Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008 | 1:03 p.m.
Baseball player Xavier Scruggs and tennis player Elena Gantcheva were named UNLV’s athletes of the 2007-08 academic year.
Scruggs hit .379, smacked 20 home runs and drove in 65 runs, becoming the second player in the Mountain West Conference to win the triple crown.
The junior from Poway, Calif., was picked in the 19th round of the amateur draft by the St. Louis Cardinals and is hitting .219, with four homers and 20 RBIs, for the organization’s Single-A team in Batavia, N.Y.
Gantcheva, a native of Bulgaria, won UNLV Sportswoman of the Year honors for a second consecutive year. She helped the Rebels earn an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002.
Moreover, she was the Mountain West’s first three-time player of the year.
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