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The University of Utah Athletics
Utah Baseball Battles BYU For Second Place This Week
5/15/2007 12:00 AM | Baseball
May 15, 2007
This Week In Utah BAseball
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Utah, BYU Battle for Second Place This Week
The University of Utah baseball team finishes the regular season with a three-game series against BYU this weekend in Provo.
The Utes could take second place in the final Mountain West Conference regular season standings and -- more importantly -- the No. 2 seed in next week's MWC Tournament. Utah would need to sweep the Cougars to take the No. 2 seed.
Utah will end up third in the MWC standings and get the No. 3 seed no matter what happens in the BYU series, unless New Mexico takes two or more from league-leading TCU this weekend.
Utah enters this weekend coming off a three-game sweep of Air Force. The Utes are 24-26 overall and 12-9 in MWC action.
BYU was 31-18 overall and 14-7 in MWC action entering the week. The Cougars played Utah Valley State Tuesday night.
Leading Off ...
? Game times for this weekend's games at BYU have been changed. Thursday's game will be at 7 p.m., Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m. The game times were changed due to NCAA Softball Regionals at BYU.
? Utah ranks No. 6 in the nation in triples with 23.
? The Ute pitching staff has the fewest balks in the Mountain West Conference this season. Utah hurlers have balked just six times.
? Utah has outscored its opponents 60-40 in the first inning.
? The Utes were the best fielding team in the MWC last season with a .970 mark. Utah is currently fielding at just a .956 clip.
Shimmy Shimmy Coco Pop
Utah second baseman Corey Shimada (So., Murray, Utah) continues to be one of the hottest hitters in the country. "Shimmy" extended his hitting streak to 20 games and continues to lead the nation in total triples with 10. He has homered in each of his last four games, as well. Shimada has had at least one hit in 33 of his last 34 games, while walking at least once in 19 of those 34 contests. Over the course of the last 34 games, he has raised his batting average from .241 to .356 and is currently leads the team in batting average, runs (57), triples, walks (38), on-base percentage (.473) and sacrifice bunts (11).
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