Game No. 49-51
San Francisco Dons (23-25, 15-9 WCC) at No. 15 Dallas Baptist (37-9, 13-5 MVC)
May 8-10 | 4:30 p.m., 12 p.m., 11 a.m.
Horner Ballpark | Dallas, Tex.
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SCOREBOARD WATCHING
The Dons have an outside shot of winning the West Coast Conference regular season championship but will need some help in the final two weekends. San Diego is two games up on the Dons, who owns the tiebreaker with the Toreros, and play its final conference series this weekend against Pepperdine. If San Diego loses the three-game set, USF could win the WCC on the final weekend of the season against Loyola Marymount in a three-game set beginning May 15.
 
WCC CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
The top five teams in the West Coast Conference are separated by four games with only two weekends to go and one will be left at home for postseason play as only the top four teams qualify for the WCC Championship Tournament at Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, Calif., which is slated to begin on May 21. The Dons, who sit at 15-9, need to win one of their final three conference games to ensure a spot in Stockton.
 
ACES WILD
Anthony Shew and Christian Cecilio have been one of the better rotation pairs on the West Coast. The two have combined for 12 wins, 182.2 innings, and are all over the top ranks in the WCC. Cecilio is first in complete games (4), strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.05), and innings pitched (95.2). Shew is second in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.94), third in innings pitched (87.0), and second in victories (7).

DALLAS BAPTIST NO. 1 IN RPI
The Dons have had a grueling nonconference schedule and it continues with a trip to Dallas Baptist. The Patriots have the best RPI in the country and have picked up series wins over San Diego, Oral Roberts, and single game wins against TCU, Baylor, and Oklahoma. 
 
MIROGLIO ON JOHNNY BENCH WATCH LIST
Sophomore catcher Dominic Miroglio has been a difference maker on offense and defense for the Dons this season and was honored by being named to the Johnny Bench Award Watch List. The Johnny Bench Award is given to the best Division I catcher in the nation. Miroglio is hitting .350 with three home runs, 36 RBI (second in the WCC) and is throwing out 44 percent of runners. He leads all WCC catchers in batting average, RBI, and caught stealing percentage.
 
EATON NAMED PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Michael Eaton was instrumental in the three-game sweep of San Diego and helped the Dons to an overall 4-1 record. His .444 average with four doubles and six RBI earned him West Coast Conference Rawlings Player of the Week honors on Apr. 20. The redshirt junior is the first Dons player to win the award since Bradley Zimmer on Mar. 3, 2014.
 
DUCK SEASON
The Dons started to pick up the pace after the first of March and it resulted in two wins over No. 8 Oregon at PK Park in Eugene, Ore. Sheldon Lee went 5.1 shutout innings in the opener to pick up the 4-1 win. In the second game, Brendan Hendriks and Derek Atkinson both drove in two and Sam Granoff kept the Ducks off balance as he went 6.1 innings and allowed two earned runs as part of the 8-2 victory.
 
CAGING THE GOLDEN BEARS
Sam Granoff was masterful against No. 24 California on March 17 and he went 7+ innings, allowing one run on eight hits. Nico Giarratano had the game-winning hit with a two-run double in the eighth inning to put the Dons on top 3-1.
 
#DonsOTR
San Francisco has a grueling schedule that will have the team away from home for 36 of the team's 55 games, including a stretch of 12 straight and 19 of 23 to start the season. It will include trips to Texas Tech, New Mexico, Oregon, and Gonzaga.
 
TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SLATE
The Dons may have one of the tougher non-conference schedules in the country. They play eight games against teams that are ranked in the top 35 in the country (Texas Tech, Oregon, Stanford), according to the NCBWA, and an additional five games against teams receiving votes. All the games against ranked teams will also be on the road.
 
HENDRIKS NAMED TOP 100 SENIOR
After a season where he was second on the team in slugging at .493, Brendan Hendriks has been named to Baseball America's Top 100 Seniors list and came in at 91. The senior from Alberta, Canada hit a career-high six home runs with 39 RBI in 2014, including a game-winner in the 19th inning at No. 2 Cal State Fullerton and a two-home run game against California.
 
GIARRATANO MOVING UP THE CHARTS
Head coach Nino Giarratano enters his 17th season at USF and has accumulated 480 wins over that time, which is the most in school history and is the third most in West Coast Conference history. He sits behind only John Cunningham (524, San Diego) and current San Diego and former USF coach Rich Hill (691).