Senior righthander Will Lydon picked up the win (Shotgun Spratling)

Lydon Leadership Leads Pacific

SAN DIEGO — Second-year Pacific head coach Mike Neu knows he has to stay patient.

The Tigers added 19 newcomers to the roster this season. In the first two games, he has already started three true freshmen and two junior college transfers playing for the first time. With the fresh faces, there are going to be times when Pacific goes through significant growing pains like on Friday when the Tigers gave away several extra bases. They failed to catch fly balls in a windy environment, walked five batters and committed a pair of errors. The routine plays became difficult. The difficult plays became impossible.