT FOWLER PARK
• USD won all three of its games against the Pilots last weekend in San Diego, prevailing by a 6-3 margin on Thursday night before earning a 3-1 victory on Friday night and scoring three times in the bottom of the eight inning on Saturday afternoon to secure a 5-4 decision in their favor in the finale.

JACK GUREVITCH AND LOGAN REDDEMANN EARN WCC WEEKLY HONORS
• Two Toreros took home weekly conference honors on Monday following San Diego's sweep of Portland. Jack Gurevitch was named the WCC Player of the Week for the first time this season and Logan Reddemann was recognized as the WCC Pitcher of the Week for the second time in 2025.

• Gurevitch batted .538 (7-for-13) with two runs scored, two doubles, two RBIs, and a walk in three games against Portland. He extended his hit streak to seven games as the Toreros won theirsixth, seventh, and eighth games in a row. He collected two hits on Thursday, three on Friday, and two more on Saturday, including a go-ahead two-out RBI single in the eighth inning on Saturday. USD has now won Conference Player of the Week twice this season.  

• Reddemann threw seven innings on Thursday night while allowing only two runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts. Reddemann garnered the win, moving to 3-1 in 2025 after USD beat Portland, 6-3. USD has now won Conference Pitcher of the Week three times this season. 

2025 RAWLINGS WCC BASEBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
February 17: Colby Wallace, LMU
February 24: Patrick Keighran, San Francisco
March 3: Ryan Pierce, Saint Mary's
March 10: Cody Kashimoto, Saint Mary's 
March 17: Jake Tandy, Pacific
March 24: Cody Nitowitz, Portland
March 31: Josh Hankins, Gonzaga
April 7: Mikey Bell, Gonzaga / Austin Smith, San Diego
April 14: Zion Williams, LMU
April 21: Jack Gurevitch, San Diego

2025 RAWLINGS WCC BASEBALL PITCHERS OF THE WEEK
February 17: Max Bayles, Santa Clara
February 24: Max Bayles, Santa Clara
March 3: Ryan Rembisz, Portland
March 10: Logan Reddemann, San Diego
March 17: Jonah Johnson, LMU
March 24: Carter Gaston, Portland
March 31: Curtis Hebert, Portland
April 7: Hayden Cody, San Diego
April 14: Zack Mack, LMU
April 21: Logan Reddemann, San Diego

2025 RAWLINGS WCC BASEBALL FRESHMEN OF THE WEEK
February 17: Nate Savoie, LMU
February 24: Eddison Esquivel, San Francisco
March 3: Sam Kretsch, Saint Mary's
March 10: Ian Armstrong, Saint Mary's 
March 17: Rex Watson, San Diego 
March 24: Cody Nitowitz, Portland
March 31: Trey Swygart, Portland
April 7: Joey Damelio, Pepperdine
April 14: Rex Watson, San Diego
April 21: Eddison Esquivel, San Francisco

THE KID CAN DRIVE IN RUNS
• Freshman outfielder Rex Watson's 40 RBIs in 2025 entering Friday night's action are the most of any player on the USD roster and the third-most within the WCC.

• Watson's 12 multi-RBI games in 2025 lead the Toreros. He's driven in two runs five times, three runs three times, and four runs four times.

• He also begins this weekend in Spokane on an eight-game hit streak.

AND HE'S CLUTCH, TOO
• Eleven of Watson's 40 RBIs in 2025 have come via a trio of either game-tying or go-ahead home runs.

• On March 16 against Columbia, he broke a 2-2 tie at Fowler Park with a grand slam as he put the Toreros ahead by a 6-2 margin.

• On April 8, he tied the game with a seventh-inning grand slam that helped USD beat crosstown rival UC San Diego at Fowler Park.

• And on April 22 against crosstown rival San Diego State, he erased a late deficit with a seventh-inning go-ahead three-run homer that led to an 8-6 victory for the Toreros over the Aztecs. His towering three-run shot landed on the roof of the Manchester Village Apartments  beyond Fowler Park's right-field wall, adjacent to a sign denoting 452 feet of distance from home plate.

• Watson has been named the WCC Freshman of the Week twice this year (March 17 and April 14).

SMITH'S STREAK
 • Senior left-handed pitcher/designated hitter/outfielder Austin Smith put together a 26-game hit streak from March 1 to April 16 that included 14 multi-hit performances.

• He was 41-for-114 (.359) during the hit streak with 12 doubles, one triple, six home runs, and 29 RBIs.

• As a whole in 2025 Smith is batting .348 (54-for-155) with 14 doubles, one triple, six home runs, and 36 RBIs, which rank second on the USD roster.

• The longest hit streak in USD baseball history is 31 games, achieved by Josh Harris in 2000; research on historical Torero hit streaks prior to 2021 is ongoing.

GUREVITCH STAYS HOT
• Junior infielder Jack Gurevitch is batting .363 (24-for-66) in his last 12 games, scoring 18 runs, smashing four home runs, and driving in 15 runs while drawing 10 walks in that span.

• He leads USD with a .370 (57-for-154) batting average in 2025 and is pacing the team with eight homers and 95 total bases. His 31 RBIs this season rank third on the San Diego roster.

• In January, Gurevitch was selected to the 2025 WCC Preseason Team and was named the 2025 Perfect Game WCC Preseason Player of the Year.

• On April 21, he was recognized as the WCC Player of the Week.

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE
• Isaiah Lane, who is hitting .323 (41-for-127) overall so far this season with five home runs and 16 RBIs, has recorded 13 multi-hit games in 2025 and has hit safely in 27 of his first 35 games as a Torero.

• He has compiled five multi-RBI games in 2025, including a two-home run performance on March 1 against Cal State Bakersfield.

• A native of nearby Chula Vista, California and a graduate of Eastlake High School, Lane joined USD as a transfer after spending his freshman year at Oklahoma.

• On April 18, he was named to the 2025 Brooks Wallace Player of the Year Watch List, which honors the nation's top shortstop annually.

TRIPLE THREAT
• Nine different Toreros (Isaiah Lane, Jack Gurevitch, Austin Smith, Rex Watson, Aden Howard, Nico Libed, Connor Meidroth, Jayden Lobliner, and Gabe D'Arcy) have notched a triple in 2025.

• Lane (two) is the only USD player (and one of just 11 players in the WCC) with more than one.

• San Diego's 10 total triples through 39 games this season are the second-most in the WCC (LMU, 14), and have surpassed the final tally of nine triples the Torero achieved across 56 games in 2024.

OUCH!
• Freshman outfielder Rex Watson has been hit by 13 pitches across 37 games so far in 2025, which is the most of any Torero and is the fourth-most HBPs among all WCC players.

• In total, San Diego has been hit by 72 pitches this season, which ranks second in the WCC.

USD BASEBALL ALUM CHASE MEIDROTH MAKES MLB DEBUT
• San Diego baseball alum Chase Meidroth was recalled by the Chicago White Sox from Class AAA Charlotte on April 11 and made his Major League debut and recorded his first MLB hit that same day.

• He has appeared in nine games for the White Sox as of Thursday (April 24) afternoon and is 7-for-26 (.269) at the plate with four runs scored and five walks while appearing at both second base and shortstop.

• Meidroth helped lead the Toreros to a WCC Tournament Championship and an upset win over Vanderbilt in the NCAA Corvallis Regional as a junior in 2022.

• A two-time WCC Player of the Week, he was selected to the 2022 All-WCC First Team after appearing in 56 of San Diego's 57 games that season, including 49 starts at second base and seven at third. He batted .329 (85-for-228) with 53 runs scored, 19 doubles, 10 home runs, 47 RBIs, a team-high 40 walks, and six stolen bases as USD posted a 37-20 (17-10 WCC) record.

• Meidroth, already one of 138 Toreros to either be drafted by or sign with a MLB team, is the 26th player in program history to reach the Major Leagues.

• He is the fourth Torero on an active MLB roster in 2025, joining Riley Adams (Washington Nationals), Paul Sewald (Cleveland Guardians), and Connor Joe (San Diego Padres).

• Chris Murphy, who prior to Meidroth was the most recent former USD player to reach the big leagues when he got the call from the Boston Red Sox in 2023, is currently on the 60-Day Injured List.

• Torero Legend and USD Athletics Hall of Famer Kris Bryant (Colorado Rockies) is currently on the Injured List as well.

• Meidroth is the first player to have played under Brock Ungricht as head coach at USD to make his MLB debut.

A GOOD WEEKEND TO BE A MEIDROTH
• As his older brother — former Torero standout Chase Meidroth — made his MLB debut with the Chicago White Sox, San Diego infielder Connor Meidroth put together a highly productive weekend for the Toreros at Saint Mary's.

• Connor was 5-for-9 (.555) across five games in Moraga from April 11-13 with six runs scored, his first college homer, and five RBIs.

• The series saw the younger Meidroth set career highs in runs scored (four, April 11) and hits (three, April 12).

ALL-TIME SERIES AGAINST GONZAGA
• The Toreros are 60-44-1 against the Bulldogs all-time, with the two teams' most recent meeting coming last season in the second round of the 2024 WCC Tournament at Las Vegas Ballpark. USD defeated the Zags 10-7 that afternoon enroute to securing the WCC Tournament Championship.

• San Diego swept Gonzaga during the teams' regular-season meeting last year, beating the Bulldogs by scores of 5-4, 14-2, and 19-0 from April 26 to April 28 at Fowler Park.

• USD last visited the Patterson Baseball Complex from April 6 to April 8 2023, when it took two of three from GU by earning a 8-1 victory on Friday in a nationally televised matchup that marked Brock Ungricht's 50th win as head coach and prevailing 9-3 in the Sunday afternoon finale. USD dropped the middle game of that series by a narrow 3-2 margin.

• In 2022, the Toreros beat Gonzaga in back-to-back games at Banner Island Ballpark by scores of 5-3 (May 27, 2022) and 15-12 (11 innings, May 28, 2022) to win the WCC Tournament Championship.

FOR STARTERS (PROBABLE)
FRIDAY: Sophomore right-hander Logan Reddemann, the reigning WCC Pitcher of the Week, 2024 WCC Freshman of the Year, and a 2024 NCBWA Freshman Second Team All-American and 2024 All-WCC First Team selection, is set to take the mound for USD in the series opener at Gonzaga on Friday night.

• Reddemann (3-1, 1.86 ERA) last pitched on April 17 versus Portland, when he held the Pilots to just two earned runs on two hits across seven innings while striking out seven and walking only two. He earned his second WCC Pitcher of the Week honor of 2025 for his efforts, taking home the accolade on April 21.

• His 1.86 ERA leads the WCC in 2025 and ranks seventh nationally and his 0.95 WHIP leads the WCC and ranks 24th nationally.

• Friday will mark the third time in 2025 that Reddemann has started a series opener for San Diego after also doing so on April 11 at Saint Mary's and on April 17 versus Portland.

• He started three series-opening games for USD in 2024.

• Reddemann was named the WCC Pitcher of the Week for March 10, 2025 after throwing six shutout innings at No. 8 Oregon State on March 8. He scattered six hits in his outing against the Beavers, walked none, and struck out seven as he stranded six runners to keep the home team off the board.

• He threw five solid innings in his 2025 debut against No. 23 TCU at Fowler Park (February 15), striking out eight while giving up three earned runs on just three hits.

• This offseason, Reddemann was also named the 2025 Perfect Game Preseason WCC Player of the Year, to the 2025 Perfect Game Preseason All-WCC Team, and to the 2025 WCC Baseball Preseason Team.

• He made 13 starts for USD in his dominant debut season in 2024, accumulating a 7-4 record with a 4.01 ERA and a 1.31 HIP in 15 total appearances.

• In a team-high 76.1 innings last year, Reddemann struck out a team second-best 66 hitters, as well as starting two games that ended in shutouts.

• He was one of two players with seven wins for the Toreros on the mound in 2024, as he limited opposing players to a .224 batting average

• Reddemann was also one of two Toreros in 2024 to go eight total innings without allowing a run (May 4 vs Santa Clara)

• He became one of two USD players to strike out 10 hitters in a single outing in 2024 when he threw seven shutout frames on March 28 at Pacific while allowing just two hits and one walk.

• Reddemann pitched three innings in game two of San Diego's series versus Arizona at Fowler Park last year, allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits while walking just one and striking out six. USD went on to win that game by a score of 6-4.

• Hailing from Palmdale, California, Reddemann attended Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California, where he batted .420 across his prep career and compiled a 1.62 ERA. He earned First Team All-CIF Southern Selection honors in 2022 and 2023 and threw a perfect game during his senior season that included 11 strikeouts while going 3-for-4 at the plate with two doubles.

• Reddemann is a switch-hitting two-way player who can play middle infield and outfield and is an option as a pinch runner in addition to pitching. He has totaled 25 at-bats across 18 games in 2025, and has recorded a double, a single, two walks, two hit by pitches, and a stolen base.

• Despite his youth, Reddemann brings big-game experience to the Torero rotation, having started in two postseason games in 2024: one against Portland in the WCC Tournament Championship , and one against the Gauchos in a 2024 NCAA Santa Barbara Regional elimination game.

SATURDAY: Redshirt freshman RHP Cal Scolari (3-2, 4.68 ERA) is scheduled to start for San Diego in game two on Saturday.

• Scolari last pitched on Friday, April 18 in game two versus Portland, throwing five shutout innings while allowing just two hits, walking three, and striking out three before receiving his third win of 2025.

• He started each of San Diego's first four Friday contests in 2025 before pitching in the Toreros' next two Sunday afternoon matchups. This week will mark his third start in game two of a series this season.

• He shined in his collegiate debut in USD's season opener vs No. 23 TCU on February 14, striking out nine through five one-hit shutout innings.

• Scolari was inactive for the entirety of his true freshman year at USD and his final year of high school while recovering from an arm injury.  He attended Bishop Manogue Catholic High School in Reno, Nevada, where he last pitched as a junior, posting a 2.50 ERA across 50.1 innings on the mound.

• As a high school sophomore, he earned Second Team All-Region honors, followed by First Team All-Region honors as a junior

• Scolari was ranked the No. 7 player in Nevada and was one of Collegiate Baseball Newspapers'  Top High-School Players list  in 2023.

SUNDAY: San Diego's starting pitcher for Sunday afternoon's series finale has not yet been announced.