2025 Big West Champions
11th NCAA Regional berth

Home: 16-7
Away: 20-6
Team Batting: .299
Program record 71 HR
New Anteater all-time HR leader Chase Call (30)
Team ERA: 4.91
544 strikeouts
6-3 record vs. ranked opponents
Top-25 entire season (High: #8)

All-Americans: Ricky Ojeda (NCBWA, Perfect Game)
ABCA/Rawlings All-West Region: Jacob McCombs, Trevor Hansen, Max Martin, Ricky Ojeda
Big West Coach of the Year: Ben Orloff
Big West Field Player of the Year: Colin Yeaman
Big West Pitcher of the Year: Ricky Ojeda
All-Big West
First Team: Blake Penso, Colin Yeaman, Jacob McCombs, Trevor Hansen, Ricky Ojeda
Second Team: Anthony Martinez, Chase Call, Riley Kelly, Max Martin
Honorable Mention: Will Bermudez, Frankie Carney, Ryder Brooks
 

AROUND THE HORN
9th - UCI earns its 11th trip to a Division I Regional, 9th time as an at-large, 3rd under coach Orloff, and picked up its 3rd Big West regular season title
71 - The 'Eaters hit 71 home runs setting a new program record. Chase Call set a new Anteater career record with 30
20-6 - UCI is 20-6 on the road, top 2 in the NCAA for a third season in a row, along with a 7-4 neutral site record. Over the last 3 years, UCI is 72-25 away from home
12 - 12 Anteaters were All-Big West including the first unanimous winners of Field Player, Pitcher, and Coach of the Year since UCI did so in 2009

 

LEADING OFF

+ UC Irvine earned an NCAA Regional bid for the 11th time in Division I program history, 16th berth across all divisions. UCI has gained the at-large nine times out of the 11. Coach Orloff has taken his team to the regionals three times now in seven seasons and two consecutive seasons. Overall, coach Orloff has been part of eight of the 11 UCI regionals - four as a player, one as an assistant coach, and now three as head coach.
+ UC Irvine won the Big West regular season for the third time joining the 2009 and 2021 Anteaters. They were the 1-seed in their first-ever Big West Championship as the conference brought back the tournament for the first time since 1998 as they finished as runners-up to Cal Poly
+ Big West Awards were issued last week with UC Irvine picking up Big West Field Player of the Year, Colin Yeaman, Pitcher of the Year, Ricky Ojeda, and Coach of the Year Ben Orloff. It's the first time a team has won each award since 2015 and first time a team has done so without sharing any award since Ben Orloff, Daniel Bibona, and Mike Gillespie did it for the 'Eaters in 2009.
Þ It's the program's seventh Big West Field Player of the Year, third year in a row, seventh Big West Pitcher of the Year, first since 2019, and fifth Coach of the Year, fourth in the Big West, and second for coach Orloff
Þ 12 Anteaters were named All-Big West with five on the First Team (Penso, McCombs, Hansen, Yeaman, Ojeda), four second-teamers Martinez, Call, Kelly, Martin), and an honorable mention trio (Bermudez, Carney, Brooks. There were eight first-timers, three returners (Ojeda, Bermudez, Call), and three-time honoree Anthony Martinez
+ Ricky Ojeda earned a pair of All-American Third Team accolades following the season. He is also a finalist for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year. Ojeda earned an invite to train and play with the U.S. Collegiate National Team over the summer. He was 1 of 4 Anteaters named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-West Region Team with Jacob McCombs, Trevor Hansen, and Max Martin
+ Following the Los Angeles Regional, four Anteaters earned All-Tournament Team honors with hitters Alonso Reyes (.364, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 5 R), Jacob McCombs (.375, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 3 HBP), Chase Call (2 HR, 3 RBI, 6 BB, 5 R), and Ricky Ojeda (2 appearances, 2.25, 4 IP, 3 H, ER, 2 BB, 4 K)
+ The Anteaters won 40 games for the 11th time in program history, third time under coach Orloff. UC Irvine is 72-25 in games away from home over the past three seasons as they finished top two in road record for a third year in a row with a 20-6 mark in true road matchups
+ UC Irvine finished 6-4 this season against ranked opponents in 2025. UCI took 1 of 3 at No. 11 Oregon State, defeated No. 15 UCLA before falling to No. 13 UCLA in the NCAA Regional, has a win over No. 24 Nebraska in the season opener, a one-run loss to No. 16 Vanderbilt on a neutral site, and three wins on the road over No. 21 UC Santa Barbara. Six Anteater opponents earned spots in regionals with UCI posting an 8-8 record against those programs
+ UC Irvine has been among the nationally ranked all season beginning as a preseason No. 24, reaching as high as Nos. 7 and 8 on April 28, and anywhere from 18th to 22nd prior to the postseason.
+ UCI finishes the season second in road win percentage for the third straight season. UCI went 20-6 on the road, 27-10 away from home, and in the last three seasons have a 72-25 record away from Anteater Ballpark
Þ As a team, UC Irvine finished second with 156 hit by pitch, a year after setting the NCAA single-season record. Coastal Carolina enters the College World Series five from tying that mark
Þ Other national marks UCI is high in include 18th in win percentage, 19th in sacrifice bunts, 20th in on-base percentage, 21st in shutouts, 26th in hits, 28th in double plays, and 28th in triples
Þ Individual Anteaters have set themselves apart nationally:
+ Ricky Ojeda - 2nd in wins, 19th in pitching appearances, 38th in hits allowed per nine innings, 42nd in strikeouts per nine innings
+ Trevor Hansen - 20th in starts, 27th in wins, 52nd in strikeouts, 65th in ERA
+ Max Martin - 4th in saves
+ Will Bermudez - 14th in sacrifice hits
+ David Butler - 12th in pitching appearances, team-leading seven holds
+ Jacob McCombs - 10th in hit by pitch, 19th in triples
+ Colin Yeaman - 54th in hits, 78th in total bases
+ The Anteater offense scored 8.1 runs a game to lead the Big West and finished top two in each part of the slashline finishing at a .299 average as a team:
Þ UCI hitters clubbed a single-season record 71 home runs with 13 each from Colin Yeaman and Jacob McCombs. Chase Call had his second 11-HR season finishing his career as the all-time UCI leader at 30. The home runs numbers including five in a game twice, something UCI three times prior in its history, and three two-HR games by players, and went back-to-back on two occasions
Þ Anthony Martinez missed eight games and still led the team with 58 RBIs. He finished with 192 in his career setting a new mark surpassing Jeff Malinoff who set it in 1974. He also hit his 16th career sacrifice fly in the Regional to set a UCI career record, and is top 10 over his career with 240 hits, 137 runs, 51 doubles, 25 home runs, 43 HBP, and a .342 lifetime batting average
Þ UC Irvine's hit by pitch stat reached 156, second-most in the nation, a year after setting the single-season NCAA record of 175 which was broken just this season again by Coastal Carolina during their run in the College World Series. Jacob McCombs snuck up and set a single-season team record with 28 this season while Will Bermudez finished with 65 in his career, a UCI record, followed closely by Chase Call, at 62, to go with his 153 runs scored, third-most, 107 walks, fifth-most, and 140 RBIs, fifth-most
Þ The team hit a few streaks including a 12-game winning streak, fifth-longest in UCI history, and two hitting streaks reached heights with the third-longest in UCI history of 21 games by Colin Yeaman and Frankie Carney was close behind hitting in 18 straight
+ Anteater pitching put up a 4.91 ERA while their 4.22 conference ERA led the Big West along with 18 overall saves and five shutouts:
Þ Trevor Hansen topped UCI pitching in innings, strikeouts, and ERA with an 9-3 record picking up nine of the team's 12 quality starts. He continues his consistency starting all 32 weekends of his collegiate career, and joined Ryder Brooks by each throwing a complete game shutout with 10 strikeouts during the regular season. He also had a 25-inning shutout streak at one point, the fourth-longest in UCI history
Þ Ricky Ojeda became the first reliever to ever take home Big West Pitcher of the Year finishing second in the nation with his 13-1 record. He pitched in 25 of UCI's wins and had a 22-IP shutout streak this year
Þ Max Martin and his 14 saves finished fourth in the nation with 12 coming in Big West games. The 14 rank fifth in program history for a single season, and his 19 over his career is sixth