Baylor 12 Kansas 6

Six batters produced multiple-hit games, and Dustin Dickerson homered as Baylor defeated Kansas 12-6 in Saturday night’s Big 12 Conference game at Baylor Ballpark. Following Friday night’s 4-3 victory, the Bears (18-11, 5-6) have clinched their second Big 12 series in four tries this season. Kansas (19-15, 1-7) has lost five straight conference games. Read the rest of this entry »

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Johnny Dorn allowed one hit over 7.1 innings while Cody Neer and Jake Opitz drove in two runs apiece, leading No. 9 Nebraska to a 6-2 victory over Texas Tech Friday evening at Hawks Field.

Dorn (4-0) was the story, as the senior right-hander struck out 10 and allowing one hit, a solo homer to Doug Thennis in the fifth, to pick up his fourth win in five career starts against the Red Raiders. It marked the fifth time that Dorn had struck out at least 10 hitters and the second time in 2008 that Dorn had reached double figures

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LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech Head Baseball Coach Larry Hays became just the fourth coach in NCAA history to reach 1,500 wins in a career as his Red Raiders notched a 10-5 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Wednesday afternoon that completed a two-game sweep of the Islanders at Dan Law Field.

Hays, the winningest coach in school history, joins elite company with today’s historic win as only Texas’ Augie Garrido, Wichita State’s Gene Stephenson and Florida State’s Mike Martin are the only coaches to reach this milestone. Hays is in his 38th season as a head coach and all 38 of those years have been spent in Lubbock as he led the Lubbock Christian Chaparrals for 16 years and has guided the Red Raiders for 22 seasons. Against Texas on March 21, 2008, he picked up the 800th win of his Texas Tech career and now has 805 victories as the Red Raider skipper.

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IRVING, Texas — Doug Thennis (Texas Tech) and Lance Hoge (Kansas State) have earned the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week honors, respectively, for games of March 24-30 in voting by a media panel. Thennis is recognized for the second time in his career while it is the first weekly accolade for Hoge.

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Texas Tech 15 Missouri 11

Doug Thennis’ walk-off grand slam capped a six-run bottom of the ninth that gave the Texas Tech Red Raiders a dramatic series-clinching win over the second-ranked Missouri Tigers in front of a crowd of 2,643 at Dan Law Field on Sunday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

Texas Tech 3 Missouri 2

Taylor Ashby drove an RBI single into left center that scored Jason Seefeld and capped a two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth that gave the Texas Tech Red Raiders a 3-2 come-from-behind win over No. 2 Missouri on Saturday afternoon at Dan Law Field.

Missouri Recap

Texas A&M 9 Kansas 6

Texas A&M Recap

Kansas Recap

Oklahoma State 9 Kansas State 4

Oklahoma State Recap

Kansas State Recap

No. 2 Mizzou’s team ERA in Big 12 Conference games remains at 0.00 after the Tigers shut out Texas Tech behind another strong pitching performance from junior Aaron Crow. Crow struck out nine and allowed just two hits in eight scoreless innings on the mound to improve to 6-0 on the season. He extended his scoreless innings streak to 33.2 innings, as he has not allowed a run since Feb. 29 against Cal. read more »

Texas Tech Recap
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LUBBOCK, Texas — In need of a solid performance from a starting pitcher, the No. 18 Texas Longhorns received such an effort with Riley Boening pitching UT to a 4-3 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders Saturday afternoon at Dan Law Field.

Boening (1-0), who missed all of 2007 with a shoulder injury, logged his longest start of the season. He yielded two runs on eight hits and one walk over 6.1 innings.
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LUBBOCK, Texas — The No. 18 Texas Longhorns dropped a 7-5 decision to the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Big 12 Conference baseball action Friday evening at Dan Law Field.

With the Longhorns leading 3-0 in the fifth inning, Monk Kreder drew a walk from UT starter Kenn Kasparek and with two outs, Tanner Rindels hit a two-run home run into the Texas bullpen in rightfield. Willie Rueda followed with a single to the gap in left centerfield, stole second base and scored on a Chris Hall single through the right side to tie the score at 3-3. Read the rest of this entry »

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LUBBOCK, Texas — The No. 18 Texas Longhorns posted a historic performance to record a 22-6 win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Big 12 Conference baseball action Thursday evening at Dan Law Field.

The Longhorns scored their most runs ever in a Big 12 Conference game in the victory. Texas’ previous best came in an 18-5 win over Oklahoma on April 2, 2000. The Longhorns had also scored 19 runs last season against Kansas State in the Big 12 Conference Championship, considered a non-league game. The tally also equaled the most scored by UT in any league game since beating Southwestern Conference foe Houston 22-7 on March 17, 1996.
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The No. 19 Texas Longhorns were doomed by a four-run sixth inning and lost to the Kansas Jayhawks 7-2 in Big 12 Conference baseball action Sunday afternoon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

Texas Recap

Kansas Recap

Baylor Takes Two of Three form Oklahoma State.

Baylor Recap

Oklahoma State Recap
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I will be providing recaps of each game as the weekend goes along. Up first today was the Rice Owls and the Oklahoma Sooners.

Rice freshman Chad Mozingo went 3-for-4 with a double, three runs scored and an RBI and sophomore pitcher Ryan Berry was sharp on the mound to lead the ninth-ranked Rice baseball team to a 7-2 victory over Oklahoma in the opening game of the Houston College Classic Tournament Friday afternoon at Minute Maid Park in downtown Houston.

The Owls collected 12 hits and scored in five of the nine innings on the way to the team’s fourth-straight win of the season. While the Blue & Gray chipped away for single runs in four of the frames, Berry scattered five hits and three walks in 6.2 innings of work. The right-hander from nearby Humble, Tex., matched his season-high with eight strikeouts to move to 1-0 on the young season.

Rice Owls recap 

Oklahoma Sooners Recap 

To keep track of the Texas Tech and the University of Houston game just click on the live link for game updates.

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The University of Texas-San Antonio is hosting a great tournament on the opening weekend. Joining the Roadrunners this season is Army, Louisiana-Lafayette, Texas Tech, and Oral Roberts. The Red Raiders were a late addition to the tournament as Northern Illinois backed out of a three game set due to the tragedies on their campus last year. Read the rest of this entry »

FROM CONFERENCE PRESS RELEASE
IRVING, Texas–For the seventh consecutive year, Texas has been selected the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 Conference baseball regular season title in a vote of the league’s head coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their teams.

The Longhorns (80 points) received eight of the possible 10 first-place votes to edge out second-place Missouri, which earned 71 points, including one first-place tally. Read the rest of this entry »

The Texas Tech Red Raiders have been added to the UTSA Baseball Classic this weekend after having to cancel their series against Northern Illinois after the tragedies that took place on that campus last week. The Red Raiders will open up play against Louisiana on Saturday at 10 am. They will then play Army on Sunday at 10 am and finish play against UTSA on Monday at 2 pm. The full release from Texas Tech is available here.