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Back-To-Back NCAA Regional Finalists
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80-34 Record Past Two Seasons
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2011 Top 5 Nationally Ranked Offense
Communications Contact: Matt Dowdy • matthew.dowdy@ttu.edu • O: (806) 742-2770 • C: (806) 928-5190 NO. 6 TEXAS LONGHORNS Record..........................................................................17-1 2011 Postseason................................ NCAA Regional Head Coach............................................... Connie Clark Record at School..................................615-271-3 (16) Career Record.........................................................Same
Last Five Games.................................................. 5-0 Last 10 Games..................................................... 9-1 Streak...............................................................Won 7 Home/Away/Neutral..............................13-0/0-0/4-1 National Ranking....................#6 (NFCA), #6 (ESPN) Texas Tech Series........................................ Leads 25-5
TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS Record..........................................................................17-5 2011 Postseason................................ NCAA Regional Head Coach...............................................Shanon Hays Record at School............................................. 97-39 (3) Career Record................................................211-55 (5)
Last Five Games.................................................. 5-0 Last 10 Games..................................................... 9-1 Streak...............................................................Won 6 Home/Away/Neutral..............................6-0/0-0/11-5 National Ranking..................................................None Texas Series.....................................................Trails 5-25
RED RAIDERS OPEN BIG 12 PLAY AT NO. 6 TEXAS
Texas Tech opens Big 12 play Tuesday night with the start of a two-game midweek series against No. 6 Texas at McCombs Field in Austin.
TEXAS TECH IN BIG 12 OPENERS
The Red Raiders have historically struggled when opening Big 12 play as Tech is only 6-26 all-time in its first conference series of the year. Tech is 1-3 when opening Big 12 play under Shanon Hays as the Red Raiders split a 2010 series with Iowa State before being swept by Missouri last year. Both of those series were played in Lubbock. Tech has not gone on the road to open conference play since 2006 when the Red Raiders were swept at the hands of No. 19 Baylor on March 25-26 in Waco. Tech has never opened up its league schedule against Texas in school history.
SERIES INFORMATION
Dates__________________ Tues., March 6-Wed., March 7 Location____________________________ Austin, Texas Facility______________________ McCombs Field (1,252) First pitch___________________________ 8 p.m./4 p.m. Television______________________ Longhorn Network Play-by-Play___________________________ Fran Harris Color Analyst________________ Amanda Scarborough Radio_____________________________________ None Live Stats______________________ www.texastech.com Live Blog______________________ www.texastech.com Tickets______________________ www.texassports.com
TEXAS TECH PROBABLE LINEUP 26 - MIKEY KENNEY .281 - 6 - 12
32 - TAYLOR POWELL .235 - 1 - 6
-or4 - KATELYN WILLIAMS .278 - 1 - 7
19 - RAVEN RICHARDSON .242 - 2 - 7
3 - EMILY BLEDSOE .254 - 1 - 7 2012 STATISTICS AVG - HR - RBI
7 - ASHLEY HAMADA .194 - 0 - 0
2 - LOGAN HALL .292 - 0 - 4
18 - SANDY JAMES .358 - 5 - 19
56 - CYDNEY ALLEN .172 - 0 - 4 -or22 - HOLLEY GENTSCH .200 - 1 - 8
DP 9 - ADRIANA PEREZ .369 - 5 - 16
POSSIBLE PITCHERS Pitcher Cara Custer - FR Kelsey Dennis - SR
W-L ERA 10-3 1.92 1-0 2.92
Pitcher Brittany Talley - SO Chandler Moore - FR
W-L ERA 5-2 1.75 0-0 7.41
Pitcher W-L ERA Kermitria Ward - SO 0-0 0.00 Ashley Brokeshoulder - JR 1-0 0.00
2012 SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 9 # vs. San Diego State 10 # vs. Northwestern # vs. #14 Tennessee 11 # vs. #9 Stanford # vs. Cal Poly 17 $ vs. Ohio State $ vs. Long Beach State 18 $ vs. Idaho State $ vs. Portland State 19 $ vs. DePaul $ vs. Utah State 24 ^ vs. Texas State ^ vs. North Texas 25 ^ vs. UTEP ^ vs. Stephen F. Austin 26 ^ vs. Texas State
W, 5-4 L, 6-14 (6) L, 0-1 L, 1-7 L, 0-3 W, 7-4 W, 2-0 W, 8-4 W, 5-1 W, 2-1 W, 11-2 (5) W, 6-0 W, 10-0 (8) W, 5-2 W, 2-1 (8) L, 1-3
MARCH 2 ~ BINGHAMTON ~ UT-ARLINGTON 3 ~ UT-ARLINGTON ~ BINGHAMTON 4 ~ BINGHAMTON ~ UT-ARLINGTON 6 at Texas (LHN) 7 at Texas (LHN) 9 NEW MEXICO 10 NEW MEXICO 14 at Stony Brook (DH) 16 + vs. Monmouth + at Seton Hall 17 + vs. Manhattan + vs. TBD 18 + vs. TBD 27 MIDWESTERN STATE 30 * IOWA STATE 31 * IOWA STATE
W, 7-2 W, 2-0 W, 9-1 (6) W, 8-2 W, 4-3 W, 7-1 8 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 11 a.m. 1 p.m. 8 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 8 a.m. TBD TBD 6 p.m. 6 p.m. Noon
APRIL 1 * IOWA STATE 5 * at Oklahoma 6 * at Oklahoma 7 * at Oklahoma 11 * TEXAS 13 * at Missouri 14 * at Missouri 15 * at Missouri 17 * TEXAS A&M (DH) 17 * TEXAS A&M 20 * BAYLOR 21 * BAYLOR 22 * BAYLOR 27 * at Kansas 28 * at Kansas 29 * at Kansas
Noon 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Noon 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 2 p.m. Noon 5 p.m. 5 p.m. 6 p.m. Noon Noon 5 p.m. 2 p.m. Noon
MAY 5 * OKLAHOMA STATE 6 * OKLAHOMA STATE 7 * OKLAHOMA STATE 17-20 NCAA Regionals 24-27 NCAA Super Regionals 31-6 NCAA College World Series
1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. TBA TBA TBA
# ASU Kajikawa Classic (Tempe, Ariz.) • $ Louisville Slugger Desert Classic (Las Vegas, Nev.) • ^ Texas Shootout (Waco, Texas) • ~ Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic (Lubbock, Texas) • + Seton Hall Classic (South Orange, N.J.) • * Big 12 Series • Central times listed.