Austin, TX
Texas baseball gets No. 9 overall NCAA seed, opens Austin Regional with Air Force Falcons
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Sunday, the Texas Longhorns knew they’d begin the school baseball postseason at residence. On Monday, they came upon who they’re gonna play at UFCU Disch-Falk Area.
Texas, the No. 9 total seed, will tackle a well-recognized foe within the first regional recreation, the Air Drive Falcons. The 2 groups break up a two-game set April 19-20 in Austin. The Falcons can flat out hit the ball and confirmed it in each video games, beating the Longhorns 14-2 within the first recreation earlier than dropping a 12-10 slugfest.
The sport will begin at 1 p.m. CDT June 3 and will likely be broadcast on Longhorn Community.
“It’s superior,” stated Longhorns Head Coach David Pierce. “It’s a tribute to those guys not giving in and simply preserve taking part in.”
Texas and Air Drive are two of the highest hitting groups within the nation. The Longhorns are third within the nation in batting common at .321 and the Falcons are eighth-best at .316. Texas is No. 2 in slugging proportion at .570 whereas Air Drive slugs at a .529 clip, good for Twelfth-best within the nation.
Air Drive beat San Jose State for the Mountain West Convention match championship and completed the common season 30-27 total. Falcons left fielder Gabriel Garcia drove in 5 runs in his group’s win over Texas.
Dallas Baptist and Louisiana Tech will even compete within the Austin Regional. These groups play the night time recreation June 3 at 6:30 p.m. CDT. The winner of the regional performs into the Greenville Regional, hosted by No. 8 East Carolina. Coppin State, Coastal Carolina and Virginia are taking part in in that regional bracket.
“I feel we’re all excited for this time of 12 months,” stated sophomore shortstop Trey Faltine. “Clearly playoffs is larger stage. Greater moments. In order that’s what we’ve been ready for all 12 months.”
Texas State is headed to the Palo Alto regional hosted by Stanford to tackle UC-Santa Barbara. Texas State broke a college document for many wins in a season this 12 months with 45 and had a 26-4 Solar Belt Convention document to say the regular-season title. The Bobcats misplaced within the semifinals of the Solar Belt match to Louisiana.
“This group performs rather well collectively and actually hungry,” stated Bobcats senior shortstop Dalton Shuffield. “It’s like all people has one thing to show. So it’s plenty of run and no matter comes our approach, this group has dealt with it.”
Texas A&M, the No. 5 total seed, opens the match in opposition to Oral Roberts at Blue Bell Park in School Station. Louisiana, who beat Texas State within the Solar Belt Convention match semifinals, will tackle Massive 12 Convention regular-season champion TCU.
Tennessee completed the common season with a 53-7 document and gained the SEC match, so it was a no-doubt determination that they obtained the No. 1 total seed.
NCAA regionals hosts and nationwide seeds
- Tennessee
- Stanford
- Oregon State
- Virginia Tech
- Texas A&M
- Miami
- Oklahoma State
- East Carolina
- Texas
- North Carolina
- Southern Mississippi
- Louisville
- Florida
- Auburn
- Maryland
- Georgia Southern
Regional play runs via June 6. Whereas the Longhorns aren’t a top-eight nationwide seed, there’s nonetheless an opportunity Texas might host the tremendous regional spherical, assuming it makes it out of its personal regional and East Carolina doesn’t.