SPOKANE, Wash. – Gonzaga baseball puts quite the exclamation point on its historic regular season with a full sweep of every major WCC award.
Mark Machtolf won the WCC Coach of the Year award for the sixth time, breaking the all-time Gonzaga wins record and leading his team to a 22-5 conference record, the best in program history.
Mikey Bell won his second conference Player of the Year award in as many seasons at GU, batting .430 in conference play, and owns the fourth-best Gonzaga career batting average (.379), the highest since 1981.
Karsten Sweum earned the Pitcher of the Year award after one of the best seasons nationally. Sweum threw Gonzaga’s sixth-ever no-hitter last month, threw 108 strikeouts (tied for the 13th-most in Division I), and owns the best conference ERA (2.62).
Landon Hood won the Freshman of the Year award following six Freshman of the Week awards. He earned four saves and 35 strikeouts across 24.2 innings in relief pitching.
The Zags also earned five All-WCC First Team players, two Second Team, and two Honorable Mention players. Bell, Sweum, Maddox Haley, Ryder Young, and Justin Feld landed on the first team, Hood and Ricky Sanchez on the second, and Noah Meffert and Jacob Wrubleski on the honorable mention list.
Gonzaga enters the WCC Tournament in Scottsdale, Arizona, on May 21 at 2:00 p.m.
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