THE SCHEDULE
Games 37-40
vs. Cal State Monterey Bay (22-14, 18-10 CCAA)
Friday, April 10 • 6:15 p.m.
Triton Ballpark • La Jolla
Live Audio/Video • Live Stats

Saturday, April 11 • 12 p.m. (DH)
Triton Ballpark • La Jolla
Live Video • Live Stats

Sunday, April 12 • 11 a.m.
Triton Ballpark • La Jolla
Live Video • Live Stats

The UC San Diego baseball team completes a five-game home week with a critical California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) series at Triton Ballpark this Friday through Sunday, April 10-12. The third-place Tritons (24-12, 19-8 CCAA) welcome in fourth-place Cal State Monterey Bay (22-14, 18-10 CCAA). Friday's pregame will feature the grand re-opening of the new-look ballpark and official dedication ceremony of the new Marye Anne Fox Clubhouse at 5:45 p.m. The pushed-back start time is then slated for 6:15 p.m., with ace Justin Donatella (6-1, 0.70 ERA) expected to make his next appearance of an incredible junior season. Game one of the Saturday doubleheader will begin at 12 p.m., with a seven-inning nightcap following approximately 30-40 minutes after a regulation nine-inning contest. The getaway-day series finale has an 11 a.m. first pitch on Sunday, April 12. UCSD is 15-6 at home, with CSUMB 9-7 on the road.

TICKET PRICES AND NEW ADMISSION POLICIES
General admission tickets to all regular-season home games at Triton Ballpark are $5. UCSD students are admitted FREE with valid identification. New admission policies are in place at the facility following off-season renovation. Dogs and other pets are no longer allowed at Triton Ballpark, nor are coolers. University food truck, Flavors of the World, will be on site for all remaining home contests, serving a selection of sliders, sides and beverages, and accepting Triton Cash and Dining Dollars, in addition to Visa and MasterCard.

PARKING INFO
Parking on the UCSD campus is free on weekends, but a permit is required and strongly recommended for weeknight contests. They can be purchased at the machine near the entrance to the Triton Ballpark parking lot. Please be aware of the danger of foul balls when parking. Overflow parking is available in the lots beyond the right field wall, still along Voigt Drive.

LIVE COVERAGE
All UCSD home games at Triton Ballpark feature a live online video stream and live stats. Select games will additionally have audio commentary, provided again this year by former Triton pitcher (2007-08) Tim Strombel (@Timmy2Sides). The final two full broadcasts (of 10) are Friday's series opener with Cal State Monterey Bay, and the series finale with Cal State San Bernardino on Tuesday, April 21. The audio/video is free, but does require registration and a login. Some road contests will also have video and/or audio. All have live stats. Fans can access live coverage for home and away dates from the UCSD Schedule/Results page. Starting lineups, live between-inning updates and other gameday news and notes can be found by following Triton Baseball on the UCSD Athletics Twitter handle (@UCSDtritons).

GRAND OPENING AND OFFICIAL DEDICATION FRIDAY
All are welcome to join us this Friday evening, April 10, as UCSD Athletics and Triton Baseball present the grand re-opening of the new Triton Ballpark, and official dedication for the Marye Anne Fox Clubhouse. The ceremony will begin at 5:45 p.m., with first pitch between the Tritons and Otters at 6:15 p.m. Former (2004-12) UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox will be present, alongside other campus dignitaries and key contributors to the project.

FREE POSTERS!
Free Triton Baseball team posters will be available at Triton Ballpark for all remaining home contests during this 2015 season. The posters are once again sponsored by UCSD Dining Services and Pepsi.

THE MATCH-UP BY THE NUMBERS
UCSD is third in the CCAA in team batting average (.288), first in ERA (2.93) and third in fielding percentage (.970). Cal State Monterey Bay is second in hitting (.299), fifth in ERA (3.76) and tied for fifth in fielding (.964).

THE NEW TRITON BALLPARK
Triton Ballpark on East Campus at UCSD has a brand-new look outside the foul lines in 2015. The extensive renovation was completed enough for competition to take place as scheduled with an Opening Day doubleheader on Sunday, Feb. 1. Some of the main features include a permanent grandstand to seat just over 500, a press box, new sunken dugouts, an area for food trucks, and restrooms, among several other amenities. Read details here. Arguably the crown jewel of the project, the Marye Anne Fox Clubhouse down the right field line, was introduced to the players on March 17. Watch a clip here. The official dedication takes place this Friday at 5:45 p.m. The first pitch at the new Triton Ballpark came from Trevor Scott, the first hit and RBI by Brandon Shirley, the first run by Tyler Howsley, and the first home run in the form of a grand slam by Brian Choi. View photo galleries from the ballpark construction here and Opening Day here.

TRITON BASEBALL BACK ON TWITTER
After a hiatus, Triton Baseball has returned to Twitter @UCSDbsb! Be sure to give them a follow. Gameday info and updates will still predominantly come from the official UCSD Athletics Twitter handle @UCSDtritons. The majority of the Triton coaching staff, including head coach Eric Newman (@CoachEricNewman), are also on Twitter. Those links can be found at the bottom.

RANKINGS REPORT
Following a 3-1 series defeat to Cal Poly Pomona last week, UCSD fell out of the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper national poll on Monday, and is now receiving votes just outside of the top 30. The Tritons are rated No. 21 by D2 Baseball News, No. 23 by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), and No. 18 by Perfect Game. They appeared at No. 15 in CBN's preseason edition, moving up to a high of No. 10 in the publication's first in-season listing on Feb. 16. Other preseason prognostications were No. 12 by the NCBWA (Jan. 28), No. 16 by D2 Baseball News, and No. 19 by PG (Jan. 29). UCSD's highest ranking in 2015 has been No. 8 by the NCBWA on Feb. 17. Regionally speaking, the Tritons are rated No. 2 in the West by D2 Baseball News and No. 3 by the NCBWA. The NCBWA has CSUMB at No. 8 in the West.

LAST TIME OUT
UCSD produced a 19-2 destruction of 20th-ranked West Region foe Azusa Pacific in a non-conference match-up with postseason implications Tuesday night in La Jolla. The Tritons matched their season high in runs, with a season-high 19 hits. It was already a 10-2 bulge when they came up with their largest frame of 2015, at nine runs, doing so on six hits, three walks and three Cougar errors out of six defensive miscues on the night for the visitors that led to nine unearned scores. Troy Cruz reached base in all five plate appearances and had a career-best four runs scored. Jack Rupe, Jr. (1-0), John Erhardt, Travis Roberts, Dan Kolodin, Chad Rieser and Javier Carrillo, Jr., combined on the mound, allowing the two runs on six hits and one walk, while striking out nine. Rupe, Jr., retired all six batters he faced to pick up his first collegiate decision in his first career start. The Tritons' eighth was indeed their largest inning since collecting 11 runs in the ninth during a 17-3 win at SF State on April 18, 2014. UCSD has now tallied 19 runs twice this season. The Tritons last had at least two efforts with 19 or more, in 2010.

AROUND THE CCAA
At 19-8 (.704) in league play, UCSD is now in third place in the 11-team CCAA standings, just percentage points behind Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State L.A., both at 17-7 (.708). This weekend's opponent, Cal State Monterey Bay (22-14, 18-10 CCAA), is right behind the Tritons by a game and a half. UCSD is 5.5 games clear of fifth-place Sonoma State, with the top four teams earning CCAA Championship berths. Another full league slate is on tap this week, beginning Friday afternoon. Follow all of the action through the CCAA baseball scoreboard. Bookmark it here.

DONNY DEALING
Justin Donatella (6-1) continues to lead the CCAA in wins (tied), ERA (0.70) and strikeouts (70). He won each of his first six CCAA starts, becoming the first Triton to do so since Matt Rossman in 2010, before taking a no-decision at home against Cal Poly Pomona last Thursday night. The junior right-hander threw 34.1 straight shutout innings prior to seeing a blooped RBI single drop in to center field with one away in the fourth inning of UCSD's 11-5 home win over Cal State San Bernardino on March 20. The incredible stretch dated back to his second frame of the season during a 2-0 home loss to top-ranked 2014 national runner-up Colorado Mesa in his 2015 debut back on Feb. 6. He had yet to allow a run in 31.2 frames over his first four-plus CCAA starts prior to that fourth-inning single. Of the five runs he has given up, four were earned, with the latest coming on his first surrendered home run of 2015. Donatella is up to sixth in the NCAA Division II in ERA, with more appearances and innings than any of the five pitchers in front of him. Through games played on April 6, he is also tied for 11th nationally in strikeouts, tied for 23rd in wins, 14th in hits allowed per nine innings (4.73), tied for 20th in strikeouts per nine innings (12.27), and eighth in WHIP (0.74). Batters are hitting just .149 against him. His strikeout-to-walk ratio sits at 6.36 (70-11).

LEAGUE-LEADING PITCHING
UCSD continues to boast the best team ERA in the CCAA, and is 10th in Division II, at 2.93. The Tritons also have a league-leading 299 strikeouts. The starting rotation of Justin Donatella (6-1, 0.70), Alon Leichman (5-1, 2.77), Trevor Scott (4-5, 2.77) and Troy Cruz (5-3, 3.02) all have an ERA of under 3.10 and at least four wins. Donatella paces the CCAA in wins (tied), ERA and strikeouts (70), and is first on the staff with 51.1 innings. The Tritons as a team have issued only 78 walks, the fewest in the league, and have the nation's fifth-best strikeout-to-walk ratio of 3.83.

SOPHOMORE BUMP FOR LARSEN
Jack Larsen has produced the opposite of a sophomore slump, as the second-year Triton outfielder has made himself into a legitimate MVP candidate in the CCAA. After finishing the 54-game 2014 slate with a .269 average, six extra-base hits and 13 RBI, the Mission Viejo product leads the team in batting (.369), extra-base hits (14) and RBI (32) in 2015. He is fourth in the CCAA in average, second in RBI, tied for sixth with 10 doubles, and fifth in slugging (.541). In conference games only, Larsen is batting .367 with 24 RBI.

DEFENSIVE UPSWING
UCSD is back at the .970 mark in fielding percentage, third in the CCAA, after a slow start defensively. The Tritons had a recent run of six straight games without an error, all during a season-long six-game road stretch from March 22-29. The single-season record for consecutive games without an error for the program's Division II era still stands at seven, from March 27 to April 9 of the 2010 campaign, when the Tritons set a Division II record that still stands with a fielding percentage of .984.

TWO-HEADED MONSTER OUT OF BULLPEN
Fourth-year seniors Dan Kolodin and Chad Rieser have four and three saves, respectively. Kolodin (2-1, 4.03), a right-hander, is second on the staff with 16 appearances, 14 in relief, and is tied for second strikeouts (45) while fifth in innings (38.0). Rieser (0-0, 3.55 ERA), a left-hander, has made a team-best 19 appearances, tied for 13th in the country, with 35 strikeouts over 25.1 frames. He struck out the side in order in both the sixth and seventh on Feb. 21 against Cal State Dominguez Hills. On March 7, Rieser saved both ends of a doubleheader sweep at home over rival Chico State, becoming the first Triton to achieve the feat since Kolodin in another home sweep against SF State on April 6, 2013.

MANN ALIVE
Senior first baseman Michael Mann has been on a tear after a slow start to his final collegiate campaign. He held a .200 batting average following the 6-2 loss at Azusa Pacific on Feb. 24. Since then, Mann is hitting .433 (26-for-60), with 14 RBI and six multi-hit efforts in 18 appearances, to increase his average to .333, third on the team. During this stretch, the Orinda native produced a 5-for-5 showing in the series finale at Cal State East Bay on March 1. Over the course of the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons, there have only been two five-hit efforts by a Triton, both from Mann. The Division II-era single-game program record is six hits. Mann also went 4-for-5 on Feb. 28 at East Bay.

SHUTOUTS ON SHUTOUTS
With a 6-0 victory to open its series with Chico State on March 6, UCSD has seven shutouts in 2015 through 27 games, having produced seven a year ago in 54. Seven is the program's most in the NCAA Division II era since 2001. The Tritons are tied for second nationally in Division II with Virginia State and St. Cloud State, behind only Franklin Pierce (10). In completing back-to-back-to-back shutouts to begin its series with Cal State Dominguez Hills, Feb. 19-21, UCSD achieved the feat of three straight shutouts for the first time in program history, dating back through the 1980 season. The Tritons on five previous occasions had posted two successive shutouts, most recently at home to start off the 2014 series with the Toros, on March 6 (1-0) and March 7 (7-0).

CRUZ OVER TO FIRST BASE
Junior All-American Troy Cruz has drawn 28 walks this season, 12th nationally and still first in the CCAA. UCSD comfortably leads the CCAA in walks as a team (186), with this week's opponent, CSUMB, second at 154, and is fourth in the country. Tritons take up four of the top five spots in the conference in walks, with Jack Larsen (26), Erik Lewis (25) and Justin Flatt (24) following Cruz. CSUMB's Justin Flores is tied for fourth with Flatt. A year ago, it was Nick La Face (47), Lewis (42) and Justin Rahn (35) all ahead of the CCAA pack.

STREAKS SNAPPED
UCSD had gone 15 straight CCAA sets without suffering a series loss, going back to a road trip to Cal State Monterey Bay to end the 2013 campaign, before last weekend's 3-1 loss to Cal Poly Pomona ... The Tritons had in fact won six straight completed CCAA sets, including all five this year (but not including the in-progress CSUSB series), going back to a 3-1 win over CSUSB to conclude the 2014 regular season ... The Tritons had played error-free baseball over a six-game road stretch from March 22-29 prior to the April 2 home date vs. CPP, with their Division II-era best still standing at seven straight (March 27-April 9, 2010) ... Gradeigh Sanchez had his career-best 10-game hit streak and 15-game reached-base streak end at CPP on April 4 ... Justin Donatella had won his first six CCAA starts this year prior to taking a no-decision against CPP on April 2 ... Justin Donatella strung together a career-best streak of 34.1 innings of shutout baseball (first 31.2 frames of CCAA play) between Feb. 6-March 21 ... Erik Lewis had his lengthy reached-base streak going back to last season snapped at 40 games on Feb. 28.

DONNY DONS AWARDS FOR DOMINANT STARTS
Justin Donatella's one-hit shutout at Cal State East Bay on Feb. 27, with a season-high 11 strikeouts on just 98 pitches, earned the junior right-hander both the NCBWA West Region and CCAA Pitcher of the Week nods, each for the first time in his career. Donatella retired the first 14 Pioneers he faced that afternoon, with the home side managing just a two-out single through the left side in the fifth inning, and a leadoff hit-by-pitch in the seventh. Donatella registered eight more outs on grounders, and the other eight on fly balls, also handling all four of his defensive chances cleanly with three assists on comebackers and one putout. Read more here. Donatella's next outing of 7.1 shutout frames with nine strikeouts against Chico State, garnered him a spot among 10 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Players of the Week from all levels of college baseball.

PROGRAM FIRST FOR DONATELLA
Justin Donatella's remarkable performance at Cal State East Bay on Feb. 27 marked the first one-hit, nine-inning shutout by an individual Triton pitcher in the Division II era, since 2001. Former standouts Tim Shibuya (7.0 IP) and Elias Tuma (2.0) previously combined on a one-hit, nine-inning shutout in another defeat of Cal State East Bay, 1-0, on Feb. 19, 2011. Five Triton arms teamed up on a nine-inning one-hitter on Feb. 5, 2002, in a 3-1 victory at crosstown rival Point Loma. The only no-hitter for UCSD's Division II days came from Trevor Decker against then-top-ranked Cal State Stanislaus, a 6-0 home triumph in seven innings back on March 14, 2009.

YOUNG OUTFIELD
All but two of the 108 combined starts in the UCSD outfield in 2015 have come from redshirt freshman Justin Flatt, redshirt sophomore Brandon Shirley, and true sophomores Jack Larsen and Christian Leung. Flatt, Shirley and Larsen started left to right in each of the first 17 games this season. Leung's play has earned him nine starts in right field since, with Larsen moving back over to center, where he made all 44 of his starts as a freshman in 2014. The outfielders have combined for eight of the Tritons' 12 home runs, with Flatt and Larsen blasting three apiece. Flatt served as the leadoff hitter for the first six contests, with Shirley taking over at the top of the order for the next 11. Flatt reached base safely in each of the first 12 games, now each of the last 20, and in 33 of the 35 games he has played in. Larsen, who has batted either third or fourth in the lineup, leads the team in average (.369), RBI (32), and multi-hit (12) and multi-RBI (9) games. He is second in the CCAA in RBI, and fourth in hitting.

VETERAN INFIELD
Over the first 36 games, the Tritons have generally started the same veteran infield. Just like in 2014, it's been Troy Cruz at third base, Erik Lewis at second and Michael Mann at first, with Tyler Howsley, a part-time starter at shortstop as a freshman a year ago, taking over that spot for good. The only exceptions have been at third for the eight games when Cruz has been on the mound, and six starts at first between Zach Friedman and Justin Flatt. Brett Levy has been behind the plate for 20 of the 36 games, with fellow fourth-year senior Brian Choi drawing four starts.

STATISTICAL ODDS AND ENDS
Justin Flatt has reached base in 20 straight games, the longest run by a Triton this year ... Gradeigh Sanchez, who has been in the leadoff position in the order for 12 successive contests, has produced the longest hit streak by a Triton in 2015, with his career-best 10-gamer going through April 3 ... UCSD is an even 6-6 against nationally-ranked opponents in 2015 ... The Tritons never trailed during their four-game home sweep over then-20th-ranked archrival Chico State, March 6-8, and have not lost a series to the Wildcats since 2007 in Chico (3-1) ... Redshirt freshman catcher Steven Coe has thrown out six out of 13 (.462) would-be base-stealers this season ... UCSD is 21-5 when scoring first (with three such losses vs. CPP), and 7-0 when scoring in the first inning ... The Tritons are 20-1 when out-hitting their opponent, and 22-3 when tallying at least four runs in a contest.

POWER UP
The Tritons hit five home runs during their season-opening four-game series with Western Oregon, having needed 38 contests to achieve that total in 2014. Prior to the 8-3 victory in the nightcap with Western Oregon on Feb. 1, the previous time that UCSD hit three home runs in a single game was a 10-5 loss at Cal Poly Pomona on Feb. 23, 2012. The Tritons have done it twice in 2015, launching three more long balls to open the doubleheader at Cal State East Bay on March 1. Brian Choi's grand slam in that Western Oregon contest was the first by a Triton since Justin Rahn's against CPP in the third inning of a 20-5 triumph during the NCAA West Regional in La Jolla on May 16, 2014. Having finished 2014 with 11 home runs in 54 games, UCSD has 12 through 36 games this season.

HIT-BY-PITCH RECORD
Cal State Dominguez Hills pitchers hit UCSD batters a total of nine times during a 19-0 drubbing in game one of the Feb. 21 doubleheader in La Jolla. That constituted a Triton program record at least for the Division II era (since 2001), and likely all-time. UCSD was plunked seven times in a single game four times prior, in 2007, 2005, 2004 and 2003.

CRUZ A STAR OF THE YEAR
UCSD junior Troy Cruz was named on Jan. 14 as one of eight San Diego Hall of Champions Amateur Stars of the Year for 2014. The local product out of Chula Vista (Bonita Vista HS) was a two-time SDHOC Star of the Month during the 2014 calendar year. He helped guide UCSD to a record sixth CCAA tournament title and into the NCAA postseason, excelling as both an infielder and pitcher. Cruz was recognized at the 69th Annual Salute to the Champions on Feb. 23 at the Town and Country Convention Center. Both he and Triton head coach Eric Newman were in attendance, with Cruz addressing the crowd. Read a Triton Q&A with Cruz here.

TRITON NOTES
Troy Cruz went a perfect 4-0 in his four starts in March, with a 2.10 ERA, 24 strikeouts and a single walk in 25.2 innings, earning him the third San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month award of his Triton career ... Justin Donatella's incredible February (3-1, 0.36 ERA, 33 strikeouts) with a shutout streak of 23.2 innings, earned him a first career San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month selection ... Trevor Scott and Jack Larsen were named on Feb. 3 as the 2015 season's first CCAA Baseball Pitcher and Player of the Week, respectively ... Troy Cruz was chosen to the NCBWA Preseason All-America Third Team at the utility spot, with Cruz (first team), Justin Donatella (second) and Erik Lewis (second) each named to NCBWA Preseason All-West Region teams (Jan. 23) ... UCSD was picked to place third in the 2015 CCAA regular-season race by the league's 11 head coaches, as announced on Jan. 27, with reigning West Region champion Chico State favored.

ROSTER NOTES
UCSD's 36-player 2015 roster features 17 letterwinners, seven returning redshirts and 12 newcomers ... The Tritons have retained six out of nine regular position players and three of four starting pitchers ... UCSD returns a quartet of all-conference performers from a year ago in junior All-American and two-time All-CCAA First Team selection Troy Cruz, senior Erik Lewis (first team), junior Justin Donatella (first) and senior Michael Mann (third) ... All but two players on the roster, junior pitcher Alon Leichman (Kibbutz Gezer, Israel) and redshirt freshman Tim White (Stratford, CT), are California natives ... Besides Cruz (Chula Vista/Bonita Vista HS), the five other San Diego products are redshirt freshman catcher Steven Coe (Valley Center/Valley Center HS), and newcomers Troy Forester (Carlsbad/Palomar College/Carlsbad HS), Cameron Kurz (Encinitas/La Costa Canyon HS), Tyler Plantier (Poway/Del Norte HS), and Jack Rupe, Jr. (San Marcos/Mission Hills HS) ... Plantier is the son of Phil Plantier, who played eight seasons in Major League Baseball for five franchises, and served as the hitting coach of the hometown San Diego Padres from 2011-14 ... Tyler Howsley, Jack Larsen and Gradeigh Sanchez all played together at Mission Viejo's Capistrano Valley High School.

SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN
UCSD's 2015 schedule consists of 49 regular-season games, including 28 at home within the friendly confines of Triton Ballpark. The Tritons faced CCAA favorite Chico State at home for the second year in a row, sweeping that four-game series between archrivals, March 6-8. UCSD wrapped up a season-opening, season-long 11-game homestand on Feb. 17. The CCAA Championship will be held in the neutral-site city of Stockton for the third year in a row, but after the previous two editions took place at Banner Island Ballpark, the four-team tournament is headed back to Klein Family Field on the campus of the University of the Pacific, May 7-10. It would be a familiar locale for the Tritons, who won their third and fourth CCAA tourney titles back-to-back at the venue when the event was held there previously in 2010 and 2011.

HEAD COACH ERIC NEWMAN
Eric Newman is in his fourth season as the UCSD head coach. The 2012 CCAA Coach of the Year has a 121-76 record (91-52 CCAA) in charge of the Tritons and 216-148 overall in his six-plus seasons as a head coach. Newman guided UCSD to the 2012 CCAA regular-season and tournament titles in his first go-around in La Jolla, and a subsequent trip to the NCAA Division II West Regional. His Tritons won a record sixth conference tourney crown last May in Stockton, to again nab the CCAA's automatic berth into the NCAA Championship. With UCSD earning the region's top seed, Triton Ballpark played host to the 2014 NCAA West Regional. Newman has now led the Tritons to two CCAA banners and two NCAA postseason appearances in his three years, as well as two 30-win campaigns. He previously went 95-72 in three seasons at the helm of Dallas Baptist University from 2005-07.

ABOUT THE OTTERS
Cal State Monterey Bay (22-14, 18-10 CCAA) is coming off of a series split with SF State last weekend. The Otters won home games, 15-12 and 7-5, around a doubleheader sweep in San Francisco on Friday, with narrow losses of 5-3 and 5-4. Kevin Davidson's three-run home run in the bottom of the 10th gave CSUMB the walk-off triumph in that series opener. The Otters also previously split a four-gamer at Chico State, March 27-29. They opened the CCAA campaign a perfect 9-0, in the middle of a season-long 11-game win streak that gave CSUMB a program-best 13-4 start to the year. Davidson (.364), a junior first baseman from UC Riverside (2012-13), leads the league with 43 RBI, and is tied for second with his nine home runs. He is the CCAA Player of the Week, marking the third straight series (Sonoma State's Alex Crosby and CPP's Kyle Garlick), and fourth this year (Chico State's Andrew Carrillo), in which UCSD will be facing the reigning CCAA Player of the Week. Senior Ty Morris (.323) has swiped a CCAA-best 14 bases on 17 attempts. Freshman right-hander Greg Steinbeck had been the CSUMB starter in series openers, beginning his college campaign 6-0 with a 1.43 ERA, but is out for the remainder of the season. Walt White, the 2013 CCAA Coach of the Year, is in his fifth season in charge at Cal State Monterey Bay. As a fun fact, White (1990) and Triton ace Justin Donatella (2012) are both graduates of Saugus (Calif.) High School in Southern California.

SERIES HISTORY
UCSD leads the all-time series with Cal State Monterey Bay, 27-12, since the first meetings in 2006, including 26-10 in conference match-ups. The teams split their four games last year (March 14-16), also in La Jolla, with the Otters sweeping the Saturday doubleheader, 10-5 and 6-2, in between a pair of Triton wins, 10-2 and 4-3. CSUMB took three out of four in Seaside to conclude the 2013 regular season. UCSD took the 2012 set in La Jolla, three games to one. The Tritons split four games in their 2011 visit to Seaside as the nation's top-ranked team.

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UCSD hits the road next week, traveling up to Turlock for another four-game CCAA series at Cal State Stanislaus Friday through Sunday, April 17-19.

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