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U N I V E R S I T Y O F W A S H I N G T O N HUSKY BASEBALL Web Site – www.gohuskies.com / baseball THIS WEEK . march 6, 2012 contact: Jeff Bechthold ([email protected]) Friday, March 9 Final Weekend Before pac-12 Begins Washington at Cal Poly Baggett Stadium, 6:00 p.m. PT Sees Huskies Head To cal poly live stats/audio via gohuskies.com THIS WEEKEND: The Washington baseball team (9-3) are riding a six-game winning streak into the final weekend Saturday, March 10 before Pac-12 Conference play begins as the Huskies travel to San Luis Obispo to face Cal Poly (9-3) in a three-game Washington at Cal Poly series this weekend. First pitch on Friday and Saturday is 6:00 p.m. and Sunday’s series finale begins at 1:00 p.m. Fans Baggett Stadium, 6:00 p.m. PT can follow live stats and listen to Cal Poly’s audio broadcast via links at gohuskies.com. The easiest way to find the links live stats/audio via gohuskies.com is to go to the baseball schedule page at gohuskies.com and click on that day’s game for the links. Junior righty Aaron West will start for the UW on Friday. On Saturday, junior RHP George Asmus gets the ball and sophomore right-hander Sunday, March 11 Austin Voth starts on Sunday. UW enters the series after a four-game sweep of Saint Joseph’s in which the Huskies gave Washington at Cal Poly up just one earned run (and only two runs total) over the four games. Prior to that, the UW won two of three at UC Irvine Baggett Stadium, 1:00 p.m. PT and a game at Cal State Northridge. After the series at Cal Poly, the UW hosts Portland next Tuesday before opening live stats/audio via gohuskies.com Pac-12 play with a three-game series vs. Oregon at Husky Ballpark March 16-18. Here’s a look at this weekend’s games: Friday, March 9: Washington at Cal Poly, 6:00 p.m. PT – live stats & audio via gohuskies.com cOmING Up . Saturday, March 10: Washington at Cal Poly, 6:00 p.m. PT – live stats & audio via gohuskies.com Sunday, March 11: Washington at Cal Poly, 1:00 p.m. PT – live stats & audio via gohuskies.com Tuesday, March 13 Portland at Washington cOAcH mEGGS: Lindsay Meggs is in his third season as head coach at Washington. This spring, one of his Husky Ballpark, 5:00 p.m. chief accomplishments has come to fruition with the opening of the new baseball team building at Husky Ballpark – a clubhouse, coaches’ offices, training room, equipment room and donor area overlooking the field. Meggs came to the Fri.-Sun., March 16-18 UW after having spent the previous three seasons at Indiana State and the 13 prior to that at Chico State, where he won FIRST PAC-12 SERIES NCAA Division II national championships in 1997 and 1999. He helped Chico to the D-II College World Series seven times Oregon at Washington and won the league eight times. At Indiana State, he was named Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year in 2009 three-game series after guiding the Sycamores to a second-place finish, their highest since 1998. Currently, he boasts a 669-375-4 record over 18 seasons as a four-year college head coach. He’d previously served as head coach at Long Beach City College and QUIcK pITcHES . Oxnard College. Born in San Jose and a graduate of Saratoga (Calif.) High, Meggs played four seasons as the starting third baseman at UCLA. He was drafted by the Brewers in 1983, and then again by the Royals after his senior year in • In its four-game series with Saint 1984. Meggs is joined by assistant coaches Dave Nakama, Dave Dangler and Jordon Twohig. Joseph’s, the UW pitching staff gave up one earned run on 11 hits over 32 pOSSIBLE STARTERS: Here’s a look at the possible starters at each position, with stats and notes: Pos. Player, Year Avg.-HR-RBI Notes innings. SJU batted just .110. C – B.K. Santy, Sr. .250-0-3 Started 42 games at C last year; 1 of 2 seniors on roster • Washington’s 2012 schedule has Chase Anselment, Jr. .364-1-3 Drove in winning run with SF in game 1 last Sunday been ranked the ninth-toughest in the Ryan Wiggins, So. .250-1-2 Earned honorable mention All-Pac-10 as a freshman nation by boydsworld.com. 1B – Trevor Mitsui, Fr. .240-1-6 Gatorade State Player of the Year for Wash.; .712 BA in HS 2B – Robert Pehl, Fr. (also 1B) .310-1-9 Batted over .500 in all four high school seasons • The Huskies’ 35-man roster includes Matt Jackson, Fr. .125-0-0 Bay Area product will compete at 2B and 3B a total of 20 newcomers. There are only Andrew Ely, Fr. .600-0-2 3-time all-league first-teamer at Eagle (Idaho) HS two seniors on the team. 3B – Jacob Lamb, Jr. .317-1-8 6-for-12 in four games vs. SJU; has reached base in all 12 SS – Erik Forgione, Fr. .294-0-3 7 starts this season at shortstop; HS teammate of Pehl • The UW has hit eight homers through Ty Afenir, Jr. .188-0-1 Made only 5 errors last season, starting 46 games at SS 12 games this year, with eight different OF – Michael Camporeale, Jr. .302-1-11 Drove in seven runs in a game Feb. 27 at CS Northridge players hitting one each. OF – Joe Meggs, Jr. .324-0-5 UW’s leading hitter in 2011; honorable mention All-Pac-10 OF – Jayce Ray, Jr. .333-0-5 1st-team All-America at Santa Rosa College in 2011 facebook.com/UWHuskyBaseball OF – Caleb Brown, Sr. .286-1-4 1 of 2 seniors on roster; limited to 26 games in ‘11 due to inj. DH – Branden Berry, Fr. .366-1-6 Went 8-for-13 with 3B and HR in 3 games at SDSU Twitter: @UW_Baseball THIS WEEK’S HUSKY BASEBALL pLANNER . Wed. 7 Thu. 8 Fri. 9 Sat. 10 Sun. 11 Mon. 12 Tue. 13 H c Washington Washington Washington Portland at at Cal Poly at Cal Poly at Cal Poly Washington AR Practice Depart for 6:00 p.m. PT 6:00 p.m. PT 1:00 p.m. PT 5:00 p.m. PT m Husky Ballpark San Luis Obispo live stats/audio live stats/audio live stats/audio live stats/video University of Washington Athletics • Athletic Communications • Graves Hall • Box 354070 • Seattle, WA 98195-4070 NATIONAL RANKINGS WASHINGTON BASEBALL mARcH 6, 2012 Baseball America SERIES HISTORY: Cal Poly holds an 11-5 advantage in its all-time series with Washington. The two Top 25 (March 5, 2012) teams last met in Seattle in 2008, when the Mustangs won two out of three. Cal Poly swept a three-game 1. Florida 10-1 2. Stanford ★ 10-1 set the year before in San Luis Obispo. In 2006, the Mustangs won two of three in a series in Seattle while 3. South Carolina 9-1 Washington won two of three in SLO in 2005. In 1995, the UW opened its season in SLO, winning one of three. 4. Arkansas 11-2 SQUAD BREAKDOWN: Among the 35 players on the 2012 Husky roster, there are two seniors, 12 5. Rice 11-1 6. Texas A&M 11-1 juniors, 10 sophomores and 11 true freshmen. The squad includes 15 returners and 20 newcomers (11 true 7. Arizona ★ 8-2 freshmen, three sophomore transfers and six junior transfers). Entering the 2012 season, the UW's returning 8. North Carolina 8-2 players had competed in a total of 695 Husky baseball games. Eight different veteran position players had 9. Georgia 10-2 combined for 1,707 career at bats. Six veteran UW pitchers had combined to make 44 career starts and had 10. Georgia Tech 10-2 pitched 420.2 career innings in a Husky uniform. 11. Arizona State ★ 8-2 12. Florida State 9-1 ANOTHER TOUGH ScHEDULE: Each year, Washington boasts one of the toughest schedules 13. Louisiana State 10-2 in the season, if only by virtue of playing the rigorous Pac-12 Conference. According to well-regarded college 14. Mississippi 9-2 baseball website, boydsworld.com, the Huskies have the ninth-toughest schedule in the country, though most 15. Miami 8-3 of the Pac-12's team rank highly. The Huskies, of course, face the 10 other Pac-12 teams. Six Pac-12 teams 16. UCLA ★ 8-3 (Arizona, ASU, Cal, OSU, Stanford, UCLA) were ranked in either the Baseball America and USA Today coaches' 17. Oregon ★ 10-1 preseason polls, or both. Oregon and USC also each also received votes in the coaches' poll. Additionally, 18. Central Florida 10-2 the Huskies traveled to UC Irvine for a three-game series. The Anteaters were ranked No. 26 by the coaches. 19. Cal State Fullerton 8-3 20. Clemson 5-4 THEY'RE cOmING FROm ALL OVER: The 2012 Husky baseball roster includes players from 21. Texas State 8-3 seven different states. Of the 35 players on the official roster entering the season, 18 are from Washington, 11 22. Oklahoma 7-3 are from California, two are from Idaho and there is one player each from Arizona, Colorado, Hawai'i and Indiana. 23. Mississippi State 10-2 Washington's baseball roster has traditionally been heavily dominated by in-state players.