Athletic Media Relations 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, Utah • 84602 801-422-9769 • fax 801-422-0633 Weekly Release - May 16, 2007 Cougars’ Final Home Games of Regular Season BYU, 32-18 overall and 14-7 in the Mountain West Conference (second place and two games ahead of Utah) hosts UVSC, 22-27, then Utah, 24-26 and 12-9. Game Media Relations Information times have been changed for the Utah series because of BYU hosting NCAA E-Mail: [email protected] Softball Regionals. Date Opp/Event Time at site of game Probable Pitching Rotation 5/17 Utah +*# %(BYUTV) 7 p.m. May 17 Utah Jesse Craig (9-2, 2.89) 7 p.m. 5/18 Utah +* 7:30 p.m. May 18 Utah Jordan Muir (5-4, 5.40) 7:30 p.m. 5/19 Utah +*% 4 p.m. May 19 Utah Jake Wortham (6-4, 4.46) 4 p.m. 5/22-26 MWC Tournament Las Vegas TBA 6/1-4 NCAA Regionals TBA Probable Lineup 6/8-11 Super Regionals TBA 1B–#22Kasey Ko 2B–#9 Kent Walton SS–#13 Danny Vargas 6/15-28 World Series Omaha, NE TBA 3B–#5 Steve Parker RF–#17 Leon Johnson CF–#1 Stephen Wells * MWC Games, +webcast, #TV, %Internet Audio LF–#24 Apana Nakayama C–#10 J.T. Musso DH–#16 Chase Frampton Injuries Kent Walton suffered a concussion in a collision at first base last Saturday, but should be available for the Utah series. Collin Fanning is still bothered by shin- Recent Games in BYU-Utah Series splints, but available on game-day decisions. Utility player Jason Johnson is out 3/20/07 @ Utah + L 4-8 indefinitely following a surgical procedure last week from an injury in practice. 5/24/06 MWC Tourney W 9-8 Shortstop Danny Vargas returned last month from a moderate strain of the MCL 5/20/06 @ Utah W 6-2 with a knee injury (game 1 at UNLV). Outfielder Jonathan Cluff is out for eight 5/19/06 @ Utah W 14-7 weeks with a broken foot (at Utah). 5/18/06 @ Utah W 8-7 4/1/06 San Diego Tourn. L 3-6 Radio Coverage 3/14/06 Provo + L 4-5 There will be live BYU radio for all of BYU’s league games. KOVO 960 AM, with 4/23/05 @ Utah W 19-6 veteran broadcaster Brent Norton calling the play-by-play,. These broadcasts are 4/22/05 @ Utah L 10-11 also available on the Dish Network as well as over the Internet. Links to the web- 4/21/05 @ Utah W 10-8 casts and audiocasts are on the BYU baseball's schedule page at www.byu- 3/26/05 Provo W 5-3 cougars.com. 3/25/05 Provo W 7-2 BYU on TV Four Times 3/24/05 Provo W 6-5 Four BYU games are televised this season--March 22 vs. TCU, April 5 vs. +non-league game UNLV, and May 17 vs. Utah, all on both BYUTV and The Mountain. The BYUTV games are recorded in three languages: English, Spanish and BYU had a 13-game winning streak over Utah Portuguese. BYU’s 7-3 game at San Diego State was televised on The Mtn. until the Utes beat them in the 2004 tournament. Coach Vance Law and staff The Cougars have a 12-4 record over Utah in the Vance Law became a grandpa in March. He played 14 years of pro ball, includ- seven-year history of Miller Park, but the Utes ing 11 years in the majors with six different teams. In 2001 he was named won the game with the second-largest crowd, Coach of the Year for the Mountain West Conference. The 50-year-old coach is 2,863, in stadium history in 2002. in his eighth year at BYU and has a 228-183-2 (.554) record coming into the 2007 season. He is assisted by Ryan Roberts, in his fifth year at BYU. Pitching coach In March of 2004, a doubleheader at Franklin Bobby Applegate is in his fourth year with BYU, having last coached at the Air Covey Field in Salt Lake City between the two Force Academy. Volunteer assistant Paul Bassett is in his first year on the BYU teams lasted 27 innings and eight hours. The staff. Cougars won both of those games in extra innings including a BYU-record 17-inning BYU Scoring With Two Outs marathon victory, 5-4. The accompanying chart on page two shows BYU practices what Coach Vance Law preaches, you can still score with two outs. In 2005 BYU won 25 BYU has a 203-89-1 record in the series which of its 39 games in come-from-behind fashion. In 2006 BYU won 16 of 33 started in 1895 with a 0-0 tie in a bench-clearing games coming from behind. This season BYU has won 13 games coming brawl. from behind. www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Baseball Scoring in 2007 with Two Outs Page 2 Opp. w/2 out Result %Scored w/2out NCAA Statistics SH St. 9 W, 17-8= 53% SH St. 3 W, 5-2 60% This week’s NCAA statistics show BYU ranked first again in triples at 0.67 Portland 1 L, 1-2 50% per game, Kent Walton ranked 25th in triples with a 0.13 average, Collin Memphis 2 L, 2-3 (10) 100% Fanning is ranked 27th in stolen bases (0.55) and Leon Johnson is ranked Missouri 2 W, 4-3 (10) 50% 29th in stolen bases (0.54), and Jesse Craig is ranked 23rd in pitching victo- So. Utah 10 W, 20-2 50% ries with nine. The Cougars also rank 15th in double plays (1.04) and 22nd No. Colo. 2 W, 17-2 11% in stolen bases at 1.86 thefts per game. No. Colo. 8 W, 13-1 62% No. Colo. 1 W, 7-5 14% Team Notes Gonzaga 4 W, 10-3 40% • Stephen Wells leads the team with a current eight-game hitting streak, fol- Gonzaga 3 W, 9-4 33% lowed by Kasey Ko with seven and Steve Parker at four. Kent Walton led UVSC 2 W, 12-8= 17% the team with a 16-game hitting streak, hitting in the first eight games this UNLV 4 L, 5-12 80% season. Walton had an 11-game hitting streak last season, too. Collin UNLV 5 W, 9-8= 56% Fanning led the team with a 14-game hitting streak ended at TCU. Kasey Ko UNLV 3 W, 5-3= 60% had a 10-game streak also ended at TCU. Leon Johnson had a nine-game Utah 1 L, 4-8 25% streak this season ended against TCU. Wells had an eight-game hitting TCU 3 L, 5-6 60% Apana Nakayama TCU 6 W, 12-11= 50% streak ended vs. UNLV. had a seven-game hitting streak Binghamton 10 W, 15-0 67% ended at Portland. Parker had a seven-game hitting streak ended at New Binghamton 1 L, 6-11 17% Mexico. Binghamton 9 W, 12-10= 75% • Game-winning RBI this season have come from Mike McKeever (a two-run UNLV 4 W, 14-13= 29% single in game one at Sam Houston State, a single in game three vs. UNLV 1 W, 5-3 20% Gonzaga), Jonathan Cluff (a two-run single in game three at Sam Houston UNLV 7 W, 16-9= 44% State & a two-run triple in game two vs. Gonzaga), Stephen Wells (solo Washington 2 W, 8-3 25% homer in the 10th inning vs. Missouri and a one-run triple vs. AFA in game Washington 8 W, 15-9 53% 3), Austin Hall (double vs. SUU, single vs. UVSC in game one, double vs. So. Utah 1 L, 2-7 50% UVSC in game 3), Dan Vargas (triple in game one & single in game three vs. TCU 4 W, 5-0 80% Northern Colorado), Kasey Ko (a two-run double in game two at UNLV, a TCU 1 L, 2-14 50% double against Binghamton, a two-run single vs. UNLV game 3 and a two-out AFA 1 W, 5-4= 20% single in the 13th at SDSU), Apana Nakayama (a two-run homer against AFA 1 W, 7-4= 14% Binghamton, a single vs. UNLV in game 1, a single vs. UNLV in game 2 and a AFA 1 W, 11-2= 9% solo homer at TCU), Collin Fanning (single in game three at UNLV, single in UVSC 1 W, 2-1 50% game one vs. Washington) and J.T. Musso (a two-run homer in game two vs. New Mexico 2 W, 3-0 67% Washington), Steve Parker (a one-run triple vs. AFA in game 2, a one-run New Mexico 3 L, 3-4 100% double at UVSC and a one-run double at New Mexico in game 3). and Kent New Mexico 4 W, 5-3= 80% Walton So. Utah 3 W, 12-1 25% (a sac-fly in game one at New Mexico and a 3-run homer vs. Southern SDSU 3 W, 4-3 75% Utah in game 3). SDSU 6 W, 7-3 86% • This year BYU is 4-2 in extra-inning games. Last season BYU was 2-0 in UVSC 1 W, 6-2= 17% extra-inning games. In 2005 BYU was 1-2 in extra-inning contests. Ticket Prices 2007 Totals: 143 343 total runs 42% 2006 Totals: 171 415 total runs 41% Reserve seats at Larry H.