As GU’s baseball team straps up for a Friday matchup with UCLA in the Minneapolis Regional of the NCAA baseball tournament, we flip back and browse through some other notable encounters between the Zags and the Bruins.

Losses in six of its last seven games didn’t diminish defending national champion Florida’s overall body of work when it came to seeding the NCAA baseball tournament.

With 700 miles to travel, it took until Monday morning for the thunder – OK, the very, very loud pings – from Gonzaga’s bats heard over the weekend in California to resound in Spokane. Still pretty loud, though – until being drowned out by an explosion of cheers from the Bulldogs themselves when their name went up at last near the end of ESPNU’s NCAA baseball selection show.

The Gonzaga baseball team is headed to Minneapolis. The Bulldogs (32-22) will face UCLA (36-19) in a first-round NCAA Tournament game on Friday at 11 a.m. Minnesota meets Canisius in the other game in the Minneapolis regional.

The hits and the wins just keep coming for Gonzaga. As a result the Bulldogs are headed to the NCAA baseball tournament.

Austin Pinorini hit the go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning as second-seeded Gonzaga topped host Pepperdine 4-2 on Friday to reach the WCC Tournament championship game.

Washington State took an early three-run lead, fell behind in the fifth inning, then poured it on in the late innings to defeat Utah 14-5 on Thursday in a Pac-12 game in Pullman.

Community Colleges of Spokane’s baseball team received a daunting task once it qualified for its first Northwest Athletic Conference Championship in 13 years.

There’s not much separating the four baseball teams competing at the West Coast Conference Championships.

Gonzaga’s Daniel Bies and Casey Legumina earned All-West Coast Conference baseball first-team honors and were among five GU players honored by the league, WCC officials announced Tuesday.

Christian Padilla slugged two home runs and drove in five runs and Isaac Wersland added a grand slam to lead host CC Spokane to a 14-4 victory over Pierce on Sunday to win its NWAC Super Regional and advance to the conference’s championship tournament.

Washington State brought the tying run on deck after scoring six runs in the ninth inning but Stanford held on for a 9-6 Pac-12 Conference baseball victory at Sunken Diamond on Saturday afternoon in Stanford, California.

It was damp and dreary on a Spokane Friday night. The kind of drizzle that doesn’t get you soaked but definitely keeps you wet.

Charlie Young, a student at the University of Illinois and a self-described baseball geek, was at the right place at the right time when the Illini became one of the increasing number of college teams to delve into analytics.

Lucas Knowles pitched into the seventh inning and Willie MacIver drove in two runs Thursday as Washington defeated Utah 6-4 in Salt Lake City to move into third place in Pac-12 Conference baseball.

The Community Colleges of Spokane baseball team placed second in the Northwest Athletic Conference Eastern Region and will host the NWAC East Super Regional at Spokane Falls CC.

For 12 innings, the Washington State Cougars were able to extinguish just about every one of Gonzaga’s rallies.

Southern California scored three runs in the sixth and ninth innings to overcome two home runs by Washington State’s Blake Clanton and defeat the Cougars 8-6 on Friday in a Pac-12 baseball series opener at Bailey-Brayton Field.

He shook the trees – hard – for the money that built the joint.