No. 22 Texas Ends Regular Season With Series Sweep of Kansas

With the conclusion of the sport on Saturday, the Longhorns’ common season has formally come to a detailed. They ended on a robust word, sweeping the collection towards Kansas. They’ll now enter the Massive 12 Match later this week driving a five-game win streak, hoping to get again into the highest 16 and host a regional. 

Sport 1: No. 22 Texas 12 Kansas 4

After every week off for the bye week, the Longhorns would trot Pete Hansen out to the mound hoping for a strong outing, which he would readily ship. Hansen would quit a run within the prime of the third however he would settle in instantly after, solely permitting three extra runs in his outing. Finally, Hansen would give the Longhorns six innings of four-run baseball, scattering seven hits and racking up 5 strikeouts. He would decide up his ninth win of the season, because the bullpen got here in and delivered three scoreless innings to lock down the victory. 

Nonetheless, the true star of Friday’s sport for the Longhorns was their offense, as they delivered loads of run assist for Hansen. Trailing 1-0 heading into the fourth, the Longhorn offense would hold a 4 spot on the board that was capped off by a Mitchell Daly RBI single to make it 4-1. From there, it was all Longhorns as the subsequent eight runs would come on house runs: an Ivan Melendez two-run house run within the fourth, a Daly grand slam within the fourth and a Doug Hodo solo house run within the seventh to make it 12-4. 

Sport 2: No. 22 Texas 8 Kansas 1

Saturday noticed one other dominant outing from Lucas Gordon, as he continues to ship precisely what he is requested to do when he is handed the ball. Gordon had little to no situation shutting down the Kansas lineup, solely permitting one run over six innings whereas solely permitting 5 hits and putting out six to choose up sixth win of the season. As soon as once more, the Longhorn bullpen would ship three shutout innings, solely permitting two hits within the course of. 

Offensively, the Longhorns had been as soon as once more everywhere in the Jayhawks’ starter from the soar, as Eric Kennedy and Ivan Melendez would launch back-to-back house runs, which tied Melendez with Kyle Russell for probably the most in a season in Texas historical past at 28. Skyler Messinger would add an RBI single of his personal within the first, giving Texas a 3-0 lead. Once more, it might be all Texas from there because the Longhorns would add 5 extra runs by the tip of the sport, together with one other solo house run from Eric Kennedy within the fourth, as they powered Texas to a victory in sport two and the series-clinching win. 

Lucas Gordon

Lucas Gordon

Ivan Melendez

Sport 3: No. 22 Texas 11 Kansas 6

Whereas the Longhorns got two strong outings from their starters to start out the collection, the collection finale pitching woes as soon as once more popped up on Saturday. Zane Morehouse, who has been transformed to Texas’ third starter, would solely final 3 1/3 innings, permitting three runs to attain. He can be adopted by Tristan Stevens, who would solely final 1 1/3 innings, permitting two runs to place the Longhorns down 5-0. 

Whereas the bats began off video games one and two on fireplace, they had been ice chilly for a lot of the collection finale, unable to attain till Texas scratched throughout two runs within the fifth to make it 5-2 Kansas. Nonetheless, that may all change within the seventh inning because the Texas bats out of the blue roared to life. An RBI single from Murphy Stehly would lower the Kansas result in 5-3. Austin Todd would observe with a hard-fought stroll, loading the bases for former Jayhawk Skyler Messinger. 

What adopted couldn’t have been scripted any higher, as Messinger would launch a go-ahead grand slam to place Texas forward for the primary time, 7-5. Aaron Nixon would come on within the eighth inning and discover himself with a bases loaded jam, which he would get out of solely permitting one run and sustaining a 7-6 Texas lead. The Longhorns would add 4 essential insurance coverage runs within the eighth to go up 11-6, and safe a come from behind win and collection sweep of the Jayhawks. 

Skyler Messinger

Skyler Messinger celebrates his go-ahead grand slam. 

What’s subsequent for Texas? 

After the thrilling come-from-behind win over the Jayhawks to finish the collection sweep, the Longhorns can have two days off earlier than kicking off their Massive 12 Match run towards Oklahoma State on Wednesday at 9 a.m. Central. In the event that they wish to host a regional, the Longhorns might want to reel off a number of wins within the Massive 12 Match to take action. 

You can discover Connor Zimmerlee on Twitter @Connorjz98

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