2010 BIG WEST BASEBALL Baseball Contact: Julie St.Cyr, Associate Information Director - [email protected] • Mailing Address: 2 Corporate Park, Suite 206, Irvine, CA 92606 Phone: (949) 261-2525 • Fax: (949) 261-2528 • Website: www.bigwest.org Week 19: Friday, July 9, 2010 2010 STANDINGS NATIONAL ACCOLADES Conference Overall Baseball All-America W L Pct. W L Pct. Hm Rd Neut. First Team *Cal State Fullerton 21 3 .875 46 18 .719 26-9 19-8 1-1 Christian Colon, SS, Cal State Fullerton UC Irvine 17 7 .708 39 21 .650 19-9 17-10 3-2 Second Team UC Riverside 13 11 .542 32 23 .582 22-6 9-15 1-2 Gary Brown, OF, Cal State Fullerton Pacific 12 12 .500 31 23 .574 18-11 10-11 3-1 Third Team UC Santa Barbara 10 14 .417 24 30 .444 13-15 11-15 0-0 Noe Ramirez, P, Cal State Fullerton Cal Poly 10 14 .417 23 32 .418 15-17 7-13 1-2 Freshman Team Cal State Northridge 9 15 .375 29 27 .518 17-13 11-13 1-1 Dylan Floro, P, Cal State Fullerton UC Davis 9 15 .375 26 29 .473 11-15 13-14 2-0 Collegiate Baseball All-America Long Beach State 7 17 .292 23 32 .418 11-18 12-14 0-0 First Team Daniel Bibona, P, UC Irvine * Regular season champion Gary Brown, OF, Cal State Fullerton Second Team SCHEDULE Nick Ramirez, UTL, Cal State Fullerton NCAA Super Regional Results NCAA Regional Results Noe Ramirez, P, Cal State Fullerton Third Team Los Angeles Super Regional - ESPN2 Fullerton Regional Daniel Renken, P, Cal State Fullerton Friday, June 11 Friday, June 4 Freshman Team Cal State Fullerton def. No. 6 UCLA, 4-3 No. 3 New Mexico 9, No. 2 Stanford 5 Dylan Floro, P, Cal State Fullerton No. 4 Minnesota 3, No. 1 Cal State Fullerton 1 Mitch Haniger, OF, Cal Poly Saturday, June 12 Carlos Lopez, DH, Cal State Fullerton No. 6 UCLA def. Cal State Fullerton, 11-7 (10) Saturday, June 5 Mitch Patito, P, UC Riverside No. 1 Cal State Fullerton 6, Stanford 5 Sunday, June 13 No. 4 Minnesota 6, No. 3 New Mexico 4 NCBWA All-America No. 6 UCLA def. Cal State Fullerton, 8-1 First Team Sunday, June 6 Gary Brown, OF, Cal State Fullerton Big West teams in bold No. 1 Cal State Fullerton 11, No. 3 New Mexico 3 Second Team All times Pacific No. 1 Cal State Fullerton 7, No. 4 Minnesota 2 Daniel Bibona, P, UC Irvine Third Team Monday, June 7 (if necessary) Daniel Renken, P, Cal State Fullerton No. 1 Cal State Fullerton 9, No. 4 Minnesota 5 Freshman Team Dylan Floro, P, Cal State Fullerton Carlos Lopez, DH, Cal State Fullerton Los Angeles Regional Ping! Baseball All-America Friday, June 4 First Team No. 2 LSU 11, No. 3 UC Irvine 10 (11) Daniel Bibona, P, UC Irvine No. 1 UCLA 15, No. 4 Kent State 1 Gary Brown, OF, Cal State Fullerton Nick Ramirez, UTL, Cal State Fullerton Saturday, June 5 Noe Ramirez, P, Cal State Fullerton No. 3 UC Irvine 19, No. 4 Kent State 9 Second Team No. 1 UCLA 6, No. 2 LSU 3 Christian Colon, SS, Cal State Fullerton Freshman Team Sunday, June 6 Dylan Floro, P, Cal State Fullerton No. 3 UC Irvine 4, No. 2 LSU 3 Mitch Haniger, OF, Cal Poly No. 1 UCLA 6, No. 3 UC Irvine 2 Carlos Lopez, DH, Cal State Fullerton Mitch Patito, P, UC Riverside * Big West Conference game Brooks Wallace Semifinalist Big West teams in bold Christian Colon, SS, Cal State Fullerton Home teams underlined Dick Howser Trophy Semifinalist Daniel Bibona, P, UC Irvine Johnny Bench Award Semifinalist Robert Brantly, C, UC Riverside Pitcher of the Year Semifinalist Noe Ramirez, P, Cal State Fullerton Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Semifinalist Nick Ramirez, UTL, Cal State Fullerton 2010 BIG WEST BASEBALL The Road To Omaha... Big West Conference 1995 - Cal State Fullerton (NCAA champ) a 3-1 loss to Minnesota in the opening UC Irvine • The Big West is sent two teams to the 1998 - Long Beach State day of the regional and found themselves 64-team NCAA Baseball Tournament this 1999 - Cal State Fullerton fighting for their life. The Titans were suc- • The UC Irvine Anteaters are making season - Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine. 2001 - Cal State Fullerton cessful in four straight elimination games, their fifth consecutive trip, sixth overall, to 2003 - Cal State Fullerton downing Stanford, New Mexico and Min- the postseason after receiving the confer- • Below is a list of the Big West Conference 2004 - Cal State Fullerton (NCAA champ) nesota (twice), to advance to the Super ence’s automatic qualifier into the NCAA NCAA teams versus the 2010 NCAA Field. 2006 - Cal State Fullerton Regionals for the eight consecutive year. Baseball Tournament. 2007 - Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine Cal State Fullerton 2009 - Cal State Fullerton Making the Fullerton All-Regional team for • For the second straight season, UC Irvine Arizona 1-2 the Titans were first baseman Nick Ramirez, had to battle the defending National Cham- Arizona State 0-2 The Last Time In NCAA second baseman Corey Jones, shortstop pion in regional play in order to advance to Hawaii 2-1 Tournament The Big West... Christian Colon, designated hitter Carlos the Super Regional. Last year the Anteat- Minnesota 2-1 Received three NCAA bids - 2009 Lopez and pitcher Colin O’Connell. Jones ers hosted Fresno State and defeated the New Mexico 1-0 Received four NCAA bids - 2008 was also tabbed Most Outstanding player. Bulldogs but were unable to make it out of Oregon 0-1 Did not host a regional - 2002 their regional. This year UC Irvine tackled San Diego 3-0 Had more than one team host a regional - • Cal State Fullerton has advanced to the defending champion LSU twice in the Los Stanford 1-0 2009 (UCI/CSF) super regionals the past eight seasons - Angeles Regional. The Anteaters opened TCU 1-2 Hosted a super regional - 2009 playing host in the first seven series. the regional with an 11-10 11-inning loss UC Irvine 2-1 Had two teams host a super regional - to the Tigers before facing them again in UCLA 3-2 2004 (LBSU/CSF) • The Titans traveled to sixth-seed UCLA game three where they won 4-3. UC Irvine Total 16-12 Went 0-2 in the regionals - 2009 (CP) in the Los Angeles Super Regional. Cal also squeezed in a victory over Kent State Won the CWS - 2004 (CSF) State Fullerton squeaked out a 4-3 win to before ultimately falling to host UCLA, 6-2, UC Irvine Went 0-2 in the CWS - 2009 (CSF) take game one. In game two, the Titans and was eliminated for the regional. Cal State Fullerton 1-2 Sent multiple teams to the CWS - carried a one-run lead into the ninth-inning Coastal Carolina 0-2 2007 (UCI/CSF) but were unable to hold on and eventually Making the NCAA All-Region team for the Kent State 1-0 Had two teams face-off - fell to the Bruins in the 10th inning, 11-7. Anteaters were: catcher Francis Larson, LSU 1-1 2007 (UCI vs. CSF - CWS) UCLA rode the momentum through game first baseman Jeff Cusick, second baseman NC State 0-1 three, winning the series 8-1 and advanc- Casey Stevenson, outfielder Drew Hillman, ing to the College World Series. Cal State San Diego 3-0 How Many Times In NCAA designated hitter, Jordan Leyland and Fullerton missed a trip to Omaha for just pitcher Evan Brock. UCLA 1-2 Tournament Has Big West... Total 7-8 the second time in five years. Received just one NCAA bid - four • UC Irvine, who was reinstated as a D I Received two NCAA bids - nine BIG WEST TOTAL 23-20 • The Cal State Fullerton baseball program school in 2002, was successful at the D II Received three NCAA bids - 12 has provided all of its student-athletes level; in 1973 and 1974 the Anteaters were Received four NCAA bids - three Tournament Information spending four years in the program since crowned Division II National Champions. Received five NCAA bids - never 1975 at least one trip to the College World Hosted two regionals the same year - four • The ACC, Pac-10 and SEC led all confer- Series in Omaha, Neb. Sent team to College World Series - 17 years ences in the number of teams in the champi- Had two teams in CWS the same year - three Big West in NCAA Tournament onship field with eight apiece. The marks for Won the championship - twice (‘95, ‘04) (1985-2010) the ACC and the Pac-10 were conference YRS REG CWS ALL all-time highs. The Big 12 had five and the Cal State Fullerton Cal State Fullerton 24 82-26 24-23 101-49 Big East and Sun Belt had three teams. Long Beach State 17 41-28 6-8 47-36 • The Titans have won four National Titles UC Irvine 6 13-10 2-2 15-12 • The regionals are a double elimination UC Santa Barbara 4 2-10 0-0 2-10 (1979, 1984, 1995, 2004). They are tied tournament between four teams; the super UC Riverside 2 2-4 0-0 2-4 for fifth with Miami for the most NCAA Col- regionals is a best-of-three format with the UC Davis 1 1-2 0-0 1-2 lege World Series titles. eight winners headed to Omaha for the Cal State Northridge 1 1-2 0-0 1-2 Cal Poly 1 0-2 0-0 0-2 College World Series July 19 - 29/30.