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 Both softball and men's golf are in the midst of a championship hunt, while baseball and track and field are just beginning their championship search. |
May 31, 2011
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Events This Week:
No. 8 Baseball (39-16, 17-10 Pac-10) No. 1 Softball (55-6, 17-4 Pac-10) named the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history Men's Golf CURRENT CONSECUTIVE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP APPEARANCES NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS (1993-2011) Tennis season over Track & Field Women's Golf season over Three Pitchforks of the Week Gold Pitchfork - Kaylyn Castillo
(Softball) Silver Pitchfork - Anna Jelmini
(Women's Field) Bronze Pitchfork - Jasmine Chaney
(Women's Track) Also nominated (listed alphabetically): Jacqueline Cako (Tennis); Jordan Clarke (M. Field); Ryan Milus (M. Track); Matt Newman (Baseball)
has been selected as one of 16 regional host sites for the 2011 NCAA Baseball Championships * No. 1 seed Arizona State will play No. 4 seed New Mexico and No. 2 seed Arkansas will play No. 3 seed Charlotte starting Friday * Friday-Monday * Packard Stadium * The regional schedule is as follows:
-Arkansas vs. Charlotte, Friday at 2 p.m. (AZ)
-ASU vs. New Mexico, Friday at 7 p.m. (AZ)
-Game times Saturday are also 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., with Sunday's game times being 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Arizona time. If there is a game on Monday, it will begin at 6:30 p.m. Arizona time.
-General Public All Session tickets will be available for purchase beginning Tuesday in person at the Sun Devil Ticket Office or over the phone at 480-727-0000. Single game tickets will go on sale Wednesday morning and can be purchased in person, over the phone or online at TheSunDevils.com
-The Tempe Regional is matched up with the Austin Regional, hosted by the University of Texas.
• Last Week: won one out of three games against UCLA in Tempe
-lost, 10-3 (5/27)
-lost, 7-0 (5/28)
-won, 10-5 (5/29) - senior day
-Sophomore shortstop Deven Marrero has been named the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the year and was one of 13 members of the Arizona State Sun Devil baseball team to earn All-Pac-10 Conference honors. Five student-athletes were named to the First Team, while eight earned honorable mention.
faces No. 9 Oklahoma in game one of the Women's College World Series * Thursday * 4 p.m. (AZ) * ESPN2 * ASA Hall of Fame Stadium * Oklahoma City, Okla. * The WCWS runs from Thursday through Wednesday, June 8
• Last Week: topped No. 16 Texas A&M in the Tempe Super Regional to advance to the WCWS
-won, 3-2 over (5/26)
-won, 4-2 (5/27)
competing in NCAA Championships * Tuesday-Sunday * Hosted by Oklahoma State * Stillwater, Okla. * Karsten Creek Golf Club
-The 2011 NCAA Championships will see the team champion determined via match play for the third straight year. The top eight teams after 54 holes of stroke play (Tuesday-Thursday) will advance to match play, with the quarterfinals being held Friday, the semifinals on Saturday and the championship match set for Sunday. The NCAA individual champion will be crowned after the first three-rounds of stroke play competition (Tuesday-Thursday).
-ASU is one of just eight teams to qualify for the past four NCAA Championships (2008-2011). UCLA, USC, Oklahoma State, Florida, Texas A&M, Illinois and Texas are the others.
-ASU has now made 18 NCAA Championship appearances, including nine in a row, in head coach Randy Lein's 19 seasons (1993-2011), tied for the second-best mark in the nation with Florida.
Oklahoma State, 1947-2011, 65
Florida, 2001-2011, 11
Arizona State, 2003-2011, 9
UCLA, 2003-2011, 9
Oklahoma State-19
Arizona State and Florida-18
Arizona-17
Georgia Tech-16
Clemson, Texas-15
Wake Forest-14
Georgia, North Carolina and UNLV-13
• Last Week: competed in the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships in Stanford, Calif. Freshman All-American Jacqueline Cako made it to the round of 16 before she fell to California's Mari Andersson. Doubles partners Micaela Hein and Kelcy McKenna also made it to the round of 16 but fell to Stanford's Barte/Burdette to close out the season for the Sun Devils.
OFF (next: at NCAA Championship Finals * June 8-11 * Des Moines, Iowa)
• Last Week: Nine women and four men advanced through the NCAA Championship Preliminary Rounds in Eugene, Ore., and will compete for NCAA titles and All-America honors next week at Drake University.
• Last Week: Carlota Ciganda was named to the National Golf Coaches Association All-America first team. Her first-team honor is the junior's third-consecutive first-team NGCA selection, making her the first Sun Devil since Kellee Booth to earn a first team selection for at least three-straight seasons. She is the only back-to-back conference medalist in the history of the Pac-10 Women's Golf Championships, winning individual medalist honors in 2009 & 2010. In her career at Arizona State, Ciganda won five individual medalist honors and helped Arizona State win the 2009 Pac-10 Championship and 2009 NCAA Championship. The junior plans to forego her final year of eligibility to pursue a professional golf career.
With the bases loaded and two outs on the board in game one of the NCAA Super Regional in Tempe, Ariz., Castillo belted a walk-off two-RBI single to send the top-ranked Arizona State Sun Devils (54-6) one game closer to a Women's College World Series reprise in Oklahoma City with a 3-2 victory over Texas A&M (44-14). She also hit a two-run home run over the centerfield wall in the top of the first inning in the second game to help propel the Sun Devils to the Women's College World Series. The home run for Castillo was her ninth on the season and second in NCAA play.
Jelmini advanced to the national meet in both Discus and Shot Put. She recorded the top discus throw in the West at 57.09m (187-03) two days after earning a spot in the shot put. A freshman, Jelmini will head to Des Moines with the top mark in the nation in the discus having thrown over 60-meters numerous times this season while no other woman has done so in the collegiate ranks.
Chaney continued to lead the way for the women as she added three more events to her schedule at the Finals, this time helping both relays advance while also earning a spot in the meet in the 100m hurdles. In the hurdle event, Chaney clocked in at 13.31 and earned an automatic berth into the Final as she posted the ninth-fastest time on the day in the West. Her advancement came one day after she earned a berth in the 400m hurdles for the second year in a row and earned All-America honors with her fourth-place finish last year. Chaney will be one five women to compete in both the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles in Des Moines and one of two from the West as she will join one athlete from Stanford, one from Penn State and two from Miami (FL). She also will compete in four events in Des Moines as she also anchored both relays to qualifying times that advanced the Sun Devils to the Finals.
