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2006 Season in Review
June 9, 2006
Complete Release in PDF Format
The University of Michigan baseball team concluded its season on June 4 in the NCAA Atlanta Regional with a 5-4 loss to Vanderbilt. With the loss, Michigan (43-21) closed out the 2006 season having collected both the Big Ten regular season and tournament championships while winning 43 games, the most since the 1989 Wolverines won 49 games. The Wolverines fell to Vanderbilt in the NCAA regional opener, 5-2, on June 2. Michigan bounced back to defeat Stetson, 11-1, as fifth-year senior Paul Hammond pitched his sixth complete game of the year to lead the Maize and Blue to victory. U-M made its 19th NCAA Championship appearance and its first back-to-back visit since Michigan reached seven straight years from 1983-89. The Wolverines' 19 NCAA postseason appearances rank second among all Big Ten programs to Minnesota (27 appearances). In addition to sweeping both conference titles, Michigan was the lone conference team represented in the NCAA Championship. Overall, a total of 95 student-athletes from the 10 conference baseball squads were named Academic All-Big Ten, while eight were honored Academic All-District and two standouts, Indiana's Clint Crosier and Minnesota's Any Hunter, were selected to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Baseball Second Team. In addition, 13 players from the Big Ten were acquired in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft, June 6-7.
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