TEXAS BASEBALL GAME NOTES SIX-TIME NATIONAL CHAMPIONS | 1949 1950 1975 1983 2002 2005 CONTACT: Carli Todd ([email protected])
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TEXAS BASEBALL GAME NOTES SIX-TIME NATIONAL CHAMPIONS | 1949 1950 1975 1983 2002 2005 CONTACT: Carli Todd ([email protected]) 2017 SCHEDULE & RESULTS FEBRUARY 17-19, 2016 | SERIES NOTES vs. RICE FEBRUARY 17 RICE 6:30 pm 18 RICE (DH) 3 pm 19 RICE 2 pm 22 at Sam Houston State 6:30 pm 24 UCONN 4 pm 25 UCONN 2 pm 26 UCONN Noon 28 LAMAR 6:30 pm RICE OWLS TEXAS LONGHORNS MARCH 2016 RECORD .............................. 38-24 (19-10 C-USA) 2016 RECORD ...............................25-32 (10-14 Big 12) 2 at Stanford 8 pm 3 at Stanford 8 pm RANKING ................................ No. 23 (D1Baseball.com) RANKING ....................................................................NR 4 at Stanford 4 pm HEAD COACH ...................... Wayne Graham (Texas ‘70) HEAD COACH ...................... David Pierce (Houston ‘88) 5 at Stanford 3 pm CAREER RECORD ....................1,689-579 (37th season) CAREER RECORD .........................197-109 (6th season) 7 RICHMOND 6:30 pm RECORD @ RICE .....................1,114-466 (25th season) RECORD @ TEXAS ...............................N/A (1st season) 8 TAMU-CC 6:30 pm 10 UCLA 6:30 pm PROBABLE PITCHERS 11 UCLA 4 pm 12 UCLA 1 pm FRIDAY Rice RHP Dane Myers (2016: 1-2, 6.68 ERA ) vs. Texas RHP Morgan Cooper (2016: 3-5, 4.03 ERA) 14 TEXAS A&M 6:30 pm SATURDAY G1 Rice RHP Ricardo Salinas (9-2, 3.39) vs. Texas RHP Kyle Johnston (3-2, 3.72) 17 TEXAS TECH* 6:30 pm SATURDAY G2 Rice TBD vs. Texas RHP Blair Henley (n/a) 18 TEXAS TECH* 4 pm SUNDAY Rice TBD vs. Texas TBD 19 TEXAS TECH* 1 pm 21 at Texas State 6 pm SERIES BY THE NUMBERS 22 UTRGV 6:30 pm RICE 2016 OFFENSE TEXAS RICE 2016 PITCHING/DEFENSE TEXAS 24 KANSAS STATE* 6:30 pm 25 KANSAS STATE* 4 pm .273 .........................Batting Avg ............................. .268 3.76 .....................Earned Run Avg.......................... 4.08 26 KANSAS STATE* 1 pm .365 ........................Slugging Pct ............................ .392 553.0 ................... Innings Pitched ........................ 505.1 28 vs. TAMU-CC& 6:30 pm .346 ........................On-Base Pct ............................ .351 3..........................Complete Games ...............................2 31 at Kansas* 6 pm 80 .............................. Doubles ................................. 105 19 ................................Saves ..................................... 11 APRIL 14 ............................... Triples ................................... .13 2.12 ................. Strikeout/Walk Ratio ..................... .2.18 1 at Kansas* 2 pm 26 ........................... Home Runs ................................ 34 .242 ................ Opponent Batting Avg ..................... .263 2 at Kansas* 1 pm 204 ..............................Walks................................... 215 68 ................................Errors .................................... 80 4 SAM HOUSTON STATE 6:30 pm 37-of-62...............Stolen Bases/Att ...................45-of-64 52 .......................... Double Plays ............................... 49 7 OKLAHOMA* 7 pm 8 OKLAHOMA* 4 pm ALL-TIME SERIES Texas leads 225-56-2 | LAST 10 MEETINGS: Texas leads | LAST SERIES: 9 OKLAHOMA* 2:30 pm IN AUSTIN Texas leads 123-17-1 | IN HOUSTON Texas leads 98-34-1 | NEUTRAL SITE Rice leads 4-5 | POSTSEASON Series tied 6-6 11 TEXAS STATE 6:30 pm 13 at Baylor* 6:35 pm LONGHORNS NOTES 14 at Baylor* 6:35 pm THE MATCHUP—Texas leads the all-time series, 225- A LOOK AT THE OWLS—Rice enters the regular season 15 at Baylor* 3:05 pm 18 TEXAS STATE 6:30 pm 56-2…the last time the Owls visited Austin was April 8, ranked No. 23 by D1Baseball.com…the Owls finished 21 NEW ORLEANS 7 pm 2014 for a Tuesday night matchup…Rice took that game last season ranked No. 20 after falling one win shy of an 22 NEW ORLEANS 4 pm 7-2 over the Longhorns…the last meeting between the NCAA Super Regional. 23 NEW ORLEANS 1:30 pm two sides came in 2015 when the squads split a four- 25 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette^ 6 pm game series, winning two games apiece. NEXT UP—Texas will head to Sam Houston State on 28 at Oklahoma State* 6:30 pm Tuesday, marking the Longhorns’ first ever trip to Hunts- 29 at Oklahoma State* 3 pm A NEW CHAPTER—Friday marks David Pierce’s first ville…the Bearkats captured the Southland Conference 30 at Oklahoma State* 1 pm game at the helm of the Texas Baseball program…Pierce regular season and tournament championship in 2016 MAY was named head coach on June 29, 2016, making him and are favored to win the league once again according 2 UT ARLINGTON 6:30 pm 5 at TCU* 6:30 pm just the fifth Longhorn head coach since 1911 (with the to the preseason poll. 6 at TCU* 4 pm exception of the war years of 1943-45 when Blair Cherry 7 at TCU* 1 pm was at the helm) and the 13th head coach in 122 years LONGHORNS IN THE DRAFT—Texas returns eight of its 16 INCARNATE WORD 6:30 pm of Texas baseball…Pierce—along with assistant coach nine starting position players from last season after C 19 WEST VIRGINIA* 6:30 pm Sean Allen, assistant coach Philip Miller and volunteer Tres Barrera was drafted in the sixth round by the Wash- 20 WEST VIRIGNIA* 4 pm coach Phil Haig—came to Texas after two years at Tu- ington Nationals…among starting pitchers, all return 21 WEST VIRGINIA* 1 pm lane and three years at Sam Houston State. with the exception of LHP Ty Culbreth who graduated All times Central. Home games in BOLD. and was drafted in the eighth round by the Colorado *Big 12 Conference Game. RICE CONNECTION—Pierce spent nine years as an Rockies. ON AIR assistant under Rice head coach Wayne Graham from 2002 to 2011…the Owls reached the NCAA tournament FENCES FORWARD—UFCU Disch-Falk Field saw some TV Longhorn Network in each of those seasons, made four trips to the College renovations this winter as a new FieldTurf was installed Lowell Galindo (Play-by-Play) Keith Moreland (Analyst) World Series and earned one National Championship in and the outfield dimensions have been changed…the Greg Swindell (Analyst) that time…Graham spent two seasons (1956-57) as a left-field line remains 340’, center field remains ‘400 and LIVESTREAM WatchESPN.com | WatchESPN app player at Texas under legendary Longhorns head coach the park remains 325’ down the right-field line, however, RADIO Longhorn IMG Radio | 104.9 FM or 1260 AM Bibb Falk. the left-center field gap moves from 384’ to 370’ and the Craig Way (Play-by-Play) right-center field gap moves from 384’ to 365’. Roger Wallace (Analyst) LIVESTATS SidearmStats.com/Texas/Baseball 2016 FINAL BIG 12 CONFERENCE STANDINGS LONGHORNS NOTES BIG 12 PCT. OVERALL PCT. D1 POWER RANKINGS—Several Longhorns appeared RANKED OPPONENTS—The Longhorns’ schedule Texas Tech 19-5 .792 40-14 .741 in the D1Baseball.com position power rankings…RHP includes matchups against No. 1 TCU, No. 13 UL Oklahoma State 16-8 .667 35-18 .660 Morgan Cooper (No. 15), RHP Kyle Johnston (No. 61), Lafayette, No. 14 Texas Tech, No. 20 Texas A&M and TCU 15-9 .625 38-14 .731 Nolan Kingham (No. 128) and RHP Connor Mayes No. 23 Rice, ranked according to the D1Baseball.com West Virginia 12-11 .522 33-21 .611 (No. 135) were ranked among starting pitchers…RHP preseason poll. Oklahoma 11-13 .458 28-25-1 .528 Chase Shugart (No. 36) made this list of relievers…OF Baylor 10-14 .417 24-27 .471 Texas 10-14 .417 22-30 .423 Patrick Mathis ranked No. 35 among D1 outfielders… HOME SWEET HOME—Twenty-one of the Longhorns Kansas State 8-16 .333 26-29 .473 INF Bret Boswell (No. 46) made the third basemen list, first 27 games are set to take place at home in Aus- Kansas 6-17 .261 20-35-1 .366 INF/OF Zane Gurwitz ranked No. 32 among second tin…the only road games in that time come at Sam basemen and 1B/RHP Kacy Clemens ranked No. 42 Houston State (Feb 22), Stanford (March 2-5) and on the first basemen list…RHP Blair Henley (No. 90) Texas State (March 21)…overall, Texas plays just 20 QUICK FACTS and INF David Hamilton (No. 99) made the Top 100 of its 54 games away from UFCU Disch-Falk Field… UNIVERSITY & ATHLETICS Freshman rankings. among those 20 games is a March 28 game against SCHOOL .......................................... The University of Texas Texas A&M-Corpus Christi held at Whataburger Field CITY, STATE ........................................................ Austin, TX D1 PREVIEW—Texas is projected to finish fourth in in Corpus Christi and an April 25 game against Louisi- FOUNDED .....................................................................1883 the Big 12 according to the D1Baseball.com staff, with ana at Constellation Field in Sugar Land. ENROLLMENT ....................51,334 (40,170 undergraduate) RHP Morgan Cooper selected as the preseason Pitch- NICKNAME ......................................................... Longhorns er of the Year favorite…in D1Baseball’s Top Prospects WATCH ‘EM—All but one Longhorns home games SCHOOL COLORS ..... Burnt Orange & White (Pantone 159) (2017 Draft) list, four Texas players ranked in the top at UFCU Disch-Falk Field will be shown on Longhorn HOME FIELD (CAPACITY) .... UFCU Disch-Falk Field (7,373) seven—RHP Morgan Cooper (No. 1), RHP Kyle John- Network…Lowell Galindo will take over play-by-play SURFACE ...............................................................FieldTurf ston (No. 3), OF Patrick Mathis (No. 6) and INF Bret duties this season while former Longhorn greats Keith Boswell (No. 7). Moreland and Greg Swindell will handle the color an- DIMENSIONS .. LF-340’, CF-400’, RF-325’, LCF-370’, RCF-365’ alyst duties…both broadcasters have their numbers AFFILIATION................................................NCAA Division I PRESEASON POLL—In the Big 12 preseason coaches’ retired at UFCU Disch-Falk Field…when Texas hosts CONFERENCE ..........................................Big 12 Conference poll, Texas was selected to finish fourth behind presea- Oklahoma on April 7, FOX Sports 1 will take over the PRESIDENT .............................................Gregory L. Fenves son favorite TCU (64), Oklahoma State (54) and Texas broadcast as a part of its season-long Big 12 schedule.