USD Baseball 1996

WEST COAST CONFERENCE The WCC has continued to prove itself as one of the strongest collegiate baseball conferences in the country. Four years ago, Pepperdine won its first national baseball title. The Waves were the league's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Regionals in 1995, 1993 and 1991 while Loyola Marymount represented the WCC in 1990. Both teams appeared at the NCAAs in 1989. Santa Clara advanced to the NCAA Regionals in 1994. Other conference members include the University of San Di- ego, the University of San Francisco, St. Mary's Col- lege and newly added this season, the Uni versity of Portland and Gonzaga University. This season WCC teams will play a 28-game round robin schedule with the league champion qualifying for an NCAA play-in game versus the WAC. Pepperdine has won the WCC crown in eight of the last 11 years and has won or shared every conference title but three since the 1974 season. Baseball was originally established as a confer- ence sport in 1968. However, from 1977 through 1984, WCC teams competed with teams from the PCAA (now the Big West) in the Northern California Baseball Association (Nevada, St. Mary ' s, San Fran- cisco, Santa Clara, Pacific, San Jose State, Fresno State), and the Southern California Baseball Associa- tion (Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, and San Diego from the WCC). 1995 wee Standings

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0 Player of the Year: Ryan Christenson, Pepperdine Pitcher of the Year: Bob Pailthorpe, Santa Clara Freshman of the Year: Randy Wolf, Pepperdine Coach of the Year: Pat Harrison, Pepperdine

WEST COAST CONFERENCE 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 22 1 South San Francisco, CA 94080 (4 I5) 873-8622 Fax : (41 5) 873-7846

Michael Gilleran Don Ott Teresa Kuehn Mike Villamor, Phil Simon Nicole DuBee

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