FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 In less than a year, Marcus Nolen went from facing high school pitchers to staring down college arms that throw significantly harder.<\/p>\n
It has not fazed the Central East HS grad one bit.<\/p>\n
The Fresno State freshman crushed a grand slam Sunday for his 1st collegiate home run, and it proved to be the difference as Fresno State held off Pepperdine, 11-7.<\/p>\n
A freshman pitcher also earned the win – Brandon Thomas – and five more freshmen saw the field because of early season injuries to regular starters Cayden Munster, Cam Schneider, Lee Trevino and Owen Faust.<\/p>\n
\u201cPutting that line-up out there today was one that, even in scrimmages a couple weeks ago, would not have been an option,\u201d said Overland. \u201cBut these [freshmen] have been thrown into the fire and they\u2019ve handled it well so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Diamond ‘Dogs bounced back from Pepperdine’s 2-run, 9th inning rally Friday night to win Saturday as well. Here are highlights of that 10-6 win:<\/p>\n
Highlights of Saturday’s 10-6 win for Fresno State<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 In less than a year, Marcus Nolen went from facing high school pitchers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-190663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}