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The season is coming to a close, but there’s still plenty of work to come. The Longhorns travel north to Norman, Okla. to battle rival Oklahoma, as they look to finish the season strong.
There has always been stiff competition between these two powerhouses. Overall, their series is tied at 21 games apiece. While the Longhorns are winning the series at home, it is a different story on the road. Oklahoma is 9-5 against Texas in its home stadium, but the Longhorns hope to decrease that gap.
After losing all three of its starting pitchers from a year ago, Texas’ rotation has fluctuated over the course of the season.
The Longhorns were able to tame the bear this time around. After losing their first game of the series to conference rival Baylor, the Longhorns took this second game with ease on Tuesday night.
In the 7-3 win, Texas proved how strong of a team it is. While giving up seven hits and hitting 11 themselves, they were able to out power Baylor late in the game.
After sweeping Texas A&M the previous weekend, the Bears took a break from conference play this week to take on No. 25 New Mexico State for a two game set.
The Longhorns won the series with the Aggies on Sunday.
Despite losing 9-0 Thursday night in a run-ruled game on the road in College Station, the Longhorns fought from behind and pulled off back to back wins to take their final series against the Aggies 2-1
this past weekend.
The No. 7 Longhorns beat the Aggies twice at home, 7-6 on Saturday and 4-3 on Sunday. They are now 39-8 on the season and 13-6 in Big 12 Conference play.
It is surprising that last year she was only a freshman, filling in for junior Blaire Luna when asked by the coaches. However, sophomore Rachel Fox has stepped up in the circle and shown the maturity of an upperclassman en route to producing a 12-0 season record.
Just days before the first round of the Big 12 Championship, junior Madison Pressel was ruled out with a right shoulder injury that persisted for months and finally prevented her from playing. Last year’s individual champion was sure to be a critical piece to Texas’ defense of a conference title, but they would have to go on without her.
It didn’t matter.
It was a victory that will be remembered for a long time to come. Torie Schmidt gave the Longhorns the win in Saturday’s game against Texas A&M with walk-off double that knocked in two runs.
The junior out of California went three for four on Saturday. Schmidt has 42 hits on the year to go with 23 RBI and 22 runs.
A final round rally was not enough to propel the Longhorns to a first place finish on Sunday. Texas finished in second place at the Big 12 Conference Championship tournament.
No. 1 Texas, which entered the last day nine shots back of No. 15 Texas A&M, led the field with a 3-over-291 on the last day of the tournament, but an overall score of 16-over-1168 left the Longhorns in second place, three shots behind the event-winning Aggies.
The Longhorns proved to be a strong presence in the field events during competition at the annual Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
Senior Marquise Goodwin remained consistent with another win in the long jump. Goodwin won with a jump of 7.86 meters.
After taking the last two victories in their matchup against Texas A&M, it was the Aggies who took the Big 12 tournament quarterfinal win against the Longhorns this weekend.
On Friday, the fifth-seeded Aggies handed fourth-seeded Texas a 4-2 loss to knock UT out of the tournament.
Resiliency has been the motto for the Longhorns all year. The motto for the Big 12 Championship will be no different.
The team has won the Big 12 tournament title seven times, with its most recent victory coming in 2005. Coming off a loss in its final regular season matchup, the fourth seeded Longhorns will earn a first round bye before looking for redemption against the fifth seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys, who handed them that loss.
It wasn’t how the Longhorns wanted to start their final series with longtime rival Texas A&M. Thursday night gave the team a lot of trouble, as they lost in a 9-0 shut out given by the Aggies.
No. 18 Texas A&M held the Longhorns to seven hits on the night, and the Aggies were able to get 9 runs of their eight hits. The run-ruled game was not what the Longhorns expected going into the weekend.
The Longhorns’ football team is 13-12 over the last two years. The Texas men’s basketball team has won exactly one NCAA Tournament game in the last three. It’s been eight years since the Longhorns’ women’s basketball squad has gotten past the second round in the NCAA Tournament.
But the way Texas has played against Texas A&M recently has been anything but mediocre.
After finishing conference play with their third loss, the Longhorns look to bounce back with a win in the conference tournament this weekend against a familiar foe.
No. 18 Texas will take on the host team, No. 34 ranked Texas A&M, in the second match today in College Station. The Longhorns are the No. 4 seed, while the Aggies hold the No. 5 tournament seed.
Should Texas win this match, they will face the No. 1 seeded Oklahoma on Saturday. The Sooners took the match against the Longhorns by a 5-2 count at the end of March.
After turning in one of the strongest regular seasons in school history, the Texas Longhorns men’s golf team will look to continue its dominance this weekend in Trinity at the 2012 Big 12 Conference Championship.
In a lot of ways, on Friday night, it’ll just be friends playing against friends on the diamond. These are players that grew up as teammates in select ball and faced each other routinely in high school. After the game they’ll meet to catch up for a moment or two.
However, when the teams meet on the field during the game, there will be no room for past friendships, because it is Texas vs. Texas A&M in one of the longest standing rivalries in all of baseball.
The Longhorns start their last stand against their longtime rival Texas A&M tonight in College Station this weekend.
After UT divided and conquered last week at the Mt. SAC Relays and the Longhorn Invitational, a reunited and improved No. 10 Texas is geared up for a forge into the final regular meet of the outdoor season.
Nearly three decades have past since Texas’ prolific 1986 sprint medley relay team raced together. But the four men aren’t finished making their mark just yet.
On Sunday, freshman Dillon Peters received the first weekend start of his short colligate career, and it did not go well. In only one inning of work, he allowed two runs and couldn’t make it through the lineup once, facing only eight batters.
The weekend games are tough, there is more pressure and all the Big 12 opponents — even weaker hitting lineups such as Kansas — present a challenge each and every game, and Peters found that out the hard way.
Like the football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams before them, the Baylor baseball team is winning — and winning at a record pace.
At the beginning of the season, Texas was off to a poor start. It featured a five game losing streak which included a sweep at the hands of the Cardinal in which their lowest single game run output was higher than Texas’ three game total. It wasn’t the most desirable start for a team that was coming off its record 34th College World Series appearance.
This weekend marks softball’s final installment of the State Farm Lone Star Showdown and for the century-old rivalry. The Longhorns will travel to College Station Friday afternoon to play the first game of the series on the road against the Aggies. Saturday, both teams will head over to Red and Charline McCombs field to play the rest of the series in Austin.
The Texas Longhorns men’s golf team saw its win streak end on Sunday, as it took a share of second place at the Aggie Invitational in Bryan Texas over the weekend.
