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2006 MWC Baseball Championship Starts Up Tuesday

This year's championship will be played May 23-27 at Earl E. Wilson Stadium in Las Vegas.

May 22, 2006

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2006 MWC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE HELD IN LAS VEGAS The 2006 Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship will be hosted by UNLV in Las Vegas from May 23-27. The MWC Championship will take place at 3,000-seat Earl E. Wilson Baseball Stadium at Roger Barnson Field. The park dimensions are 335 feet down the left and right field lines, 375 feet in the power alleys, and 400 feet to straightaway centerfield.

LIVE STATS AND RADIO FEED TO BE PROVIDED
The MWC will provide livestats for all MWC Championship games, while MWC Radio will broadcast each game live from Earl E. Wilson Stadium. The livestats and live audio will be available on the MWC website. Log on to the official MWC website (www.TheMWC.com) to follow the action.

MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT QUICK HITS
• UNLV and BYU are the only two teams to win the regular season and conference tournament titles in the same season. UNLV entered the 2003 and 2005 MWC Tournaments as a No. 1 seed, going 4-0 and 3-1, respectively, en route to the championship titles. BYU was a No. 1 seed in 2001 after winning the regular season title and captured the tournament championship. BYU repeated in 2002, entering as a No. 3 seed and posting a 5-1 mark to win the title.

• UNLV is the three-time defending MWC Tournament champion (2003, 2004 and 2005), beating San Diego State twice (14-9 in 2003; 6-3 in 2004) and BYU (7-4 in 2005) in the finals.

• San Diego State and UNLV are the only teams to go unbeaten in an MWC Tournament. The Aztecs went 4-0 en route to the inaugural title in 2000 and the Rebels were 4-0 in 2003 and 2004.

• San Diego State has made it to the tournament finals five of six years (2000, 01, 02, 03 and 04), winning the title in 2000 as a No. 2 seed.

• Air Force is the lowest seed to advance to the title game, doing so in 2000 as a No. 6. BYU and UNLV are the lowest seed to win the championship, doing so as a No. 3 seed in 2002 and 2004, respectively.

• The winner of the 2006 MWC Championship will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Overall, the MWC has a 5-10 record in the NCAA Tournament since the league was formed in 1999-2000.