Baseball: Wolf Pack's Dillan Shrum named Mountain West MVP, T.J. Bruce top coach

First, Nevada won the conference title. Then, the Wolf Pack basically won the unofficial title for the All-Mountain West baseball teams.

Nevada placed a conference-high seven players onto the All-MW teams announced recently, along with claiming two of the biggest annual awards. Wolf Pack first baseman Dillan Shrum was named the Mountain West’s player of the year (along with being named to the first team of the All-MW roster), and Nevada head coach T.J. Bruce was honored with the conference’s coach of the year award.

Shrum claimed the Tony Gwynn Player of the Year award after finishing as the national leader in both batting average (.479) and slugging percentage (.992) and hitting a…