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Baseball
6-2-08
Grand Canyon University's baseball team ranked in the top 50 in the nation in two NCAA Division II statistical categories.
The Antelopes ranked 46th in the country in doubles with 114 this season. They ranked 47th in hit-by-pitches after being plunked 66 times,  which tied a school record.
GCU was 62nd in double plays with 44.
Several individual players ranked among the top 300 in different categories. Junior catcher/first baseman Austin Stockfisch (pictured) ranked 41st in toughest to strike out. He was 119th in doubles (17), 147th in hit-by-pitches (11) and 231st in batting average (.373).
Baseball
5-21-08
Junior third baseman Matt Fox was named to the First Team All-Pacific West Conference squad. Fox is one of three Antelopes who received all-league honors.
Junior catcher Austin Stockfisch was a second team choice, as was senior pitcher Nick Lowery.
Fox (pictured) batted .366 with 14 doubles, three home runs, 30 RBI and a team-best .528 slugging percentage. His average was the second highest on the team behind Stockfisch.
Baseball
5-8-08
Senior catcher Dan Colella (Mesa/Highland HS) was named to the ESPN The Magazine/College Sports Information  Directors of America Academic All-District 8 team.
Colella has a 3.8 grade point average in accounting.
This season he batted .296 with four home runs, 13 doubles and 31 RBI in 38 games. He had a .496 slugging percentage and .391 on-base percentage.
Colella finished his two-year career at GCU with a .316 average, eight home runs, 33 doubles, 76 RBI and 93 hits in 86 games.
Baseball
5-2-08
A long season came to an end Friday afternoon when Grand Canyon University lost to Dixie State College 6-2 in St. George, Utah.
Grand Canyon fell behind by five runs after four innings before scoring twice in the fifth. Matt Fox doubled to right-center, Byron Reischl singled to left-center and Jeff Mutchler doubled down the right field line two batters later to score Fox. Tyler Stafford's sacrifice fly to center scored Reischl to make it 5-2.
But that's as close as the Antelopes (12-39) got.
Dixie State (25-22) held Grand Canyon to five hits, while the Rebels totalled 11. Mutchler (pictured) went 2 for 4 for the 'Lopes.
Baseball
5-1-08
Senior pitcher Nick Lowery went the distance and Grand Canyon outdistanced host Dixie State, 9-3, Thursday in  St. George, Utah.
Lowery (pictured) worked all nine innings, allowing three runs, two earned, seven hits and struck out six in his second complete game of the season to get the win.
Grand Canyon (12-38) will try to even the four-game and season series with Dixie State (24-22) in the season-ending tilt at noon Friday. GCU, which lost the first game of Thursday's doubleheader 10-0, is 3-4 against Dixie this year. The Antelopes split a four-game series with the Rebels in Phoenix earlier in the season.
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