MWC Punishes BYU, UNM Baseball Brawlers

Mid-Utah Radio.com ^ | April 26, 2011 | Brad James

[Colofornian]

(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.)-After receiving assistance from both the Brigham Young University and University of New Mexico athletic departments, the Mountain West Conference has completed a thorough analysis of an incident which occurred during a baseball game between the Cougars and Lobos this past weekend at Miller Park on the BYU campus.

During the April 23 game, a fight broke out between the two teams and certain players on both sides attacked umpires.

Thus, three-game suspensions have been handed out to the following players, for BYU: first baseman Ryan Bernal, a senior first baseman from Grand Junction, Colo., Bret Lopez, a freshman infielder from Orem, Brock Luker, a junior outfielder from Chandler, Ariz., and Blake Torgerson, a senior pitcher from Westminster Calif.

Suspended Lobos players included Luke Campbell, a junior outfielder from Arvada, Colo., Quay Grant, a junior utility player from Burkburnett, Texas, Cory Maltz, a junior pitcher from Houston, Jonathan Mata, a freshman pitcher from Wilmington, Calif. and John Michael Twichell, a sophomore outfielder from Sunnyvale, Texas.

Additionally, BYU head coach Vance Law was cited for “public reprimand for remarks critical of a fellow member institution” and Cougars catcher Wes Guenther, a junior from Overland Park, Kan. was guilty of “public reprimand for unduly provocative actions towards a student-athlete from another institution.”

Each of these involved individuals is now also subject to more stringent penalties under Mountain West Conference rules concerning sportsmanship as well as applicable provisions from the National Collegiate Athletic Association should they be involved in any comparable behavior in the future.

[Colofornian]

From the article: Thus, three-game suspensions have been handed out to the following players, for BYU: first baseman Ryan Bernal, a senior first baseman from Grand Junction, Colo., Bret Lopez, a freshman infielder from Orem, Brock Luker, a junior outfielder from Chandler, Ariz., and Blake Torgerson, a senior pitcher from Westminster Calif.

So, instead of only one BYU player suspended as originally reported...FOUR BYU players suspended...plus...

From the article: BYU head coach Vance Law was cited for “public reprimand for remarks critical of a fellow member institution” and Cougars catcher Wes Guenther, a junior from Overland Park, Kan. was guilty of “public reprimand for unduly provocative actions towards a student-athlete from another institution.”

So the BYU catcher, a fifth player involved, was provoking the New Mexico players...plus the BYU coach was publicly reprimanded.

Mormon leaders for decades have loved to call their followers "gods-in-embryo..."...(I think not)

[leapfrog0202]

Not sure how things are in CedarDave’s part of NM so I’m pinging the list for him.

Good luck Dave and I hope the fires are under control and no one lost their homes or lives.

[leapfrog0202]

Not sure how things are in CedarDave’s part of NM so I’m pinging the list for him.

Good luck Dave and I hope the fires are under control and no one lost their homes or lives.

Ping list script:

NM list PING! Click on the flag to go to the Free Republic New Mexico message page.

(The NM list is available on my FR homepage for anyone to use. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list. For ABQ Journal articles requiring a subscription, scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the article for free after watching a short video commercial.)

[leapfrog0202]

Not sure how things are in CedarDave’s part of NM so I’m pinging the list for him.

Good luck Dave and I hope the fires are under control and no one lost their homes or lives.

Ping list script:

NM list PING! Click on the flag to go to the Free Republic New Mexico message page.

(The NM list is available on my FR homepage for anyone to use. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list. For ABQ Journal articles requiring a subscription, scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the article for free after watching a short video commercial.)

[leapfrog0202]

Can you remove the dupes please? Not sure what happened.

Thanks.

[CedarDave]

leapfrog0202,

The way the script works (at least in Firefox) is that you highlight it with your mouse, right click "View Selection Source" which opens it in a new window, and copy the highlighted area to the post:

NM list PING! Click on the flag to go to the Free Republic New Mexico message page.

(The NM list is available on my FR homepage for anyone to use. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list. For ABQ Journal articles requiring a subscription, scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the article for free after watching a short video commercial.)

[SeaHawkFan]

Was this better or worse than the BYU v. New Mexico women’s soccer match a couple of years ago?

[leapfrog0202]

Thanks Dave - I’m not good with that stuff. I appreciate the info!

All okay down your way now?

[CedarDave]

Every thing o.k. down here as far as I know. This morning’s local 50¢ rag reported all was o.k. but they got their info from the scanner same as I did.

(p.s. do you see my ¢ symbol up above; here is how to generate all those symbols that don’t appear on the keyboard:
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html )

[Defiant]

Just so long as no one had sex, all will be fine at BYU.

[leapfrog0202]

(p.s. do you see my ¢ symbol up above; here is how to generate all those symbols that don’t appear on the keyboard:
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html )

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Thanks Dave! I always learn something on FR!

I am sure I could learn html but with work and all the travel that makes up my work week I’ve always been too busy to feel like I wanted to tackle it. I know there’s a good html tutorial for beginners on here. I should do that soon.