Joe Schaefer enters into his seventh season as a member of the PLNU baseball staff, his second year as head coach. His first campaign at the helm, 2009, was the most successful in the long history of the university's baseball program. The Sea Lions had a tremendous regular season and went on to win the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) regular season and tournament championships. The team then swept through three Opening Round games of the NAIA World Series to reach the final site of competition in Lewiston, Idaho. PLNU stayed red-hot, rolling off four consecutive wins at the NAIA World Series and was one triumph away from a national title, but lost twice to Lubbock Christian. PLNU's runner up finish, however, was the highest ever for the program and is the best that a GSAC squad has done in World Series play.