June 17, 2004
RICHMOND, Va. - Junior pitcher Matt Fox highlighted a group of three UCF players that were named to CollegeBaseballInsider.com's All-America teams. Fox was named a first team All-American while sophomore pitcher Kyle Bono and junior center fielder Clay Timpner were named honorable mention All-Americans.
CollegeBaseballInsider.com is in its third year of covering college baseball on the national level. The site has attracted more than two million hits and 710,000 page views during the 2004 season, up from 1.2 million hits in 2003.
Fox has been named a first team All-America by Collegiate Baseball News and CollegeBaseballInsider.com while the USA Today/Sports Weekly and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named Fox a second team All-American.
The Coral Springs native was a supplemental first round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins (35th overall). Matt Fox was 14-2 with a 1.85 ERA and 125 strikeouts in 2004. The 14 wins ranked second in UCF single-season history, behind only Justin Pope's 15 in 2001.
Bono capped off a strong sophomore campaign in which he was named to the A-Sun First Team and a second team All-American by USA Today/Sports Weekly. Bono finished the year 8-2 with a 1.94 ERA. In 97.1 innings, Bono totaled 107 strikeouts. The sophomore was an eighth round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox in the 2004 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Bono is pitching this summer in the prestigious Cape Cod Summer Baseball League with the Chatham A's. Bono is one of four UCF players playing in the Cape Cod League this summer (Drew Butera, Ryan Bono and Mike Billek).
Timpner was a 2004 A-Sun First Team selection and a fourth round draft selection of the San Francisco Giants. The junior center fielder led UCF in nearly every offensive category in 2004, including hits, runs, doubles, triples, home runs, total bases and stolen bases. Timpner batted .371 to rank second on the team.