2001 Sun Devil Baseball ASU Media Relations 2001 Record:0-1 (P) 480-965-6592 2001 Home Record:0-1 (F) 480-965-5408 Final 2000 Record:44-15 Baseball Contact: Jeff R. Evans 2000 Pac-10:17-7 E-Mail: [email protected] All-Time Record:1,856-737 Website: www.TheSunDevils.com Head Coach:Pat Murphy NCAA National Champions 1965 • 1967 • 1969 • 1977 • 1981 2001 Schedule and Results Sun Devil Baseball Looks For First Wins of (0-1, 0-0 Pac-10) DATE OPPONENT RESULT/TIME 2001 With Four Games Against Southern Utah Jan. 26 Texas-Arlington L, 5-3 The 2001 Arizona State Sun Devil baseball team opened the season last Friday vs. Texas- Jan. 27 Texas-Arlington Rained Out Jan. 28 Texas-Arlington Rained Out Arlington and dropped their first season opener since 1993. The 5-3 setback was followed Feb. 1Southern Utah 7:00 by twop.m. consecutive rain outs to cancel the series with the Mavericks. ASU and UTA are Feb. 2 Southern Utah 7:00 p.m. currently trying to reschedule the games to be played in Arlington sometime in April. Led Feb. 3 Southern Utah 1:00 p.m. by 14 returning lettermen, including the entire nucleus of the Pac-10 Championship team Feb. 4 Southern Utah 1:00 p.m. that finished 2000 with a 44-15 record, the Sun Devils have all eyes set on a return trip to Feb. 9 Duke (R) (TV) 7:00 p.m. Omaha and the College World Series, despite losing their first game. In addition to the Feb. 10 Duke (DH) (TV) 1:00 p.m. Feb. 11 Duke (R) 1:00 p.m. entire starting infield from a year ago returning, seven of the team’s top 10 hitters are back, Feb. 13 New Mexico State 5:00 p.m. including Pac-10 Player of the Year Casey Myers. Leading the pitching corps is a pair of Feb. 16 Creighton (R) 7:00 p.m. preseason All-Americans in LHP Jon Switzer and RHP closer Eric Doble. Switzer was 11- Feb. 17 Creighton 1:00 p.m. 3 with a 3.89 ERA in 2000. Feb. 18 Creighton (R) 12:00 p.m. Feb. 23 at Cal State Fullerton (R) 7:00 p.m. Setting Up The Southern Utah Series: Feb. 24 at Cal State Fullerton (R) 1:00 p.m. Feb. 25 at Cal State Fullerton (R) 1:00 p.m. The Sun Devils are looking to rebound from the season-opening loss to Texas-Arlington Mar. 2 LSU (R) (TV) 7:00 p.m. and will take a 14-game unbeaten streak into this weekends series against Southern Utah. Mar. 3 LSU (TV) 1:00 p.m. ASU has never lost to the Thunderbirds and dominated them last year going 2-0 while Mar. 4 LSU (R) (TV) 1:00 p.m. scoring 47 runs between the two games. Dennis Wyrick (4x5), Mel Stocker (5x6, 6 RBI), Mar. 6 Oral Roberts (R) 7:00 p.m. Casey Myers (3x6, 5 RBI) and Jeff Phelps (.500) all had great games for ASU. The team hit Mar. 7 Oral Roberts 7:00 p.m. Mar. 9 South Florida 7:00 p.m. .471 as opposed to ASU pitchers keeping the SUU bats at a .226 batting average. Jered Mar. 10 South Florida 7:00 p.m. Liebeck was the only pitcher to face SUU last year, striking out one batter in 0.2 innings of Mar. 11 South Florida (R) 12:00 p.m. work. The four games open the 2001 season for Southern Utah, who were 30-26 last year. Mar. 16 at California* (R) 2:00 p.m. Mar. 17 at California* (R) 1:00 p.m. Blame It On The Rain: Mar. 18 at California* (R) 1:00 p.m. The Sun Devil baseball program wanted nothing more than to play the two games vs. Mar. 24 at Oregon State* (R) 1:00 p.m. Mar. 25 at Oregon State* (R) 1:00 p.m. Texas-Arlington on Saturday and Sunday to try to avenge the 5-3 loss they were dealt in the Mar. 26 at Oregon State* (R) 1:00 p.m. season opener Friday. Unfortunately Mother Nature did not cooperate and the stormy weather Mar. 30 Stanford* (R) (TV) 7:00 p.m. that slammed the Southwest cancelled the two games leaving ASU with an 0-1 mark head- Mar. 31Stanford* (R) 7:00 p.m. ing into the four-game series with Southern Utah. Apr. 1Stanford* (R) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 6 at USC* (R) 6:00 p.m. Tough Schedule Looms Ahead for Sun Devils: Apr. 7 at USC* (R) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 8 at USC* (R) 1:00 p.m. You can’t blame the Sun Devils for taking on a light schedule in 2001. Arizona State will Apr. 12 Washington State* (TV) 7:00 p.m. play six teams that are ranked in the preseason top 25. The 2001 schedule includes three Apr. 13 Washington State* (R) 7:00 p.m. games each against #2 USC and #3 LSU, in addition to Stanford, Cal State Fullerton, Apr. 14 Washington State* (R) 1:00 p.m. Oklahoma and Tennessee who were ranked in at least one of the preseason polls. ASU will Apr. 18 at Oklahoma 7:00 p.m. also be playing a combined 22 games against teams that advanced to the NCAA Tourna- Apr. 19 at New Mexico State 6:00 p.m. Apr. 23 Gonzaga 7:00 p.m. ment in 2000 (Oral Roberts, Creighton, LSU, Oklahoma, USC, UCLA, Stanford and Cal Apr. 24 Gonzaga 7:00 p.m. State Fullerton). Apr. 27 Arizona* (R) 7:00 p.m. Apr. 28 Arizona* (R) (TV) 7:00 p.m. 42 Years of Sun Devil Baseball: Apr. 29 Arizona* (R) (TV) 1:00 p.m. While the history of baseball at Arizona State University goes back all the way to the early May 1at Tennessee 7:00 1900’s,p.m. the school officially began sponsoring varsity baseball in 1959. In 42 years of May 2 at Tennessee 7:00 p.m. May 12 at Washington* (R) 6:30 p.m. varsity baseball at Arizona State, the program has built a legacy matched by few in the May 13 at Washington* (R) 1:00 p.m. college baseball world. With a 1,856-737 all-time record, Arizona State has recorded win- May 14 at Washington* (R) 1:00 p.m. ning seasons in all but one year, advanced to the College World Series 18 times, won five May 18 UCLA* (R) 7:00 p.m. national championships, won six Pac-10 titles, produced 13 Players of the Year and three May 19 UCLA* (R) (TV) 7:00 p.m. Golden Spikes Award winners, and has gone to the NCAA Tournament 24 times. Under May 20 UCLA* (R) (TV) 1:00 p.m. current head coach Pat Murphy, the Sun Devils have finished in the top 12 in three of the May 24-27 NCAA Regionals TBA last four years and finished second in the nation in 1998. June 1-3 NCAA Super Regionals TBA June 8-16 College World Series Omaha, Neb. Media Exposure: * Pacific-10 Conference game None of the Southern Utah games will be broadcast on the internet or on XTRA 910 AM, (R) denotes Radio broadcast on XTRA 910 AM but all four games can be tracked through a new feature called Live Stats via the official (TV) denotes TV game on Cox Communications internet site of ASU Athletics, www.TheSunDevils.com. All times are local to site and subject to change. Jan. 30, 2001 • Southern Utah Arizona State Baseball Notes • January 30, 2001 • Page 2 Sun Devil Baseball 2001 2001 Preseason Polls Around The Horn With ASU Baseball: ASU lost its first season opener since 1993 when they fell to Texas-Arlington 5-3... in ‘93 the Devils Baseball America lost to Hawaii, but still managed to make it to Omaha that year... Pat Murphy was undefeated at ASU 1. Georgia Tech and in his Division I head coaching career in season openers before the UTA game... ASU records as 2. USC 3. Louisiana State far back as 1976 do not show ASU ever losing two games in a row to open a season... the Sun Devils 4. Miami, Fla. are a perfect 14-0 vs. Southern Utah, including 2-0 last year when they outscored the Thunderbirds 47- 5. Nebraska 7... Dennis Wyrick had three hits vs. UTA, marking the fourth three-hit game of his career... Brooks 6. ARIZONA STATE Conrad also had three hits for ASU in the season opener... Mike Lopez had his 13-game hitting streak 7. Florida State 8. South Carolina dating back to 2000 snapped when he went 0-for-4 vs. UTA... ASU is trying to reschedule its two 9. Notre Dame rained out games with UTA for April with the possibility of playing at The Ballpark at Arlington, home 10. Clemson of the Texas Rangers... Franco Pezely, who is known as the fireman of ASU baseball for putting out 11. Auburn fires on the mound, is 2-for-2 in inheriting runners and not letting them score... utility player Nick 12. Rice 13. Florida Walsh recorded a sharp single in his first collegiate at-bat... Jeremy West (DH) and Steve Garrabrants 14. Stanford (LF) are both true freshmen who started the opening game for ASU. 15. Cal State Fullerton 16. Georgia ASU Tops In Scoring in NCAA Last Two Years: 17.