TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Arizona Wildcats (6-3) welcome the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers (5-1) to Hi Corbett Field for a three-game series this weekend. Arizona looks to grab a series win against the current leaders of the Horizon League, who are under the guidance of 13th-year head coach Scott Doffek.

Arizona's high-powered offense and a shutdown bullpen effort helped lead the Wildcats to a 14-6 victory in the first game of the series on Friday night. Head coach Jay Johnson collected his 200th career Division I win, while infielder Nick Quintana passed the 100 career RBI mark.

Milwaukee took the second game of the series, 10-4, setting up a decisive game three on Sunday morning.

Below is a complete series preview:
 

Date	Time (MST)/Results	Wildcats Pitcher	Panthers Pitcher
Friday, March 1	W, 14-6
Saturday, March 2	L, 4-10
Sunday, March 3	11:00 AM	TBA	RHP Mike Edwards (2-0, 2.84)

Live Stream: Available through Arizona Live Stream-3
Radio: None
Live Stats: Game 3

All-Time Series: Series tied at 1-1
Last Meeting:Wisconsin-Milwaukee defeated Arizona, 10-4, on March 2

Leading Off...

• The Wildcats continue their extended home stretch with a weekend series against the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers.
• This series will be the first-ever meeting between Arizona and Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Panthers are the second opponent this year that the Wildcats will play for the first time in program history.
• Wisconsin-Milwaukee enters the series with a 5-1 record and in first place in the Horizon League. No other team in the league has a record above .500 this season.
• The Cats recently returned from a four-game road swing through the city of Houston, Texas. Arizona defeated the Rice Owls, 16-5, in a midweek matchup and took one-of-three games from the Houston Cougars over the weekend.
• Arizona's next victory will give head coach Jay Johnson 200 career wins as an NCAA Division I head coach. Across time with Nevada (2014-15) and Arizona (2016-current), Johnson has steered his teams to a record of 199-112 (.640).
• Arizona currently ranks second among all Division I baseball teams with 71 walks drawn. They are eight behind first-place Florida A&M (who have played two more games than the Wildcats), and seven ahead of third-place Eastern Kentucky.

PATH TO 200: Friday night's 14-6 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee gave head coach Jay Johnson his 200th career win as an NCAA Division I head coach...Across time with Nevada (2014-15) and Arizona (2016-current) he has amassed a record of 200-112 (.641)...Johnson is the second-fastest coach to tally 200 career Division I wins among the current Pac-12 head coaches (first: George Horton, 287 games)...During his first three seasons leading the Wildcats, Johnson averaged 40 wins per year...In addition to his 200 Division I wins, Johnson racked up a record of 37-16 in his one season as the head coach at Point Loma Nazarene in 2005.

Quickest to 200 Div. I Wins - Current Pac-12 Head Coaches

COACH	200th WIN	GAMES TO WIN 200	WIN % AT 200
George Horton	April 17, 2001	287	.697
Jay Johnson	March 1, 2019	312	.641
Tracy Smith	May 23, 2004	356	.562
David Esquer	May 10, 2006	386	.518
John Savage	May 24, 2008	403	.496
Lindsey Meggs	April 12, 2014	407	.491

ARIZONA WILD-BATS: As has been demonstrated by five double-digit run outputs so far this season, the Wildcats offense is consistently dangerous...In three areas in particular, the Cats have excelled: Arizona has hit .329 against right-handed pitching, posted a batting average of .344 with runners on base, and swatted .487 from the leadoff spot in an inning...Additionally, the Wildcats have already been awarded 29 at-bats with the bases loaded this season, gathering nine hits to register a .310 batting average with the bags juiced...Matthew Dyer (3x5) and Nick Quintana (3x4) both already have three hits with the bases loaded across just nine games...When given a chance to extend an inning (in an at-bat coming with two outs already recorded), the Wildcats have combined to hit .345, with Cameron Cannon leading the way on a .714 (5x7) two-out batting average.

MILESTONE MAN: With a pair of RBI on Friday night, infielder Nick Quintana now has 101 RBI in a Wildcats uniform...After gathering 38 as a freshman in 2017, Quintana led the team with 55 RBI during the 2018 campaign...Quintana's 55 RBI in 2018 ranked as the eighth-most collected by a single player in the Pac-12 last year...Of his 101 career RBI, 62 (61.4%) of them have come while playing at home at Hi Corbett Field...Quintana's single-game career high mark in RBI is five, done twice: vs. Eastern Kentucky on Feb. 18, 2017 and vs. Grand Canyon, May 8, 2018...He has started and played in 124 games with the Wildcats and driven in multiple RBI in 25 of them...While Quintana has always been a strong presence at the plate for Arizona with a career batting average of .303, he has always dialed his game up to 11 with runners in scoring position...Throughout his three-year career with the Wildcats, Quintana has combined to hit .333 (55x165) with RISP.

BULLPEN BULLY: Through his first four collegiate appearances, reliever George Arias Jr. has allowed just one earned run on five hits while striking out four...Arias Jr. has limited opposing batters to a .238 batting average and stranded six-of-seven inherited baserunners...In his collegiate debut on Feb. 17 against UMass Lowell he worked 1.0 inning, allowing no hits and notching a strikeout...He has fanned at least one batter in three of his four outings this season.

SUPERMAN DOES GOOD, AUSTIN DOES WELLS: Freshman catcher/first baseman Austin Wells has enjoyed a spectacular start to his collegiate career...Wells has started in all of the Wildcats nine games this year, and currently ranks third on the team with a .333 batting average...He has hit safely in 6-of-9 contests this season, with three-multi-hit performances...Wells currently ranks among the Pac-12's top players in runs scored (6th, 12) and doubles (T-3rd, 4)...In addition to those big numbers, Wells has showed patience at the plate - he is currently tied for the Wildcats team lead with seven walks, and has posted a .439 on-base percentage.

HOME COOKIN': Since 2016, the Wildcats have posted a record of 74-21 (.779) in home games at Hi Corbett Field...During that three-year stretch, Arizona has a record of 20-4-1 in home series going two or more games...The Wildcats last dropped a home series April 20-22, 2018 against Stanford (0-3)...Arizona has not lost a non-conference home series while Jay Johnson has been head coach...During Johnson's tenure, the Wildcats have combined to hit .318 (1002x3155) while posting a 3.31 ERA (315x856.0) in home contests.

WALK THIS WAY: Arizona currently ranks second among all NCAA Divison I teams with 71 walks in just eight games...The Wildcats are just eight walk shy of first-place Florida A&M (79 BB; have played two more games than Arizona) and seven ahead of the next closest team, Eastern Kentucky (64 BB)...Arizona batters have drawn over one mile worth of walks this year, having accrued 6,390 feet in free passes...The Wildcats single-season record for walks was 398 in 1972; the club is currently on pace for 442 walks in 2019...Catcher/utility Matthew Dyer, infielder Nick Quintana, and catcher/first baseman Austin Wells are tied for the team lead with seven walks...Currently, 12 Arizona players have logged more walks than strikeouts this year...The Wildcats .446 team on-base percentage is the second-best mark in the Pac-12 (first: ASU, .461) and the sixth-best mark nationally (first: New Mexico State, .554).

THAT'S OFFENSIVE: The Wildcats currently rank first or second in the Pac-12 in nearly every offenseive category...Arizona leads the conference in runs scored (106), RBI (95), doubles (24), home runs (10), total bases (162), and walks (71); they place second or tied for second on the circuit in slugging percentage (.503), on-base percentage (.446), hits (100), and triples (4)...In addition to strong team numbers, individual Wildcat batters appear among the conference's Top 10 players in the above listed stats 15 times....Over the first eight games of the season, Arizona is averaging 12.8 runs/game, 11.8 hits/game, 4.2 extra-base hits/game, and 7.9 walks/game...Arizona currently has five players that have started in all nine games this year and are hitting over the .300 mark.

DAY ONE DINGER: Wildcats C/1B Austin Wells hit a three-run home run in his first collegiate at-bat on Friday night against UMass Lowell, becoming the first Arizona player to hit a HR in their first college AB since Jon Gaston accmplished the feat in 2006 (Feb. 3, Loyola Marymount)...Prior to Gaston, the feat was last accomplished by Nick Hundley in 2003 (Jan. 30, Brigham Young)...The last two players to hit a home run in the first series of their freshman year were Johnny Field (2011) and Joey Rickard (2010), both of which went to the same high school as Wells, Bishop Gorman HS in Las Vegas, Nevada.

RYAN HOL-GREAT: Wildcats outfielder Ryan Holgate's 13 RBI from Feb. 15-20 were the most recorded by a Wildcats player in the first five games of the season since at least 1998...Twice over that stretch a Wildcats player had driven in 12 RBI over the first five games: Colin Porter in 1998 and Shelley Duncan in 2000...Holgate has hit safely in all but three games this year, with four multi-hit outings.

DOUBLE DOWN: Arizona infielder Cameron Cannon kicked off the season with a red-hot opening series against UMass Lowell, collecting eight hits in 14 at-bats with six doubles...He now has seven doubles this year in just nine games...Cannon smacked a team-best 21 doubles in 56 games last season; the Arizona single-season record for doubles is 30, set by Dave Stegman in 1976 and tied by JJ Matijevic in 2017.

Arizona Single-Season Doubles Leaders

(Rank) PLAYER	DOUBLES	YEAR
T-1. Dave Stegman	30	1976
T-1. JJ Matijevic	30	2017
3. Todd Trafton	27	1986
T-4. Terry Francona	26	1980
T-4. Willie Morales	26	1993
6. Trevor Crowe	25	2005