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2000 Torero Baseball

The Wes~ Coas~ Conference Gonzaga, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, Portland, Saint Mary's, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara Changes In Store For 2000: West Coast Conference baseball enters its 33rd season and it s Conference History:

The baseball porti on of the WCC started w ith fi ve charter members and three assoc iates as LMU . Pepperdine, Saint Mary's, San Francisco and Santa C lara were joined by UC Santa Barbara, Pac ifi c and San Jose State. The conference temporaril y sp lit from 1977-84 int o the Northern and Southern Ca li forni a

second season of di visional pl ay under an eight -team ali gnment. Two fo ur-team di visions, aptl y named ··west.. and --coast.. w ill pl ay a 30-game schedul e. The champi ons of each di vision will co llide at the end of the season in a best two-o f-three seri es to determine the WCCs

Baseball Associati ons (so di visional pl ay isn't compl etl y foreign to the league), but reali gned in 1985 to in clude San Di ego and Nevada in a seven-team leag ue . In 199 1. the Wolf Pack departed and a six-team loop ex isted until Portland and Gonzaga, full members in all other sports. left the Pac- IO North league to bring the WCC to its full -bodi ed eight-team set in 1996. Thi s is the fourth year of the current eight-team WCC baseball ali gnment but the conference has determined a champion in the sport annuall y since I968. During that time, teams in the WCC have ad vanced to fo ur Co ll ege

automati c entry into the NCAA Championships. The site of that pl ayo ff w ill be based complete ly on the outcome of the regular season seri es meeting between the two champi ons. The w inner of that three-game reg ular season colli sion earn s the ri ght to host the championships. Each team w ill pl ay a total o f six games again st each team in its own di vision,

three home and three away, and a sing le three-game seri es against eac h team in the opposite di vision. Every two years two teams will swap di visions, e ffecti vely mi xing the matchups over an e ight-year span. Of note is the fact that traditi onal local ri val s (Portl and-Gonzaga; Saint Mary's-San Franc isco; LMU-Pepperdine and Santa C lara-San Diego) w ill never be in the same di vision. Last season LM U captured it s second straight titl e de featin g Pepperdine two games to one in the first WCC champi onship seri es.

World Seri es, including a nati onal title in 1992 (Pepperdine). Onl y three of the current members -- Loyo la Marymount , Pepperdine and Santa C lara -- have represented the WCC in NCAA tourn ament pl ay. That tri o has an all -time record o f 69-70 in the champi onships. Portl and is the onl y other current member w ith NCAA tourney ex peri ence, most recentl y in 199 1 as the Pac ifi c- IO North represent ati ve. The WCC sends representati ves to NCAA champi onships in each of the 13 league sports. Overall , conference members have won 32 NCAA team and indi vidual titl es.

2000 wee DIVISIONAL ALIGNMENT

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Peppe rdine Po rtland Saint Mary 's San Diego

Gonzaga Loyo la Marymount San Franc isco Santa C lara

1999 USD AII-WCC Returners left to right:

1999 wee DIVISIONAL FINISHES COAST

LMU (33-28 ; 18- 12WCC) Pot1land (23-28 ; 16- 14) Saint Mary's (22-31 ; 14-16) Santa Clara (20-36; I 1-1 9) Joe Lima Alan Leuthard Kevin Reese Greg Sain 1999 All-West Coast Conference Baseball Teams PLAYER OF THE YEAR: CO-FRESHMEN OF THE YEAR: FIRST TEAM SCHOOL POS YR Taggert Bozied, USF GREGSAIN, USD& Dane Sardinha Pe ppe rdine C so PITCHER OF THE YEAR: Dan Haren , Pe pperdine Travis Kermode Saint Mary's 18 SR Jay Adams, Pe pperdine Damon Katz Peppe rdin e 2B JR COACH OF THE YEAR: Taggert Bozied San Francisco 3B so Frank Sanchez, Pepperdine Bo Hart Gon zaga ss SR AII-WCC Second Team GJ Raymundo Pepperdine IF SR Scott Walter, LMU , C, SO CHRIS KAHL, USD, OF, SR KEVIN REESE SAN DIEGO OF JR Adam Stokey, Gonzaga, IB, SO Andrew Clements, USF, OF, SR Kev in Tayl or Gonzaga OF SR Tony Garcia, Pepperdine, SS , FR GREG SAIN, USD, UT, FR Jason Bay Gonzaga OF JR Ryan Powe ll , Portland , IF, SR Steve Bennett, Gon zaga, P, SR Anthony An ge l LMU UT JR Curt Fiore, LMU, IF, SR Brian Graham, Portl and, P, JR Bill Traber LMU p so Matt Queen, Santa Clara, IF, SO Ev an Ru st, St. Mary's, P, JR Jay Adams Pe ppe rdine p so Matt Ri ordan, LMU, OF, JR Jay Gehrke Peppe rdine p JR USD All-WCC Honorable Mentions: Joe Lima, Alan Le uthard Pepperdine (46-1 6; 21-9 WCC) Gonzaga(27-23-2; 14-14) San Diego (28-27- 1; 13- 16) San Franci sco (21 -35- 1; 11-18)