What record did UT baseball set in their regional round?
Longhorns named tops in nation UT’s Disch-Falk Field hosts regional for first time in three years By BRENT ZWERNEMAN College Station Bureau May 25, 2009, 6:36PM Minutes removed from winning a Big 12 championship on Sunday, Texas coach Augie Garrido was hardly in a mood to reflect on the aforementioned Big 12 championship. “I’ve already moved on a little bit, in looking ahead to practicing for the regional,” said Garrido, still perspiring from leading the Longhorns to their second league title of the season. “The Big 12 tournament revealed things we need to sharpen up on before the regional.” Maybe so, but the NCAA deemed UT the sharpest team in the land in awarding the Longhorns the top overall seed of the NCAA tournament. “It’s going to help us out a lot,” shortstop Brandon Loy said of the Longhorns owning a home-field advantage leading up to the College World Series. “But we’ve still got to play good baseball.” UT is one of a record eight Big 12 schools in the NCAA postseason, includ
Longhorns named tops in nation UT’s Disch-Falk Field hosts regional for first time in three years By BRENT ZWERNEMAN College Station Bureau May 25, 2009, 6:36PM Minutes removed from winning a Big 12 championship on Sunday, Texas coach Augie Garrido was hardly in a mood to reflect on the aforementioned Big 12 championship. “I’ve already moved on a little bit, in looking ahead to practicing for the regional,” said Garrido, still perspiring from leading the Longhorns to their second league title of the season. “The Big 12 tournament revealed things we need to sharpen up on before the regional.” Maybe so, but the NCAA deemed UT the sharpest team in the land in awarding the Longhorns the top overall seed of the NCAA tournament. “It’s going to help us out a lot,” shortstop Brandon Loy said of the Longhorns owning a home-field advantage leading up to the College World Series. “But we’ve still got to play good baseball.” UT is one of a record eight Big 12 schools in the NCAA postseason, includ
Nathan Long broke the UT Arlington single-season strikeout record and Matt Otteman went 2-for-3 and hit his eighth home run of the season while helping UT Arlington to a 7-4 victory over Stephen F. Austin in loser’s bracket competition on Thursday at the Southland Conference Tournament at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, Texas.