Athletic Media Relations 30 Smith Fieldhouse • Provo, Utah • 84602 801-422-9769 • fax 801-422-0633 ASEBALL Weekly Release - May 2, 2005 B BYU Back Again in Happy Valley Media Relations Information BYU (32-13-1 overall and 16-5 in the Mountain West Conference for first place) Baseball contact: Ralph Zobell E-Mail: [email protected] hosts New Mexico (19-26 and 9-12) 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 5 New Mexico Dave Horlacher (4-2, 3.84) Provo, 7 p.m. 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA L, 4-5 (10 inn) May 6 New Mexico Lance Beus (1-0, 6.48) Provo, 7 p.m. 2/25 San Jose St. San Jose, CA W, 13-5 May 7 New Mexico Blake Torgerson (5-2, 5.77) 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-UNM games will be on KOVO, 3/22 Utah Valley St. Provo +% W, 13-10 but only Saturday’s will be available via live audiostream. 3/24 Utah * Provo +% W, 6-5 3/26 Utah * Provo +% W, 7-2 Taylor Receives Trio of National Honors 3/26 Utah * Provo + W, 5-3 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 5-12 Brandon Taylor received three national honors last week and one this week: 3/29 No. 17 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR $ L, 6-11 National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball magazine this week and last 3/31 Air Force * Provo + W, 25-2 week National Hitter of the Week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writer’s 4/1 Air Force * Provo + W, 10-4 Association, the National Student Athlete of the Week by CSTV and the College 4/2 Air Force * Provo +% W, 18-5 4/4 Utah Valley St. Orem % W, 4-1 Baseball Foundation National Honor Roll, an honor he received again this week. 4/7 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 5-0 He hit for the cycle at Utah when he tied a school record with six hits. He hit for 4/8 UNLV * Las Vegas +% W, 11-9 the cycle again last week at Air Force to tie an NCAA record by hitting for two 4/9 UNLV * Las Vegas +% L, 6-10 cycles in a season, only the third player to do so in NCAA history. 4/12 Lewis-Clark St. Provo + W, 5-2 BYU Among Leaders in First Release of NCAA Statistics 4/14 San Diego St. * Provo + L, 4-10 4/15 San Diego St. * Provo +# W, 13-12 •First in doubles with a 2.93 average 4/16 San Diego St. * Provo +% W, 18-11 4/18 Utah Valley St. Orem L, 4-7 •First slugging with a .564 percentage. 4/21 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 10-8 •Third nationally with a .345 batting average 4/22 Utah * Salt Lake City % L, 10-11 •Fourth in home runs with a 1.56 average 4/23 Utah * Salt Lake City % W, 19-6 •Sixth in scoring at 9.1 runs per game 4/26 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + L, 7-12 •19th in double plays per game at 1.11 4/27 No. Colorado Greeley, CO + W, 6-2 •25th in win-loss percentage at .700 4/29 Air Force * Colo. Springs W, 17-2 •Brandon Taylor is ranked fifth in RBI with an average of 1.51 4/29-30 Air Force * Colo. Springs L, 7-8 (11 inn) 4/30 Air Force * Colo. Springs % W, 17-9 •Brandon Taylor sixth nationally in home runs per game, averaging .38 5/2 Utah Valley St. Orem % W, 10-6 •Brandon Taylor 15th nationally in slugging, averaging .739 5/5-6 New Mexico * Provo + 7, 7 p.m. •Ben Saylor is ranked third in doubles per game with an average of 0.5 5/7 New Mexico * Provo +% 1 p.m. •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 16th in runs per game with an average of 1.3 5/12 UNLV * Provo + 7 p.m. •Jeff Hiestand is ranked 42nd in slugging, averaging .689 5/13 UNLV * Provo +# 7 p.m. •Apana Nakayama is ranked 40th in toughest to strikeout 5/14 UNLV * Provo +% 1 p.m. 5/18-20 San Diego St.* San Diego +% 6, 6, 1 p.m. Coach Vance Law and staff 5/25-28 MWC Tourney Salt Lake City % 6/17-27 College World Series Omaha, NE Vance Law played 14 years of pro ball, including 11 years in the majors with six * MWC Games, %Internet Audio, +web cast #BYUTV different teams. In 2001 he was named Coach of the Year for the Mountain 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 Roberts, in his third year at BYU. Pitching coach Bobby Applegate is in his sec- www.byucougars.com BYU Baseball Release Page 2 Baseball Scoring with Two Outs ond year with BYU, having last coached at the Air Force Academy. Volunteer Opponent Runs w/2 out Result %Scored w/2out assistant Andrew Zinniger is in his first year on the BYU staff. UC Irvine 2 W, 5-0 40% 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 fifth week in a row BYU received votes in the four major polls, again San Jose St. 2 T, 3-3 67% in the NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association), the Sports Oklahoma St. 3 L, 4-5 75% Weekly/ESPN College Baseball Coaches Poll, receiving four votes this week, Oklahoma St. 3 W, 9-8* 33% no votes last week, 11 votes three weeks and four weeks ago. Oral Roberts 3 L, 5-6 60% • Add Adrian Molina to the list of injured players as he was hit in the hand Oral Roberts 4 W, 6-2* 67% at Air Force and teammate Bryce Ayoso suffered a wrist injury in the cold Oral Roberts 1 W, 7-4* 14% at AFA. Ryan Chambers jammed his thumb sliding into third base at UVSC 9 W, 15-8* 60% Utah and Marcos Villezcas jammed his thumb in game one at Northern N.Mexico St. 2 W, 5-3* 40% Colorado. Brandon Taylor was hit in pre-game batting practice in the out- N. Mexico St 3 W, 11-7* 27% field by a San Diego State liner which required him to have 25 stitches N. Mexico St. 15 W, 22-7* 68% two layers deep. Sean McNaughton is expected back soon after being CSU-Pueblo 0 W, 2-1* 0% CSU-Pueblo 5 W, 7-5 71% out two-three weeks with a broken thumb. Ben Saylor and Casey Nelson New Mexico 2 L, 5-6 40% missed several games because of strep throat. Jeff Hiestand has been New Mexico 11 W, 19-6* 58% playing with an injured hand. Lefty Patrick Wells has been absent from New Mexico 2 W, 4-3* 50% the mound since February with an arm injury. UVSC 1 W, 13-10* 8% • Sean McNaughton tied a league and school record by hitting two triples in Utah 5 W, 6-5* 83% the 18-5 victory over Air Force. Brandon Taylor got six consecutive hits in Utah 4 W, 7-2* 57% the 19-6 victory at Utah to tie a school record for six hits in a game. Utah 0 W, 5-3* 0% • Jeff Hiestand leads the team hitting in 24 consecutive games, followed by Oregon St. 1 L, 5-12 20% Ben Saylor at 16 games and Apana Nakayama at 13. Oregon St. 1 L, 6-11 17% • Ben Saylor’s 16-game hitting streak ended in a 9-6 loss to UC Irvine Feb18.