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BYU (10-12) vs. USF, San Jose St.

Probable BYU Pitching Rotation

Mar. 31 @ USF Apr. 1 @ San Jose St. Chris Capper (1-0, 3.43) 6 p.m. PDT Apr. 2 @ San Jose St. Matt Neil (3-2, 4.91) 6 p.m. PDT Apr. 3 @ San Jose St. Chunner Nyberg (0-2, 10.03) 1 p.m. PDT

BYU 2010 Schedule/Results

Time at site of game

Shawn Hardesty (1-2, 7.82) 2 p.m. PDT

Date

Opponent

Feb 19 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 25 Feb 25 Feb 27 Mar 2 Mar 3 Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar 6 Mar 11 Mar 12 Mar 13 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 19 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27 Mar 31 Apr 1
@ UC Riverside + @ UC Riverside + @ UC Riverside+% @ UC Davis +% @ UC Davis +% @ UC Davis +& @ Baylor +^% @ Texas A & M +^ @ UT Arlington + @ UT Arlington + @ UT Arlington + Washington +^ Washington +^ Washington +^ @ Gonzaga +
L, 11-12 L, 4-6 L, 11-6 L, 0-3 W, 10-2 W, 8-4 W, 7-5 L, 3-5 L, 2-17 L, 3-6
W, 11-10 W, 10-4 W, 16-4 L, 10-12 L, 7-9 W, 3-2 L, 6-13 L, 3-11 W, 5-4 W, 12-11 W, 8-4 L, 5-11
2 p.m.

Series Record:

San Francisco leads the series, 5-3, last playing in 2001 when they split a two-game series there, and San Jose State leads the series 13-10-1. The Spartans last played BYU in 1999 when the Cougars two of three.

Coverage This Week

@ Gonzaga +

All four of the BYU games will be available through livestats online through links available at http://www.byucougars.com/Schedule. jsp?SP=101. There are no live radio broadcasts on Radio 960 AM/92.9 FM.

@ No. 4 TCU + @ No. 4 TCU + @ No. 4 TCU + UNLV +^ UNLV +^ UNLV +^ @USF + @ San Jose St. + @ San Jose St. + @ San Jose St. + Washington St. +^ Washington St. +^ @ New Mexico* + @ New Mexico* + @ New Mexico* + Kansas St. +^
6 p.m. 6 p.m. 1 p.m. 3 p.m.

Coach Vance Law

Apr 2 Apr 3 Apr 5 Apr 6 Apr 8 Apr 9

Coach Vance Law loged his 600th game at the BYU helm last month. Law is in his 11th season as head coach at BYU. He played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six different teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year in the Mountain West Conference. The 53-year-old coach entered this season with a 317-263-2 (.546) record. He is assisted by Ryan Roberts, in his eighth year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his seventh year with BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy.

6:30 p.m.
6 p.m. 6 p.m.
Apr 10 Apr 13 Apr 14 Apr 15 Apr 16 Apr 17 Apr 22 Apr 23 Apr 24 Apr 29 Apr 30 May 1 May 4 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 10 May 11 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 18 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 25-29
Noon
6:30 p.m.
11 a.m.
6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
1 p.m.
6:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
1 p.m. 3 p.m. 2 p.m.
11 a.m.
6 p.m. 7 p.m.
Kansas St. +^ TCU* +^ (BYU TV live) TCU* +^ (BYU TV live) TCU* +^ (BYU TV live) Utah* +%^ Utah* +^ (BYU TV live) Utah* +^ (BYU TV live) @ Seattle

Hitting Streaks

@ Seattle

Sean McNaughton’s 15-game hitting streak leads the team, followed by Dane Nielsen at nine.

Portland (Seattle) @ UVU + @ UNLV* + @ UNLV* + @ UNLV*+% @Arizona St. + @Arizona St. + San Diego St.* + ^(BYU TV live) 6:00 p.m. San Diego St.* + ^(BYU TV live) 6:00 p.m. San Diego St.* + ^(BYU TV live) UVU +^ (BYU TV live) @ Air Force* + @ Air Force* + @ Air Force* +% MWC Champs @ San Diego St.
7 p.m. 1 p.m.
6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

2010 BYU Baseball Media Guide

There is no hard copy of the 2010 BYU Baseball Media Guide, rather it is all on-line at http://www.byucougars.com/mediaGuides.jsp. BYU’s online media guides have been recognized by eyeonsportsmedia.com as the Best Online Media Guide Solution, receiving the 2009 Bloodshot Eyeball Award for Sports Media Best Practices.

1 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
2 p.m. 2 p.m. Noon

Jun19-29/30 College World Series * MWC Games, % Internet Audio, + webcast, ^live video -- All times are local to site

Injuries

Andrew Law and Stephen Wells both suffered hamstring injuries when

BYU played at UC Davis. Law missed the ﬁrst trip to Texas and Wells returned to play in the ﬁnal contest when he hit a two-run homer to win

the game at UT Arlington.

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2010 Game-Winning RBI

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About the Team . . .

Alex Wolfe ..................................................2 --two-run double, UC Davis, 10-2 --two-run double, Washington, 16-4 Brandon Relf ...............................................2 -single, TCU, 5-4

Oldest to Youngest

There are eight seniors and eight freshmen on the current squad. The ages range from 24-year-old Kevin Sloan to 18-year-old Kevin Noall.

-error, UNLV 8-4 Ryan Bernal.................................................1 -single, UC Davis, 8-4 Stephen Wells ..............................................1 -two-run homer, UT Arlington, 11-10 Austin Hall ..................................................1

-sac-ﬂy, Gonzaga, 3-2

Strength of Schedule

Boyd’s World collegiate baseball rankings had BYU ranked with the 31st toughest schedule in the nation. Others on BYU’s schedule were ranked on that strength of schedule index: Washington State (18), San Francisco (23), Arizona State (30) and TCU (53). Pingbaseball has BYU at No.

17 on schedule difﬁculty, while Seattle is No. 1, followed by San Diego

State (24) and New Mexico (50)
Bryce Ayoso ................................................1

-single, UNLV, 12-11

2010 Honors
Good GPAs

Alex Wolfe, First Base/Third Base

• CollegeBaseballInsider.com Regional Player of

the Week vs. Washington

Sophomore pitcher David Parry recorded a 4.0 grade point average last semester. The accounting major made the Dean’s List. Another of the top GPAs on the team is by pitcher Shawn Hardesty, who has a job teaching Portuguese at the nearby Missionary Training Center.

• MWC Player of Week vs. Washington

‘09 Honors for ‘10 Returnees

Shawn Hardesty, Pitcher

• Academic All-Mountain West Conference • MWC Scholar-Athlete

Home Season

BYU drew 19,474 fans in it’s 21-game home schedule last season for an average of 927 with a 8-13 record. The Cougars have a 128-58 (.688) record at Larry H. Miller Field which seats 2,204 fans in its 10th season since it was built. In the previous nine years BYU has drawn 218,981 fans for an average of 1,177 and 142,248 at night for an average of 1,452. This season BYU has drew 18,650 fans at home (1,036 avg.), but a couple of the 18 games were not paid admission. The crowd of 3,081 against Utah this season was the fourth-largest in school history and the second-largest at Miller Park.

Andrew Law, Second Base

• Academic All-Mountain West Conference

Brock Luker, Outﬁeld

Sean McNaughton, Outﬁeld

• Academic All-Mountain West Conference • Wallace Watch List, 2009 • MWC Preseason Player of Year & All-MWC,

Baseball America, 2009

• Preseason All-MWC, 2009 (MWC coaches/media,

College Baseball Insider, & Rivals.com)

Triple Play

BYU recorded the fourth triple play in school history and the third in MWC history (AFA and TCU) with a 5-4-3 (Parker-Andrew Law-Ko) triple play in the 12-2 game vs. New Mexico last season.

Brandon Michon, Pitcher

Inside the Park Homers

Kevin Sloan, Utility

• Academic All-Mountain West Conference • MWC Scholar-Athlete

Brandon Relf had an inside-the-park homer in 2008 vs. Air Force. Last season, Stetson Banks had an inside-the-park home run vs. Utah Valley.

Blake Torgerson, Pitcher

• Second Team All-Mountain West Conference • MWC Pitcher of Week vs. AFA

Zimbabwe

Coach Vance Law, his son Andrew, Wes Guenther, David Parry and Stephen Wells assisted others in the community in packing clothing and supplies in crates which arrived in January to assist those in need in Zimbabwe. Coach Law became aware of this project through his son Adam, who was on last year’s team, and is now serving a mission there.

Alex Wolfe, First Base/Catcher

BYU’s Sibling Rivalry

Player/Coach ............ No. of Siblings

Matt Neil.................... 7 Colton White.............. 6 Coach Vance Law....... 5

More Data

Chunner Nyberg’s given names are Christian Jacob, but because he was a chubby baby, his parents nicknamed him Chunner. BYU Coach Vance Law and his son Andrew join Washington Coach Lindsay Meggs and his son Joe and Kansas Coach Ritch Price and his son Robby are other Coach/Player/Father/Son relations in NCAA baseball.
Bryce Ayoso ............... 5 Austin Hall................. 5 Brandon Michon ........ 5 Stephen Wells............. 5

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BYU 2009 Schedule/Results

Date Opponent

Time at site of game

W, 11-10 L, 14-17 L, 6-20
2/ 20 Manhattan College 2/ 20 @ No. 13 Oklahoma St. 2/ 21 Manhattan College 2/ 21 @ No. 13 Oklahoma St. 2/23 @ No. 6 Baylor
L, 4-5 L, 6-7
2/26 Portland +^ 2/27 Portland +^ 2/28 Portland + 3/2 @Wichita St. +%^ 3/3 @Wichita St. +%^ 3/6 St. John’s + ^(BYUTV) 3/7 St. John’s +^ (BYUTV) 3/7 St. John’s + (11 innings)
W, 10-2 L, 3-8 W, 10-3 L, 5-6 W, 3-1 W, 5-4 W, 6-5 W, 8-7 W, 8-3 W, 4-1

Andrew Law, 2B, Sr.

Has the fastest 60 time on the team in 6.43 ... helped turn a triple play last year vs. New Mexico ... son of head coach Vance Law ... grandfather Vernon Law was 1960 Cy Young Award winner ... younger brother Adam, now on a church mission to Zimbabwe, was on last year’s BYU team and older brother Tim also played for the Cougars ... father and uncles also played for BYU... born in Quebec, Canada ... served a church mission to England.

3/10 Southern Utah +^ (BYUTV) 3/12 @ Utah * 3/13 Utah *+^ (BYUTV) 3/14 Utah *+^ (BYUTV) 3/17 @ Cal St. Northridge +% 3/19 @ San Diego St. *+^ 3/20 @ San Diego St. *+^ 3/21 @ San Diego St. *+^ 3/24 Utah Valley +^ 3/26 @ No. 20 New Mexico *+^ 3/27 @ No. 20 New Mexico *+^ 3/28 @ No. 20 New Mexico *+^ 4/2 @ Western Carolina + 4/3 @ Western Carolina + 4/4 @ Western Carolina + 4/6 @ Washington St. + 4/7 @ Washington St. +
L, 13-15 W, 11-3 W, 6-5 W, 6-2 W, 4-2 L, 5-11 W, 12-5 L, 5-7
W, 15-13
L, 5-9 W, 1-0

Year

Avg. AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR RBI TB

BB SO SB-SBA

2005 2008 2009 2010
.346 52 11 .267 105 28 .259 201 27
18 28 52
8
14
14
1
1021
0020
6
10 27
1
21 32 76 11
3710
0
12 17
0-0 8-12
43 18-20

4-5

.471 17

5

4

W, 15-11 W, 18-12 L, 8-12 L, 4-13

Sean McNaughton, LF, Sr.

4/9 Air Force * +^ (BYUTV) (11 innings) L, 4-5

On the Wallace Watch List for 2009 ... 2009 Preseason

4/10 Air Force * +^ (BYUTV) 4/11 Air Force * + ^(BYUTV) 4/13 @ No. 14 Oregon St. + 4/14 @ No. 14 Oregon St. + 4/17 @ Utah *
W, 7-0 W, 9-2 L, 6-7

MWC Player of the Year by Baseball America ... in 2008 he twice tied the school record with seven at bats in a game ... in 2005 he was selected to the Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America team by Collegiate Baseball magazine and to Baseball America’s Midseason Freshman All-America team ... Academic All-MWC ... tied a league and school record by hitting two triples in the 18-5 victory over Air Force in 2005 ... hit three doubles in game two at New Mexico State, tying his older brother Troy.

L, 4-8 W, 7-4 W, 12-7 W, 3-2 L, 2-12 W, 12-11
L, 2-7 L, 5-8 L, 3-5 L, 8-9 L, 3-11 W, 15-12 W, 7-3 W, 14-13 W, 4-2 L, 3-9
4/18 @ Utah * 4/18 @ Utah * 4/23 New Mexico * +^ (BYUTV) 4/24 New Mexico * + ^(BYUTV) 4/27 @ Utah Valley +% 4/30 @ No. 15 TCU *+^ 5/1 @ No. 15 TCU *+^ (10 innings) 5/4 @ No. 10 Kansas St.^ (10 innings) 5/5 @ No. 10 Kansas St.^ 5/7 UNLV *+^ (BYUTV) 5/8 UNLV *+ ^(BYUTV) 5/9 UNLV *+ ^(BYUTV) 5/12 @ Washington +^

Year

Avg. AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR RBI TB

BB SO SB-SBA

2005 2008 2009 2010
.327 205 44 .347 265 65 .290 217 45
67 92 63 32
16 23 11
5
5422
16 43 14 53 10 32
129 165 108
50
13 15 13
6

36

5-8

39 21-29 55 9-13

18

.327 98

17

3

11

8-11

5/13 @ Washington +^ 5/19 Utah (10 innings) $ 5/20 UNLV $ 5/21 New Mexico $
L, 1-2 W, 5-4 W, 5-1

L, 2-9

5/21 @ No. 10 TCU $

* MWC Games, % Internet Audio, + webcast, ^live video $MWC Tourney at Ft. Worth, Texas -- All times are local to site

Alex Wolfe, 3B, 1B, C, So.

2010 MWC Preseason Poll

CollegeBaseballInsider.com Regional Player of the Week and Mountain West Conference Player of the Week vs. Washington ... medical redshirt last season ... injured his left knee during an at bat of game one vs. St. John’s in Provo, his 11th game of the season ... drafted in the 47th round of the 2005 Major League draft by the Boston Red Sox ... Academic All-Mountain West Conference ... hit a two-run

1

TCU (10) ...................

New Mexico................ San Diego State...........
70 55 47 45 28 22 13
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Utah BYU UNLV
................... ................... ...................
Air Force ...................

homer in the ﬁfth inning to the batter’s eye in game three vs. Portland last season.

Year 2009
Avg. AB .310 42
R9
H13
2B 5
3B 0

HR RBI TB

BB SO SB-SBA

15

7

21

47

4

15

20
0-0

1-1

2010

.313 80

18

25

7

0

25

18

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Baseball-Softball Doubleheaders in Provo

BYU’s baseball (Larry H. Miller Field)-softball (Gail Miller Field) complex known as Miller Park is host to three “doubleheaders” this season. On April 22, softball hosts UNLV at 6 p.m., while baseball hosts Utah at 6:30; on April 23, softball hosts San Diego State at 6 p.m., while baseball again hosts Utah at 6 p.m. in a TV game; on April 24, softball again hosts SDSU at 2 p.m., while baseball

Cougars on Missions (9)

Player, Pos, Year @ BYU Place of Service

Daniel Welch, P, 2008 Daniel Westensee, P, 2008 Bret Lopez, INF, 2009+ Jake Murphy, SS, 2009+ Daniel Sechrest, P, 2009+ Adam Law, 2B-SS, 2009 Adam Miller, RHP, 2009 Marc Oslund, RHP, 2009 Brock Whitney, INF, 2009 +2009 Signees
Brazil Peru
Puerto Rico
Sydney, Australia
Atlanta, Ga. Zimbabwe

again hosts Utah at 1 p.m., in a TV game.

Mexico Culiacan North Carolina
Mexico

Regarding BYU This Season

• BYU has nine players who are married (Nick Birch, Alex Hancock,

Shawn Hardesty, Brandon Michon, Matt Neil, Dane Nielsen, Brandon Relf, Kevin Sloan and Alex Wolfe).

• Incorporated into this year’s team are ﬁve players who have just ﬁnished serving two-year Church missions (Chase Frampton, Wes

Guenther, Austin Hall, David Parry and Stephen Wells).

• Four players transferred to BYU (Ryan Bernal, Nick Birch, Alex Han-

cock and Coltin White).
%starts serving this summer

Missions Served (19, three languages)

Player, Pos, Year @ BYU Place of Service

Bryce Ayoso, C, Sr. Nick Birch, P, Jr.
Houston, Texas

• Among those who could throw batting practice to BYU again this sea-

son is former Cy Young winner Vernon Law (1960 Pittsburgh Pirates), father of BYU head coach Vance Law. Vernon turned 80-years-old on

March 12 of 2010 and had seven-by-pass heart surgery ﬁve years ago.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Chase Frampton, C, So. Long Beach, Calif. Wes Guenther, C, So. Austin Hall, SS, So. Alex Hancock, OF, Jr. Shawn Hardesty, P, Jr. Seth Johnson, OF, So. Andrew Law, 2B, Sr.
Chile Chile

Wolfe MWC Player of Week & CollegeBaseballInsider. com Regional Player of Week

Leeds, England
Portugal

Sophomore Alex Wolfe homered the ﬁrst four home games last month,

with multiple RBI in each of those games. He had the game-winning RBI with a two-run double in BYU’s 16-4 romp over Washington--in that game he doubled and hit a two-run homer for four RBI in that 13-

run second inning. In game one vs. Washington as a first baseman, he had a diving rollover assist on the first batter in the fifth inning to complete the putout to the pitcher. He was on the end of five double plays

in game two vs. Washington. He had a slugging average of 1.556 for the three-game series.
Mexico
London, England
Brock Luker, OF, So. Jacksonville, FL (Span.) Sean McNaughton, 2B, Sr. Washington, D.C.

Matthew Neil, P, So.

New York

Mexico

Dane Nielsen, Utility, Jr.

David Parry, RHP, So. Brandon Relf, SS, Sr. Kevin Sloan, 3B/P, Sr. Blake Torgerson, RHP, Sr. Steven Wells, OF, So. Alex Wolfe, C/1B, So.
Argentina
South Africa
Italy
He was hurt last season in his 11th game and had played 11 games this season with very similar statistics until this week’s threegame series. He raised his batting average from .317 to .340. He played

ﬁrst base in games one and two and third base in game three. was injured

in his 11th game last year. Through 11 games, Wolfe was batting .317 compared to .310 last year and had nine bases on balls compared to four

last season with ﬁve fewer runs. Other than those numbers his statistics

were nearly identical.
St. Louis, Mo.
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

Drafted Cougars

Jonathan Cluff, 20th Atlanta Braves^ Sean McNaughton, 38th Chicago Cubs+ Chunner Nyberg, 49th LA Angels~ Alex Wolfe, 47th Boston Red Sox% ~2009, +2008, ^2006, %2005

Signed Recruits for 2010

Recruit Jaycob Brugman 6-0 175 OF, LHP Phoenix (Desert Vista Thunder HS)

Ht. Wt.

Pos. Hometown (Last School)

Kelton Caldwell 6-1 195 Derek Cone 6-5 180 Kolton Mahoney 6-0 195
OF Draper (Jordan HS) RHP Phoenix (Mesa CC) RHP West Point (Northridge HS)
Wyatt Padgett 6-0 195 1B, OF Yucaipa, Calif. (Yucaipa HS) Derrick Pitts 6-1 190 LHP, 1B Murray (Cottonwood HS) DesmondPoulson 6-2 185 RHP/OF Taylorsville (Cottonwood HS)

Dillon Robinson 6-3 190

3B Pleasant Grove (Lone Peak HS)

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2010 BYU Baseball Roster

No. Player

Pos.

Utility 6-2 180 R-R Sr.-3V Kansas City, MO/Park Hill South

Ht. Wt. B-T Yr.

Hometown

13456789
Kevin Sloan D.J. Stanley Brandon Relf Stephen Wells Andrew Law Alex Hancock Jonathan Cluff Wes Guenther Ryan Bernal Bryce Ayoso Andy Isom
RHP INF OF 2B OF OF C
5-11 160 R-R Fr.-HS Gilmer, TX/Gilmer HS 5-10 200 R-R Sr.-3V Sandy/Alta HS 5-11 175 L-L So.-1V Kenmore, WA/Inglemoor HS 6-1 185 R-R Sr.-3V Provo/Provo HS 6-0 180 L-R Jr.-JC Pocatello, ID/CSI 6-0 195 R-R Sr.-3V South Jordan/Bingham HS 6-0 185 L-R So.-1V Overland Park,KS/BlueValley NW HS

Jr.-JC Grand Junction, CO/SLCC

10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 33 35 36
1B/OF 6-0 195 L-L COF OF RHP
5-10 200 R-R Sr.-3V Provo/Provo HS 5-11 170 R-R Fr.-HS Provo, UT/ Provo HS

6-6 230 R-R So.-1V Queen Creek, AZ/Phoenix College

Brock Luker

Nick Birch Sean McNaughton OF Dane Nielsen Chris Howard Alex Wolfe
6-0 190 R-R Jr.-JC 5-9 190 R-R Sr.-3V Lakewood, Washington/Curtis HS
Utility 5-10 180 R-R Jr.-2V Sugar Land, TX/Clements HS LHP 6-1 185 L-L Fr.-HS Colo. Spgs., CO/Ftn. Ft. Carson HS INF/C 6-0 200 L-R So.-RS Orem, UT/Dixie State
Idaho Falls, ID/Treasure Valley CC
Devin Brewer Kevin Noall
RHP OF RHP
5-10 200 R-R Fr.-HS Hattiesburg, MS/Oak Grove HS 6-3 190 R-R Fr.-HS Yuba City, CA/Yuba City HS
David McKnight Mark Anderson Brandon Michon Coltin White Austin Hall

5-11 190 R-R Jr.-RS

Parker, CO/ SLCC

LHP/OF 6-2 180 L-L LHP 6-0 160 L-L RHP/OF 6-2 165 R-R So.-JC Mesa, AZ/MCC
Fr.-HS MorenoValley, CA/Vista Del Lago HS Sr.-3V Hamilton, VA/Loudoun Valley HS