Fall Report: Grand Canyon

PHOENIX — Head coach Andy Stankiewicz enters his tenth season at Grand Canyon and there is great clarity regarding the program’s next step: a return to the NCAA tournament. The Lopes have won three of the last five WAC regular season championships and the 2019 team finished just one win shy of making a regional. The heartbreak left over from that epic showdown with Sacramento State in the 2019 WAC tournament is real but it also serves as fuel for this program. 

Three areas stand out for this 2021 unit: a veteran pitching staff, an exciting but unproven[…]