SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fresh off one of the biggest series wins in the program's history, the Sacramento State baseball team looks to continue its roll with five games in six days this week beginning with a pair of midweek contests at home.

The Hornets welcome UMass Lowell in for a single game on Tuesday (March 10), before local rival Pacific plays in Sacramento for the first time this year on Wednesday (March 11). Both games are scheduled for a 6 p.m. first pitch at John Smith Field on campus.

PLAY BALL!
WHAT: UMass Lowell (3-7, 0-0 America East) at Sacramento State (5-10, 0-0 WAC)
WHEN: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
TIME: 6 PM PT
WHERE: Sacramento, Calif.
STADIUM: John Smith Field
WATCH: ESPN+
STATS: HornetSports.com
TICKETS: HornetSports.com

WHAT: Pacific (6-9, 0-0 WCC) at Sacramento State (5-10, 0-0 WAC)
WHEN: Wednesday, March 11, 2026
TIME: 6 PM PT
WHERE: Sacramento, Calif.
STADIUM: John Smith Field
WATCH: ESPN+
STATS: HornetSports.com
TICKETS: HornetSports.com

ABOUT THE RIVER HAWKS
• UMass Lowell enters Tuesday night's game with a 3-7 overall record
• The game against Sacramento State is the fifth in a nine-game trip through California for the River Hawks
• UMass Lowell opened its West Coast trip with a four-game series split at San Francisco over the weekend and Tuesday's game will be the fifth in five days for the team
• After dropping the opener, 8-5, the River Hawks won games two (18-7) and three (6-4) against the Dons before falling in the finale on Monday (8-2)
• UMass Lowell opened the year by dropping 2-of-3 to Morehead State, then fell to Illinois State, Miami (OH), and Indiana State at the Snowbird Baseball Classic in Florida
• Following Tuesday's game, the River Hawks play four games at Pepperdine from March 12-14
• Freshman catcher Cal Chance is the team's leading hitter, batting .371 over eight games, scoring eight runs, slugging three doubles, and driving in five
• Junior Rowan Masse has scored a team-high 13 runs and has walked seven times
• As a team, UMass Lowell is batting .247 with four home runs and 24 extra-base hits total
• Meanwhile, the River Hawk pitching staff sports a 7.18 ERA and a .331 average against, striking out 93 against 48 walks and a WHIP of 1.98

SERIES NOTES
• Tuesday marks the first-ever meeting with UMass Lowell on the diamond
• The River Hawks are one of three first-time opponents for Sacramento State this season along with weekend series against Saint Joseph's (Feb. 19-22) and Winthrop (March 19-21)

ABOUT THE TIGERS
• Pacific enters the week with a 6-9 overall record after dropping a three-game series on the road at Nevada over the weekend
• Dating back to an 8-7 win over Sacramento State at home on Feb. 25, the Tigers have played their last seven games on the road with the first two games against the Hornets this week eventually extending that streak to nine
• Pacific is 4-4 at home this season and just 2-5 away from Klein Family Field
• Sophomore Robert Orr has been red-hot to start the season, batting .436 with six doubles, four home runs, and 11 RBI to go with 11 runs scored and a 1.239 OPS
• He is one of three Tigers to drive in at least 10 runs on the year along with teammates Jake Tandy (10) and Grant MacArthur (10)
• As a team, Pacific is batting .260 with nine home runs and 41 extra-base hits
• As a staff, Tiger pitching sports a 5.85 ERA with opponents bating .272 against them while striking out 142 against 76 walks

SERIES NOTES
• Sacramento State leads the all-time series with Pacific by a 105-81-1 count according to records that date back to the 1950 season
• The Hornets are 60-35-1 at home against the Tigers and 45-46 on the road
• Tuesday marks the second of five scheduled meetings overall — with four of those five being played this week — against Pacific this season as Sacramento State also hosts the Tigers on Friday (March 13), followed by two more meetings in Stockton on March 14-15.
• This weekend's series against Pacific fills the spot of a previously scheduled three-game series against UConn, which was canceled when it was discovered that the Huskies double-booked the weekend with a series in Portland
• According to available records, the 105 victories against Pacific are the third-most against any one school in the program's history behind only 149 wins against UC Davis and 116 against Chico State
• Sacramento State took three of the four meetings with Pacific last season, winning two of a three-game weekend set against the Tigers in early March, then posting a 13-3 midweek win on the road a couple weeks later
• All three of those games in the weekend series last season were decided by a single run as the two teams split a pair of 6-5 decisions in the first two games before the Hornets earned a walk-off 10-inning win in the series finale
• Sacramento State has won seven of the last 11 meetings with their local rival dating back to 2022 with three of those wins coming on the road

CONFERENCE CALL
• UMass Lowell will be only the second member of the America East that the Hornets have faced on the diamond following a 22-2 win over Albany at home back in 2010
• Sacramento State is a combined 318-324-4 (.495) against the current West Coast Conference baseball lineup, having faced all 10 of the league's members
• The Hornets will face only two WCC schools on the diamond this year, adding midweek games against San Francisco on March 17 (away) and April 14 (home) in addition to the five games against the Tigers this year
• Sacramento State was a combined 6-4 against the WCC last season, going 3-1 against Pacific, 2-2 against San Francisco, and 1-1 against Saint Mary's
• That record does not include a 2-1 series win over Seattle U as the Redhawks were members of the WAC in 2025 prior to aligning with the WCC last summer
• The Hornets are 30-20 against Seattle U, with all but seven of those games coming as WAC rivals from 2013-25
• The 105 wins against Pacific are the most for the Hornets against any one WCC school, followed by 66 wins against Saint Mary's and 65 more against San Francisco

MIDWEEK MADNESS
• Tuesday's game against UMass Lowell and Wednesday's game against Pacific mark the third and fourth midweek games for the Hornets this year, but the first at home in 2026
• Sacramento State is 0-2 thus far in midweek contests, falling at Pacific by an 8-7 score on Feb. 25 and at Fresno State by a 2-0 score on March third — both of those on the road
• The Hornets last won a midweek game with an 8-2 victory at UC Davis back on April 15 of last season
• Sacramento State was just 3-8 in 11 midweek games last season
• Five of those were decided by a single run, with another ending in a two-run defeat
• The Hornets were 1-4 in those five single-run midweek contests
• Of the team's last 26 midweek games, just over half (14) have been decided by two runs or fewer, with 10 of those 14 decided by a single run

LOOKING AHEAD
• Following the games against the River Hawks and Tigers, Sacramento State and Pacific will keep things going with a three-game weekend series
• The set opens at John Smith Field in Sacramento on Friday (March 13) at 6 p.m., followed by two games in Stockton on Saturday (March 14) at 3 p.m. and Sunday (March 15) at 1 p.m.

HORNET SHORT HOPS
• Sacramento State enters the week with a 5-10 overall record, with two of those wins coming at No. 2-ranked LSU in Baton Rouge over the weekend
• The Hornets' 5-4 win in game two against the Tigers marked the highest-ranked victory for the Hornets under Head Coach Reggie Christiansen, surpassing a 2-1 win over No. 3 UCLA on March 3, 2019
• It was also the highest-ranked victory for Sacramento State since it defeated No. 2 Stanford, 2-1, on April 24, 2004
• With their 6-1 win in the finale against LSU, the Hornets posted their first series win over a nationally ranked opponent for the first time since sweeping No. 6 Long Beach State — also on the road — in 2022
• Thanks to the weekend's results, Sacramento State improved to 22-37 against nationally ranked opponents under Christiansen since 2011, including winning eight of the last 13 such contests
• The Hornets are now 12 wins shy of 1,000 all-time victories in the program's Division I era
• The pitching staff was nothing short of spectacular in the two wins against the Tigers, limiting an LSU offense that put up 15 runs on 14 hits in the series opener to just nine combined hits over the final two games and a .136 average (9-for-66)
• Junior right-hander Kurt Marton and five relievers scattered just three hits in game two, with Marton giving up only one of those and striking out four
• The staff carried a combined one-hit shutout into the eighth before LSU made it interesting with four runs in the final two innings as the Hornets held on
• Junior left-hander Sean Carey earned his second career win in game two, throwing 2.2 scoreless innings without allowing a hit and striking out four
• Over his last two games (5.1 innings) against California and No. 2 LSU, Carey has allowed just one hit without allowing a run and striking out eight without a walk, while allowing just one run on two hits with 13 strikeouts over his last five appearances (8.1 innings)
• Sophomore right-hander Carson Timothy then had the honors in the finale, allowing an unearned run on only five hits over 6.2 innings, carrying a shutout on three hits into the seventh and striking out four without a walk
• Nailing down both wins was true freshman reliever Trevor Wilson, who had a pitcher of the week worthy weekend by recording the final two outs in game two and pitching the final 2.1 innings while allowing just one hit in the finale to record the second and third saves of his collegiate career
• Powering the offense in the game two win was junior infielder Cameron Sewell, who was responsible for driving in all five runs with an RBI double in the second and an all-important grand slam with two outs in the eighth
• Sewell's slam was the first by a Hornet since JP Smith hit one at San Francisco on Feb. 17, 2025, and it was the second of his Sacramento State career after Sewell emptied the bases at Seattle U on April 14, 2024
• Sophomore Michael Perazzo then came up big in the finale, driving home three of the six runs thanks to a two-run pinch-hit single in the sixth and a successful safety squeeze in the eighth for the final 6-1 score
• Senior Jace Jeremiah has reached base safely in his last eight consecutive games, while freshman Sam Harry and sophomore Orlando Cobarrubias extended their respective streaks to six games each
• Jeremiah's run is the longest active streak by a Hornet and is tied for third overall this year, four shy of Luis Pimentel-Guerrero's run of 12 straight that was snapped in the opener against LSU
• Dating back to the game at Pacific on Feb. 25, Jeremiah has logged hits in seven of his last eight, scoring four runs and driving in five
• Junior Erick Dessens had hits in all three games against the Tigers and drove in a pair in the series opener against LSU, giving him a team-high 12 RBI — his fourth multi-RBI game of the season
• Dessens isn't the only member of his family in action on the diamond right now… His father, Elmer, is currently the pitching coach for Mexico in the World Baseball Classic
• Harry has also been hot as of late, logging hits in five of this last six contests with three runs scored
• Sacramento State has now scored first in all five of its wins this season
• The Hornets' big inning has been the second where they have outscored the opposition by a 16-5 count