Game Times (Mountain):
Saturday (DH) – 4 p.m., 7 p.m.
Sunday (DH) - 11 a.m., 2 p.m.

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Dixie State (12-8) returns home after a 7-1 road trip to the Hawaiian Islands. As part of an eight-game home stand over the next two weekend, the Storm will host Holy Names for a four-game series beginning Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m.
 
DIXIE STATE PROJECTED STARTERS:
Saturday – Porter Clayton (Idaho Falls, ID/Bonneville), 3-2, 4.77 ERA and Chance Abrath (Salt Lake City, UT/West), 2-1, 3.51 ERA
Sunday – Aaron Pope (Chubbuck, ID/Highland), 1-1, 3.10 ERA and John Conquy (Las Vegas, NV/Durango), 1-0, 4.66 ERA

DIXIE STATE AGAINST HOLY NAMES: Dixie State leads the all-time series, 7-1. The Storm swept the Hawks last year in a four-game road series outscoring UHH, 25-7. Dixie State has five straight against HNU.
 
FOLLOW LIVE
SouthernUtahLive.com will have video coverage from Bruce Hurst Field for the entire series. All four of Dixie State's games against HNU this week will feature live stats online, free of charge, here.

HAWKS LOOKING TO TAKE FLIGHT AGAIN
Holy Names began its 2015 campaign with series victories over San Francisco State and Cal State San Bernardino. The early success tabbed the Hawks as one of the surprise teams in the West Region, garnering them some regional accolades by the NCBWA. Most recently, the Hawks have stumbled in PacWest play – splitting at Hawai'i Hilo, being swept by Hawai'i Pacific and losing three of four at home to Point Loma. HNU enters this weekend's series with an 11-13 overall record and 3-9 league mark. Junior infielder Benjamin Gamba is leading the way for the Hawks with a .435 batting average, 10 doubles, two homers and 17 RBI. Gamba was named NCBWA National Player of the Week earlier this season. Junior righty Trent Carrier has been the early ace with a 3-0 record, one save and a 1.83 ERA.

TOP-THREE FINISHES
Dixie State has finished among the top three in the PacWest Conference since becoming league members seven seasons ago (2008-2014), the only PacWest team to have done so. Under Chris Pfatenhauer, DSU won the league in 2014 and finished third in 2013 with a 23-13 PacWest record. Prior to that, former coach Mike Littlewood (now at BYU) led Dixie State to conference titles in 2009 and 2011.
 
PRESEASON RANKS
Dixie State baseball was selected by the league's coaches to finish second behind California Baptist in the race for the 2015 PacWest title. Five players – Kevin Kline (Las Vegas, NV/Rancho), Trey Kamachi (Kapolei, HI/Kapolei), John Conquy (Las Vegas, NV/Durango) (Las Vegas, NV/Durango) (Las Vegas, NV/Durango), Yuto Kata (Chiba, Japan/Juan Diego (Utah)), Evan Parker (Ogden, UT/Bonneville) – earned spots on the Preseason All-PacWest team. In the NCBWA preseason vote, Dixie State ranked fourth in the West Region behind Chico State, UC San Diego and CBU. Kline, Kamachi and Conquy all took regional team recognitions. Conquy was also named to the NCBWA Preseason All-American Third Team.
 
PFATE IN YEAR THREE
Head coach Chris Pfatenhauer was named the 2014 Pacific West Conference Coach of the Year in just his second season at Dixie State by guiding the Red Storm to its third consecutive postseason appearance. Pfatenhauer has led DSU to a 68-34 overall record over the past two seasons, including a 49-19 mark in PacWest competition.
 
ROSTER BREAKDOWN
Dixie State's 34-man roster features 11 seniors, 10 juniors, four sophomores and nine freshmen. The Storm is a geographically diverse team with eight U.S. states and two foreign countries (Canada, Japan) represented. Twelve players hail from Utah and 10 others from Nevada. A pair of players each come from Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii and Idaho while single players hail from California and Washington.

UP NEXT ... 
Dixie State remains at Hurst for a four-game series against Academy of Art next Friday and Saturday.