Athletic Media Relations 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, Utah • 84602 801-422-9769 • fax 801-422-0633 ASEBALL Weekly Release - Mar. 23, 2004 B Utah Hosts Three-Game Series Media Relations Information Beginning a nine-game road trip, BYU travels to Salt Lake City for a three - g a m e Baseball contact: Ralph Zobell series with the University of Utah beginning Thursday. The Utes (4-13, 1-2 in the E-Mail: [email protected] Mountain West Conference) will host the Cougars (10-19, 0-3) at Franklin Covey Date Opp/Event Time at site of game Field with Thursday and Friday’s games beginning at 6 p.m. and a noon start on 1/29-30 California Berkeley, CA + L, 1-11 Sa t u rd a y . BYU began conference play last week, losing three straight to 2003 MWC 1/30 California Berkeley, CA + L, 3-13 champion UNLV. Utah returns home after losing two of three to New Mexico. Al l 1/31 California Berkeley, CA + L, 4-7 th r ee BYU-Utah games can be listened to live on KOVO 960 AM and are also 2/5 St. Mary’s Stockton, CA + L, 5-9 available on DirectTV and the Dish Network through the BYU Radio channel and 2/6 Pacific Stockton, CA +% L, 4-5 over the Internet. All three games can also be followed live with Gametracker. 2/7 Nevada Stockton, CA +% W, 3-1 Links to the webcasts and audio casts can be found on BYU baseball’s schedule 2/9 Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA + L, 3-9 page at www.b y u c o u g a r s . c o m . 2/10 Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA + W, 11-10 2/12 UC Riverside Riverside, CA L, 1-8 A Quick Look at the Cougars 2/13 UC Riverside Riverside, CA L, 2-4 2/14 UC Riverside Riverside, CA L, 4-6 Fifth year coach Vance Law returns five position starters and Paul Jacinto, the 2/19 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 3-4 MWC Pitcher of the Year. Players to watch include third-team Preseason All- 2/20 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 1-2 (10) American Ranger Wiens, Ryan Chambers, Rob Itri, Jeff Hiestand, Ben Saylor 2/21 San Jose St. San Jose, CA W, 3-2 (10) and Casey Cloward. Pitchers to watch are Paul Jacinto, junior college transfer 2/26 Pepperdine Malibu, CA % W, 5-0 Patrick Wells and Justin Su’a. 2/27 Nevada Malibu, CA + L, 0-13 (7) 2/28 Cal Northridge Malibu, CA L, 3-6 Probable Pitching Rotation 3/4 Cal Northridge Northridge, CA L, 6-7 Mar. 25 Utah Patrick Wells (3-2, 5.07) Salt Lake City, UT, 6 p.m. 3/5 Long Beach Long Beach, CA % L, 1-3 Mar. 26 Utah Paul Jacinto (0-6, 6.80) Salt Lake City, UT, 6 p.m. 3/6 Cal Northridge Northridge, CA W, 10-4 Mar. 27 Utah Justin Su’a (2-1, 3.59) Salt Lake City, UT, Noon 3/8 Dallas Baptist Fresno, CA W, 6-4 3/9 Chicago St. Fresno, CA W, 21-3 All-Time vs. Utah 3/10 Fresno St. Fresno, CA % W, 5-3 3/11 Monmouth Fresno, CA W, 11-6 The Cougars are 188-84-1 all-time against the University of Utah. Last year, 3/12 Portland Fresno, CA W, 5-4 BYU swept the Utes in regular-season action, winning all six games. The 3/13 Fresno St. Fresno, CA % L, 9-10 Cougars also knocked Utah out of the MWC Tournament with a 7-6 win on 3/18 UNLV* Provo + L, 9-12 (11) May 23, 2003. In the final regular-season game against the Utes on May 9, 2003 3/19 UNLV * Provo + L, 1-17 at Provo, BYU rallied to score two runs in the ninth to win 7-6. The 7-0 record 3/20 UNLV * Provo + % L, 6-12 against Utah in 2003 is the first time in 13 years the Cougars have gone unde- 3/25 Utah * Salt Lake City + % 6 p.m. feated against the Utes. BYU was 4-0 in 1990 against Utah. The Cougars have 3/26 Utah * Salt Lake City + % 6 p.m. gone 39-23 against the Utes in the past 10 years. BYU’s greatest and longest 3/27 Utah * Salt Lake City + % Noon standing rivalry did not start on the football field. In 1895, the Brigham Young 4/1 New Mexico * Albuquerque + 6 p.m. Academy played the first ever intercollegiate event in Utah against the Utes on 4/2 New Mexico * Albuquerque + 6 p.m. 4/3 New Mexico * Albuquerque + Noon a baseball diamond. The game ended in a 0-0 tie and a bench-clearing brawl. 4/8 UNLV * Las Vegas +% 6:30 p.m. 4/9 UNLV * Las Vegas +% 6:30 p.m. Probable Lineup 4/10 UNLV * Las Vegas +% 2 p.m. 1B–#1-Tim Law 2B–#5 Wade Vest SS–#2 Brandon Taylor 4/15 San Diego St* Provo + 7 p.m. 3B–#8 Ranger Wiens RF–#25 Ben Saylor CF–#22 Ryan Chambers 4/16 San Diego St* Provo $ + 7 p.m. LF–#12 Kory Knell C–#9 Casey Cloward or #24 Adam Wilkes 4/17 San Diego St* Provo + % Noon DH–#16 Jeff Hiestand or #21 Rob Itri 4/22-23 Air Force * Colorado Spgs. + 2 p.m. 4/24 Air Force * Colorado Spgs. + Noon Schedule Change 4/29-30 Utah * Provo + % 7 p.m. The Saturday, May 1 game against Utah in Provo has been changed from noon 5/1 Utah * Provo $ + % 6 p.m. to 6 p.m. The game will be one of two televised games this year. 5/6-7 New Mexico * Provo + 7 p.m. 5/8 New Mexico * Provo + % Noon Radio Coverage 5/12-14 San Diego St* San Diego +% 6 p.m. 5/18 Utah Valley Provo + 7 p.m. The play-by-play again comes from Brent Norton, BYU’s veteran broa d c a s t e r 5/20-21 Air Force * Provo + 7 p.m. entering his 14th season. Games will be live on KOVO 960 AM with selected live 5/22 Air Force * Provo + Noon st r eams available at www.byucougars.com. The live audio casts are available on 5/26-29 MWC Tourn. Las Vegas TBA Ma r ch 25-27 against Utah, April 17 against San Diego State, April 29-May 1 against * MWC Games, %Internet Audio +web cast Utah and May 8 against New Mexico. The live audio cast dates are also available $BYUTV on DirectTV and the Dish Network through the BYU Radio channel. www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Page 2 BYU Quick Facts TV Coverage BYUTV will televise two of BYU’s home games. BYUTV will have live cover- Location: Provo, Utah 84602 age of the San Diego State-BYU game at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 16. It will also Enrollment: 30,069 (Daytime) have live coverage of the Utah-BYU game at 6 p.m. on Saturday May 1 with a Founded: Oct. 15, 1875, by The Church of Jesus delayed airing on KBYU at 10 p.m. The television broadcasts are also available Christ of Latter-day Saints on DirectTV and the Dish Network through the BYUTV channel. The broad- Colors: Blue and White casts can also be watched live over the Internet. Links to the broadcasts can be Nickname: Cougars found on BYU baseball’s schedule page at www.byucougars.com. Clicking on Mascot: Cosmo (the Cougar) the “Live Audio” link for the scheduled television dates will link you to the Affiliation: NCAA Division I broadcasts. Conference: Mountain West Coach Law on the Season Field: Larry H. Miller Field (2,300) “We have a close-knit unit and continue to add more depth. We do not have a President: Cecil O. Samuelson pitcher in our program outside of Paul Jacinto who posted a victory for us last Men’s AD: Val Hale season because Michel Bergeron(6-3, 5.37) and Anthony Bingham (1-0, 5.93) are Ticket Office Phone: (801) 378-BYU1 or seeking a medical redshirt.” 1-800-322-BYU1 Baseball Staff: Recent Action Head Coach: Vance Law (BYU, 1978) Two nail biters and a blowout sum up BYU’s three-game series with UNLV last Office Phone: (801) 422-5049 week in Provo. The Cougars lost 12-9 in 11 innings on Thursday after seven lead changes were exchanged with the Rebels. UNLV came back on Friday with Record: 138-125-1, fifth season a 17-1 blowout. Saturday, BYU had a comfortable 5-0 lead entering the fifth Assistant Coaches: before giving up eight runs in the eighth inning of a 12-6 Rebels’ win. Errors Ryan Roberts (BYU, 1998) were plentiful for the Cougars as they committed 19 in the series accounting for Bobby Applegate (U of Southern Colorado, 1996) 17-unearned runs. Ranger Wiens threw out three runners at home in one game Seth King (BYU) on Thursday. On Friday, Wade Vest had a 10-game hitting streak end, and BYU Trainer: Spencer Mack had the seventh-largest home crowd, drawing 2,293 fans. Brandon Taylor hit his Baseball Facts: team-leading fifth home run on Saturday. 2003 Record: 30-24-1 (14-4 home,16-20 away) Scouting the Utes Conference Finish: 18-12, Second place in MWC Utah (4-13, 1-2) is off to a slow start, winning four of its first 17 games.