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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, May 3, 2004
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Donald invited to USA Baseball trials

With some UA students making plans for summer trips, Arizona baseball's freshman shortstop Jason Donald hopes to be doing a little traveling of his own.

Over the weekend, Donald was chosen as one of 19 collegiate baseball players invited to the USA Baseball National Team Trials held June 20-26 in Durham, N.C.

"Hopefully he will be of the guys picked," Arizona head coach Andy Lopez said.

Donald was one of six Pacific 10 Conference players chosen to try out and only one of four freshmen who made the list.

In his first year with Arizona, Donald leads the team in hits (56), runs scored (36) and home runs (7).

He is the first Wildcat baseball player to be invited to try out for the national squad since 1999, when both Shelley Duncan and Ben Diggins were selected.

The USA Baseball National Team will select 18 players out of a pool of 36 athletes, 17 of whom have yet to be determined. The official roster will be announced June 27.

Team USA will play several exhibition games, including a season-opening series against Team Canada in Durham, before competing in the FISU World University Baseball Championships in Taipei, Taiwan, in from July 23-August 1.

"This is a great honor for Jason," Arizona head coach Andy Lopez said. "To represent USA Baseball and play with the caliber of athletes that will compete for the spots on the roster is an opportunity I know that he wanted to pursue this summer. It's a tremendous honor for both Jason and the Arizona baseball program."

- Charles Renning


Washington State-UA football game moved forward for television

Arizona's home football game against Washington State has been moved up a week to accommodate an ABC Sports telecast.

The game, head coach Mike Stoops' Pacific 10 Conference opener, will be moved from Oct. 2 to Saturday, Sept. 25. Kickoff in Arizona Stadium is set for 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 2 will become UA's open date, a week prior to its first road game of the year at Oregon.

The game is Arizona's first on ABC since November 2001, when the network, one of the Pac-10's television rights-holders, showed the Stanford at Arizona game during the Cardinal's 9-3 Seattle Bowl season. The Cats were 4-6 at the time and lost 51-37.

"Mike Stoops has drawn some good exposure for our football program in just a short time, and no doubt this was a drawing card for ABC," athletic director Jim Livengood said. "We'll have one or several other 'early' selections and should have good representation in football television this year."

The network makes the initial selections of conference games for its college football package at this time each year. ABC also can pick up other marquee matchups during the season on six- or 12-day notice.

ABC will select games during the season for six other dates when Arizona plays - Oct. 9, 16, 23 and 30; and Nov. 6 and 13 - with the advance six- or 12-day picks.

League partners FOX Sports Net and Turner Sports, national cable networks, will make their early selections June 1. Each of the three entities has a pecking order for making selections during the season in the advance process.

FOX Sports Net has shown the UA-Arizona State game on its national cable system the day after Thanksgiving for a number of years and will do so again this year on Friday, Nov. 26, from Arizona Stadium.

Arizona also has a local television contract with FOX Sports Net Arizona to cablecast several games not picked by the league rights-holders, if UA games to be shown do not conflict with the Pac-10 games.

- From staff and wire reports


Nallen named finalist for Ben Hogan Award

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UA senior golfer Chris Nallen is one of five finalists for the 2004 Ben Hogan Award, given to the nation's top college golfer. Nallen was a semifinalist for the award in 2002 and 2003.

UA men's golfer Chris Nallen was named one of five finalists for the 2004 Ben Hogan Award, presented annually to the nation's top college golfer.

Nallen, a senior from Hackettstown, N.J., becomes a finalist for the first time in his career after making the semifinalist list in 2002 and 2003.

He joins Bill Haas of Wake Forest, Matt Hendrix of Clemson, Chris Stroud of Lamar and one of his Pac-10 foes, Washington's Brock Mackenzie, on the list of finalists.

On Wednesday, Nallen helped the Wildcats claim the 2004 Pac-10 Conference Championship with a four-round total of 286 (-2). It was Arizona's third Pac-10 title overall and its first since 1991. En route to the championship, Nallen equaled his best finish at the event with a tie for fifth place.

Nallen leads Arizona with a 69.92 stroke average through 12 stroke-play events in 2003-04. He has claimed individual medalist honors three times this year, becoming the first UA golfer in 17 years to win three times in the same season.

In addition to his three victories, Nallen has six other top-20 finishes to his credit. He has 26 rounds at par or better this year with a low round of 62 and a record-setting low tournament total of 195 (-18).

Nallen has also been a regular contributor on the amateur golf circuit. He participated in both the Walker and Palmer Cup competitions in 2003, as well as the 2003 United States Amateur. Nallen won the 2003 Northeast Amateur championship and finished fifth at the 2003 Dogwood Invitational. He will again represent the United States as a member of the 2004 Palmer Cup team.

The Hogan Award is presented by The Friends of Golf and Colonial Country Club, in cooperation with Bank of America and the Golf Coaches Association of America.

The winner of the award will be announced Thursday, with the presentation scheduled for May 17 at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.

The No. 8 UA men's golf team will begin play at the 2004 NCAA West Regional May 20-22 at The Crosswater Club at Sunriver Resort in Sunriver, Ore.

- From staff and wire reports



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