BYU Baseball Athletic Communications • 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, UT, 84602 Contact: Ralph Zobell • Office: (801) 422-9769 • Fax: (801) 422-0633 e-mail: [email protected] Follow BYU baseball at http://www.facebook.com/BYUbaseball BYU 2011 Schedule/Results BYU [18-14, 6-5] vs. Utah (16-13) & New Mexico Date Opponent Time at site of game Probable BYU Pitching Rotation Feb. 18 @ Northwestern St. (La.)+ L, 7-8 Feb. 19 @ Northwestern St. (La.)+^% W, 19-1 Apr. 19 vs. Utah Desmond Poulson (3-0, 6.46) 6 p.m. Feb. 19 @ Northwestern St. (La.)+^% L, 1-4 Apr. 21 vs. New Mexico Taylor Cole (3-2, 2.86) 6 p.m. Feb 24 @ Texas Tech #+ L, 4-7 Feb 25 N. Illinois #+ W, 3-2 Apr. 22 vs. New Mexico Chris Capper (3-2, 3.62) 6 p.m. Feb 25 @ Texas Tech #+ W, 8-3 Apr. 23 vs. New Mexico TBA 1 p.m. Feb 26 N. Illinois #+ W, 8-5 Mar 3 @ Washington+^% W, 3-2 Mar 4 @ Washington+^% W, 9-6 Mar 5 @ Washington+^% L, 2-6 Coverage This Week Mar 7 @ Portland+% W, 7-6 (12 inn) Most of the BYU games will be available through livestats, live au- Mar 8 @ Portland+% 7-6 Mar 10 @ Oregon L, 3-6 dio, live video online through links available at http://www.byucougars. Mar 11 @ Oregon $ L, 2-4 com/Schedule.jsp?SP=101. Live radio broadcasts are on Radio 960 Mar 12 @ Oregon $ L, 0-10 Mar 17 @ Utah *$ + L, 2-3 AM/92.9 FM with Brent Norton calling the play-by-play for his 21st Mar 18 @ Utah *$ +% W, 10-8 season with BYU baseball. Mar 19 @ Utah *$ L, 6-15 Mar 21 @ Creighton+% L, 5-6 Mar 22 @ Creighton+% W, 11-4 Mar 24 San Diego State *$+^ W, 8-4 Coach Vance Law Mar 25 San Diego State *$+^% W, 6-4 Coach Vance Law is in his 12th season as head coach at BYU. He Mar 26 San Diego State *$+^% L, 3-5 (10 inn) Mar 31 @ Pepperdine+^ W, 5-4 (12 inn) played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six dif- Apr 1 @ Pepperdine$+^% W, 8-3 ferent teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year in the Mountain Apr 2 @ Pepperdine$+^% L, 3-5 Apr 5 Utah Valley (BYUtv)=+ W, 11-3 West Conference. The 54-year-old coach entered this season with a Apr 7 Air Force *$ (BYUtv)=+ W, 10-4 344-294-2 (.539) record. He is assisted by Ryan Roberts, in his ninth Apr 8 Air Force *$ (BYUtv)=+ W, 10-1 Apr 9 Air Force cancelled, weather - year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his eighth year with Apr 14 @ UNLV *$^% L, 2-7 BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy. Apr 15 @ UNLV *$^% L, 5-6 (10 inn) Apr 16 @ UNLV *$^% W, 9-4 Apr 19 Utah $ (BYUtv)=+ 6 Apr 21 New Mexico *$+^ 6 Hitting Streaks Apr 22 New Mexico *$+^ 6 Stephen Wells leads the team with a current nine-game hitting streak, Apr 23 New Mexico *$+^ 1 Apr 25 @ Washington St+^. 5:30 followed by Dane Nielsen and Wes Guenther at three games apiece. Apr 26 @ Washington St.+^ 5:30 Jaycob Brugman lost a 10-game hitting streak last week. Apr 28 TCU *$ (BYUtv)=+ 6 Apr 29 TCU *$ (BYUtv)=+ 6 Apr 30 TCU *$ (BYUtv)=+ 1 May 2 @ Arizona St.$+ 6 2011 BYU Baseball Media Guide May 3 @ Arizona St.$+ 6 May 5 Seattle (BYUtv)=+ 6 There is no hard copy of the 2011 BYU Baseball Media Guide, rather May 6 Seattle (BYUtv)=+ 6 it is on-line at http://www.byucougars.com/mediaGuides.jsp. BYU’s May 7 Seattle (BYUtv)=+ 1 May 9 Gonzaga$ (BYUtv)=+ 3 online media guides have been recognized by eyeonsportsmedia.com May10 Gonzaga$ (BYUtv)=+ 6 as the Best Online Media Guide Solution, receiving the 2009 Bloodshot May 12 @ San Diego St. *$% 6 May 13 @ San Diego St. *$% 6 Eyeball Award for Sports Media Best Practices. May 14 @ San Diego St. *$% 1 May 19 @Air Force *$+% 2 May 20 @Air Force *$+% (7 innings) TBA NCAA Statistics May 20 @Air Force *$+ TBA May 21 @Air Force *$+% 12 In NCAA stax released last week, BYU was 17th in triples, Stephen May 24-28 MWC Champs @ San Diego St. Wells was 9th in doubles and Jaycob Brugman was 14th in triples. Jun16-28 College World Series * MWC Games, % Internet Audio, + webcast, ^live video # Brooks Wallace Memorial Classic $Radio 960 =Rebroadcast on The Mtn. TV Non-Conference Utes -- All times are local to site For the fourth time in over 50 years, BYU has a non-league game vs. Utah. Utah won the past three 9-7 in 2008, 8-4 in 2007 and 5-4 in 2006. Next season non-league games are on tap for BYU vs. Utah. www.byucougars.com 2011 Baseball About the Team . BYU 2010 Schedule/Results Oldest to Youngest Date Opponent Time at site of game Feb 19 @ UC Riverside + L, 11-12 There are eight seniors and eight freshmen on the current squad. The ages Feb 19 @ UC Riverside + L, 4-6 range from 24-year-old Andrew Law to 18-year-old Kolton Mahoney. Feb 20 @ UC Riverside+% L, 11-6 Feb 25 @ UC Davis +% L, 0-3 Feb 25 @ UC Davis +% W, 10-2 Good GPAs Feb 27 @ UC Davis +& W, 8-4 Mar 2 @ Baylor +^% W, 7-5 Last winter semester (2010) pitcher David Parry recorded a 4.0 grade point Mar 3 @ Texas A & M +^ L, 3-5 average. The accounting major made the Dean’s List. Dane Nielsen was Mar 4 @ UT Arlington + L, 2-17 Mar 5 @ UT Arlington + L, 3-6 nominated to the CoSida Academic All-America ballot. Mar 6 @ UT Arlington + W, 11-10 Mar 11 Washington +^ W, 10-4 Mar 12 Washington +^ W, 16-4 Home Season Mar 13 Washington +^ L, 10-12 Mar 15 @ Gonzaga + L, 7-9 BYU drew 17,952 fans in it’s 19-game home schedule this season for a Mar 16 @ Gonzaga + W, 3-2 12-7 record. The Cougars have a 134-74 (.644) record at Larry H. Mill- Mar 18 @ No. 4 TCU + L, 6-13 Mar 19 @ No. 4 TCU + L, 3-11 er Field which seats 2,204 fans in its 10th season since it was built. In Mar 19 @ No. 4 TCU + W, 5-4 the previous nine years BYU drew 218,981 fans for an average of 1,177 Mar 25 UNLV +^ W, 12-11 Mar 26 UNLV +^ W, 8-4 and 142,248 at night for an average of 1,452. The crowd of 3,081 against Mar 27 UNLV +^ L, 5-11 Utah last season was the fourth-largest in school history and the second- Mar 31 @USF + L, 4-20 Apr 1 @ San Jose St. + W, 11-5 largest at Miller Park. The largest crowd at home during 2010 was 1,826 Apr 3 @ San Jose St. + W, 11-5 in the finale vs. Utah and the crowd of 3,744 fans at Utah Valley was the Apr 3 @ San Jose St. + L, 3-5 Apr 5 Washington St. +^ W, 3-2 largest on the road. Apr 8 @ New Mexico* + L, 5-11 Apr 9 @ New Mexico* + W, 13-5 Apr 10 @ New Mexico* + L, 9-10 Taking Series Apr 13 No. 20 Kansas St. +^ W, 15-9 Apr 14 No. 20 Kansas St. +^ W, 13-10 In 2010 BYU won series against UC Davis, Washington, UNLV, San Jose Apr 15 No. 10 TCU* +^ (TV) L, 8-14 State, No. 20 Kansas State, Utah, San Diego State and Air Force. Thus Apr 15 No. 10 TCU* +^ (TV) L, 1-12 Apr 17 No. 10 TCU* +^ (11 inn., TV) L 5-4 far in 2011, BYU has won vs. No. Illinois, Washington, Portland, SDSU, Apr 22 Utah* +%^ W, 9-7 Pepperdine & Air Force Apr 23 Utah* +^ (BYU TV live) L, 2-11 Apr 24 Utah* +^ W, 6-4 Apr 29 @ Seattle (16 inn.) L, 2-3 Apr 30 @ Seattle L, 7-8 May 1 Portland (Seattle) L, 1-5 May 4 @ UVU + W, 14-10 May 6 @ UNLV* + L, 6-12 May 7 @ UNLV* + (11 innings) L, 8-9 2011 Game-Winning RBI May 8 @ UNLV*+% W, 16-7 May 10 @Arizona St. + L, 0-14 May 11 @Arizona St. + L, 2-7 Jaycob Brugman...............................4 May 13 San Diego St.* + ^ (TV, 10 innings) W, 10-9 -three-run homer @ Creighton, 11-4 May 14 San Diego St.* + ^(BYU TV live) W, 13-5 -two-run single vs. San Diego St., 8-4 May 15 San Diego St.* + ^(BYU TV live) W, 16-10 -one-run double @ Pepperdine, 5-4 May 18 UVU +^ (BYU TV, 10 inn.) L, 12-14 May 20 @ Air Force* + W, 16-6 -one-run single vs. AFA, 10-1 May 21 @ Air Force* + W, 18-4 Ryan Bernal......................................3 May 22 @ Air Force* +% L, 19-22 -one-run single @ Washington, 3-2 May 25 vs. UNLV + L 1-9 -solo homer @ Portland, 7-6 May 26 @ San Diego St. + W 16-8 May 27 vs. Utah + W 25-18 -three-run homer @ Utah, 10-8 May 27 vs. New Mexico + L 6-7 Austin Hall.......................................2 -sac-fly, vs. No. Illinois, 3-2 2011 MWC Preseason Poll BYU’s Sibling Rivalry -two-run triple vs. No. Illinois, 8-5 1 TCU (16) ...................112 Player/Coach ............ No. of Siblings Andrew Law.....................................2 2. BYU ...................84 -two-out single vs. San Diego St., 6-4 3.