BYU Baseball Athletic Communications • 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, UT, 84602 Contact: Ralph Zobell • Office: (801) 422-9769 • Fax: (801) 422-0633 e-mail: [email protected] Follow BYU baseball at http://www.facebook.com/BYUbaseball BYU 2011 Schedule/Results BYU [20-18, 7-7] vs. TCU (29-13, 13-2) Date Opponent Time at site of game Probable BYU Pitching Rotation Feb. 18 @ Northwestern St. (La.)+ L, 7-8 Feb. 19 @ Northwestern St. (La.)+^% W, 19-1 Apr. 28 vs. No. 7 TCU Taylor Cole (3-3, 2.98) 6 p.m. Feb. 19 @ Northwestern St. (La.)+^% L, 1-4 Apr. 29 vs. No. 7 TCU Chris Capper (3-2, 3.65) 6 p.m. Feb 24 @ Texas Tech #+ L, 4-7 Feb 25 N. Illinois #+ W, 3-2 Apr. 30 vs. No. 7 TCU TBA 1 p.m. Feb 25 @ Texas Tech #+ W, 8-3 Feb 26 N. Illinois #+ W, 8-5 Mar 3 @ Washington+^% W, 3-2 Coverage This Week Mar 4 @ Washington+^% W, 9-6 Mar 5 @ Washington+^% L, 2-6 Most of the BYU games will be available through livestats, live au- Mar 7 @ Portland+% W, 7-6 (12 inn) dio, live video online through links available at http://www.byucougars. Mar 8 @ Portland+% 7-6 Mar 10 @ Oregon L, 3-6 com/Schedule.jsp?SP=101. Live radio broadcasts are on Radio 960 Mar 11 @ Oregon $ L, 2-4 AM/92.9 FM with Brent Norton calling the play-by-play for his 21st Mar 12 @ Oregon $ L, 0-10 Mar 17 @ Utah *$ + L, 2-3 season with BYU baseball. Mar 18 @ Utah *$ +% W, 10-8 Mar 19 @ Utah *$ L, 6-15 Mar 21 @ Creighton+% L, 5-6 Coach Vance Law Mar 22 @ Creighton+% W, 11-4 Mar 24 San Diego State *$+^ W, 8-4 Coach Vance Law is in his 12th season as head coach at BYU. He Mar 25 San Diego State *$+^% W, 6-4 played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six dif- Mar 26 San Diego State *$+^% L, 3-5 (10 inn) Mar 31 @ Pepperdine+^ W, 5-4 (12 inn) ferent teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year in the Mountain Apr 1 @ Pepperdine$+^% W, 8-3 West Conference. The 54-year-old coach entered this season with a Apr 2 @ Pepperdine$+^% L, 3-5 Apr 5 Utah Valley (BYUtv)=+ W, 11-3 344-294-2 (.539) record. He is assisted by Ryan Roberts, in his ninth Apr 7 Air Force *$ (BYUtv)=+ W, 10-4 year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his eighth year with Apr 8 Air Force *$ (BYUtv)=+ W, 10-1 Apr 9 Air Force cancelled, weather - BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy. Apr 14 @ UNLV *$^% L, 2-7 Apr 15 @ UNLV *$^% L, 5-6 (10 inn) Apr 16 @ UNLV *$^% W, 9-4 Hitting Streaks Apr 19 Utah $ (BYUtv)=+ W, 7-6 (11 inn) Apr 21 New Mexico *$+^ L, 2-9 Wes Guenther leads the team with a three-game hitting streak, followed Apr 22 New Mexico *$+^ L, 5-7 by Ryan Bernal, Kelton Caldwell and Austin Hall all with two-game Apr 23 New Mexico *$+^ W, 1-0 Apr 26 @ Washington St+^. L, 0-3 hitting streaks. Apr 26 @ Washington St.+^ L, 3-4 Apr 28 TCU *$ (BYUtv)=+ 6 Apr 29 TCU *$ (BYUtv)=+ 6 Apr 30 TCU *$ (BYUtv)=+ 1 2011 BYU Baseball Media Guide May 2 @ Arizona St.$+ 6 There is no hard copy of the 2011 BYU Baseball Media Guide, rather May 3 @ Arizona St.$+ 6 May 5 Seattle (BYUtv)=+ 6 it is on-line at http://www.byucougars.com/mediaGuides.jsp. BYU’s May 6 Seattle (BYUtv)=+ 6 online media guides have been recognized by eyeonsportsmedia.com May 7 Seattle (BYUtv)=+ 1 May 9 Gonzaga$ (BYUtv)=+ 3 as the Best Online Media Guide Solution, receiving the 2009 Bloodshot May10 Gonzaga$ (BYUtv)=+ 6 Eyeball Award for Sports Media Best Practices. May 12 @ San Diego St. *$% 6 May 13 @ San Diego St. *$% 6 May 14 @ San Diego St. *$% 1 May 20 @Air Force *+ (7 innings) noon NCAA Statistics May 20 @Air Force *$+% 2 In the latest NCAA statistics, BYU was 9th in triples, Stephen Wells May 20 @Air Force *$+ 2 May 21 @Air Force *$+% 12 was 34th in doubles and Jaycob Brugman and Austin hall were 14th in May 24-28 MWC Champs @ San Diego St. and 20th respectively in triples. Jun16-28 College World Series * MWC Games, % Internet Audio, + webcast, ^live video # Brooks Wallace Memorial Classic $Radio 960 =Rebroadcast on The Mtn. TV Neil MWC Pitcher of Week -- All times are local to site BYU senior righthander Matthew Neil was named the Mountain West Pitcher of the Week. Neil posted a 2-0 record and 0.00 ERA in two ap- pearances in one-run victories over Utah and New Mexico last week. www.byucougars.com 2011 Baseball About the Team . BYU 2010 Schedule/Results Oldest to Youngest Date Opponent Time at site of game Feb 19 @ UC Riverside + L, 11-12 There are eight seniors and eight freshmen on the current squad. The ages Feb 19 @ UC Riverside + L, 4-6 range from 24-year-old Andrew Law to 18-year-old Kolton Mahoney. Feb 20 @ UC Riverside+% L, 11-6 Feb 25 @ UC Davis +% L, 0-3 Feb 25 @ UC Davis +% W, 10-2 Academic All-America hopefuls Feb 27 @ UC Davis +& W, 8-4 Mar 2 @ Baylor +^% W, 7-5 Wes Guenther and Dane Nielsen were nominated to the CoSida Academic Mar 3 @ Texas A & M +^ L, 3-5 All-America ballot. Mar 4 @ UT Arlington + L, 2-17 Mar 5 @ UT Arlington + L, 3-6 Mar 6 @ UT Arlington + W, 11-10 Mar 11 Washington +^ W, 10-4 Home Season Mar 12 Washington +^ W, 16-4 BYU drew 17,952 fans in it’s 19-game home schedule last season for Mar 13 Washington +^ L, 10-12 Mar 15 @ Gonzaga + L, 7-9 a 12-7 record. The Cougars entered this season with a 134-74 (.644) Mar 16 @ Gonzaga + W, 3-2 record at Larry H. Miller Field which seats 2,204 fans in its 11th season Mar 18 @ No. 4 TCU + L, 6-13 Mar 19 @ No. 4 TCU + L, 3-11 since it was built. In the first nine years BYU drew 218,981 fans for an Mar 19 @ No. 4 TCU + W, 5-4 average of 1,177 and 142,248 at night for an average of 1,452. The crowd Mar 25 UNLV +^ W, 12-11 Mar 26 UNLV +^ W, 8-4 of 3,081 against Utah last season was the fourth-largest in school history Mar 27 UNLV +^ L, 5-11 and the second-largest at Miller Park. The largest crowd at home during Mar 31 @USF + L, 4-20 Apr 1 @ San Jose St. + W, 11-5 2010 was 1,826 in the finale vs. Utah and the crowd of 3,744 fans at Utah Apr 3 @ San Jose St. + W, 11-5 Valley was the largest on the road. The largest 2011 crowd was 1,097 vs. Apr 3 @ San Jose St. + L, 3-5 Apr 5 Washington St. +^ W, 3-2 Utah Apr 8 @ New Mexico* + L, 5-11 Apr 9 @ New Mexico* + W, 13-5 Apr 10 @ New Mexico* + L, 9-10 Taking Series Apr 13 No. 20 Kansas St. +^ W, 15-9 Apr 14 No. 20 Kansas St. +^ W, 13-10 In 2010 BYU won series against UC Davis, Washington, UNLV, San Jose Apr 15 No. 10 TCU* +^ (TV) L, 8-14 State, No. 20 Kansas State, Utah, San Diego State and Air Force. Thus Apr 15 No. 10 TCU* +^ (TV) L, 1-12 Apr 17 No. 10 TCU* +^ (11 inn., TV) L 5-4 far in 2011, BYU has won vs. No. Illinois, Washington, Portland, SDSU, Apr 22 Utah* +%^ W, 9-7 Pepperdine & Air Force. BYU tied Utah 2-2 in its series this year. Apr 23 Utah* +^ (BYU TV live) L, 2-11 Apr 24 Utah* +^ W, 6-4 Apr 29 @ Seattle (16 inn.) L, 2-3 2011 Game-Winning RBI Apr 30 @ Seattle L, 7-8 May 1 Portland (Seattle) L, 1-5 May 4 @ UVU + W, 14-10 Jaycob Brugman...............................4 May 6 @ UNLV* + L, 6-12 -three-run homer @ Creighton, 11-4 May 7 @ UNLV* + (11 innings) L, 8-9 May 8 @ UNLV*+% W, 16-7 -two-run single vs. San Diego St., 8-4 May 10 @Arizona St. + L, 0-14 -one-run double @ Pepperdine, 5-4 May 11 @Arizona St. + L, 2-7 -one-run single vs. AFA, 10-1 May 13 San Diego St.* + ^ (TV, 10 innings) W, 10-9 Ryan Bernal......................................4 May 14 San Diego St.* + ^(BYU TV live) W, 13-5 May 15 San Diego St.* + ^(BYU TV live) W, 16-10 -one-run single @ Washington, 3-2 May 18 UVU +^ (BYU TV, 10 inn.) L, 12-14 -solo homer @ Portland, 7-6 May 20 @ Air Force* + W, 16-6 -three-run homer @ Utah, 10-8 May 21 @ Air Force* + W, 18-4 -triple vs. New Mexico, 1-0 May 22 @ Air Force* +% L, 19-22 May 25 vs. UNLV + L 1-9 Austin Hall.......................................2 May 26 @ San Diego St. + W 16-8 -sac-fly, vs. No. Illinois, 3-2 May 27 vs. Utah + W 25-18 -two-run triple vs. No. Illinois, 8-5 May 27 vs. New Mexico + L 6-7 Andrew Law.....................................2 -two-out single vs. San Diego St., 6-4 2011 MWC Preseason Poll BYU’s Sibling Rivalry -one-run single vs.