Athletic Media Relations 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, Utah • 84602 801-422-9769 • fax 801-422-0633 ASEBALL Weekly Release - May 11, 2005 B BYU Hosts Final Home Games Media Relations Information BYU (33-15-1 overall and 17-7 in the Mountain West Conference for first place) Baseball contact: Ralph Zobell E-Mail: [email protected] hosts UNLV (25-24 and 19-5) for a three-game series starting on Thursday. Date Opp/Event Time at site of game Probable Pitching Rotation 2/17 No. 19 UC Irvine Irvine, CA + W, 5-1 2/18 No. 19 UC Irvine Irvine, CA +% L, 6-9 May 12 UNLV Dave Horlacher (5-2, 3.91) Provo, 7 p.m. 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 4-5 (10 inn) May 13 UNLV Lance Beus (1-1, 5.40) Provo, 7 p.m. 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA W, 13-5 May 14 UNLV Blake Torgerson (6-2, 6.28) Provo, 1 p.m. 2/26 San Jose St. San Jose, CA T, 3-3 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–Law or McNaughton 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-UNLV 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 3/26 Utah * Provo +% W, 7-2 TV Coverage 3/26 Utah * Provo + W, 5-3 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 5-12 KBYU-TV (Channell 11) will televise Friday’s game live with Jay Monsen calling 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 6-11 the play-by-play and Gary Sheide as color analyst. That same game will have a 3/31 Air Force * Provo + W, 25-2 delayed telecast nationally on BYUTV on Saturday at 11 a.m. This is the second 4/1 Air Force * Provo + W, 10-4 time this season BYU has appeared on BYUTV (April 16 vs. San Diego State). 4/2 Air Force * Provo +% W, 18-5 4/4 Utah Valley St. Orem % W, 4-1 Taylor Receives Trio of National Honors 4/7 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 5-0 4/8 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 11-9 Brandon Taylor received three national honors in recent weeks: Louisville Slugger 4/9 UNLV * Las Vegas +% L, 6-10 National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball magazine and Pro-line Cap 4/12 Lewis-Clark St. Provo + W, 5-2 National Hitter of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writer’s 4/14 San Diego St. * Provo + L, 4-10 Association, the National Student Athlete of the Week by CSTV and the College 4/15 San Diego St. * Provo +# W, 13-12 Baseball Foundation National Honor Roll three times. He hit for the cycle at Utah 4/16 San Diego St. * Provo +% W, 18-11 4/18 Utah Valley St. Orem L, 4-7 when he tied a school record with six hits. He hit for the cycle again last week at 4/21 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 10-8 Air Force to tie an NCAA record by hitting for two cycles in a season, only the 4/22 Utah * Salt Lake City % L, 10-11 third player to do so in NCAA history. 4/23 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 19-6 BYU Among Leaders in NCAA Statistics 4/26 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + L, 7-12 4/27 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + W, 6-2 •First slugging with a .554 percentage. 4/29 Air Force * Colo. Springs W, 17-2 •Second in doubles with a 2.84 average 4/29-30 Air Force * Colo. Springs L, 7-8 (11 inn) 4/30 Air Force * Colo. Springs % W, 17-9 •Third nationally with a .341 batting average 5/2 Utah Valley St. Orem % W, 10-6 •Fifth in home runs with a 1.53 average 5/5 New Mexico * Provo + W, 11-8 •Sixth in scoring at 9.0 runs per game 5/6 New Mexico * Provo + L, 1-4 •18th in double plays per game at 1.11 5/7 New Mexico * Provo +% L, 7-14 •31st in win-loss percentage at .684 5/12 UNLV * Provo + 7 p.m. •Brandon Taylor is ranked fifth in RBI with an average of 1.51 5/13 UNLV * Provo +# 7 p.m. 5/14 UNLV * Provo +% 1 p.m. •Brandon Taylor sixth nationally in home runs per game, averaging .39 5/18-20 San Diego St.* San Diego +% 6, 6, 1 p.m. •Brandon Taylor 13th nationally in slugging, averaging .739 5/25-28 MWC Tourney Salt Lake City % •Ben Saylor is ranked eighth in doubles per game with an average of 0.45 6/17-27 College World Series Omaha, NE •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 19th in runs per game with an average of 1.29 * MWC Games, %Internet Audio, +web cast #BYUTV •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 47th in doubles per game with an average of 0.39 •Apana Nakayama is ranked 38th in toughest to strikeout www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Page 2 Baseball Scoring with Two Outs Opponent Runs w/2 out Result %Scored w/2out UC Irvine 2 W, 5-0 40% Coach Vance Law and staff UC Irvine 0 L, 6-9 0% San Jose St. 1 L, 4-5 25% Vance Law played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six San Jose St. 7 W, 13-5 54% different teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year for the Mountain San Jose St. 2 T, 3-3 67% West Conference. The 48-year-old coach is in his sixth year at BYU and has a Oklahoma St. 3 L, 4-5 75% 156-136-1 (.534) record coming into the 2005 season. He is assisted by Ryan Oklahoma St. 3 W, 9-8* 33% Roberts, in his third year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his sec- Oral Roberts 3 L, 5-6 60% ond year with BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy. Volunteer Oral Roberts 4 W, 6-2* 67% assistant Andrew Zinniger is in his first year on the BYU staff. Oral Roberts 1 W, 7-4* 14% UVSC 9 W, 15-8* 60% Team Notes N.Mexico St. 2 W, 5-3* 40% N. Mexico St 3 W, 11-7* 27% • For the sixth week in a row BYU received votes in the four major polls, again N. Mexico St. 15 W, 22-7* 68% in the NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association), the Sports CSU-Pueblo 0 W, 2-1* 0% Weekly/ESPN College Baseball Coaches Poll, receiving three votes this week, CSU-Pueblo 5 W, 7-5 71% four votes last week, no votes two weeks ago, 11 votes four weeks ago and New Mexico 2 L, 5-6 40% five weeks ago. New Mexico 11 W, 19-6* 58% • Add Adrian Molina to the list of injured players as he was hit in the hand New Mexico 2 W, 4-3* 50% at Air Force and teammate Bryce Ayoso suffered a wrist injury in the cold UVSC 1 W, 13-10* 8% at AFA. Ryan Chambers jammed his thumb sliding into third base at Utah 5 W, 6-5* 83% Utah and Marcos Villezcas jammed his thumb in game one at Northern Utah 4 W, 7-2* 57% Brandon Taylor Utah 0 W, 5-3* 0% Colorado. was hit in pre-game batting practice in the out- Oregon St. 1 L, 5-12 20% field by a San Diego State liner which required him to have 25 stitches Oregon St. 1 L, 6-11 17% two layers deep. Sean McNaughton is expected back soon after being Air Force 7 W, 25-2 28% out two-three weeks with a broken thumb. Ben Saylor and Casey Nelson Air Force 5 W, 10-4* 50% missed several games because of strep throat. Jeff Hiestand has been Air Force 3 W, 18-5 17% playing with an injured hand. Lefty Patrick Wells has been absent from UVSC 0 W, 4-1 0% the mound since February with an arm injury.