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.
The 2011 Major League Baseball season is just over a month old, and five former Longhorns are contributing to big league clubs. We take a look around the league to check in with former Texas players.
Nathan Thornhill had no idea what he was doing. The freshman pitcher was in the Texas locker room preparing for his first collegiate start Tuesday and asked veterans Taylor Jungmann and Cole Green what he should do to get ready.
Texas failed to close out the sweep of Oklahoma on Sunday, falling 5-2 to the Sooners at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. Tant Shepherd hit a solo home run in the fourth inning and Cohl Walla added another run in the ninth with a RBI single, but it was too little, too late for the Longhorns.
