TUCSON, Ariz. — The Arizona Wildcats (1-3) will host opening weekend festivities at Hi Corbett Field over the next three days with the San Diego Toreros (0-4) in town for a non-conference series. First pitches are set for 6:00 p.m. MST on Friday, 2:00 p.m. MST on Saturday, and 12:00 p.m. MST on Sunday.

All three games will be broadcast on ESPN+ featuring play-by-play from Brody Dryden. Tickets are available for purchase and can be secured HERE.

The Wildcats secured their first win of the season on Tuesday afternoon, taking down the visiting New Mexico Lobos 10-0 in a run-rule victory. The Toreros are still searching for their first win of the 2025 season.

For more, a complete series preview is below.
 

Date	Opponent	Time (MST)	Arizona Pitcher	Opponent Pitcher
Friday, Feb. 21	San Diego	6:00 PM	RHP Collin McKinney (0-1, 2.08)	RHP Cal Scolari (0-0, 0.00)
Saturday, Feb. 22	San Diego	2:00 PM	RHP Owen Kramkowski (0-1, 94.50)	RHP Logan Reddemann (0-1, 5.41)
Sunday, Feb. 23	San Diego	12:00 PM	RHP Smith Bailey (0-0, 0.00)	RHP Andrew Mosiello (0-0, 11.25)

Leading Off...

• The Arizona Wildcats host the San Diego Toreros for three games during Opening Weekend at Hi Corbett Field to wrap up their first homestand of the season.
• All three games during the weekend will be broadcast on ESPN+ featuring play-by-play from Brody Dryden.
• The Wildcats and Toreros have squared off 19 times previously with games dating back to the 1980 season. Arizona holds a 15-4 (.790) lead in the all-time series, though San Diego won the most recent series, 2-1, at Fowler Park last year.
• INF Mason White hit two home runs over opening weekend in Arlington, giving him 31 career home runs and moving him into a tie for 10th in program history. He is one HR shy of moving up the leaderboard into a tie for ninth (Moises Duran, 32 HR, 2001-04).
• Arizona has committed just one error in four games, leading to a .992 fielding percentage that leads the Big 12.
• Head coach Chip Hale — a standout alumni and Arizona's all-time leader in games played, hits, and total bases — enters his fourth year leading his alma mater. Hale has led the Wildcats to NCAA Tournament berths and 30+ wins in each of his first three seasons in charge in Tucson.
• OF Brendan Summerhill and INF Mason White were both selected to the Preseason All-Big 12 team and have also both been honored on multiple Preseason All-America rosters.
• INF Garen Caulfield, INF Tommy Splaine, RHP Casey Hintz, and RHP Matthew Martinez were selected by their teammates as captains for the 2025 Wildcats.

SOME SERIES THEMES: The Arizona Wildcats wrap up their opening homestand with a three-game set against the San Diego Toreros at Hi Corbett Field in a return half of a home-and-home series that began last season...All three games will be broadcast to subscribers on ESPN+ with play-play-play from Brody Dryden...The Wildcats and Toreros have played 19 times previously, with games dating back to 1980...Arizona holds a 15-4 (.790) lead in the all-time series, though San Diego won the most recent series, 2-1, at Fowler Park in 2024...Infielder Garen Caulfield led the Arizona offense in last year's series against San Diego, hitting .636 (7x11) with two doubles and five RBI...Fellow infielder Mason White collected two hits on the weekend, both home runs, and drove in six RBI...Following a 1-3 start to the season, the Wildcats have dropped out of most major national Top 25 polls...Arizona remains ranked No. 24 by Perfect Game and received votes in the NCBWA poll...Infielder Mason White was recently selected for a spot on the Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List...San Diego is led by fourth-year head coach Brock Ungricht, who has led the Toreros to a 102-64 (.614) record, one WCC regular season championship, two WCC tournament championships, and two NCAA Tournament appearances during his tenure in San Diego. 

STREAKONOMICS: The longest active hit streak on the team belongs to catcher Adonys Guzman, who has hit safely in all three games in which he's played this season; dating back to the end of last season, Guzman has reached base safely in six straight games. The longest current-season on-base streaks currently active on the team belong to outfielder Aaron Walton and Brendan Summerhill, both of whom have reached base safely in each of the Widlcats first four games of the year. The Wildcats longest hit streak and on-base streak last season both belong to Summerhill, who posted a 12-game hit streak and a 33-game on-base streak during the 2024 campaign. 

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!: Senior infielder Garen Caulfield, senior infielder Tommy Splaine, junior right-handed pitcher Casey Hintz, and senior right-handed pitcher Matthew Martinez have been named Arizona Baseball's 2025 Team Captains. They were all voted on by their teammates to lead the clubhouse this season. The quartet of upperclassmen have all been major contributors on the field, leaders in the clubhouse, and exemplary men off the field during their time in Tucson.

CATS COACHES: The Wildcats are led this season by fourth-year head coach Chip Hale — he was hired on July 5, 2021. Hale, the Wildcats all-time leader in games played, hits, and total bases during his time in Tucson from 1984-87, brought nearly two decades of professional coaching experience to Arizona. During his collegiate career, Hale helped steer the 1986 Arizona Wildcats to their third NCAA National Championship. His professional coaching career was highlighted by a stint as the manager for the Arizona Diamondbacks (2015-16) and a World Series championship with the Washington Nationals in 2019. Hale is once again joined by assistant coaches Toby DeMello, Trip Couch, and Kevin Vance. DeMello, who joined the Wildcats from Sacramento State in 2022, was promoted from volunteer assistant into a full-time coaching role after his second season in Tucson. Since arriving, he has helped craft one of the most dangerous offenses in America, one that has averaged 7.15 runs per game and batted .289 under his guidance. Couch, one of the nation's top recruiting coordinators, joined the Wildcats in the same role in 2022 after splitting the previous 11 years between Houston and South Carolina. Across his decades of collegiate coaching experience, Couch has made 14 NCAA postseason appearances, developed 15 All-Americans, and directly coached 42 MLB Draft selections. The Wildcats newest full-time staff addition was assistant coach Kevin Vance, who arrived in Tucson prior to the 2024 season to develop the Arizona pitching staff. Vance's staff led the entire nation in strikeout-to-walk ratio and BB/9 rate last year while dropping their ERA over a run and a half, the 20th best improvement in the country.

TUCSON'S OWN: Infielder and Tucson native Mason White has put together back-to-back successful seasons for his hometown Wildcats, and has already slugged his way into the Arizona Baseball record books. With 10 home runs as a true freshman, a team-leading 19 last year as a sophomore, and two more so far this year, White is now tied for 10th in program history with 31 dingers. In two-plus years he has averaged one home run every 14.9 at-bats, putting him on pace to finish with approximately 46 career home runs and rank second all-time for his hometown program.

THE FRENCH CONNECTION: Arizona infielder Mathis Meurant, who was born and raised in France, is the lone player on the Wildcats roster from outside the United States. With assistance from Jeff Duda (@INTLBaseball24 on Twitter) and the French Baseball and Softball Federation it has been confirmed that, upon his Wildcat debut on opening weekend in Arlington, Meurant became the first French player at the Power Conference level in NCAA history. Meurant originally hails from Vaires-sur-Marne, a small town just east of Paris.

HOME SWEET HOME: Since Arizona Baseball moved to Hi Corbett Field for the 2012 season, the Wildcats have enjoyed a tremendous home field advantage. Over those 13+ seasons, Arizona has posted a home record of 292-123, winning games at a .704 clip. Their home winning percentage over that stretch is the third best mark in the Big 12 Conference, while their 291 home victories are second most in the conference.

MIDAS TOUCH: Arizona Baseball outfielder Brendan Summerhill was honored with one of 55 spots on the Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List, USA Baseball announced last week. Summerhill is the first Wildcat to earn a spot on the preseason watch list since outfielder Chase Davis landed on the 2023 edition. He is the 12th Arizona player to be named to the preseason watch list since its inclusion in the awards process in 2008, and the third developed by head coach Chip Hale (Davis 2023, Daniel Susac 2022). Summerhill, a junior, has logged two seasons and 80 games in an Arizona uniform and posted a .311 career batting average. The Chicago native enjoyed a breakout sophomore campaign last year, leading the team in both batting average (.324) and on-base percentage (.399) en route to earning Pac-12 All-Conference honors. Summerhill contributed to the Wildcats 2024 Pac-12 Championship season in all facets of the game, scoring 50 runs, slugging 32 extra-base hits, driving in 59 RBI, stealing seven bases, and playing strong defense. The Golden Spikes Award will announce a midseason watch list on April 3, followed by a selection of semifinalists and finalists. The 2025 Golden Spikes Award winner will be announced in June.

AMONG THE BEST: Five standout Wildcats were recorgnized in recent weeks by D1Baseball as they organized their preseason position rankings. The group is led by Preseason All-Americans Mason White, who was tabbed as the seventh-best shortop in the country, and Brendan Summerhill, who was selected as the twelfth-best outfielder in the nation. Second baseman Garen Caulfield (second base), Casey Hintz (relief pitcher), and Tony Pluta (relief pitcher) were all also honored with spots on their lists.

BIG CONFERENCE, BIG HONORS: Arizona infielder Mason White and outfielder Brendan Summerhill both earned spots on the Preseason All-Big 12 team. Players are nominated for, and voted onto, the Preseason All-Big 12 team by the league's 14 head coaches. At the same time, the Wildcats were selected to finish second in the 2025 Big 12 Baseball Preseason Poll with four first place votes, marking their highest selection since the 2021 team was picked to finish second in the 2021 Pac-12 Preseason Coaches Poll. Arizona will face the teams that finished ranked directly ahead of (Oklahoma State) and behind (TCU) them in the poll at home this season. The complete 2025 Big 12 Baseball Preseason Poll can be found on the right side of page three of these notes.

EXTRA EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT: Arizona has consistently taken advantage of the large dimensions at Hi Corbett Field since moving there in 2012 — in the decade-plus since the move off campus, the Wildcats have swatted 2,364 extra-base hits. Over that stretch, only two current members of the Big 12 Conference have tallied more extra-base hits: Texas Tech (2,555) and Oklahoma State (2,374). Across 13 seasons at Hi Corbett Field as members of the Pac-12 Conference, Arizona paced the league in doubles seven times and triples eight times.

3,000 CLUB: Arizona Baseball is one of just 10 programs in the history of college baseball to win 3,000 games. As it currently stands, Arizona is the 10th all-time winningest program in the history of the sport. The Wildcats logged their 3,000th victory with a 3-2 win over UCLA on March 29, 2024. Across time as a player (1984-87) and as a coach (2022-present), Arizona head coach Chip Hale has contributed to over 8% (261) of the program's all-time wins.

THE AMERICANS: Two Wildcat juniors, outfielder Brendan Summerhill and infielder Mason White, have both earned Preseason All-America nods from multiple outlets. The two combined to produce an outsized majority of the Arizona offense last season, and both are primed to feature heavily in what looks to be a veteran lineup in 2025. Summerhill and White combined for 105 runs scored, 110 hits, 63 extra-base hits, and 124 RBI. White also earned Freshman All-America recognition from Collegiate Baseball following his debut campaign in 2023.