University of Nevada-Las Vegas Athletic Department issued the following announcement on June 3.
The UNLV baseball team had five student-athletes earn 2021 Mountain West All-Conference Team honors, the league office announced Thursday. Brendan Brooks and Jack-Thomas Wold were both tabbed to the All-MW First Team, while Myles Denson, Bradley Spooner and Edarian Williams were selected to the Second Team.
Wold paced the Scarlet & Gray offensively this season in nearly every offensive category. The junior from Henderson (Basic Academy), started all 27 conference games, with 16 starts at first base, seven as the designated hitter and four in right field. He posted a team-high .414 batting average with 48 hits, 35 RBI and 29 runs. More impressively, half of his hit haul went for extra bases, with 12 home runs, 11 doubles and one triple, and resulted in 97 total bases and a .836 slugging percentage. He also was tops in multiple-hit games (15) and multiple-RBI games (nine). Additionally, his 15 walks helped him register a .477 on-base percentage. Defensively, he recorded a .992 fielding percentage with only one error in a total of 130 chances (119 putouts and 10 assists).
Brooks was limited to 21 conference games; however, the redshirt junior from Corona, California, made 19 starts at shortstop and two as the designated hitter. He hit .397 in MW play with 29 hits, 22 runs and 17 RBI. He notched 11 extra-base hits (five home runs, five doubles and one triple) for 51 total bases and a .699 slugging percentage. He led the squad with a .521 on-base percentage, which was bolstered by his 29 hits and a team-best 17 walks and three hit-by-pitches. He also had nine multiple-hit games and four multiple-RBI games.
Denson saw action in 25 conference games, making 24 starts with 17 of those in right field and seven as the designated hitter. The senior from Las Vegas (Bishop Gorman HS) hit .383 with 36 hits, 20 runs and 19 RBI. He had 53 total bases with five doubles and four home runs, which produced a .564 slugging percentage, and chipped six walks and one hit-by-pitch for a .422 on-base percentage. He only committed one error defensively in 34 chances for a .971 fielding percentage.
Williams, who shared MW Freshman of the Year honors in 2019, made 24 starts at second base in league play. The Las Vegas native (Rancho HS) batted .370 with 37 hits, 22 runs and 19 RBI. Nine of his base hits went for extra bases, with four home runs, four doubles and one triple, which resulted in 55 total bases and a .550 slugging percentage. He also notched five walks for a .396 on-base percentage, and had two stolen bases. He added 11 multiple-hit games and six multiple-RBI games.
Spooner made nine starts in conference play and went 5-2 with a 4.28 ERA in 48.1 innings on the mound. The senior from Lake Forest, California, struck out a total of 48 batters, with a minimum of four strikeouts in eight of those contests. He allowed 23 earned runs (30 runs) off 58 hits and 15 walks. Delving deeper, he limited the opposition to two or fewer earned runs and walks in six outings. He concluded the season with two consecutive complete games, throwing 7.0 innings in a 14-2, run-rule victory over San Diego State and 9.0 innings in a 13-2 win on the road against Fresno State.
NOTES:
-UNLV finished the 2021 campaign, 20-13 overall and 15-12 in the MW.
-UNLV reached the 15-win mark in MW play for only the sixth time since the conference's inaugural season (2000).
-The Rebels are ranked in the top 30 of eight different NCAA statistical categories, such as: No. 3 in both batting average (.333) and slugging percentage (.538), No. 5 in doubles per game (2.42), No. 6 in walks allowed per 9.0 innings (2.62), No. 10 on-base percentage (.409) and No. 15 in scoring (7.7).
-Wold is ranked in 11 of the NCAA individual categories, such as: No. 2 overall in hits per game (1.82), No. 4 in slugging percentage (.793), No. 6 in batting average (.429), No. 12 in RBI per game (1.30), No. 16 in home runs per game (0.36), No. 26 in doubles per game (0.39) and No. 35 in on-base percentage (.491). Overall, he had 60 hits with 26 extra-base hits (13 doubles, 12 homers and one triple) to go along with 43 RBI and 33 runs.
-Denson is ranked in three NCAA categories: No. 24 in batting average (.395), No. 35 in hits per game (1.50) and No. 119 in slugging percentage (.605).
-Williams is ranked No. 35 in hits per game (1.50) and No. 115 in batting average (.360).
-Rebel freshman Austin Kryszczuk is ranked in four NCAA categories: No. 108 in batting average (.361), No. 114 in on-base percentage (.457), No. 142 in hits per game (1.34) and No. 243 in slugging percentage (.555).
-Rebel junior Diego Alarcon is ranked No. 8 in doubles per game (0.45), No. 77 in toughest to strikeout (9.1), No. 93 in hits per game (1.39) and No. 127 in doubles (15).
-Rebel junior Eric Bigani is ranked No. 40 from triples per game (0.09), No. 101 in triples (3) and No. 148 in doubles per game (0.31).
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