For the first time in program history, the University of the Pacific baseball team will compete in the West Coast Conference Tournament.

The Tigers officially secured their spot after winning their final home conference series over San Diego. The team will compete May 20-23 at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona.

"It was a goal we set at the start of the year," said Head Coach Reed Peters. "These guys really came together. The leadership of the senior class helped us turn it around. It was some great work by our assistant coaches to help us get here, but it ultimately came down to the players to get us there."

The Tigers, who rejoined the West Coast Conference during the 2013-14 academic year, had never qualified among the top six teams to make the tournament in the previous 12 years.

Under Peters’ leadership, this year’s group gelled together at the right time, winning 12 of its last 15 conference games, including five consecutive conference series victories—the most in a single season as part of the West Coast Conference.

“We set out to make history at the beginning of the year with the goal of making the conference tournament,” said Brendan O’Sullivan ’26, an emergency management science major. “Every guy wants to be here every day. We made it a point of emphasis to have crazy energy, be a brother to everybody and just grind together.”

O’Sullivan has taken on a bigger role in his first and final year as a Tiger, serving as a vocal leader on the field and in the dugout. The Pleasanton, California, native played for Peters during his time at San Joaquin Delta College and has helped ignite the offense while keeping the team calm in critical situations. 

“There’s a buzz around the team and the clubhouse,” O’Sullivan said. “We have one of the best lineups in the West Coast Conference top to bottom.”

The Tigers have had one of the most potent offenses of late, riding momentum into the final weekend of the regular season with the No. 2 seed for the West Coast Conference Tournament still in play. 

One of the longest tenured Tigers on the team, Jake Tandy ’26, an engineering physics major, has had an impressive run, earning West Coast Conference Player of the Week honors after hitting 10-for-14 with seven runs, seven RBIs and a pair of home runs against the Toreros.

“I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs with this program and different coaches, and certainly this year feels different,” Tandy said. “The drive and the pulling together of the whole team from the top down has felt like a different environment from previous years. It feels good to set out what we wanted to accomplish at the start of the year. We are striving for big things that this school has never seen before.”

The Tigers came out on top in their final regular season conference series with a win over Portland Thursday. Pacific will look to secure a top-two seed and first-round bye in the West Coast Conference Tournament. 

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