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Athletic Media Relations 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, Utah • 84602 801-422-9769 • fax 801-422-0633 Weekly Release - February 28, 2006 BASEBALL Playing in Utah Media Relations Information BYU, 1-8 overall, just snapped an eight-game losing streak and plays its first E-Mail: [email protected] games in Utah this season, this week in Cedar City against Southern Utah, 5-2. Date Opp/Event Time at site of game 2/9 Pacific Stockton, CA% L, 1-2 Probable Pitching Rotation 2/10 Pacific Stockton, CA% L, 3-6 Mar. 2 Southern Utah Jesse Craig (0-3, 5.62) Cedar City 1 p.m. 2/11 Pacific Stockton, CA% L, 3-4 Mar. 3 Southern Utah Patrick Wells (0-2, 10.97) Cedar City 1 p.m. 2/16 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 1-4 Mar. 4 Southern Utah Brandon Christiansen (1-0, 6.00) Cedar City 1 p.m. 2/17 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 3-4 2/18 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 3-4 Probable Lineup 2/23 Oregon St. Davis CA% L, 2-12 1B–#25 Ben Saylor 2B–#13 Daniel Vargas SS–#10 Marcos Villezcas 2/24 Washington St. Davis, CA L, 1-5 3B–#5 Chris Johnson RF–#9 Kent Walton CF–#1 Adrian Molina 2/25 St. Mary's Sacramento, CA W, 10-5 or #19 Dane Nielsen 3/2-4 Southern Utah Cedar City, UT 1,1,1 p.m. LF–#32 Jeff Hiestand C–#8 Casey Nelson 3/9-11 UC Riverside Riverside, CA 3,3,1 p.m. DH–#33 Kasey Ko or #6 Austin Carter 3/14 Utah Provo+ 7 p.m. 3/16-18 New Mexico St. Provo+% 7,7,1 p.m. Radio Coverage 3/21 Southern Utah Provo+ 7 p.m. There may be some live audiostream of the BYU-SUU games. Later in the season 3/23-25 No. Colorado Provo+ 7,7,1 p.m. in Utah, KOVO 960 AM, with veteran broadcaster Brent Norton calling the play- 3/29 UNLV* San Diego% 1 p.m. by-play, will only broadcast BYU’s league games live. These broadcasts are also 3/30 TCU* San Diego% 11 a.m. available on the Dish Network as well as over the Internet. Links to the webcasts 3/ 31 New Mexico* San Diego% 11 a.m. and audiocast are on the BYU baseball's schedule page at www.byucougars.com. 4/ 1 Utah* San Diego% 11 a.m. All of the BYU games will be on KOVO and on on live audiostream and livestats. 4/3 Southern Utah Provo+ 3 p.m. 4/6 UNLV* Las Vegas#% 6:30 BYU Among Leaders in 2005 NCAA Statistics 4/7 UNLV* Las Vegas% 6:30 •First in doubles with a 2.78 average 4/8 UNLV* Las Vegas% 1 p.m. •First in slugging with a .545 percentage 4/11 Utah Valley St. Orem 7 p.m. •Third nationally with a .337 batting average 4/13-14 Washington* Seattle% 6:30, 6:30 p.m. •Third in home runs per game with a 1.46 average 4/15 Washington* Seattle% 12 p.m. •Sixth in scoring at 8.5 runs per game 4/18 Utah Valley St. Provo+ 7 p.m. •35th in win-loss percentage at .669 4/20 TCU* Provo+ % 7 p.m. •48th in triples with a 0.32 average 4/21 TCU* Provo+#% 7 p.m. •49th in double plays per game with a 1.0 average 4/22 TCU* Provo+% 1 p.m. •Ben Saylor was ranked third in RBI per game with an average of 1.43 4/25-26 No. Colorado Greeley, CO 2,2 p.m. •Ben Saylor was ranked fifth in doubles per game with a 0.46 average 4/27-28 Air Force* Colorado Spgs. 2,2 p.m. •Jeff Hiestand was ranked 30th in runs per game with an average of 1.18 4/29 Air Force* Colorado Spgs.% 12 p.m. 5/2 Utah Valley St. Orem 7 p.m. Coach Vance Law and staff 5/4 New Mexico* Provo+% 7 p.m. Vance Law played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six 5/5 New Mexico* Provo+#% 7 p.m. different teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year for the Mountain 5/6 New Mexico* Provo+% 1 p.m. West Conference. The 49-year-old coach is in his seventh year at BYU and has a 5/9 Southern Utah Provo+ 7 p.m. 195-155-2 (.557) record coming into the 2006 season. He is assisted by Ryan 5/11 San Diego St.* Provo+% 7p.m. Roberts, in his fourth year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his 5/12 San Diego St.* Provo+#% 7 p.m. third year with BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy. Volunteer 5/13 San Diego St.* Provo+% 1 p.m. assistant Brad Eagar is in his first year on the BYU staff. 5/16 Utah Valley St. Provo+ 7 p.m. 5/18-19 Utah* Salt Lake City 12,12 p.m. Records Broken Last Year (13) 5/20 Utah* Salt Lake City% 12 p.m. • Brandon Taylor got six consecutive hits in the 19-6 victory at Utah to tie a 5/23-27 MWC Tourney Las Vegas% TBA school record for six hits in a game. 6/2-5 NCAA Regionals% TBA • Brandon Taylor hit for the cycle again at Air Force (at Utah was his other one) 6/9-12 Super Regionals% TBA to tie an NCAA record by hitting for two cycles in a season, only the third player 6/16-26 College World Series% Omaha, NE to do so in NCAA history. * MWC Games, +webcast, #TV, %Internet Audio • Brandon Taylor tied an MWC Games Only record for most home runs by a www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Baseball Scoring in 2006 with Two Outs Page 2 Opp. w/2 out Result %Scored w/2out junior at 13. Pacific 0 L, 1-2 0% Pacific 1 L, 3-6 33% • Sean McNaughton tied a league and school record by hitting two triples in Pacific 1 L, 3-4 33% the 18-5 victory over Air Force. San Jose St. 1 L, 1-4 33% • BYU set an MWC Games most doubles in a season at 102. San Jose St. 0 L, 3-4 0% • BYU set an MWC Games slugging percentage at .590. San Jose St. 3 L, 3-4 100% • BYU set an MWC Games total bases at 677. Oregon St. 2 L, 2-12 17% • Dave Horlacher tied an MWC Games for most games started, 10. Wash. St. 0 L, 1-5 0% • Casey Cloward tied an MWC Games Sac Flies by a senior, 4. St. Mary’s 8 W, 10-5 80% 16 27 total runs 59% BYU Scoring With Two Outs Totals: 195 500 total runs 39% The accompanying chart to the left shows BYU practices what Coach Vance *Indicates come-from-behind victory Law preaches, you can still score with two outs. In 2005 BYU won 25 of its 39 games in come-from-behind fashion. 2006 MWC PRESEASON POLL Rk. Team (1st-Place votes) Points Team Notes 1 TCU (11) 89 • Apana Nakayama currently has the longest hitting streak for the Cougars, a 2 UNLV (1) 66 four-game streak carried over from the 2005 season, but he has not yet been San Diego State 66 cleared to play. Kent Walton hleads the team with a current three-game hit- 4 Brigham Young (1) 64 ting streak. Ben Saylor, Casey Nelson and Kasey Ko have current two-game 5 New Mexico 36 streaks. 6 Utah 28 • Jeff Hiestand’s hitting streak ended last season in game three vs. UNLV at 29 7 Air Force 15 consecutive games as he was walked three times and hit by a pitch in his fourth appearance at the plate. Counting that game, he had been on base 43 consecutive games and has only missed one game this season being on base Final 2005 MWC Standings in his 48 games. MWC Overall • Apana Nakayama lead the team with 25 multiple hit games last year, fol- lowed by Ben Saylor and Marcos Villezcas with 24. W-L GB W-L • Game-winning RBI were recorded last season by Ben Saylor with five; UNLV 23-7 - 35-29 Nakayama, Villezcas and Hiestand each with 3; and Molina and Nelson BYU 21-9 1 39-19-1 each with two. SDSU 17-13 4 26-35 • Last season BYU was 1-2 in extra-inning contests. UNM 15-15 7 26-32 Utah 10-20 10 19-36 AFA 4-26 17 9-44 Last Years’ Average Attendance Highest Ever at Miller Field Last year, in its fifth full season at Larry H. Miller Field, attendance passed the 100,000 mark in the very first game. BYU averaged 1,442 fans per game Honors for 2006 for 2005 in 18 dates. The Cougars have ranked nationally in attendance in Jeff Hiestand, Outfield, First Base all five years at Miller Field. •Pre-season All-MWC (coaches/media) Attendance Ranks Nationally Ben Saylor, First Base, Outfield Attendance at Larry H. Miller field ranked 37th nationally in 2005 with an aver- •Wallace Watch List age of 1,442 in 18 games and a total of 25,952 fans. The Cougars' entered this •Pre-season All-MWC (coaches/media) season with a 67-25 (.728) record at Larry H.