Baseball Coaching Staff
Greg Bradley
Head
Baseball Coach
brad0757@pacificu.edu
Greg Bradley, now in his 14th season as Pacific head baseball coach, has succeeded in building the Boxers into a perennial contender in the ultra competitive Northwest Conference.
The only active NWC baseball coach with more than 200 victories, Bradley has built Pacific into a program that is a regular contender for conference titles in a conference that is among the strongest in NCAA Division III baseball. Bradley's teams have won 20 or more games four of the last seven years, a measure of success never before experienced in school history. During that stretch, the Boxers have won no fewer than 14 games in a season.
Over 30 of Bradley's players have been named to All-NWC squads, with a total of 17 first team selections, and seven players have been tabbed for NCAA Division III All-West Region squads, all over the last six years.The 2008 season marked another banner season as Bradley led Pacific to its second 20-win season in the last three years, which included a team record 17 Northwest Conference victories. Seven Boxers were named to the All-Northwest Conference team, led by first team selections for catcher Matt Hendryx and third baseman Zach Gantenbein. In addition, Hendryx became the seventh all-west region player selected under Bradley's tenure and saw the program's first West Region Gold Glove Award presented to outfielder Jeff Johnston.
The season also saw Bradley's team open Pacific's new Chuck Bafaro Stadium at Bond Field with a 7-8 record, including a four-game sweep of Whitman in the facility's opening weekend.
On Apr. 28, 2007, Bradley earned the 200th victory of his college coaching career with a 12-3 victory over Whitman. He joined the ranks of former George Fox coach Pat Bailey, who recently joined the coaching staff for NCAA Division I national champion Oregon State, and recently retired Linfield head coach Scott Carnahan. With their departures, Bradley becomes the only active NWC baseball coach with 200 or more victories.
Bradley, who began his tenure in 1996 and inherited a team that went above .500 three times since 1979, saw his greatest success in 2002 when he led the Boxers to a all-time best record of 25-13 and finished only one game out of the Northwest Conference championship with a 15-8 mark. The team shattered season marks for home runs and grand slams, while three individual season records were tied or broken.
That 2002 team also saw three selections to the NCAA Division All-West Region Team, the selection of Boxer outfielder Kevin Roth as the conference's Player of the Year, and the election of nine Boxers to the All-Northwest Conference Team for the second straight season.
Bradley has also mentored the Boxers to 20-win seasons 2003 and 2006 and a third place NWC finish in 2002, the highest finish for the Boxers since the 1979 championship season. Bradley has led Pacific teams to top-four finishes in the NWC standings in four of the last eight seasons.
The triumphs were a long time coming from Bradley, who assumed head coaching duties just before the start of the 1996 campaign. Prior to becoming skipper, Bradley was an assistant coach under legendary Boxer coach Chuck Bafaro and an assistant men's basketball coach under former headman Ken Schumann.
A 1975 graduate of Oregon State University, Bradley began his coaching career at Sunset High School, where he guided the Apollos to the 1985 quarterfinals of the Oregon state baseball tournament. His efforts earned Bradley Metro League Coach of the Year honors. He continues to teach at Sunset in addition to his Boxer coaching duties.
A native of Pasadena, Calif., Bradley and his wife, Brooke, live in Beaverton. Bradley is the father of four children, Kyle, who played two years under his father at Pacific, Ryan, Megan and Donnie.
Kevin Lovings
Assistant
Baseball Coach
Kevin Lovings is in his sixth year as an assistant coach with Pacific baseball after nine seasons of success leading teams at the high school level in the Portland area.
Prior to his arrival at Pacific, Lovings spent five seasons as the head baseball coach at Sunset High School, leading the Apollos to the 1999 Metro League championship and coach numerous all-conference and all-state selections.
Prior to Sunset, Lovings spent four years as the head coach at Roosevelt High School in Portland. He started his coaching career as a junior varsity coach and varsity assistant at both Roosevelt and North Salem high school. Lovings has a very successful 149-57 record as a head coach.
Lovings lettered in both football and baseball at Portland's Wilson High School. He played his college baseball at Mt. Hood Community College and also went on to play several years of semi-professional baseball.
A native of Portland, Lovings earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Exercise Sport Science from Oregon State in 1991. He currently teaches Physical Education at Sunset High School.
He and his wife, Aimee, are the parents of two sons, Isaac, 9, and Nathan, 6.
John Barnes
Assistant
Baseball Coach
John Barnes is in his fifth season with the Boxers after 11 successful seasons coaching at the high school level in the Portland area.
Barnes was most recently head baseball coach at Hillsboro High School, where he directed a competitive Spartans' program for four seasons. Prior to Hillsboro, Barnes was an assistant varsity coach at Lakeridge High School for two seasons. In 1999, Barnes helped coached the Pacers to the Oregon 4A state championship and in 2000 guided the Pacers again to the state semifinals.
Barnes took his first head coaching position at West Linn High School, where he led the Lions from 1996-1998 and took the 1996 squad to the state quarterfinals. Barnes also has experience as a junior varsity coach at West Linn and as a freshman coach at Lakeridge.
After a playing career at West Linn where he a standout in football, basketball and baseball and earned a total of eight letters, including four in baseball, Barnes matriculated to Lewis & Clark College. He played three seasons for the Pioneers and was named the team's most inspirational player in 1989.
Barnes graduated from Lewis & Clark in 1989 with a degree in political science. He earned his teaching credential form Concordia in 1995 and is working towards his master's of education in administration from Concordia.
Married 12 years to wife Christine, Barnes is the father of a daughter, Kyanna. When not coaching baseball, Barnes can be found at Hillsboro High School, where he is employed as a social studies teacher, traveling with his family or out on the golf course.
Brad Baker
Assistant
Baseball Coach
After two years as a key member of Pacific's pitching staff, Brad Baker has moved from the mound to the bench for his third season as the Boxers' pitching coach.
Baker went 2-1 in 2006 for the Boxers with 12 appearances and a 3.72 earned run average as one of the team's primary relievers. He picked up victories in a Mar. 26 game against Lewis & Clark and an 11-3 victory over eventual NWC champion George Fox. Baker went 3-1 his junior season.
Prior to arriving at Pacific, Baker spent two years at Blue Mountain CC in Pendleton, where he set a school record for earned run average for a reliever. As a sophomore, Baker went 4-1 with a 1.05 earned run average and registered three saves.
Baker picked up some valuable American Legion coaching experience while in college. In two seasons as head coach for the Hanford Flames, Baker finished 41-41 and took a team that went 6-41 prior to taking over as coach to 24-20 in 2005.
Baker earned a degree in history from Pacific in 2006 and received his master's degree in teaching from Pacific in 2007. He is also employed as a social studies and football coach at Vernonia High School.
Scott Braun
Assistant
Baseball Coach
Former Pacific pitching standout Scott Braun is in his second season as a Boxers' assistant coach, bringing with him four years of experience with the program and three of semi-professional playing and coaching experience.
Braun, 26, was a four-year starting pitcher for the Boxers from 2001-2004. The tall left-hander saved his best for his senior season, amassing a 5-3 record and a 4.59 earned run average to earn Honorable Mention All-Northwest Conference honors. His 60 strikeouts that season ranks ninth on the Pacific's single season list.
Since then, Braun has spent the last three seasons playing and coaching in both the United States and Australia. He attend spring training for two seasons with teams in the independent Frontier League, seeing time with the River City Rascals and the Rockford RiverHawks.
Braun also spent two seasons playing and coaching for the Wanneroo Giants in Madeley, Western Australia. Braun coached the Western Australia Under-23 team to a third place finish in the Australian national championships in 2007. In 2006, he also helped coach the club's Little League program an international tournament championship in Thailand.
A native of Portland, Braun played four years for current Pacific assistant coach Kevin Lovings at Sunset High School, where he earned All-Metro League honors in 1999 and 2000. Braun graduated from Pacific in 2004 with a degree in political science.