July 5, 2007

Top honors for UCI’s Dave Serrano

UC Irvine head baseball coach Dave Serrano has been named Baseball America’s 2007 Coach of the Year.

Serrano led the Anteaters to a school record 47-17-1 mark and a program best No. 4 final national ranking.

Serrano captained the Anteaters to the program’s first Division I College World Series appearance, going 2-2 in Omaha.

During its post season run, UC Irvine’s baseball team defeated perennial powers Texas, Wichita State, Cal State

Fullerton and Arizona State before falling to Oregon State.

The former Cal State Fullerton assistant coach is 114-66-1 overall at UCI, recording his 100th career victory against Pacific on May 12, 2007.

Under Serrano this year, the Anteaters won an unprecedented 13 regular-season weekend series.