The Longhorns woke up Sunday morning needing two wins to keep their season alive. Thanks to the unlikeliest hero of them all, they went to bed Sunday night needing just one more to advance.
Texas scored three runs in the ninth inning but they weren’t enough to complete a comeback against Kent State, and the Longhorns fell 7-5 in their second game of the Austin regional.
A win is a win, but the Longhorns sure hope that the 5-3 squeaker they pulled out against Princeton ends up being their closest call of this regional tournament
In explaining how he created his pitching rotation for this weekend, head coach Augie Garrido did his best Joe Namath, predicting that his Longhorns would take care of business against Princeton on Friday.
Sam Stafford will get the ball for Texas’ first game in the Austin Regional, Friday night against Princeton. The question is, which Stafford will show up?
The Longhorns finished the regular season with a share of the Big 12 Championship, won the final series against Texas A&M and put together a fine showing at the conference tournament in Oklahoma City.
Two aces took the mound Thursday night in a game billed as the biggest of the season for both teams; for the conference and maybe for the landscape of college baseball.
