TEXAS (42-19) on the NCAA AUSTIN REGIONAL
June 3-6, 2021
The place: UFCU Disch-Falk Area
Time: Friday at 1 p.m.
TV: Longhorn Community
Radio: 104.9 FM The Horn/1260 AM
Reside stats: ncaa.statbroadcast.com
NCAA Event Appearances (final): 61 (2021)
All-Time NCAA Regional Document: 148-57-1
THE MATCHUPS—Texas heads into the NCAA Event because the No. 9 nationwide seed and can host Louisiana Tech, Dallas Baptist and Air Drive at UFCU Disch-Falk Area. Texas will open the NCAA Austin Regional towards Air Drive. The Longhorns and Falcons confronted off twice this season, splitting a pair of midweek video games in April. Texas and Louisiana Tech haven’t met because the 2010 season and the Longhorns maintain a 25-2 lead within the sequence. Texas leads the all-time sequence with Dallas Baptist, 46-8, however the groups haven’t performed because the 2015 NCAA Dallas Regional.
A LOOK AT THE LONGHORNS—The Longhorns made a run to final week’s Phillips 66 Large 12 Championship sport earlier than falling to Oklahoma. The championship sport look was the Longhorns’ first since 2017 and seventh total. The Longhorns head into the postseason having gained 11 of the final 14 video games. Texas leads the Large 12 with a .315 staff batting common and a program report 114 homers, whereas the pitching employees is first within the league with a 4.15 ERA. The Longhorns are additionally the nation’s high fielding staff with a .986 fielding proportion.
BOMB SQUAD—Texas has damaged this system report for many residence runs in a season, smashing 114 bombs in 61 video games this season. The house run whole leads the Large 12 and ranks fifth nationally. Final season Texas hit 68 homers in 67 video games, the fourth-most by a Longhorn staff. The earlier program report was 81, set in 2010. Texas has 31 multiple-homer video games, together with 11 three-homer video games, six four-homer video games and 4 five-homer video games. 5 totally different Longhorn gamers have hit 10-plus homers for the primary time in program historical past.
EL REY—Ivan Melendez turned Texas Baseball’s residence run king together with his twenty ninth blast of the season, surpassing Kyle Russell’s 28 homers in 2007 for this system report. Together with his unimaginable season up to now Melendez was named the Collegiate Baseball Nationwide Participant of the 12 months, the fourth Longhorn to win the award following Brooks Kieschnick (1993), Scott Bryant (1989) and Greg Swindell (1986). Melendez leads the nation with 29 homers, a .903 slugging proportion and 196 whole bases. He ranks second nationally with 87 RBI, fourth with a .522 on-base proportion and eighth with a .406 batting common. He turned the fourth Longhorn to be named the Large 12 Participant of the 12 months and the primary since Kody Clemens in 2018. Melendez, additionally a unanimous First Crew All-Large 12 choice, now has 42 profession residence runs, which is the third-most in a profession at Texas.
ALL-AMERICANS—Ivan Melendez was named to the Collegiate Baseball All-America First Crew, whereas Pete Hansen and Murphy Stehly have been named to the second staff. Hansen was additionally named as one in every of 5 finalists for the Faculty Baseball Basis’s Nationwide Pitcher of the 12 months award. Hansen is 10-1 this season with a 3.01 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 92 2/3 innings pitched. He has solely walked 16 batters and held opponents to a .208 batting common towards. Stehly is batting .377 with 21 doubles, 17 homers and 54 RBI. His 92 hits this season rank seventh nationally, whereas his 166 whole bases are the thirteenth most within the nation.
ALL-BIG 12 HONORS—Ivan Melendez led a complete of 9 gamers named to All-Large 12 groups this season. Catcher Silas Ardoin, outfielder Murphy Stehly and beginning pitcher Pete Hansen joined Melendez on the primary staff. Infielders Trey Faltine and Skyler Messinger and beginning pitcher Lucas Gordon landed on the second staff. Outfielder Douglas Hodo III and designated hitter Austin Todd have been named Honorable Point out.
MURPH DOG—Murphy Stehly has had an excellent season on the plate, batting .377, rating seventh within the nation with 92 whole hits and thirteenth with 166 whole bases. Stehly additionally has 21 doubles, one triple and 17 homers. He has a success in 52 of his 60 video games performed and has 27 video games with a number of hits, together with simply the sixth three-homer sport in Texas Baseball historical past. He had a 20-game hitting streak earlier this season, which is tied for the fourth-longest in program historical past. His versatility has additionally been on show, taking part in first base, second base, third base and proper discipline all through the season.
IMMEDIATE IMPACT—Texas struck gold final season with the addition of graduate switch Mike Antico from St. John’s. The outfielder turned the primary participant in Large 12 historical past to hit 10 homers and steal 40 bases in a season. This season the Longhorns added grad switch Skyler Messinger from Kansas and he has produced. The similarities have been placing, as each gamers had a gradual begin to their Texas careers. By Antico’s first 26 video games final season, he was batting simply .202 earlier than happening to bat .273 and touchdown on the All-Large 12 second staff. For Messinger, he was batting simply .192 after his first 16 video games performed however over his final 43 video games he has raised his batting common as much as .353. Messinger has hit 10 residence runs this season, after having simply six in his 4 years at Kansas. He has additionally been nice defensively at third base with solely three errors in 148 defensive probabilities this season.
HOME SWEET HOME—Texas has gone 24-7 this season on the pleasant confines of UFCU Disch-Falk Area. Through the common season, Texas performed a complete of 31 video games at residence and 25 video games away from UFCU Disch-Falk Area. The Longhorns closed out the common season with 14 of the ultimate 18 video games at residence and produced a 13-5 report to finish the common season. In residence video games, Texas has a staff batting common of .338 and a .989 fielding proportion. The Longhorns have additionally averaged 6,796 followers in attendance at residence this season, the fifth-highest common attendance within the nation.
OWN THE DISCH—A big a part of the Longhorns success underneath head coach David Pierce has come all the way down to dominating at residence. Since 2017 Texas has produced a 145-40 (.784) report at UFCU Disch-Falk Area, together with a 24-7 mark this season. For the reason that stadium opened in 1975, Texas has gone 1577-400-3 at residence for a .797 profitable proportion. The fan base has additionally carried out an awesome job of constructing the Disch a troublesome place to play. In 31 residence video games this season Texas averaged 6,796 followers in attendance, which is a program report. Except final season’s restricted capability as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, Texas has led the Large 12 in attendance for 15-consecutive seasons.
BACK-TO-BACK JACKS—Texas has hit back-to-back residence runs on 10 totally different events this season. The ability-hitting duo of Ivan Melendez and Murphy Stehly have gone back-to-back 4 instances. The Longhorns have additionally hit three-straight homers in a sport this season, on Might 1 towards Oklahoma State.
FLASHING THE LEATHER—Trey Faltine and Mitchell Daly have fashioned an unimaginable center infield duo, anchoring the highest protection within the Large 12 with a .986 fielding proportion. This season, Daly leads the Large 12 lead with 179 assists, whereas Faltine is second with 167. Final season Faltine led the Large 12 with 203 assists, whereas Daly was second with 178.
INFIELD HIT MACHINE—All through his profession on the Forty Acres, Eric Kennedy has used his pace as a method to get on base. With six infield singles (three bunt) this season, Kennedy now has 57 profession infield singles (31 bunts). Final season he had 27 infield singles, together with 16 bunt hits.
HEAR ‘EM—In partnership with Learfield IMG Faculty, Texas video games will probably be broadcast on the Austin Radio Community, totally on 104.9 The Horn and AM 1260. Craig Method handles major play-by-play duties alongside Roger Wallace. This season followers will even hear evaluation from Longhorn greats Keith Moreland, Ty Harrington and Nathan Thornhill all through the season.
FOX 7 Austin’s Dennis de la Pena and producer Julian Martinez talk about the College Football Playoff semifinal matchup between the Texas Longhorns and the Ohio State Buckeyes!
ARLINGTON, Texas – The Texas Longhorns and Ohio State Buckeyes will face off in Arlington, Texas on Friday in the College Football Playoff semifinal.
The winner of the game between Texas (13-2) and Ohio State (12-2) will go on to play Notre Dame in the national championship.
Neither quarterback in this game is a stranger to playing in Arlington.
Ohio State quarterback Will Howard and Ewers both won Big 12 championships the last time they played at AT&T Stadium.
Texas won the Big 12 in its last season in the conference last year. Howard transferred to Ohio State from Kansas State. He led the Wildcats to a Big 12 championship win over then-undefeated TCU two years ago.
The best matchup of the game could be Texas All-American senior cornerback Jahdae Barron vs. standout Buckeyes freshman receiver Jeremiah Smith. Barron won the Thorpe Award, which is given to the nation’s top defensive back. But Barron gives up four inches and 15 pounds to Smith, the second-team All-American who may be the most electric freshman in the country. Smith has 70 receptions for 1,224 yards and 14 touchdowns. Smith has four touchdowns in these playoffs.
Predictions are made by the Data Skrive betting model.
FOX Sports Analyst Joel Klatt went with Ohio State in his prediction for the Cotton Bowl. Klatt says the Buckeyes are playing the best football in the country right now and the fact that the game is being played in Texas is keeping the line (Texas +6) lower than it should be.
The winner of the Longhorns and Buckeyes game will take on Notre Dame in the championship game.
The game will be held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, where the Longhorns played in the SEC Championship and against Arizona State in the College football playoff.
The Source: Information in this article comes from the College Football Playoff, the Associated Press and FOX Sports.
TEXAS — The 89th Texas Legislature will start on Jan. 14 with 181 lawmakers.
The House of Representatives’ organization will be managed by Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson, who will also select temporary officers. The Secretary leads until a Speaker of the House is elected.
Secretary Nelson announced that Walter Fisher and Sharon Carter were appointed as parliamentarians for the House’s session inauguration.
“This is a duo with extensive parliamentary knowledge and the experience to guide the opening of the 89th Legislative Session,” said Secretary Nelson. “With the support of these individuals, we will make sure the organizing of the House is a fair, transparent and orderly process.”
The 150 members of the Texas House of Representatives and the 31 members of the Texas Senate will be sworn in as the 89th Legislature on Tuesday. The legislature will meet until June 2.
You are able to watch the Senate proceedings on opening day at this website.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — KXAN is keeping track of the number of homicides in Austin.
As of Jan. 9, two homicides have been reported thus far in 2025.
Last year, 70 homicides were reported, down from 75 in 2023 and 71 in 2022. A record 88 homicides were reported in 2021.
The charts below will be updated as we learn new information. Scroll down for a map of where each homicide occurred.
The chart below shows how the number of homicides reported in recent years changed through the year.
Below is a map showing where homicides occurred in 2025. The map is interactive, so clicking on or hovering over a dot will reveal information about that incident. You can also click on a month in the top left to show only homicides that occurred during that month.
The chart below shows the number of homicides reported each month in 2025.
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