Staff Report
UNM center fielder Matt Young was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2004 Texas Collegiate League championship series after leading the Coppell Copperheads to the league title.
A Lobo senior this year, Young went 2-for-5 with a run scored in the deciding game of the championship series, where the Copperheads beat the Graham Roughnecks. Young also had two home runs and three RBIs in a game two 5-4 loss.
In 51 games for Coppell he batted .272 and led the league in stolen bases (39), runs scored (44) and walks (44). He finished with the league's third-highest on-base percentage at .430 and was named to the TCL All-Star game in July.
The Copperheads finished second in the Tris Speaker Division with a 30-21 regular season record. The team swept first-place McKinney in the division playoffs, then beat Graham two games to one in the finals.
The Texas Collegiate League, a wooden bat summer league, was in its first year of existence this summer. A total of 225 collegiate players from 75 different schools made up the eight teams in the league.
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A left-handed hitter who excels in the leadoff spot, Young has been an All-Mountain West performer for the last two years for the UNM baseball team. Last season he led the Lobos in runs (60) and on-base percentage (.462). His 12 triples were the second most in the nation, and he hit .517 with runners in scoring position. Young batted .381 on the season and is one of just five Lobos to ever score 200 runs and get 200 hits in his career.
