COMING UP: at College of Idaho (DH), Saturday, 1 p.m. (MST); at College of Idaho (DH), Sunday, 11 a.m. (MDT)

COMPLETE WEEKLY MEDIA NOTEBOOK
 
GAME DAY INFORMATION: Live Stats of all games will be available through OIT's SIDEARM Stats Portal, while all Cascade Conference games will be broadcast live on the Urban Edge Network.
 
OPPONENT PREVIEW – COLLEGE OF IDAHO: A long trek to the Gem State awaits the Owls and the first of two series this season against College of Idaho, as the Coyotes (12-4, 4-2 CCC) are off to a great start in 2026. C of I opened the year with a road sweep at Park Gilbert, followed by series wins against Pacific and Eastern Oregon, before splitting a 4-game set at Corban. Offense has been the key for the Yotes, as the club leads the league in runs per game (10.1), with the team posting a .313 batting average and 39 stolen bases. CCC Player of the Week, Austin Moon (.444 0 HR 15 RBI) leads the way, with the quartet of James Hull (.387 1 HR 16 RBI), Cody Guy (.386 2 HR 8 RBI), Darren Smith (.362 2 HR 15 RBI) and Jack Ryan (.353 4 HR 13 RBI) all having quality seasons. The C of I pitching staff has a 4.63 ERA with 78 walks against 92 strikeouts, as Jackson Cummins (2-0 3.32 ERA) anchors the rotation. Starters Zaylor Bruegeman (1-1 5.06 ERA) and relievers Calvin Euper (1-0 0.00 ERA), Willy Shirts (3-0 0.00 ERA) and Heath Sasser-Gunson (2-0 1.69 ERA) are key to the Yotes success. C of I holds a 109-50 series lead, but Tech is a combined 12-2 against the Coyotes over the past three seasons.
 
ROAD WARRIORS: Tech continues their road tour, playing four games in Idaho – pushing their opening trip to 22-straight games. Last season, the Owls opened the year with 24-straight road games, but both are well behind the school record of 39-straight road games to open the 2012 season.
 
RETURNING HOME: The trip to the Treasure Valley of Idaho is a homecoming for Landon Cheney (Nampa), Paul Zaragoza (Boise), Hayden Van Aaker (Kuna), Collin Hysell (Payette) and Chase Southern (Mountain Home) – all who grew up within a hour of the C of I campus.
 
CONFERENCE SWEEP IN LA GRANDE: The Owls rebounded in a big way in the Grande Ronde Valley, sweeping the 3-game CCC series at Eastern Oregon, before dropping the non-league finale. Tech scored at least seven runs and had 10-or-more hits in each of the games – winning their 12th-straight series against EOU, dating back to 2004.
 
EXTRA INNING WIN: OIT played their first extra inning game of the season on Sunday, rallying for a 9-8 victory in 10 innings. The Owls rallied from a 6-5 deficit in the eighth inning and taking the lead for good with a pair of runs in the tenth. It was the first extra inning game since a marathon 17-inning win at LC State last March, with the Owls improving to 30-47 in extra inning games since 2003 (and 17-20 in 10-inning games).
 
FRESHMAN HAS BIG DOUBLEHEADER: Saturday was a monster twinbill for freshman Aiden Corkery, who provided two huge hits in the Day 1 sweep. The outfielder had the big swing in the first inning of Game 1, blasting a grand slam home run to center field, while providing a 2-run double in the Game 2 victory. Corkery finished the afternoon a combined 4-for-10 with four runs scored and seven RBI.

EDWARDS HAS QUALITY SERIES: The Hustlin' Owls got a boost from outfielder Dylan Edwards, who recorded a hit and an RBI in each of the four games in La Grande. The transfer finished the weekend 5-for-12 at the plate, driving in five runs, helping his batting average climb 49 points.
 
MORE WITH THE BATS: Production throughout the lineup led to the Owls series victory in La Grande, as Andrew Sharp and Logan Pontecorvo highlighted the attack, with Logan Macy, Michael O'Daniel and Cal Pickhardt all providing big at bats. Sharp led the team with seven hits in the series, going 7-for-17 with three RBI, with Pontecorvo finishing 6-for-12 with three RBI through the first three games of the weekend. Pickhardt was 5-for-17 with six RBI – including a key 3-run homer, O'Daniel was 4-for-15, but scored six runs, with Macy posting five hits and six runs scored and delivered the go-ahead RBI double in the tenth inning of Game 3.
 
STARTERS SOLID: Tech got three solid starts in the EOU series, including the first win of the season for lefty Carson Glavich. The senior tossed five-plus innings of work, allowing just three earned runs and striking out four. Landon Cheney worked into the fifth inning of Game 2, allowing just two earned runs and striking out six, with Aiden Lundquist throwing five and two-thirds innings, allowing three earned runs and striking out six.
 
FROM THE PEN: OIT relief pitchers continued to eat up innings and keep the opposition at bay – getting quality appearances from Marcos Ulloa-Ford, Crew Howell, Collin Hysell and Caleb Randolph. Ulloa-Ford threw four innings, between two appearances – allowing just one hit and striking out five, including a strikeout with the bases loaded and two outs in Game 1 to earn a save. Howell threw three and two-thirds innings of relief in Game 2, allowing just two hits and striking out five, Hysell threw three and two-thirds innings in Game 3, allowing just two runs on three hits, striking out five, with Randolph allowing just one run and striking out three in three-plus innings of work.
 
AROUND THE CONFERENCE: Sweeps were the norm in the Cascade Conference last weekend, as three of the four series saw teams win all three league counters – as LC State (over Warner Pacific), UBC (over Bushnell) and OIT (over Eastern Oregon) recorded 3-0 conference marks. C of I won their series at Corban, two games to one. This week, along with OIT traveling to C of I, UBC is at Warner Pacific, Eastern is at Corban, with Bushnell at LC – as the teams close out the third week of 3-game league series.
 
CCC TEAM LEADERS: Batting Average – Bushnell .320, College of Idaho .313, LC State .307, Oregon Tech .302, British Columbia .292; Runs Per Game – College of Idaho 10.1, UBC 8.4, Bushnell 8.2, LC State 8.1, Oregon Tech 8.0; Home Runs – Bushnell 24, UBC 17, College of Idaho 13, Warner Pacific 13, LC State 13, Oregon Tech 8; Stolen Bases – Corban 49, Oregon Tech 43, College of Idaho 39, Bushnell 36, UBC 33; ERA – LC State 2.52, British Columbia 3.87, College of Idaho 4.63, Bushnell 5.04, Oregon Tech 5.41; Fielding Percentage – Bushnell .971, Eastern Oregon .968, Oregon Tech .965, UBC .964, Warner Pacific .960.
 
CCC INDIVIDUAL LEADERS: Batting Average – Kansai Sugimoto (UBC) .457, Mitchell Thoma-Britt (WPU) .448, Austin Moon (CI) .444, Brandon Nguyen (LCSC) .422, David Krahn (UBC) .400; Runs Scored – Michael O'Daniel (OIT) 20, Chase Elliott (CRB) 20, Jace Nagler (EOU) 19, James Hull (CI) 19, Kyle Yip (UBC) 18, Danny Womack (BU) 18, Connor Hale (WPU) 18; Hits – Albert Jennings (BU) 27, Peyton Rickard (CRB) 27, Max Richards (BU) 26, David Krahn (UBC) 26, Nate Stevens (BU) 26, Mitchell Thoma-Britt (WPU) 26, Andrew Sharp (OIT) 26; Home Runs – Dylan Carson (BU) 9, Nate Stevens (BU) 6, Mitchell Thoma-Britt (WPU) 5, 6 players tied with 4; RBI – Dylan Carson (BU) 26, David Krahn (UBC) 21, Albert Jennings (BU) 20, Nate Stevens (BU) 20, Mitchell Thoma-Britt 20; Stolen Bases – Chase Elliott (CRB) 10, Jace Nagler (EOU) 9, Danny Womack (BU) 8, Sean Shaffer (CRB) 8, Peyton Rickard (CRB) 8, Isaac Bateman (CRB) 8; ERA – Landon Webb (LCSC) 1.35, Heath Sasser-Gunson (CI) 1.69, Kason O'Neil (LCSC) 1.93, Evan Canfield (LCSC) 2.37, James Brock (UBC) 2.57; Pitching Strikeouts – Kai Keamo (BU) 36, James Brock (UBC) 28, Will Anderson (UBC) 25, Evan Canfield (LCSC) 24, Austin Wolfe (BU) 20.
 
RECORD BOOK: Currently, two players rank among the Top-25 in the OIT career record book. Kaden Melzer No. 8 in saves (4) and Landon Cheney sits at No. 16 in wins (16) and in pitching appearances (44).
 
NEXT WEEK: Tech finally makes their 2026 Klamath Basin debut next weekend, welcoming nationally-ranked Lewis-Clark State to Bocchi Field for a 4-game series, March 14-15.