BASEBALL
2007 LMU
2006 WCC REVIEW est Coast Conference baseball competi-
WCC/RAWLINGS 40TH ANNIVERSARY TEAM
2006 ALL-WEST COAST CONFERENCE
tion continues its long history in 2007, celebrating its 40th anniversary. After years of a two-division format, the league altered the format for the 2006 season. Each team now meets for one three-game series, with the top two
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Scott Cousins, USF CO-PITCHERS OF THE YEAR: Barry Enright, PEP Patrick McGuigan, USF FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: Josh Romanski, USD COACH OF THE YEAR: Nino Giarratano, USF
teams advancing to the WCC Championship Series. The winner of the title series wins the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. LMU, Pepperdine, Saint Mary’s, Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland and Gonzaga comprise the baseball alignment. Gonzaga and Portland, long-time members in every other conference sport, joined the league in baseball in 1996 after migrating from the Pacific-10 North Division. Baseball was originally established as a conference sport in 1968.
From 1977-84, WCC
teams competed with teams from the Big West Conference in the Northern California Baseball Association (Saint Mary’s, San Francisco, and Santa
FIRST-TEAM NAME Kris Watts Nick Kliebert Keoni Ruth• David Uribes•** Chase d’Arnaud Steve Singleton Stefan Gartrell• Erik Johnson• Daniel Nava Scott Cousins•* Barry Enright Patrick McGuigan Aaron Poreda Brent Hunter
TEAM SCU PEP USD PEP PEP USD USF LMU SCU USF PEP USF USF PEP
POS C 1B 2B 2B 3B SS OF OF OF UT P P P RP
YR SR SR JR SR FR JR SR SR JR JR SO SR SO FR
Clara), and the Southern California Baseball Association (LMU, Pepperdine, and San Diego). The WCC sponsors championships in 13 sports for men and women: baseball, men and women’s basketball, women's crew, men and women’s cross country, men and women's golf, men and women’s soccer, men and women’s tennis, and women’s volleyball.
2006 WCC STANDINGS TEAM
W
L
PCT
W L
PEP•^#
15 6
.714
42 21 .666
USF•#
15 6
.714
39 23 .629
USD#
13 8
.619
33 25 .569
LMU
11 10
.524
24 32 .429
SMC
9
.429
26 25 .510
12
PCT
GU
9
12
.429
28 24 .538
SCU
9
12
.429
28 26 .519
UP
3
18
.143
15 37 .288
• WCC regular season co-champion ^ WCC Championship Series Winner # NCAA Tournament participant
WEST COAST CONFERENCE 1250 Bayhill Drive, Suite 101 San Bruno, California 94066 650-873-8622 650-873-7846 fax www.wccsports.com Baseball Contact Will Kiss wkiss@westcoast.org
SECOND-TEAM NAME TEAM POS Jordan Abruzzo USD C Matthew Peters UP 1B Darin Holcomb GU 3B Andrew Smith USF SS Sam Carter* SMC OF Matt Long SCU OF Adrian Ortiz PEP OF Travis Vetters UP OF Josh Romanski USD UT Ryan Wiegand GU DH Joel Staples SMC DH James Johnson PEP P Brad Meyers LMU P Matt Wickswat SCU P Dan Lewis SMC RP *previous times an All-WCC first-team pick •unanimous selection ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM NAME Chase d’Arnaud Brady Fuerst Brent Hunter Matt Long Brian Matusz Lee Roberts Josh Romanski Joel Staples Matt Wickswat Ryan Wiegand
TEAM PEP SCU PEP SCU USD LMU USD SMC SCU GU
POS 3B SS RP OF P RP UT DH P DH
YR JR SR SO SR SR FR SO SR FR FR FR SR SO FR SR
In honor of the WCC celebrating its 40th season of sponsoring the sport of baseball, the conference office is proud to announce the selection of the WCC/Rawlings 40th Anniversary Baseball Team. The ceremonial team consists of 40 of the top players that have graced West Coast Conference baseball diamonds over the past four decades. Only individuals from the league's current membership were eligible for selection, with primary focus placed on each player's collegiate accomplishments. The WCC/Rawlings 40th Anniversary Baseball Team was selected by a 30member voting panel comprised of WCC administrators, league institutions, national collegiate baseball writers, and local media members. Patrick Ahearne, Pepperdine Jason Bay, Gonzaga Billy Bean, LMU Taggert Bozied, San Francisco Miah Bradbury, LMU Troy Buckley, Santa Clara Tom Candiotti, Saint Mary’s Kory Casto, Portland Joe Ciccarella, LMU Jermaine Clark, San Francisco Scott Cousins, San Francisco Chris Donnels, LMU Steve Duda, Pepperdine Mike Fetters, Pepperdine Mike Frank, Santa Clara Nate Gold, Gonzaga Dan Haren, Pepperdine Von Hayes, Saint Mary’s Dana Hendershott, San Francisco Kevin Herde, San Diego Rick Hirtensteiner, Pepperdine Tim Layana, LMU Mark Lee, Pepperdine Noah Lowry, Pepperdine Barry Matthews, Gonzaga Steve Montgomery, Pepperdine James Mouton, Saint Mary’s Russ Noah, LMU Bob Pailthorpe, Santa Clara Jeff Peterson, Saint Mary’s Kevin Reese, San Diego Steve Rodriguez, Pepperdine Arnie Sambel, San Francisco Dane Sardinha, Pepperdine Mike Scott, Pepperdine Mark Teahen, Saint Mary’s Billy Traber, LMU Rich Troedson, Santa Clara David Uribes, Pepperdine Randy Wolf, Pepperdine
LMU HONORABLE MENTION Sean Dovel, Eric Farris, Casey Gordon, Daniel Macias 2007 BASEBALL 5 3