Athletic Media Relations 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, Utah • 84602 801-422-9769 • fax 801-422-0633 ASEBALL Weekly Release - April 27, 2005 B BYU on the Road to Colorado Media Relations Information BYU (29-12-1 overall and 14-4 in the Mountain West Conference for first place) contact: Ralph Zobell travels to Northern Colorado for single games on Tuesday and Wednesday and E-Mail: [email protected] Air Force (5-34 and 0-18) for a three-game series starting on Thursday. Date Opp/Event Time at site of game 2/17 No. 19 UC Irvine Irvine, CA + W, 5-1 Probable Pitching Rotation 2/18 No. 19 UC Irvine Irvine, CA +% L, 6-9 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 4-5 (10 inn) Apr. 28 @ Air Force Dave Horlacher (4-2, 3.84) Colo. Spgs., 2 p.m. 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA W, 13-5 Apr. 29 @ Air Force Brandon Christiansen(3-0,4.58) Colo. Spgs., 2 p.m. 2/26 San Jose St. San Jose, CA T, 3-3 Apr. 30 @ Air Force Blake Torgerson (5-2, 5.77) Colo. Spgs., 1 p.m. 3/1 No. 25 Okla. St. Stillwater, OK +%= L, 4-5 Probable Lineup 3/2 No. 25 Okla. St. Stillwater, OK +%= W, 9-8 3/3-4 No. 30 Oral Roberts Tulsa, OK % L, 5-6 1B–#16 Jeff Hiestand 2B–#6 Andrew Law SS–#10 Marcos Villezcas 3/3-4 No. 30 Oral Roberts Tulsa, OK % W, 6-2 3B–#13 Brandon Taylor RF–#25 Ben Saylor CF–#22 Ryan Chambers 3/5 No. 30 Oral Roberts Tulsa, OK ∑W, 7-4 LF–#12 Kory Knell C–#8 Casey Nelson or #9 Casey Cloward 3/8 Utah Valley St. Provo +% W, 15-8 DH–#24 Apana Nakayama 3/10 New Mexico St. Las Cruces, NM+$ W, 5-3 3/11 New Mexico St. Las Cruces, NM+$ W, 11-7 Radio Coverage 3/12 New Mexico St. Las Cruces, NM+$ W, 22-8 3/14 Colo. St. -Pueblo Provo + W, 2-1 KOVO 960 AM, with veteran broadcaster Brent Norton calling the play-by-play, 3/15 Colo. St. -Pueblo Provo + W, 7-5 will only broadcast BYU’s league games live. These broadcasts are also available 3/18 New Mexico * Albuquerque $ L, 5-6 on the Dish Network as well as over the Internet. Live stats are available for all 3/18 New Mexico * Albuquerque $ W, 19-6 home games. Links to the webcasts and audiocast are on the BYU baseball's sched- 3/19 New Mexico * Albuquerque % W, 4-3 (11 inn) ule page at www.byucougars.com. All of the BYU-AFA Saturday games will be on 3/22 Utah Valley St. Provo +% W, 13-10 KOVO, but only Saturday’s will be available via live audiostream. 3/24 Utah * Provo +% W, 6-5 Live on the Internet 3/26 Utah * Provo +% W, 7-2 3/26 Utah * Provo + W, 5-3 Livestats will be available free to all of BYU’s games this week through 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 5-12 links on www.byucougars.com 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 6-11 3/31 Air Force * Provo + W, 25-2 Taylor Receives Trio of National Honors 4/1 Air Force * Provo + W, 10-4 4/2 Air Force * Provo +% W, 18-5 Brandon Taylor received three national honors this past week: National Hitter of 4/4 Utah Valley St. Orem % W, 4-1 the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writer’s Association, the National 4/7 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 5-0 Student Athlete of the Week by CSTV and the College Baseball Foundation 4/8 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 11-9 National Honor Roll. 4/9 UNLV * Las Vegas +% L, 6-10 BYU Among Leaders in First Release of NCAA Statistics 4/12 Lewis-Clark St. Provo + W, 5-2 4/14 San Diego St. * Provo + L, 4-10 •Second in doubles with a 3.00 average 4/15 San Diego St. * Provo +# W, 13-12 •Second slugging with a .562 percentage. 4/16 San Diego St. * Provo +% W, 18-11 •Third nationally with a .346 batting average 4/18 Utah Valley St. Orem L, 4-7 •Sixth in home runs with a 1.48 average 4/21 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 10-8 4/22 Utah * Salt Lake City % L, 10-11 •Eighth in scoring at 8.9 runs per game 4/23 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 19-6 •25th in win-loss percentage at .713 4/26 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + L, 7-12 •27th in double plays per game at 1.10 4/27 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + W, 6-2 •Brandon Taylor is ranked sixth in RBI with an average of 1.5 4/28-29 Air Force * Colo. Springs 2,2 p.m. •Brandon Taylor 11th nationally in home runs per game, averaging .35 4/30 Air Force * Colo. Springs % 1 p.m. •Brandon Taylor 33rd nationally in slugging, averaging .701 5/2 Utah Valley St. Orem % 7 p.m. •Ben Saylor is ranked eighth in doubles per game with an average of 0.49 5/5-6 New Mexico * Provo + 7, 7 p.m. •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 20th in runs per game with an average of 1.31 5/7 New Mexico * Provo +% 1 p.m. •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 37th in doubles per game with an average of 0.41 5/12 UNLV * Provo + 7 p.m. 5/13 UNLV * Provo +# 7 p.m. 5/14 UNLV * Provo +% 1 p.m. Vance Law and staff 5/18-20 San Diego St.* San Diego +% 6, 6, 1 p.m. 5/25-28 MWC Tourney Salt Lake City % Vance Law played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six 6/17-27 Omaha, NE different teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year for the Mountain * MWC Games, %Internet Audio, +web cast #BYUTV West Conference. The 48-year-old coach is in his sixth year at BYU and has a 156-136-1 (.534) record coming into the 2005 season. He is assisted by Ryan www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Page 2

Baseball Scoring with Two Outs Roberts, in his third year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his sec- Opponent Runs w/2 out Result %Scored w/2out ond year with BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy. Volunteer UC Irvine 2 W, 5-0 40% assistant Andrew Zinniger is in his first year on the BYU staff. UC Irvine 0 L, 6-9 0% Team Notes San Jose St. 1 L, 4-5 25% San Jose St. 7 W, 13-5 54% • For the fourth week in a row BYU received votes in the four major polls, San Jose St. 2 T, 3-3 67% again in the NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association), but Oklahoma St. 3 L, 4-5 75% didn’t receive votes in the Sports Weekly/ESPN College Baseball Coaches Oklahoma St. 3 W, 9-8* 33% Poll, receiving 11 votes last week and one the week before. Oral Roberts 3 L, 5-6 60% • Add Ryan Chambers and Marcos Villezcas to the list of injured players. Oral Roberts 4 W, 6-2* 67% Chambers jammed his thumb sliding into third base in last Friday’s Oral Roberts 1 W, 7-4* 14% game at Utah and Villezcas jammed his thumb in game one at Northern UVSC 9 W, 15-8* 60% Colorado. Brandon Taylor was hit in pre-game batting practice in the N.Mexico St. 2 W, 5-3* 40% outfield by a San Diego State liner which required him to have 25 stitches N. Mexico St 3 W, 11-7* 27% two layers deep. Sean McNaughton is out for two-three weeks with a N. Mexico St. 15 W, 22-7* 68% broken thumb. Ben Saylor and Casey Nelson missed several games CSU-Pueblo 0 W, 2-1* 0% because of strep throat. Jeff Hiestand has been playing with an injured CSU-Pueblo 5 W, 7-5 71% hand. Lefty Patrick Wells has been absent from the mound since New Mexico 2 L, 5-6 40% February with an arm injury. New Mexico 11 W, 19-6* 58% • Sean McNaughton tied a league and school record by hitting two triples in New Mexico 2 W, 4-3* 50% the 18-5 victory over Air Force. Brandon Taylor got six consecutive hits in UVSC 1 W, 13-10* 8% the 19-6 victory at Utah to tie a school record for six hits in a game. Utah 5 W, 6-5* 83% • Jeff Hiestand leads the team hitting in 21 consecutive games, followed by Utah 4 W, 7-2* 57% Ben Saylor at 12 games and Marcos Villezcas at 10. Utah 0 W, 5-3* 0% • Ben Saylor’s 16-game hitting streak ended in a 9-6 loss to UC Irvine Feb18. Oregon St. 1 L, 5-12 20% • Ben Saylor’s 15-game hitting streak was the longest for BYU last season and Oregon St. 1 L, 6-11 17% Sean McNaughton’s 15-game hitting streak was the longest this season until Air Force 7 W, 25-2 28% Hiestand’s current streak. Air Force 5 W, 10-4* 50% • Marcos Villezcas leads the team with 20 multiple hit games, followed by Air Force 3 W, 18-5 17% Apana Nakayama with 19 and Sean McNaughton with 18 . Brandon Taylor UVSC 0 W, 4-1 0% leads the team with 14 multiple RBI games (McNaughton has 10). • Brandon Taylor led last year’s squad in multiple-hit games with 22. Ben UNLV 3 W, 5-0 60% Saylor Ryan Chambers Kory Knell UNLV 5 W, 11-9* 45% and each had 18 multiple-hit games, and had 16. Taylor led the team with nine three-hit games. UNLV 1 L, 6-10 17% • Game-winning RBI have been recorded this season by Kory Knellwith five, Lewis-Clark St.1 W, 5-2* 20% followed by Taylor 4; Saylor 4; Villezcas and Hiestand each with 3; San Diego St. 1 L, 4-10 25% Chambers, Cloward, Nakayama and Nelson each with two; and McNaughton San Diego St. 11 W, 13-12* 85% and Molina each with one. San Diego St. 6 W, 18-11* 33% • The Cougars were 4-2 in six extra-inning games last season with BYU’s longest UVSC 3 L, 4-7 75% extra-inning game ever being played on March 27, 2004 in a 17-inning win over Utah 0 W, 10-8 0% Utah. This season BYU is 1-1 in extra-inning contests. Utah 3 L, 10-11 30% Utah 2 W, 19-6 11% BYU Scoring With Two Outs No. Colo. 3 L, 7-12 43% The accompanying chart to the left shows BYU practices what Coach Vance No. Colo. 5 W, 6-2* 83% Law preaches, you can still score with two outs. BYU has won 20 of its 29 Totals: 144 369 total runs 39% games in come-from-behind fashion. Law also wanted to lead the nation in *Indicates come-from-behind victory doubles...see chart at the end of this release. BYU Quick Facts Last Years’ Average Attendance Highest Ever at Miller Field Location: Provo, Utah 84602 Enrollment: 33,278 (Daytime) Last year, in its fifth full season at Larry H. Miller Field, attendance barely Founded: Oct. 15, 1875, by The Church of Jesus missed the 100,000 milestone, falling 323 fans short. BYU averaged 1,630 Christ of Latter-day Saints fans per game last year in 15 dates, the highest average in Miller Park’s Colors: Navy, Tan and White five-year history. The Cougars have ranked nationally in attendance in all Nickname: Cougars four previous years at Miller Field. The park surpassed the 100,000-fan Mascot: Cosmo (the Cougar) milestone in the first home game of the 2005 season, at 100,662. Affiliation: NCAA Division I Attendance Ranks Nationally Conference: Mountain West Field: Larry H. Miller Field (2,300) Attendance at Larry H. Miller field ranked 35th nationally in 2004 with an aver- President: Cecil O. Samuelson age of 1,630 in 15 games and a total of 24,455 fans. The Cougars' entered this Men’s AD: Tom Holmoe season with a 51-21 (.708) record at Larry H. Miller Field. BYU drew its fifth- Ticket Office Phone: (801) 378-BYU1 or largest crowd ever in 2004 with 2,505 fans on April 16 against SDSU and its sev- 1-800-322-BYU1 enth-largest crowd with 2,293 fans in a game against UNLV on March 19. Fifth Full Year in New Ballpark at Home www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Page 3

Attendance at Larry H. Miller Field Date Opponent Attendance 3/22/03 UNLV 1,527 4/26/01 San Diego St. (Night) 1,059 5/11/01 UNLV (Night) 3,120 3/20/04 UNLV 1,504 4/17/04 SDSU 1,052 4/5/02 Utah (Night) 2,863 3/18/04 UNLV (Night) 1,494 5/8/04 New Mexico 1,042 4/6/02 Utah (Night) 2,611 5/22/04 Air Force 1,487 5/4/02 UNLV 1,040 5/2/03 Utah (Night) 2,512 5/22/04 Air Force — (DH) 4/28/01 San Diego St. 1,014 4/16/04 SDSU (Night) 2,505 3/23/02 SDSU, suspended 1,440 5/10/03 San Diego St. 1,007 5/25/02 SDSU 2,396 4/27/01 San Diego St. (Night) 1,398 3/8/05 Utah Valley St. 985 5/25/02 SDSU (Night) — (DH) 5/1/03 Utah (Night) 1,392 5/7/02 Southern Utah (Night) 948 4/15/05 SDSU (Night) 2,369 4/21/01 Utah 1,371 3/14/05 Colo. St.-Pueblo 947 3/19/04 UNLV (Night) 2,293 5/12/01 UNLV 1,318 5/2/02 UNLV (Night) 913 4/11/03 Air Force (Night) 2,274 5/10/01 UNLV (Night) 1,282 3/15/05 Colo. St.-Pueblo 880 4/4/02 Utah (Night) 2,251 4/12/03 Air Force 1,276 4/17/01 Southern Utah 862 4/30/04 Utah (Night) 2,201 4/20/01 Utah (Night) 1,274 4/16/01 Southern Utah 809 5/1/04 Utah (Night) 2,102 4/25/02 Air Force (Night) 1,258 5/9/03 San Diego St. 820 4/16/05 San Diego State 2,064 5/6/04 New Mexico (Night) 1,252 5/9/03 San Diego St. — (DH) 4/14/05 San Diego State (Night) 2,015 4/15/04 SDSU (Night) 1,247 4/12/05 Lewis-Clark St. 815 5/21/04 Air Force 1,986 5/18/02 New Mexico 1,229 3/24/05 Utah (Night) 771 5/21/04 Åir Force (Night) — (DH) 5/12/03 Southern Utah 1,219 4/7/03 Southern Utah 543 4/26/02 Air Force (Night) 1,964 4/17/03 New Mexico (Night) 1,216 3/22/05 Utah Valley St. (Night) 256 4/1/05 Air Force (Night) 1,862 3/31/05 Air Force (Night) 1,207 5/7/04 New Mexico (Night) 1,850 5/20/04 Air Force 1,202 Totals 117,325 (Avg. 1,524, 9 DH) 5/17/02 New Mexico (Night) 1,831 5/20/04 Air Force (Night) — (DH) All Nighttime 82,710 (Avg. 1,654) 4/2/05 Air Force (Night) 1,759 5/3/02 UNLV (Night) 1,189 3/22/02 SDSU (Night) 1,748 5/16/02 New Mexico (Night) 1,183 2005 17,648 (12 dates, 1 DH) (Avg. 1,471) 3/26/05 Utah 1,718 5/6/02 Southern Utah 1,178 2004 24,355 (15 dates, 3 DH) (Avg. 1,624) 3/26/05 Utah — (DH) 5/22/02 Air Force (Night) 1,177 2003 22,460(16 dates, 2 DH) (Avg. 1,404) 5/24/02 SDSU 1,713 3/21/02 SDSU (Night) 1,176 2002 31,275(20 dates, 2 DH) (Avg. 1,564) 5/24/02 UNLV (Night) — (DH) 5/23/02 UNLV (Night) 1,167 2001 17,378 (13 dates, 1 DH) (Avg. 1,337) 5/13/03 Southern Utah (Night) 1,711 4/13/01 New Mexico (Night) 1,143 4/19/03 New Mexico 1,668 4/29/04 Utah (Night) 1,138 Night record: 35-15 4/19/03 New Mexico — (DH) 4/14/01 New Mexico 1,119 Overall Record @ Miller Park: 64-22 4/19/01 Utah (Night) 1,609 4/14/01 New Mexico — (DH) Losses 4/10/03 Air Force (Night) 1,601 3/20/03 UNLV 1,092 3/21/03 UNLV (Night) 1,530 5/3/03 Utah 1,072

This is BYU’s fifth full season at Miller Field, named in honor of Larry H. and Gail Miller, who made a significant financial contribution toward the facility. The baseball field is built on the site the original field was constructed on in 1969 and is named Larry H. Miller Field. The baseball portion seats 2,204 (675 in the lower bowl) and mirrors a back-to-back concept with the adjoining softball field and a shared press box. Both fields have lights. The field measures 400 feet in center, 388 in the alleys and remains at 345 down the lines. BYU played its first night games in Provo with the opening of Miller Park. This Year’s Attendance BYU drew 6,448 for an average of 2,149 fans during the three-game SDSU series, including the seventh-best crowd, 2,369 in the four-plus-year history of Miller Park. Star Players Moving from Short to Third Becoming an Annual Event Last year, it was star Ranger Wiens making the switch from short to third to make room for young star Brandon Taylor to play short stop. Now, Taylor is coming off a memorable season and has been asked to make a similar move to third. Taylor’s move is to make room for newcomer Marcos Villezcas, a switch-hitting transfer from San Diego. BYU head coach Vance Law also transferred to third from shortstop in the major leagues. Father and Son BYU Coach Vance Law and his son Andrew are one of at least two father/son combinations that have a coach/player rela- tionship in college baseball. Kansas Coach and his son Ritchie is the other combination. Regarding BYU this season • Movie Night at Miller Park was April 5 (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. Fans watched the movie Field of Dreams on a 30-foot screen. This was the third annual Movie Night at Miller Park. • BYU has seven current players who are married (Michel Bergeron, Anthony Bingham, Casey Cloward, Tyler Heid, Dave Horlacher, Casey Nelson and Justin Su’a). • There are 16 players on the team who have served two-year volunteer Church missions, 14 of whom were assigned out- side the United States and speak seven languages (Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian, Thai, Tagalog and Russian). www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release P

Eagle Scouts on BYU’s Team (11) • Incorporated into this year’s team are three players who have just finished serv- Joshua Barrett RHP So. ing two-year Church missions (Thomas Bills, Matt Jensen and Apana Nakayama). Michel Bergeron RHP Sr. • Nine players transferred to BYU this season (Brandon Christiansen, Dave Casey Cloward C Sr. Horlacher, Matthew Jensen, Adrian Molina, Apana Nakayama, Casey Nelson, Seth Iorg OF Fr. James Platt, Marcos Villezcas and Mitch Woolf). Andrew Law 2B Fr. • Among those throwing batting practice to BYU again this season is former Cy Apana Nakayama C Jr. Young winner Vernon Law (1960 Pittsburgh Pirates), father of BYU head coach Vance Law. Vernon turned 75-years-old this past March, but recently had seven- James Platt RHP Jr. by-pass heart surgery and isn’t allowed to throw batting practice any more this Brandon Relf INF Fr. season. Ben Saylor 1B/OF Jr. • In January, Vance Law was in Washington, D.C., where he was again a resource Kevin Sloan SS/2B Fr. player (yearly for 13 of the past 14 years) for the major league rookie training. Also in January, Coach Law attended the Cubs Convention for the fourth time, an Brandon Taylor 3B Jr. annual gathering which draws thousands of fans. Miles Piling Up College Coaches Who Played In Majors Jerry Augustine Wisc-Milwaukee The Cougars will travel over 14,000 miles this season. With road trips to Scott Bradley Princeton Oregon (Oregon State) and Oklahoma (Oklahoma State and Oral Roberts) adding to the annual, early-season California trip, the baseball team will see a Jim Farr William & Mary lot of the inside of a bus. Prior to conference play, the Cougars will net 6,952 Rice miles. They will get a total of 9,782 miles traveling to non-conferences games. Tony Gwynn San Diego State Grades and graduation Keith Kessinger Arkansas State Several BYU baseball players have graduation in their sights, including Kory Knell, Vance Law BYU who leads the team with a 3.92 cumulative GPA and perfect 4.0 semesters in the Fall Steve Rodriguez Pepperdine of 2002, Winter of 2003 and Spring of 2004. He tutors others in accounting and Ed Sprague Pacific math. Current pitcher Michel Bergeron (humanities) graduated with his wife in John Stuper Yale mid-April as did former players Blair Lucas, Wade Vest, and Ranger Wiens. Kevin Bills, who played last year, will graduate in August along with former Cougar pitcher Curtis Rodriguez. Pronunciation Guide International Flavor Bryce Ayoso IGH-oh-soh Michel Bergeron MEE-shehl There are 17 foreign countries represented and seven foreign languages spoken on BURR-juh-rawn this year’s baseball team. The Cougars have 16 players who volunteered two years for Church missions. Fourteen of the 16 spent their mission service outside the Casey Cloward klOW-ahrd United States, including pitcher Joshua Barrett who served in three countries Jake Drzayich DRUH-zigh-itch (Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia). Since missionaries don’t play baseball while serving, Tyler Heid h-IGH-d the BYU players and coaches have spent time playing baseball outside U.S. include: Jeff Hiestand HEE-stand Bryce Ayoso Russia-2003 Summer Moscow-Utah Games Josh Barrett Canada-2004 Summer League Dave Horlacher h-OR-locker Michel Bergeron Canada-native Seth Iorg Rhymes with George, OAR-j Kory Knell Dominican Republic-2004 Summer League Kory Knell n-EL Justin Su’a Samoa-1998 Oceanic Games/Guam-1999 Summer Tourney Sean McNaughton mc-NAW-tuhn Marcos Villezcas Mexico-youth baseball games Adrian Molina Moh-LEE-nuh Coach Vance LawMontreal, Canada; Japan-Pro Baseball; Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico for Winter Ball Apana Nakayama UH-paw-nuh Two for One: Part One naw-kuh-YAW-muh Alec Reichle rich-LEE Ryan Chambers can do it all on a baseball field. Last season during a grueling six- Justin Su’a SOO-uh game, three-day series against Air Force head coach Vance Law asked Chambers to finish a game on the mound. The southpaw entered the game and promptly struck Marcos Villezcas vee-YES-kahs out the side, giving up no hits or walks. This year expect to see more of the athletic centerfielder on the mound. 2005 MWC Preseason Poll Chambers will be pulling double duty, adding a powerful bat, a reliable glove and a PL. Team (1st Votes)Points left-handed arm to his team. Chambers isn’t the only player ever to accomplish this 1. San Diego State (8) 78 feat. He will join a club of major league all-stars like Todd Helton, Tim Hudson, John Olerud and legend Dave Winfield that all were star pitchers and hitters during 2. New Mexico (4) 22 their college days. 3. UNLV (2) 61 Two for One: Part Two 4. BYU 49 5. Utah 27 One of three dates remain for BYU baseball playing at the same time as BYU soft- ball. Because of the unique layout of BYU Miller Park, fans are able to see both the 6. Air Force 15 softball game at Gail Miller Field and the baseball game at Larry H. Miller field. Below are listed the coinciding dates and times for the two sports. Individual game priceswww.byucougars.com are $5 for General Admission, $4 for students and faculty and $2 for groups BYU Baseball Release Page 5

Boyd’s World Top 20 Poll larger than 15 people. April 24, 2005 Baseball Date Softball PL.Team (Last Week) ISR W L SDSU, 7 p.m. April 15 CSU 5 & 7 p.m. 1-Texas 125.9 35 7 SDSU, 1 p.m. April 16 UNM 2 & 4 p.m. UNM, 7 p.m. May 6 Florida State 5 & 7 p.m. 2-Oregon State 125.7 30 7 They Said It 3-Tulane 124.3 35 7 4-Cal State Fullerton 124.0 30 11 • UC Irvine Coach Dave Serrano, whose No. 19 Anteaters were upset 5-1 by 5-Southern California 124.0 26 12 BYU, said. "My compliments to BYU, they did to us what we have been 6-Long Beach State 121.0 29 14 doing to others. We didn't know that much about (them) coming in. We have 7-Arizona State 120.3 28 15 a lot of respect (for them)." 8-Stanford 120.1 24 14 • San Jose State Coach said he was disappointed his team couldn't 9-Pepperdine 119.7 26 14 take two out of three against BYU: “When you play at home, you expect to win the series - I don’t care who you play. If the Yankees came in here, we 10-Florida 118.7 30 10 feel we should beat the Yankees too, because that’s the way we feel about the 11-Baylor 118.6 27 16 home field.” 12-Miami, Fla. 118.3 31 10 • Former Oklahoma State and New Mexico State head coach Gary Ward, who 13-LSU 118.1 29 13 currently is OSU’s radio color analyst, on BYU’s Jeff Hiestand: “He’s built 14-Arkansas 118.0 31 11 like and swings like Rusty Staub, with a good, short, quick bat.” 15-Arizona 117.9 27 14 • Utah Valley State College Coach Steve Gardner on his former player: 16-Louisiana-Lafayette 117.9 35 8 “(Apana) Nakayama’s gonna hurt somebody he’s so big and strong. I always 17-Mississippi 117.8 27 13 thought that you put a bat in his hands, it’'s a lethal weapon.” • Two coaches commenting on pitcher Mitch Woolf’s complete game, 2-1 victo- 18-San Francisco 117.5 30 12 ry over Colorado State-Pueblo: “Woolf did a good job against us,” said CSU 19-Nebraska 117.4 34 8 Coach Stan Sanchez. “He found the curve and kept mixing pitches. We tried 20-Georgia Tech 117.2 30 10 to stay on pitches but couldn’t. He had a really, really tough curve." BYU 21-UC Irvine 117.0 21 16 Coach Vance Law said, “This is what we’ve seen from him in practice. He’s *49-Brigham Young (37) 112.22 25 11 got a nasty, nasty curve ball. He’s got as good a curve ball as you’ll see in col- 55-Oklahoma State 111.0 29 16 lege baseball. When you have command of a couple of pitches it keeps the 67-Oral Roberts 108.6 19 15 hitters off balance." 83-San Jose State 106.2 19 18 • “McNaughton (Sean) has got to get some national attention for a freshman,” said BYU Coach Vance Law after the first home league game. “He’s explo- 87-UNLV 105.8 20 22 sive, strong and has a very compact swing. He is a little cocky, but he has a 105-New Mexico State 103.8 19 17 lot of confidence.” 130-San Diego State 101.6 15 24 • Oregon State Coach said: "That's a club (BYU) that's going to prob- 134-New Mexico 101.3 19 21 ably win their conference and play in a regional and probably have 35 wins. 180-Northern Colorado 96.5 14 26 They came in here 17-5-1 and we talked to some people who said they were a 190-Utah 94.4 11 24 very good club, and they are." 205-Utah Valley State 92.3 15 29 • “We have a very good offensive ball club. I’m not afraid to face any pitching 278-Air Force 79.1 5 32 staff with our hitters,” said BYU Coach Vance Law. • “To me, BYU is the most balanced team in the league after we have played *BYU’s highest ranking was 14th on Mar. 22 everybody one time through,” said Utah Coach Bill Kinneberg. Their offense, The Iterative Strength Ratings (ISR's) are the defense and starting pitching are why they are leading the league at this author's best attempt at an objective rating system point. We’ll have to pitch well, because they can really swing the bats. They which covers all Division I teams. More information are awfully good.” about the rating system -- including past results so • “He's (Taylor) the catalyst, the anchor of our lineup. He's done it all year for that you can get a feel for how accurate they are, a us,” Coach Vance Law said. “(Hitting for the cycle) was an accomplishment. I technical description of the methods used, and infor- played a lot of years and never had one.” mation about the author -- can be found on the Boyd's World Web site at http://www.boydsworld.com. Records listed are those against Division I competition only. 2005 MWC Standings as of 4/27 MWC Overall W-L GB W-L BYU 14-4 - 29-12-1 UNLV 14-4 - 20-23 SDSU* 11-7 3 17-25 UNM 9-9 5 19-23 Utah 6-12 7 14-24 AFA* 0-18 11 5-34 *includes two forfeited games www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Page 6

Cougars on Missions (6) Player Profiles Player, Pos., Year @ BYU Place of Service Brandon Taylor Clayton Barnes, LHP, 2003 Mexico City West Blake Crosby, INF, 2003 Orlando, Fla. Has hit grand slams in 2004 at New Mexico State, vs. San Chris Johnson, SS, 2003 Everett, Wash. Diego State and two at Utah. One of three Cougars named Leon Johnson, OF, 2004 Siberia to the 2004 All-Mountain West Conference baseball team. Mike Kessler, OF, 2004 Brazil Named MWC Co-Player of the Week for his performance against New Mexico State and UVSC. Taylor hit two solo J.D. Stambaugh, LHP, 2004 Pocatello, Idaho home runs in an 11-10 win over Santa Clara last year. He had a clutch double that drove in Wade Vest in the 11th Missions Served (16, 7 languages*) inning for a 7-6 victory over San Diego State last year. Player, Pos., Year @ BYU Place of Service Taylor earned MWC Player of the Week honors after going Joshua Barrett, LHP, So. Lithuania (Russian) 9-for-15 in a three game series against New Mexico on May Thomas Bills, 1B, Fr. Montreal (French) 6-8, 2004; he homered three times and netted 10 RBI. Taylor had a career high of six RBI to help beat New Mexico 12-4 on May 7 of last year. He Anthony Bingham, RHP, So. Chile (Spanish) led the team with 14 home runs, 22 multi-hit games, nine three-hit games, 17 multi- Casey Cloward, C, Sr. Mexico (Spanish) RBI games, 236 at bats, 73 hits, 15 doubles, 136 total bases and 54 RBI. Tyler Heid, RHP, Jr. Japan (Japanese) Jeff Hiestand, 1B, Jr. Denver, Colo. Year Avg G-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB-SBA Dave Horlacher, RHP, Jr. Chile (Spanish) 2001* .340 52-52 188 40 64 18 1 1 34 87 16 16 7-9 Seth Iorg, OF, Fr. Ukraine (Russian) 2004 .309 57-57236 45 73 15 3 14 54 136 11 46 7-9 Matthew Jensen, RHP, So. Thailand (Thai) 2005 .354 40-40 164 41 58 11 2 14 60 115 15 29 6-8 Kory Knell, Infield,1B, Sr. Illinois * At Utah Valley State College Apana Nakayama, C, Jr. Japan (Japanese) Kamron Nelson, RHP, Jr. Italy (Italian) Sean McNaughton James Platt, RHP, Jr. Russia (Russian) Ben Saylor, OF, Jr. Philippines (Tagalog) Named to Baseball America’s Midseason Freshman All- Justin Su’a, RHP, Jr. Nicaragua (Spanish) America team. Turning lots of heads as a standout freshman Brandon Taylor, 3B, Jr. Argentina (Spanish) from Washington and BYU’s leadoff batter. tied a league and school record by hitting two triples in the 18-5 victory over Air Force. He hit three doubles in game two at New *Molina & Villezcas also speak fluent Spanish & Mexico State, tying his older brother Troy who went on the Bergeron speaks fluent French play AAA ball after BYU. McNaughton also hit a pair of homers in game two at New Mexico State. He hit a leadoff Married Players (7) Wife homer in the first inning in game one against Utah Valley Michel Bergeron, RHP, Sr. Penelope Grebe State. In game one at New Mexico he put BYU on the scoreboard with a two-run homer and tried to extend his triple in the ninth to an inside the park homer. He is Anthony Bingham, RHP, Jr. Desirae Hadfield one of BYU’s fastest baserunners and has incredible bat speed. Casey Cloward, C, Sr. Amberlee Searle Year Avg G-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB-SBA Tyler Heid, RHP, Jr. Ashley Sheffield 2005 .346 36-36 156 36 54 14 4 10 37 106 10 28 4-5 Dave Horlacher, RHP, Jr. Ashley Weaver Casey Nelson, C, Jr. Wendi Wilson Justin Su’a, RHP, Jr. Melissa Sanchez Ryan Chambers Chambers was named to the 2005 preseason national Top Pitching Outings of 2005 Wallace Watch list. Following his performance in March Hits Pitcher Opponent, W-L against Colorado State-Pueblo and New Mexico, he was 4* Dave Horlacher @ UNLV, W 5-0 named MWC Player of the Week. Last year, he was named 4+ Patrick Wells San Jose St., W 13-5 MWC Player of the Week for his performance at the 5* Mitch Woolf CSU-Pueblo, W 2-1 Pepsi/Johnny Quik Classic at Fresno in mid-March. He *complete game, +6 innings broke a 14-year-old record by blasting four triples. Chambers made his pitching debut striking out the side against Air Force, leaving him with an ERA of 0.00 and 27 Top Pitching Outings of 2005 strikeouts per nine innings. His sophomore season, K’s Pitcher Opponent, W-L Chambers led the team with 10 home runs in conference play, ending the season 13= Matt Jensen (6 inn) Lewis-Clark St., W 5-2 tied for first with 11. He led the MWC in total bases for league games only and was 10 Matt Jensen (6 inn) CSU-Pueblo, W 7-5 second with a of .714. 10 Dave Horlacher (8+) @ N.Mexico, 5-6 8* Dave Horlacher (8 inn) Oral Roberts, L 5-6 Year Avg G-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB-SBA 2002 .291 39-30 110 18 32 9 2 2 19 51 13 18 6-6 *complete game 2003 .327 52-50 199 43 65 7 5 11 51 115 19 30 1-6 =Justin Su’a also had 5 strikeouts that game 2004 .290 55-53 224 52 65 12 6 4 41 101 25 40 8-9 2005 .328 37-35 137 31 45 13 1 7 26 81 12 28 2-3 www.byucougars.com

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• Bryce Ayoso—brother, Jared, played baseball for two years at Utah Valley State College. • Michel Bergeron—father, Richard Bergeron, was a running back for the Royal Military Naval Academy. • Lance Beus—cousin Caroline Beus played women’s basketball for BYU (1998-2000), cousin Dan Beus played basketball for Southern Utah University, grandmother is a cousin to former major league pitcher and Cy Young Award winner Vernon Law, the father of BYU coach Vance Law. • Thomas Bills—father, Jeff Bills, played for BYU from 1972-75, grandfather Karol Bills played football and baseball in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Brother Kevin Bills finished his eligibility last season for BYU. • Casey Cloward—father, Rod Cloward, played for BYU baseball from 1969-72. Wife, Amberlee Searle Cloward, is the sister of former BYU pitcher Bryce Searle. • Jake Drzayich—father, Emil, is a coach at Eagle (Idaho) High and played baseball in the Cincinnati Reds organization. • Tyler Heid—father, Edward Heid, is a scout for Seattle Mariners, uncle David Heid played baseball for BYU. Younger brother Trevor Heid played at Dixie College and signed with BYU baseball in November, 2003, but was drafted and signed in 2004 by the Seattle Mariners. • Dave Horlacher—father, Russ, played baseball and football at Dixie College and grandfather, Robert Horlacher coached at Dixie College and played football at Utah State. • Seth Iorg—father, , played 10 years in the major leagues with the Phillies, Cardinals, Royals and Padres and won two World Series rings with the Cardinals and Royals. Uncle Garth Iorg played nine years in the major leagues with the . Uncle Lee Iorg and cousin Isaac Iorg also played baseball at BYU. Isaac was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 2001 and now plays in the Atlanta Braves organization. Dane (1969- 71) and Lee (1971-74) are members of the BYU Hall of Fame and were All- Americans at BYU. Cousin Eli Iorg is a junior outfielder at the University of Tennessee after playing his freshman year at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. Cousin , is a fresman with Alabama. • Matt Jensen—sister, Rachel, swam for BYU and brother, Michael, played football at Snow College. • Andrew Law—father, Vance, played and is the current head coach at BYU. Brother, Tim, played baseball for BYU for three years. Grandfather, Vernon, was the 1960 Cy Young award winner for the Pittsburg Pirates. Uncles also played baseball at BYU. Head Coach Vance Law, left, with his • Vance Law, head BYU coach—father, Vernon Law, was 1960 Cy Young father Vernon (1960 Cy Young Winner). winner and was a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1950-67), brother Veryl Vernon, now 75, had been throwing Law played basketball at BYU (1974-77) alongside Vance (1975-77), brothers batting practice for BYU until he Veldon Law (1975) and Vaughn Law (1979) played baseball for BYU, son Tim Law played baseball at Dixie in 1998, and at BYU in 2001, 2003-2004. Son underwent seven-bypass heart surgery Andrew Law signed with BYU baseball last November. last month. • Sean McNaughton—brother, Troy, played baseball at BYU and was draft- ed by the St. Louis Cardinals and also played for the Philadelphia Phillies. • Kam Nelson—late father, Dave, pitched for BYU and was the baseball coach and athletic director at UVSC. Uncles, Kim (baseball coach at Timpanogos High) and Clyde played baseball for BYU. Brother, D.G. played baseball for BYU and is now coach at Salt Lake Community College. Brother, Mac, plays at SLCC. • Ryan Roberts, assistant BYU coach—wife, Angela Roberts, played volleyball at Idaho State and UVSC, sister Allison Roberts plays volleyball at the Univ. of Houston, uncle Larry Schenk played baseball for BYU in 1959. • Justin Su’a—father, Murphy Su’a, is a former BYU All-American (1978-79) and is the hitting coach at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Sophomore sister Tasha competes in the weight events for BYU’s track team. • Brandon Taylor—grandpa Robert Taylor played quarterback at Ricks College, uncle Val Taylor played football at BYU. • Blake Torgerson—father, Dave, played for BYU in 1975. • Andy Zinniger, volunteer BYU coach—father played baseball at BYU from 1968-69 and played for the San Diego Padres organization.

www.byucougars.com BYU BASEBALL NEWS Schedule/Roster 2005 ROSTER No.Player Pos. Ht. Wt. B-T Yr. Hometown 1 Adrian Molina OF 6-0 170 R-R Jr.-TR San Diego, Calif. (Southwestern College) 3 *Brandon Taylor 3B 6-2 190 R-R Jr.-1V Orem (UVSC) 4 *Patrick Wells LHP 6-0 180 B-L Sr.-1V West Jordan (CEU) 5 Bryce Ayoso C 5-10 185 R-R Fr.-HS Provo (Provo) 6 Andrew Law 2B 6-1 175 R-R Fr.-HS Provo (Provo) 7 James Platt RHP 6-3 200 R-R Jr.-TR Cedar City (Dixie College) 8 Casey Nelson C 5-9 185 R-R Jr.-TR Spanish Fork (Salt Lake CC) 9 ***Casey Cloward C 5-11 180 R-R Sr.-3V Salem (Spanish Fork) 10 Marcos Villezcas INF 5-11 175 S-R Jr.-TR San Diego, Calif. (Southwestern College) 11 Dave Horlacher RHP 6-3 180 R-R Jr.-TR St. George (Dixie College) 12 $*Kory Knell OF 6-0 190 R-R Sr.-1V Salt Lake City (Saddleback CC) 13 Kevin Sloan SS/2B 6-2 180 R-R Fr.-HS Kansas City, Missouri (Park Hill South) 14 *Lance Beus LHP 6-0 180 L-L Sr.-1V Meridian, Idaho (Cochise CC) 15 Sean McNaughton 2B 5-8 170 R-R Fr.-HS Lakewood, Washington (Curtis) 16 **Jeff Hiestand 1B 5-11 215 L-R Jr.-2V Chino, California (Chino) 17 **Tyler Heid RHP 6-2 175 R-R Jr.-2V Glendale, Arizona (Cactus) 18 Mitch Woolf RHP 6-3 215 R-R Jr.-TR Rexburg, Idaho (College Southern Idaho) 19 Seth Iorg OF 6-0 175 R-R Fr.-RS Pleasant Grove (Pleasant Grove) 21 Matthew Jensen RHP 6-2 185 R-R So.-TR Alpine (Utah Valley State) 22 ***Ryan Chambers OF/P 6-0 165 L-L Sr.-3V Yucaipa, California (Yucaipa) 23 *Joshua Barrett RHP 6-1 170 R-R So.-1V Pleasant View (Arizona St.) 24 Apana Nakayama C 5-10 190 L-R Jr.-TR Kaunakakai,Hawai`i (UVSC/Molokai) 25 *Ben Saylor 1B/OF 6-4 215 L-R Jr.-1V Sandy (Hillcrest) 26 Brandon Relf INF 5-10 180 R-R Fr.-HS Sandy, Utah (Alta) 27 **Justin Su’a RHP 6-3 183 R-R Jr.-2V Torrance, California (West) 28 *Anthony Bingham RHP 6-2 195 R-R Jr.-1V Mission Viejo, California (Capistrano Valley) 30 $*Michel Bergeron RHP 6-2 195 L-R Sr.-1V Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (St. Petersburg JC) 31 Brandon Christiansen RHP 6-2 225 R-R Jr.-TR West Jordan (College Southern Idaho) 32 Blake Torgerson RHP 6-4 190 R-R Fr.-HS Westminster, CA (Westminster)

Lost (14) 11 ****Kevin Bills 3B/OF 6-2 175 R-R Sr.-3V Reno, Nevada (Reno) 33 *Bryce Burger RHP 6-6 230 R-R Sr.-JC Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (UVSC) 10 *Brad Hales INF 5-10 165 S-R So.-1V Salem, Utah (Spanish Fork) 18 *Nathan Hess RHP 6-5 200 R-R Sr.-1V Preston, Idaho (SLCC) 15****Paul Jacinto RHP 6-0 190 R-R Sr.-3V Encinitas, California (LaCosta) 1 ***Tim Law 1B/OF 5-10 180 L-L Sr.-2V Provo, Utah (Dixie JC) 14 *Nick Lemon RHP 6-2 190 R-R Jr.-JC Elk Grove, California (Consumes River) 6 **Blair Lucas INF 5-10 210 R-R Sr.-1V Lake Forest, California (Saddleback CC) 13 *Kalen Parsons RHP 6-3 210 R-R Jr.-JC Green River, Utah (CEU) 26 **Bryce Searle RHP 6-3 215 R-R Jr.-2V Spanish Fork (Spanish Fork) 32 *J.D. Stambaugh LHP 6-2 210 L-L So.-1V Collierville, Tenn. (Collierville) 5 **Wade Vest 2B 5-9 160 R-R Sr.-1V Spanish Fork, Utah (Utah Valley St.) 8 ***Ranger Wiens SS 6-3 200 R-R Sr.-2V Merced, California (Nevada) 24Coaches **Adam Wilkes C 5-9 165 R-R Sr.-2V Tucson, Arizona (Sabino) 2—Vance Law, Head Coach, 29—Ryan Roberts, Assistant Coach, 34-Bobby Applegate, Pitching Coach, 37-Volunteer Coach Andy Zinniger. * Letters $Co-captains

BYU’s Longest Extra Innings 2004 @ Utah (17 inn) W 5-4 2004 San Diego St. (11 inn) W 7-6 1983 @ Utah (15 inn) W 12-9 2004 UNLV (11 inn) L 9-12 2002 @ UC-Irvine (14 inn) W 10-7 2000 @ San Diego St. (11 inn) W 7-6 1993 Washington# (14 inn) W 7-6 1984 No. Colorado (11 inn) W 10-9 1994 @ Utah (13 inn) L 3-4 # Coyote Classic, San Bernardino, Calif. 1984 San Diego St.% (13 inn) W 5-3 % Riverside Baseball Invit., Calif. 2005 @ N.Mexico (11 inn) W 4-3

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2005 Current BYU Baseball Statistics

Record: 29-12-1 Home: 13-1 Away: 16-11-1 MWC: 14-4

Player AVG GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB ATT PO A E FLD% LAW, Andrew .394 18 5 33 7 13 1 1 0 6 16 .485 3 3 6 1 .487 0 0 0 0 20 30 3 .943 HIESTAND, Jeff .385 34 34 130 44 50 13 1 7 29 86 .662 19 8 30 2 .484 2 1 1 2 316 21 4 .988 SLOAN, Kevin .385 13 1 13 5 5 1 0 0 3 6 .462 1 0 4 0 .400 1 0 1 1 4 6 0 1.000 VILLEZCAS, Marc.361 41 41 169 36 61 9 2 2 36 80 .473 10 1 19 4 .385 7 3 1 1 54 112 10 .943 NAKAYAMA, Apa .357 42 42 185 43 66 13 2 7 37 104 .562 16 1 13 7 .407 2 0 1 1 25 2 3 .900 MOLINA, Adrian .354 34 23 96 23 34 8 0 1 19 45 .469 8 7 12 3 .430 3 1 3 3 51 2 2 .964 TAYLOR, Brandon .347 42 42 173 42 60 11 2 14 60 117 .676 16 3 31 5 .405 3 0 7 9 25 100 8 .940 McNAUGHTON, S.346 36 36 156 36 54 14 4 10 37 106 .679 10 2 28 2 .391 1 0 4 5 67 95 13 .926 SAYLOR, Ben .338 37 37 157 35 53 17 0 5 29 85 .541 8 2 37 3 .375 1 0 2 2 90 4 1 .989 IORG, Seth .333 5 0 6 2 2 0 0 1 2 5 .833 0 1 2 0 .429 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1.000 KNELL, Kory .331 38 36 130 34 43 8 1 5 33 68 .523 19 6 26 2 .430 3 2 6 11 69 3 2 .973 CHAMBERS, Rya .328 37 35 137 31 45 13 1 7 26 81 .591 12 1 28 3 .382 2 3 2 3 65 0 4 .942 NELSON, Casey .311 25 22 74 12 23 3 0 1 15 29 .392 5 1 10 2 .345 4 3 0 0 144 16 2 .988 CLOWARD, Case .306 27 18 72 14 22 6 1 0 16 30 .417 6 0 13 2 .350 2 0 1 3 123 13 1 .993 RELF, Brandon .304 11 2 23 3 7 2 0 1 2 12 .522 1 0 5 0 .333 0 0 0 0 10 13 3 .885 AYOSO, Bryce .214 12 4 28 2 6 1 0 0 1 7 .250 2 1 10 0 .290 0 0 0 0 24 3 1 .964 JENSEN, Matthe .000 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 0 .000 0 0 0 0 1 5 2 .750

Totals .344 42 42 1583 369 544120 15 61 351 877 .554 136 37 275 36 .401 31 13 29 41 1116 485 64 .962 Opponents .286 42 42 1476 250 422 78 8 38 222 630 .427 131 45 275 41 .359 16 19 30 44 1106 448 59 .963 LOB - Team (326), Opp (323). DPs turned - Team (48), Opp (42). CI - Team (2), NELSON 1, CLOWARD 1, Opp (1). IBB - Team (6), TAYLOR 2, NAKAYAMA 2, MOLINA 1, HIESTAND 1, Opp (1). Picked off - CLOWARD 3, TAYLOR 2, VILLEZCAS 1, McNAUGHTON 1, KNELL 1, NELSON 1.

Player ERA W L APP GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR ABB/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA

CHAMBERS, Ryan 0.00 0 1 8 0 0 0 0 2 8.0 5 0 0 7 14 0 0 0 29 .172 0 0 0 0 0 HEID, Tyler 0.00 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 8 .250 0 1 0 0 0 JENSEN, Matthew 3.82 5 1 10 3 0 0 0 0 33.0 34 18 14 14 34 6 1 3 122 .279 1 3 0 4 2 HORLACHER, Dave 3.84 4 2 10 10 2 1 0 0 61.0 64 28 26 18 58 14 0 8 236 .271 4 7 0 2 2 BARRETT, Joshua 4.34 2 0 14 0 0 0 0 2 29.0 30 17 14 7 19 3 2 2 109 .275 2 3 0 1 2 PLATT, James 4.46 3 1 14 2 0 0 0 3 40.1 49 22 20 8 22 9 0 4 158 .310 0 3 1 1 4 CHRISTIANSEN,Brandon4.58 3 0 9 9 1 0 0 0 53.0 62 36 27 17 36 11 3 5 213 .291 3 6 2 2 1 SU'A, Justin 4.60 4 1 15 1 0 0 0 2 29.1 35 21 15 7 27 5 1 3 121 .289 4 4 1 2 1 WELLS, Patrick 5.23 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 10.1 12 9 6 3 6 4 1 1 44 .273 0 2 0 1 0 TORGERSON, Blake 5.77 5 2 10 9 0 0 0 0 53.0 64 43 34 8 16 12 0 7 217 .295 2 4 3 1 3 BEUS, Lance 6.91 1 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 14.1 17 14 11 13 9 5 0 2 58 .293 1 1 0 1 1 BINGHAM, Anthony 7.00 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 9.0 14 10 7 7 10 2 0 0 42 .333 1 1 1 0 1 WOOLF, Mitch 8.00 1 3 8 6 1 0 0 0 27.0 32 29 24 17 22 6 0 3 109 .294 7 9 0 1 2 BERGERON, Michel 10.12 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 2 3 3 4 2 1 0 0 10 .200 0 1 0 0 0

Totals 4.86 29 12 42 42 4 1 0 9 372.0 422 250 201 131 275 78 8 38 1476 .286 25 45 8 16 19 Opponents 7.62 12 29 42 42 4 0 0 2 368.2 544 369 312136 275 120 15 61 1583 .344 31 37 5 31 13

PB - Team (5), NELSON 2, AYOSO 2, CLOWARD 1, Opp (9). Pickoffs - Team (3), BARRETT 1, HORLACHER 1, NELSON 1, Opp (9). SBA/ATT - NELSON (15-21), CLOWARD (11-19), HORLACHER (7-10), CHRISTIANSEN (2-7), SU'A (5-6), AYOSO (4-4), PLATT (3-4), JENSEN (2-3), TORGERSON (2-3), BEUS (2-3), BARRETT (3-3), BINGHAM (2-2), WOOLF (1-2), BERGERON (1-1). www.byucougars.com

2005 BYU Baseball Results

Date Opponent W/L Score Site Rec. Div-Rec. Pitcher Opp. Pitcher Line Opp. Line Att. 2/17 @ UC Irvine W 5-1 A 1-0 0-0 Horlacher Nicoll 5-12-1 1-4-1 307 2/18 @ UC Irvine L 6-9 A 1-1 0-0 Wells Cassel 6-18-2 9-14-1 468 2/25 @ San Jose St.(10 Inn) L 4-5 A 1-2 0-0 Chambers Kilby 4-8-4 5-10-1 412 2/25 @ San Jose St. W 13-5 A 2-2 0-0 Wells Hennessey 13-14-2 5-5-2 — 2/26 @ San Jose St. T 3-3 A 2-2-1 0-0 Chambers Kilby 3-8-1 3-9-2 331 3/1 @ Oklahoma St. L 4-5 A 2-3-1 0-0 Torgerson Wright 4-8-2 5-8-0 307 3/2 @ Oklahoma St. W 9-8 A 3-3-1 0-0 Jensen Kronkosky 9-10-3 8-5-0 872 3/3 @ Oral Roberts L 5-6 A 3-4-1 0-0 Horlacher Hancock 5-9-0 6-10-0 312 3/4 @ Oral Roberts W 6-2 A 4-4-1 0-0 Christiansen McIntyre 6-12-0 2-8-2 512 3/5 @ Oral Roberts W 7-4 A 5-4-1 0-0 Torgerson Jones 7-10-0 4-9-1 488 3/8 Utah Valley St. W 15-8 H 6-4-1 0-0 Jensen Jensen 15-18-0 8-15-1 985 3/10 @ New Mexico St. W 5-3 A 7-4-1 0-0 Platt Cameron 5-10-1 3-5-3 183 3/11 @ New Mexico St. W 11-7 A 8-4-1 0-0 Barrett Hampel 11-12-1 7-11-3 213 3/12 @ New Mexico St. W 22-8 A 9-4-1 0-0 Torgerson Robinson 22-23-3 8-12-1 490 3/14 Colorado St.-Pueblo W 2-1 H 10-4-1 0-0 Woolf Williams 2-4-0 1-5-2 947 3/15 Colorado St.-Pueblo W 7-5 H 11-4-1 0-0 Jensen Bisel 7-13-2 5-9-0 880 3/18 @ New Mexico L 5-6 A 11-5-1 0-1 Platt Smith 5-12-0 6-14-0 795 3/18 @ New Mexico W 19-6 A 12-5-1 1-1 Su’a Gaarder 19-20-1 6-12-2 — 3/19 @ New Mexico(11 Inn) W 4-3 A 13-5-1 2-1 Barrett Smith 4-15-1 3-10-1 1558 3/22 Utah Valley St. W 13-10 H 14-5-1 2-1 Jensen Jensen 13-15-3 10-10-3 256 3/24 Utah W 6-5 H 15-5-1 3-1 Su’a Price 6-10-3 5-13-1 771 3/26 Utah W 7-2 H 16-5-1 4-1 Christiansen Crockett 7-15-2 2-7-0 1718 3/26 Utah W 5-3 H 17-5-1 5-1 Torgerson Lane 5-10-0 3-8-1 — 3/29 @ Oregon St. L 5-12 A 17-6-1 5-1 Woolf Nickerson 5-10-2 12-10-2 248 3/29 @ Oregon St. L 6-11 A 17-7-1 5-1 Su’a Turpen 6-9-3 11-16-1 263 3/31 Air Force Academy W 25-2 H 18-7-1 6-1 Horlacher Brown 25-22-2 2-8-4 1207 4/1 Air Force Academy W 10-4 H 19-7-1 7-1 Christiansen Pratt 10-13-2 4-7-2 1862 4/2 Air Force Academy W 18-5 H 20-7-1 8-1 Torgerson Meyers 18-19-1 5-9-2 1759 4/4 @ Utah Valley St. W 4-1 A 21-7-1 8-1 Platt Mickolio 4-10-0 1-7-1 438 4/7 @ UNLV W 5-0 A 22-7-1 9-1 Horlacher Luca 5-8-1 0-4-0 253 4/8 @ UNLV W 11-9 A 23-7-1 10-1 Su’a Huseman 11-17-3 9-11-0 498 4/9 @ UNLV L 6-10 A 23-8-1 10-2 Torgerson Rodriguez 6-13-3 10-12-2 351 4/12 Lewis-Clark St. W 5-2 H 24-8-1 10-2 Su’a Wright 5-10-2 2-9-4 815 4/14 San Diego State L 4-10 H 24-9-1 10-3 Horlacher Hinton 4-6-0 10-17-3 2015 4/15 San Diego State W 13-12 H 25-9-1 11-3 Beus Esquibel 13-14-4 12-15-3 2369 4/16 San Diego State W 18-11 H 26-9-1 12-3 Jensen Bruckart 18-21-1 11-10-4 2064 4/18 @ Utah Valley St. L 4-7 A 26-10-1 12-3 Woolf Tash 4-13-2 7-12-1 739 4/21 @ Utah W 10-8 A 27-10-1 13-3 Horlacher Price 10-14-1 8-12-0 357 4/22 @ Utah L 10-11 A 27-11-1 13-4 Jensen Lane 10-13-3 11-16-1 732 4/23 @ Utah W 19-6 A 28-11-1 14-4 Torgerson Freed 19-24-2 6-9-0 556 4/26 @ Northern Colorado L 7-12 A 28-12-1 14-4 Woolf Allen 7-14-1 12-14-1 196 4/27 @ Northern Colorado W 6-2 A 29-12-1 14-4 Platt Pearson 6-8-0 2-11-0 198 Honors for 2005 Josh Barrett, Pitcher Dave Horlacher, Pitcher Ben Saylor, Outfield, First Base MWC Pitcher of the Week vs. UNM MWC Pitcher of the Week vs. UNLV Preseason All-MWC Cougar Scholar-Athlete Seth Iorg, Outfield Baseball America: Thomas Bills, First Base Preseason All-Conference Cougar Scholar-Athlete Kevin Sloan, Third Base Cougar Scholar-Athlete Kory Knell, Outfield Ryan Chambers, Outfield Cougar Scholar-Athlete Preseason All-MWC Justin Su’a, Pitcher MWC Player of the Week vs. UNM Cougar Club Memorial Award Wallace Watch List Cougar Scholar-Athlete Cougar Scholar-Athlete Baseball America: Nominated NCAA Post-Graduate Brandon Taylor, Shortstop Preseason All-Conference Scholar Best Athlete Nominated CoSida Academic All- National Hitter of the Week (NCBWA) Best Baserunner America vs. Utah Best Defensive Outfielder Andrew Law, Second Base CSTV NationalStudent-Athletes of the Brandon Christiansen, Pitcher Week (April 24) Cougar Scholar-Athlete College Baseball Foundation National MWC Pitcher of the Week vs. Utah Sean McNaughton, Second Base Honor Roll (April 26) Casey Cloward, Catcher MWC Co-Player of the Week vs.NM St. Baseball America: Preseason All-MWC Baseball America: Midseason Freshman All-America Baseball America: Best Throwing Catcher James Platt, Pitcher Preseason All-Conference Cougar Scholar-Athlete Fourth best ‘05-’06 Draft Nominated CoSida Academic All- MWC Pitcher of the Week vs.UC Irvine Prospect in MWC America Cougar Scholar-Athlete Cougar Scholar-Athlete Tyler Heid, Pitcher Brandon Romney, Pitcher KSL Subway Sub of the Week vs. SDSU Blake Torgerson, Pitcher Cougar Scholar-Athlete Cougar Scholar-Athlete Jeff Hiestand, First Base Cougar Scholar-Athlete Mitch Woolf, Pitcher MWC Player of the Week vs. Utah Cougar Scholar-Athlete Cougar Scholar-Athlete

2005 Team Highlights

• Apana Nakayama’s first at bat in the season opener was a RBI triple with no outs in the second inning in the upset at No. 19 UC Irvine. He scored the game-winning run later that inning. • Dave Horlacher started the 5-1 upset at No. 19 UC Irvine, going five innings as the winning pitcher, giving up four hits, one walk and striking out five in throwing 81 pitches. • Relief pitcher James Platt retired the first 11 batters he faced in his BYU debut in the upset at No. 19 UC Irvine. The only Anteater runner to get on base was with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Platt finished off the Anteaters striking out the last batter he faced for the save. He threw 47 pitches, 29 of which were strikes to earn MWC Pitcher of the Week honors. • Patrick Wells earned his first victory of the season for the Cougars in a 13-5 defeat of San Jose State. He pitched six strong innings, giving up only four hits and three runs (two earned). The lefty also struck out five in the victory. He retired the side in order in the third and fifth innings. He struck out the first two batters he faced in the fourth, then pitched himself out of a bases- loaded jam that inning. • Nakayama went 4-for-5 in a 13-5 victory at San Jose State, with a towering, three-run that went 410-feet off a sign in center field and two doubles. • Ryan Chambers made his first relief appearances of 2005 in the first and third games at San Jose State and again sports a 0.00 ERA. Out of the seven outs the Cougars have recorded while he has been on the mound in his career, he has struck out six of them, dating back to last season. The centerfielder had a 0.00 ERA in his only appearance of last season. • Casey Nelson’s two-run double gave BYU its first lead of an 8-7 victory at No. 25 Oklahoma St., with two out in the sixth. The Cougars batted around that inning, with Nelson leading off with a single. • Ben Saylor doubled up an Oklahoma St. runner, who left first base early without a tag in the eighth inning of the 8-7 victory at No. 25 OSU. • Horlacher went the distance, throwing over 120 pitches in a 6-5 loss at No. 30 Oral Roberts. • Blake Torgerson, made his second division one start--and second start of the week--pitching seven strong innings in a 7-4 win over No. 30 Oral Roberts, helping BYU earn its first series win of the season. • Brandon Taylor, had consecutive two RBI games vs. No. 30 Oral Roberts. On March 4, Taylor went 4-for-5 with two RBI, including a two-run double in the seventh inning to give the Cougars the lead for good. The very next day, he homered and knocked in two more runs. • Sean McNauhton, hitting three doubles in an 11-7 victory at New Mexico State, a game in which BYU hit seven doubles. • Taylor, hit a grand slam in BYU’s 10-run sixth inning of a 22-8 victory in the third of a three-game sweep at New Mexico State. Earlier in the week Taylor hit a three-run double in the second inning to put BYU ahead for the first time in a 15-8 victory over his former team, Utah Valley State. • Mitch Woolf’s pitching duel vs. Jeff Williams of Colorado State-Pueblo which had pro scouts most interested in the latter until Woolf’s curve ball caught their eye in the 2-1 BYU victory. The one-hour, 39-minute game time ties BYU’s record for the shortest game when the Cougars lost at Notre Dame, 1-0, in 2002. • Jeff Hiestand catching a line drive with no outs in the ninth inning to turn a L3U double play and help clinch BYU’s 7-5 victory over Colorado State-Pueblo. • Seven doubles being hit by BYU in the ninth inning of a 19-6 victory over New Mexico in game two at Albuquerque, just one two- bagger shy of tying the 1996 NCAA record set by LSU. Chambers and Saylor each collected two doubles in that inning while Nakayama doubled and homered in the ninth. • Chambers homering over 428 feet to tie the final UNM game in Albuquerque, 3-3, just after Josh Barrett struck out the final batter with the bases loaded in the eighth to earn his second victory of the season less than 24 hours after getting his first save. Both players were later named MWC Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. • Marcos Villezcas’ diving skid in the 5-3 finale against Utah to start a 6-4-3 double play for the first two outs of the sixth inning. • Taylor hit back-to-back homers in the fourth and fifth innings of an 18-5 victory vs. Air Force, both coming off the first pitch. The previous night he also hit a pair of homers in the 10-4 victory over AFA. Kory Knell’s grand slam in the 25-2 victory over AFA. • Horlacher’s four-hit complete-game 5-0 victory at UNLV was BYU’s first shutout by a single pitcher since February 2003 when Jeff Mousser blanked Washington State, 4-0, in nine innings at Lewiston, Idaho. • Matt Jensen and Justin Su’a striking out 13 and five, vs. against Lewis-Clark State in a come-from-behind effort to win 5-2. • Taylor’s, second grand slam of the season in the fourth inning against San Diego State, with BYU down 6-1. He was batting in the eighth hole instead of the usual fourth or fifth hole. Taylor was hit in pre-game batting practice in the outfield by a San Diego State liner which required him to have 25 stitches two layers deep. • Nakayama’s walk-off double to left centerfield on full count with two outs of BYU’s 13-12 victory over San Diego State. • Nine runs being scored in the eighth inning of BYU’s 18-11 victory over San Diego State when the Cougars were down 11-9. • Taylor’s, third grand slam of the season in the nine-run second inning of a 10-8 victory at Utah. • Adrian Molina throwing out a Ute at homeplate from centerfield in the eighth inning of a 11-10 loss at Utah. • Taylor’s, fourth grand slamcame on his first at bat in a 19-6 victory at Utah. He followed that slam with a single, a double and a triple to complete the cycle and he tied the school record with six hits in that game and consequently was named National Hitter of the Week by the NCBWA, to the CSTV Student Athlete of the Week and College Baseball Foundation National Honor Roll.

BYU Baseball TEAM COIN BRINGS UNITY

BY BRENT JOHNSON made to the team and the accomplishment of running up the BYU ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS mountain. The coin has inscribed on one side “The Road to the PROVO, Utah (April 11, 2005)—Baseball, at times, is a Top” and “We Go as a Team.” Law said the team is really game of superstitions. focusing team chemistry this season. Players stick with what’s “It sounds kind of corny,” Law said of using the do-it-for-the working, whether it’s dirty team clichés. “But we rely on each other. We ran up to the ‘Y’ pair of socks or a week together and it was a total team effort, guys didn’t leave each without showering. other behind, we ran together.” So, what’s The various military institutions have similar programs. In behind BYU baseball’s the military each soldier has the opportunity to earn a specially best start in 22 years? minted coin. The coins are issued by a company’s commanding The Cougars are officer and are a very big honor. Each individual coin is minted off to a 23-8-1 (10-2, originally for a given unit. Also, each individual military opera- Mountain West Conference) tion—such as Operation Iraqi Freedom, for example—has its and head coach Vance Law says own coin created for the soldiers that participated. that this is one of the best hitting teams he has ever coached. The soldiers are required to always keep their coin with New pitchers have opposing hitters puzzled. And then there are them. As encouragement, the military has developed an incen- the intangibles like the power of the coin. tive. At any time one soldier can pull his coin on a fellow sol- The coin is one of the many dier. If his counterpart does not have his coin at the time the things BYU pitching coach other pulls it, the counterpart has to buy a drink that night. Bobby Applegate has brought However, if the counterpart can show the coin, he gets the free with him from the Air Force drink. Academy to get the most BYU has developed a similar system. If a player or coach out of his players. Last fall, pulls the coin on his teammate (or coach) and the teammate the BYU baseball players doesn’t have the coin, the teammate must buy a drink for all of took a long run to the white his teammates that have theirs. “Y” on a nearby mountain The coin is just smaller than the size of the handle end of a overlooking BYU campus. All of baseball bat. the participants were given a specially It’s a BYU twist to a military tradition. It is a fun way to minted coin for their efforts. promote team unity. And for the superstitious player or fan, it The coin reminds each player of the commitments they have can only help the Cougars continue to win. 2004 November BYU Baseball Signings Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown (School) Stetson Banks SS 6-1 160 Mesa, AZ (Mountain View HS) Jesse Craig RHP 6-4 225 Henderson, NV (Southern Nevada CC) Chris Highmark LHP 6-1 185 Paradise, AZ (Brophy Prep HS) Jason Johnson 2B 5-9 155 Houston, TX (Houston Christian HS) Seth Johnson OF 6-2 187 Albuquerque, NM (La Cueva HS) Kasey Ko 1B 6-2 225 Honolulu, HI (Punahou HS) Brandon Michon LHP 5-11 145 Hamilton, VA (Loudoun Valley HS) Clayton Mortensen RHP 6-3 175 Rexburg, ID (Treasure Valley CC) Jordan Muir RHP 5-11 190 Las Vegas, NV (Cimarron-Memorial HS) JT Musso C 6-0 185 Pueblo, CO (Pueblo County HS) Dane Nielsen 2B 5-10 180 Houston, TX (Clements HS) Kent Walton OF 6-0 170 Yucaipa, CA (Yucaipa CA) Michael Ward RHP 6-0 160 Dallas, TX (Keller HS) Jacob Wortham OF/LHP 5-10 200 Allen, TX (Allen HS) www.byucougars.com

BYU Baseball TAYLOR ENJOYS EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

BY LANDON OLSON Nelson said. "With his desire to work and his skill PROVO DAILY HERALD level, I didn't think there was any question he could play in college. ven ahead in the count, opposing pitchers Taylor was on the verge of signing to play in should still worry facing Brandon Taylor. Arizona when he got a call from UVSC. E He decided to accept the Wolverines' offer His .362 batting average is an obvious part of so he could stay close to home. that, but it goes deeper for the BYU . "The most important thing is to have my par- He loves being an underdog. ents watch me play baseball," Taylor said. "I like to prove people wrong. It's exciting to He started every game at shortstop and also had put people in their seat," Taylor said. the added opportunity to play in a wood bat He's taken advantage of his opportunities to league, as opposed to with the metal bats used do that, not only excelling individually, but help- in Division I. ing two teams surpass expectations. "That was a blast," Taylor said of using wood Picked to finish third in the Mountain West this bats. "It was more like real baseball." season, BYU is 8-1 in the conference entering the After his year at UVSC, Taylor went on an week, tied for first place with UNLV. LDS Church mission to Argentina. During that time, Over the weekend, BYU picked up three wins UVSC assistant coach Ryan Roberts was hired as "I think Timpanogos has set the precedent," Tay- against Air Force, and Taylor was a big part of that. an assistant at BYU. When Taylor returned home lor said. He proved he can hit with power by going deep from his mission, he followed his former coach. It was actually the senior group Taylor was part twice each in two of the three games to move into Taylor started at shortstop in 57 games last year, of that set the precedent," said Timpanogos coach the team lead for home runs with 11. but this season was moved to third base. Kim Nelson. Before BYU he exhibited that same kind of A little worrisome a first, it turned out to be a Nelson said that group had worked harder power, hitting 14 doubles and 11 homers in his sen- great move. than any class up to that point, and once the ior year at Timpanogos, where the Timberwolves "It's weird," Taylor said. "It's the first year I've younger classes saw that, it inspired those athletes faced a situation similar to what Taylor found at ever played third, but I've never liked a position to work hard as well. BYU. more. It's been fairly easy because I think that's "That hard work from Brandon's senior season Picked to finish fourth in their region in 2000, where I should have been in the first place." was a big key for starting that tradition," Nelson the T'Wolves went undefeated through the regu- For someone who was told he wouldn't make said. "They just have to get a winning attitude lar season and into the title game of the state 4A it far, Taylor has already achieved more than and that starts with hard work." tournament, where they lost twice to Taylorsville. some "experts" expected, and has already met Taylor is still a long way from where he start- During its undefeated run, though, Timpano- two of his three baseball goals: play college base- ed, though. Having played almost every sport gos handed Taylorsville its first loss, in what Tay- ball and play for BYU. That just leaves playing pro- through his sophomore year, for his junior and sen- lor said was one of the highlights of his career. In fessional, which is what he has his sights set on ior years he quit everything else to focus on base- the 16-13 victory, Taylor went 4-for-5, hitting three now. ball. home runs, including a grand slam, and had nine Taylor said he had the chance last season, "It's always been my real love as far as sports RBI. but decided to stay at BYU to develop as a go," Taylor said. Part of only the second class to start and fin- player. He said his chances have improved, Because of his size, he said he was always told ish at Timpanogos, Taylor played with, and helped especially with his move to third base, and he he'd never be able to play college baseball. But that build, a program that has risen to among the elite looks to turn pro following the college season. changed when he developed physically between in the state. A college season that, so far, has BYU con- his sophomore and senior years. In 2002 the T'Wolves won their first baseball tending for a conference championship. "I saw in Brandon a real desire to be better," state title, then repeated the feat last year.

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BYU Baseball MCNAUGHTON: SUPER FRESHMAN STEPPING UP

BY JASON FRANCHUK outs but still doesn’t exactly look to draw a Puckett. The BYU standout isn’t so doughy, PROVO DAILY HERALD free pass, either. but he does carry a lot of power in his com- He has nine walks compared to 23 strike- pact frame and swing. hen Sean McNaughton finally decid- outs. He’s also put down only three sacrifice Michael Davis, McNaughton’s coach at ed once and for all to take his base- bunts. Curtis High School, isn’t surprised to hear his Wball glove and bat from the north- Small ball wasn’t the way in high school, former player is at second base and batting west to BYU, he knew what to expect. His four either. BYU doesn’t seem to mind. Between leadoff, even though he did neither in high siblings went to school here. His brother, the aluminum bats and the altitude, scoring school. Troy, was a standout on the team seven years is a never-ending necessity. McNaughton fits “He’s a very good athlete, and I’ve never ago, when McNaughton was starting to play right in, hacking away. seen a player like him who was so comfort- without a tee for a pitcher. “When I was in high school, I hit third (in able with his swing,” Davis said. “A lot of kids Provo was like a home away from his the lineup),” McNaughton said. “Like any are constantly making adjustments, tinkering Washington home. other team, we only had so many good hitters. with their swing. Sean’s always felt com- And now that he’s here, amazingly, the So when you went up, you didn’t want to strike fortable with his, but if he needed to make freshman is succeeding by doing everything out but you didn’t want to walk, either. If you adjustments he has a rare ability to make it that is unfamiliar. He hit third throughout high just walked, you weren’t taking advantage of within the same at-bat.” school, now he’s batting leadoff. He’s never the situation.” Vance Law, McNaughton’s coach at BYU, played second base before, but there he is, The situation in Provo is perfect. said recruiting him wasn’t the toughest chore learning but still starting. McNaughton has a huge comfort level here, around. Considering background and fami- “I just wanted to come here, and I knew and it’s not just in the batter’s box. ly history, it was a pretty sure thing he want- if I worked hard everything would work His brother, Troy, played at BYU from ed to be there. out,” McNaughton said. 1994-95 before serving and LDS mission to Eng- “It’s nice when it works out that way,” Law He makes it sound, and look, so easy. land then returning for the 1998 season. said. Starting all 33 games of a 24-8-1 start for Afterward he played five seasons of minor- The only condition to McNaughton’s sign- BYU, its best in years, McNaughton has been league ball. Now 30, married with four chil- ing was that he wanted a shot — he stresses part of a new group of freshmen, returned mis- dren, Troy still comes to Provo, like their not a guarantee, but a chance — at playing as sionaries and transfers who have revived parents and other relatives, to see Sean play. a freshman. The outfield was set with veter- the program. McNaughton picked BYU over Washing- ans, and playing shortstop wasn’t the best McNaughton is hitting .361 — second- ton State, a 370-mile drive from home, because option. With second base open, there was com- best for everyday players, behind Jeff Hies- he knew more friends and family would see petition with two players, including Law’s son, tand’s .396. him in Utah than would go to Pullman from Andrew. He’s ranked first in hits (52), doubles (13) the Seattle area. There is work to be done by McNaughton and triples (4). But that’s not all McNaughton His married sister, Jessica, has a house in with the glove. He has a team-worst 12 errors. does. He’s second on the team in runs scored Provo where McNaughton can hang out and Otherwise he has stepped right in, and is (35), home runs (10) and RBI (36). get a home-cooked meal and laundry done. trying to enjoy this year before heading on a “The speed is different, it’s faster at this She comes to the games, sometimes bringing two-year LDS church mission after the sea- level,” McNaughton said. “But otherwise it’s her girlfriends. son. Troy had his best year after returning from not that different.” Turns out girls do dig the long ball, and the his mission, so the younger brother feels Obviously, it’s early. Pitchers haven’t had line drive. like he can make the sabbatical from sport much time to figure out the former Washington “I’ve gotten a few dates because of the base- work, too. Gatorade player of the year. This early in ball success,” McNaughton said, laughing. “I Davis said McNaughton had interest from the season, he hasn’t even seen a starting pitch- think we’re getting more attention as a team several pro teams entering last June’s major er twice yet. We’re not yet at the second go- this year. People don’t remember last year’s league draft, but might’ve scared off some around against MWC opponents. But those team, they don’t even think about it. Not teams by signing with a college and plan- teams and pitchers he has seen have suf- even the guys that were on it. This is a new ning on a mission. fered. Thanks for asking; he isn’t just domi- team, and we know we can play.” The changes have done him good. nating inferior talent. Basically, he can focus on baseball and “He’s comfortable there, and he’s confident,” BYU has played six times against nation- school. The rest of life looks like a fastball. Troy McNaughton said. “He couldn’t ask for ally ranked opponents. McNaughton is 10-for- Sean has succeeded, Troy said, because much more.” 23 in those games. A big part of that success as a high school player McNaughton rarely saw could be a potential reason for his down- good pitches his final two seasons. Rarely wit- fall. nessing a fastball, he had to get good at sniff- At the plate, anyway, McNaughton can ing out off-speed deliveries. His patience show patience waiting for his pitch. But he and timing have benefited. is still the same hitter he was in high school, “He’s much better than I was at his age,” patterned in the belief that the first good Troy said. “In high school he had a lot of pitch is worthy enough to be called the last pro teams interested, but they always came good one. back and talked about his size.” If it’s thrown in his zone, he will swing. His McNaughton, at 5-foot-8 and 180 pounds, approach is part Tony Gwynn, part summer- reminds former BYU coach Gary Pullins, a reg- league softball. 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BYU Baseball APANA NAKAYAMA PICKS UP WHERE HE LEFT OFF

BY DENNIS ANDERSON During his mission, “I played catch HAWAI`I GROWN REPORT once or twice in two years,” Nakayama - FEB. 23, 2005 said. “That was a shock for me. I grew up Welcome back, Apana Nakayama. playing baseball, but I got used to it. The instantly likeable 2000 state high “When I got home (to Kaunakakai) school Player of the Year from popular last August I was totally out of shape,” he HHSAA champion Moloka’i High, has said. returned to Utah after a two-year Nakayama was in Japan, headquar- Mormon Church mission to Japan. tered in Nagoya, from December 2002 to In his first intercollegiate baseball August `04. game in almost three years — in his first “It was a good experience to be able time at bat — Nakayama lashed a line- to serve in Japan,” he said. “I learned a drive triple to right-center field for his lot of things (including speaking fluent first hit, first extra-base hit and first RBI Japanese).” since May 2002. Apana Nakayama And he didn’t forget how to hit a 1-2 Shortly after he scored what proved to hanging curve ball. be the winning run in BYU’s season-open- For the first two games of his return to “It feels good to play ball again,” ing, 5-1 victory at 19th-ranked UC-Irvine the game, Nakayama is batting .500 (5 Nakayama said. last Thursday. for 10). A third scheduled game was a Freshman pitcher Alec Reichle of “It was a good feeling off the bat,” victim of the recent rains in California. Kaua’i also is on the Cougars’ roster, but Nakayama said of the ball that he hit. “I He is playing left-handed designated his throwing arm is injured and he is not kind of knew it was a ball where I could hitter and first base this season, behind a on the traveling squad. Reichle could face get to third; to the gap in right-center.” senior catcher. Tommy John surgery.

BYU Ahead of School Record in Pace for Doubles

YEAR/DATE 2B IN # OF GAMES AVG. # 2B 1982 128 in 59 games 2.17 2005 120 in 42 games 2.86 1988 129 in 60 games 2.15 1998 147 in 53 games 2.77 2001 127 in 60 games 2.12 1987 174 in 64 games 2.72 1992 121 in 57 games 2.12 1999 145 in 57 games 2.54 1978 104 in 52 games 2.00 1994 145 in 57 games 2.54 1995 122 in 62 games 1.97 2000 146 in 58 games 2.52 1990 135 in 69 games 1.96 2003 136 in 54 games 2.52 1989 130 in 67 games 1.94 1997 138 in 55 games 2.51 1981 132 in 69 games 1.91 1985 183 in 73 games 2.51 2004 110 in 58 games 1.90 2002 151 in 63 games 2.40 1980 110 in 59 games 1.86 1996 136 in 57 games 2.39 1977 94 in 52 games 1.81 1983 154 in 65 games 2.37 1984 106 in 59 games 1.80 1993 132 in 57 games 2.32 1991 83 in 50 games 1.66 1986 122 in 54 games 2.26 NCAA Record 202, Wichita St. in 1998 3.21 1979 166 in 76 games 2.18 School Record

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