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Khoury Named MWC Baseball Player of the Year
5/23/2006 12:00 AM | Baseball
May 23, 2006
LAS VEGAS -- The Mountain West Conference announced its 2006 MWC Baseball All-Conference Team and postseason awards Monday, as selected by the league's head coaches. Utah shortstop Ryan Khoury earned Player of the Year honors, while New Mexico left-hander Danny Ray Herrera and TCU right-hander Jake Arrieta shared Pitcher of the Year honors. TCU skipper Jim Schlossnagle was selected as Coach of the Year.
Regular-season champion TCU headlined this year's all-conference squad with seven selections, while San Diego State and New Mexico had five selections each. BYU and Utah had four student-athletes on the all-conference team, while UNLV had two honorees. This year's team was made up of six seniors, 11 juniors, eight sophomores and two freshmen.
 Utah Senior Shortstop Ryan Khoury  | |
Herrera, a 5-7, 145-pound junior from Odessa, Texas, posted a 4-0 record in MWC games with an ERA of 2.65 and 44 strikeouts. He held MWC opponents to a .256 batting average this season in seven appearances. Overall, he posted a 9-0 record with an ERA of 2.30 and 97 strikeouts in a MWC high 121.1 innings pitched.
Khoury was Utah's only first-team all-MWC selection. The Utes had three players named to the second team. First baseman Jay Brossman, outfielder John Welsh and pitcher Josh Cooper were all tabbed second-team all-MWC in the vote of the league's coaches.
Arrieta, a 6-4, 225-pound sophomore from Plano, Texas, posted a MWC-best 12 wins, and also led the MWC in ERA (2.07), opposing batting average (.220) and batters struck out looking (36). In conference games, he led the MWC in ERA (1.12) and tied for the lead in wins (six), while striking out 45 batters in 48.0 innings of work. Arrieta set new MWC single-season records (all games) in ERA and opposing batting average. He also set a new MWC single-season record for ERA in conference games (1.12).
Schlossnagle, in his third season with TCU, led the Horned Frogs to the regular-season title in their first season competing in the MWC with a 17-5 record, as well as a No. 1 seed in this year's MWC Championship. Schlossnagle has an overall record of 115-67 with TCU and a career record of 192-114.
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