Athletic Media Relations 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, Utah • 84602 801-422-9769 • fax 801-422-0633 ASEBALL Weekly Release - April 27, 2005 B BYU on the Road to Colorado Media Relations Information BYU (29-12-1 overall and 14-4 in the Mountain West Conference for first place) Baseball contact: Ralph Zobell travels to Northern Colorado for single games on Tuesday and Wednesday and E-Mail: [email protected] Air Force (5-34 and 0-18) for a three-game series starting on Thursday. Date Opp/Event Time at site of game 2/17 No. 19 UC Irvine Irvine, CA + W, 5-1 Probable Pitching Rotation 2/18 No. 19 UC Irvine Irvine, CA +% L, 6-9 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 4-5 (10 inn) Apr. 28 @ Air Force Dave Horlacher (4-2, 3.84) Colo. Spgs., 2 p.m. 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA W, 13-5 Apr. 29 @ Air Force Brandon Christiansen(3-0,4.58) Colo. Spgs., 2 p.m. 2/26 San Jose St. San Jose, CA T, 3-3 Apr. 30 @ Air Force Blake Torgerson (5-2, 5.77) Colo. Spgs., 1 p.m. 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–#6 Andrew Law 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-AFA Saturday 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 Live on the Internet 3/26 Utah * Provo +% W, 7-2 3/26 Utah * Provo + W, 5-3 Livestats will be available free to all of BYU’s games this week through 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 5-12 links on www.byucougars.com 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 6-11 3/31 Air Force * Provo + W, 25-2 Taylor Receives Trio of National Honors 4/1 Air Force * Provo + W, 10-4 4/2 Air Force * Provo +% W, 18-5 Brandon Taylor received three national honors this past week: National Hitter of 4/4 Utah Valley St. Orem % W, 4-1 the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writer’s Association, the National 4/7 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 5-0 Student Athlete of the Week by CSTV and the College Baseball Foundation 4/8 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 11-9 National Honor Roll. 4/9 UNLV * Las Vegas +% L, 6-10 BYU Among Leaders in First Release of NCAA Statistics 4/12 Lewis-Clark St. Provo + W, 5-2 4/14 San Diego St. * Provo + L, 4-10 •Second in doubles with a 3.00 average 4/15 San Diego St. * Provo +# W, 13-12 •Second slugging with a .562 percentage. 4/16 San Diego St. * Provo +% W, 18-11 •Third nationally with a .346 batting average 4/18 Utah Valley St. Orem L, 4-7 •Sixth in home runs with a 1.48 average 4/21 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 10-8 4/22 Utah * Salt Lake City % L, 10-11 •Eighth in scoring at 8.9 runs per game 4/23 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 19-6 •25th in win-loss percentage at .713 4/26 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + L, 7-12 •27th in double plays per game at 1.10 4/27 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + W, 6-2 •Brandon Taylor is ranked sixth in RBI with an average of 1.5 4/28-29 Air Force * Colo. Springs 2,2 p.m. •Brandon Taylor 11th nationally in home runs per game, averaging .35 4/30 Air Force * Colo. Springs % 1 p.m. •Brandon Taylor 33rd nationally in slugging, averaging .701 5/2 Utah Valley St. Orem % 7 p.m. •Ben Saylor is ranked eighth in doubles per game with an average of 0.49 5/5-6 New Mexico * Provo + 7, 7 p.m. •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 20th in runs per game with an average of 1.31 5/7 New Mexico * Provo +% 1 p.m. •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 37th in doubles per game with an average of 0.41 5/12 UNLV * Provo + 7 p.m. 5/13 UNLV * Provo +# 7 p.m. 5/14 UNLV * Provo +% 1 p.m. Coach Vance Law and staff 5/18-20 San Diego St.* San Diego +% 6, 6, 1 p.m. 5/25-28 MWC Tourney Salt Lake City % Vance Law played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six 6/17-27 College World Series Omaha, NE different teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year for the Mountain * MWC Games, %Internet Audio, +web cast #BYUTV West Conference. The 48-year-old coach is in his sixth year at BYU and has a 156-136-1 (.534) record coming into the 2005 season. He is assisted by Ryan www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Page 2 Baseball Scoring with Two Outs Roberts, in his third year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his sec- Opponent Runs w/2 out Result %Scored w/2out ond year with BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy. Volunteer UC Irvine 2 W, 5-0 40% assistant Andrew Zinniger is in his first year on the BYU staff. UC Irvine 0 L, 6-9 0% Team Notes San Jose St. 1 L, 4-5 25% San Jose St. 7 W, 13-5 54% • For the fourth week in a row BYU received votes in the four major polls, San Jose St. 2 T, 3-3 67% again in the NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association), but Oklahoma St. 3 L, 4-5 75% didn’t receive votes in the Sports Weekly/ESPN College Baseball Coaches Oklahoma St. 3 W, 9-8* 33% Poll, receiving 11 votes last week and one the week before. Oral Roberts 3 L, 5-6 60% • Add Ryan Chambers and Marcos Villezcas to the list of injured players. Oral Roberts 4 W, 6-2* 67% Chambers jammed his thumb sliding into third base in last Friday’s Oral Roberts 1 W, 7-4* 14% game at Utah and Villezcas jammed his thumb in game one at Northern UVSC 9 W, 15-8* 60% Colorado. Brandon Taylor was hit in pre-game batting practice in the N.Mexico St. 2 W, 5-3* 40% outfield by a San Diego State liner which required him to have 25 stitches N. Mexico St 3 W, 11-7* 27% two layers deep. Sean McNaughton is out for two-three weeks with a N. Mexico St. 15 W, 22-7* 68% broken thumb. Ben Saylor and Casey Nelson missed several games CSU-Pueblo 0 W, 2-1* 0% because of strep throat. Jeff Hiestand has been playing with an injured CSU-Pueblo 5 W, 7-5 71% hand. Lefty Patrick Wells has been absent from the mound since New Mexico 2 L, 5-6 40% February with an arm injury. New Mexico 11 W, 19-6* 58% • Sean McNaughton tied a league and school record by hitting two triples in New Mexico 2 W, 4-3* 50% the 18-5 victory over Air Force. Brandon Taylor got six consecutive hits in UVSC 1 W, 13-10* 8% the 19-6 victory at Utah to tie a school record for six hits in a game. Utah 5 W, 6-5* 83% • Jeff Hiestand leads the team hitting in 21 consecutive games, followed by Utah 4 W, 7-2* 57% Ben Saylor at 12 games and Marcos Villezcas at 10. Utah 0 W, 5-3* 0% • Ben Saylor’s 16-game hitting streak ended in a 9-6 loss to UC Irvine Feb18. Oregon St. 1 L, 5-12 20% • Ben Saylor’s 15-game hitting streak was the longest for BYU last season and Oregon St. 1 L, 6-11 17% Sean McNaughton’s 15-game hitting streak was the longest this season until Air Force 7 W, 25-2 28% Hiestand’s current streak. Air Force 5 W, 10-4* 50% • Marcos Villezcas leads the team with 20 multiple hit games, followed by Air Force 3 W, 18-5 17% Apana Nakayama with 19 and Sean McNaughton with 18 .