Baseball Coaching Staff
Greg Bradley
Head
Baseball Coach
brad0757@pacificu.edu
Greg Bradley, now in his 15th 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 eight 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 18 first team selections, and seven players have been tabbed for NCAA Division III All-West Region squads, all over the last six years.
Bradley led the Boxers through another solid season as they fell just short of a fifth 20-win season with a 19-win effort in 2009. Bradley saw three of his charges earn All-Northwest Conference selection, led by pitcher Tyler Fransen.
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.
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.
John Barnes
Assistant
Head Baseball Coach
John Barnes is in his sixth season with the Boxers, joining the program after 11 successful seasons coaching at the high school level in the Portland area. After five seasons as an assistant coach, Barnes was promoted to assistant head coach prior to the start of the 2010 season.
Prior to coming to Pacific, 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 was 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 from Concordia in 1995 and master's of education in administration from the school in 2008.
Married 13 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
Brad Baker enters his fourth season as a Pacific assistant coach, working primarily with pitchers after a solid career on the mound for the Boxers.
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 teacher and is the head football coach at Vernonia High School.
Matt Lengwenus
Assistant
Baseball Coach
One of the most decorated players in Pacific baseball history, Matt Lengwenus returns after a two-year absence for his fourth season as an assistant coach.
In four seasons playing at Pacific between 2000 and 2003, Lengwenus earned nearly accolade a player could receive. He was named First Team All-Northwest Conference and was selected All-West Region four times, including first team selections in 2001 and 2002.
Lengwenus was named a Third Team NCAA Division III All-American in 2001 after leading the NWC with .461 batting average, second all-time for the Boxers, and set Pacific single season records for hits, at bats and runs batted in. In 2002, he tied the Pacific single season record for home runs with 15 and was ranked sixth nationally in home runs per game. He finished second in NWC Player of the Year voting to teammate Kevin Roth.
To date, Lengwenus continues to hold Pacific single season records for hits, runs batted in, runs and home runs; and ranks among the team’s top-10 in single season batting average, at bats and stolen bases.
Lengwenus, 27, graduated in 2004 from Pacific with a bachelor’s degree in education.
Zach Gantenbein
Assistant
Baseball Coach
After a four-year standout career at Pacific, Zach Gantenbein returns to the Pacific dugout for his first season as an assistant coach.
Gantenbein played for the Boxers from 2005 to 2008. He began his career in the outfield before transitioning to the starting shortstop role in 2007 and the starting third base spot in 2008. Gantenbein earned First Team All-Northwest Conference honors in 2008 after hitting .348 with 47 hits, 39 runs five home runs while striking out just 11 times.
Gantenbein ranks third on Pacific’s single season list for at bats, making 151 appearances in 2007. He also ranks on the Boxers’ single season top-10 in runs, runs batted in and stolen bases.
Prior to returning to Pacific, Gantenbein spent one season as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Warrenton High School, helping lead the program to a state playoff appearance.
Gantenbein, 24, graduated from Pacific in 2008 with a degree in math.