Texas plays early game in Big 12 tourney opener at Globe Life Field

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Longhorns will tackle a workforce that swept them at house throughout the common season within the first spherical of the Huge 12 Convention baseball match Wednesday.

It’ll be an early ballgame for the Horns as they open the match at 9 a.m. in opposition to the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Texas completed the Huge 12 common season in fifth place with a 14-10 file. The Cowboys completed a sport forward of the Longhorns within the standings at 15-9, however three of these wins got here April 29-Might 1 at UFCU Disch-Falk Discipline.

The final of these three wins for Oklahoma State got here after they dumped 10 runs on the Longhorns within the seventh inning to show a 7-0 Longhorn lead right into a 10-7 deficit. Texas ended up shedding the sport 10-8 and the Cowboys accomplished the sequence sweep.

The Longhorns and Cowboys play the primary sport of the match at Globe Life Discipline in Arlington. TCU, the Huge 12 common season champs and No. 1 seed, performs Eighth-seeded Baylor at 12:30 p.m. Texas Tech, the 2-seed, performs Seventh-seeded Kansas State at 4 p.m., and 3-seed Oklahoma performs No. 6 seed West Virginia within the nightcap at 7:30 p.m.

The double-elimination match runs by way of Sunday. Video games are televised on ESPNU and ESPN+. Tickets can be found by way of the Texas Rangers web site.

Texas completed the common season with a sweep of last-place Kansas and moved as much as No. 19 within the D1Baseball.com ballot, however they’ve obtained some work to do in the event that they need to host a regional match. The most recent match projection by D1Baseball.com has Texas as a No. 2 seed within the School Station regional, hosted by Texas A&M, a projected No. 8 nationwide seed. If the projections maintain, the Longhorns would open the regional with UT-San Antonio.

Texas first baseman Ivan Melendez was named a co-player of the week by the Huge 12 after he slugged three homers and drove in 9 runs in opposition to Kansas. His third house run of the sequence, a mammoth 453-foot bomb that sailed over the left-field wall, was his twenty eighth of the season, tying the varsity file. For the season, Melendez is second within the nation in batting common, hitting .421, first in house runs with 28 and second in RBIs with 85.