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Mason and Miller make weekly honors

Apr 27, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO-- UCLA's Darrell Miller, Jr. and his .500 average and CALIFORNIA's Ryan Mason and his 8.0 shutout innings were named the Pac-12 Player and Pitcher of the Week.

Miller in the series win at Stanford went 6-for-12 with six RBIs and three doubles as UCLA won its tenth-straight series. After dropping the opener to the Cardinal on Friday, Miller went 2-for-4 with three RBIs on Saturday and added a three-hit, three-RBI day on Sunday to complete the series win. Miller also doubled in all three games. Miller is batting .256 on the season in 34 starts this year, as three of his 11 extra base hits came this weekend.

Mason against the Pac-12's top hitting team, Arizona, pitched 8.0 shutout innings to begin a series sweep of the Wildcats. Mason scattered five hits, struck out two and walked one in the 4-0 win. Mason is 5-2 with a 3.12 ERA over 11 starts for the Bears this season. He is one of four Cal pitchers with four wins this season for a staff that is posting a 2.80 ERA.

STANDINGS: UCLA (16-5) is 1.5 games ahead of Arizona State (13-5) and 3.0 games ahead of California (13-8).

NATIONAL RANKINGS: UCLA (37-7) remains at No. 2 followed by No. 7 Arizona State (28-12) and No. 13 USC (30-12) in Baseball America. In Collegiate Baseball, the Bruins are No. 2, followed by No. 6 ASU, No. 13 California (26-14), No. 16 USC, and No. 18 Oregon State (27-13)

THIS WEEK: Washington and Washington play on Monday night in a non-conference affair, while Tuesday features San Jose State at Stanford, Arizona State at Arizona, UCLA at Long Beach State, CS Fullerton is at USC and Fresno State at Cal.

THIS WEEKEND: Starting Thursday, Oregon State is at Washington and on starting on Friday, Gonzaga is at UCLA, Stanford is at Oregon, Arizona is at Washington State and USC is at Utah and Arizona State is at California. 

PREVIOUS WINNERS
Players of the Week

Feb. 16 - Scott Kingery, ARIZ
Feb. 23 - KJ Harrison, OSU    
March 2   -  Chris Keck, UCLA 
March 9    - Dante Flores, USC 
March 16 - Chris Paul, CAL 
March 23 - Lucas Erceg, CAL
March 30 - Ty Moore, UCLA
April 6 – Braden Bishop, WASH
April 13 - Zach Hoffpauir, STAN
April 20 - Drew Jackson, STAN
April 27 - Darrell Miller, Jr., UCLA

Pitchers of the Week
Feb. 16 - Ryan Burr, ASU    
Feb. 23 - Conor Harber, ORE
March 2 - Noah Bremer, UW
March 9 - Andrew Moore, OSU
March 16 - Mitch Hart, USC
Mar. 23 - Drew Rasmussen, OSU
March 30 - Jayson Rose, UTAH
April 6 – Joe Pistorese, WSU
April 14 - Joe Pistorese, WSU
April 20 - Andrew Moore, OSU
April 27 - Ryan Mason, CAL