The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Friday, May 1
Stillwater, Okla.
7 p.m.
University of Texas
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Oklahoma State
Softball preview: at Oklahoma State [May 1-3, 2015]
04.30.2015 | Softball
Texas heads back out on the road with a trip to face OSU at Cowgirl Stadium
Texas Game Notes - at Oklahoma State - May 1-3
No. NR/RV Texas (32-14, 7-5 Big 12) at Oklahoma State (21-28, 3-10 Big 12) | May 1-3 | Cowgirl Stadium
Schedule:
Fri., May 1 – #NR/RV Texas at Oklahoma State – 7 p.m. CT – Stillwater, Okla.
Sat., May 2 – #NR/RV Texas at Oklahoma State – 3 p.m. CT – Stillwater, Okla.
Sun., May 3 – #NR/RV Texas at Oklahoma State – 12 p.m. CT – Stillwater, Okla.
Live Stats: FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY
Television/Live Online Video: All three games of the series at Oklahoma State are expected to be available to watch online with a paid subscription through OKState.com via the following links: FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY
Radio: None available for this weekend.
Base Knocks:
- Texas and Oklahoma State have met 41 times in their all-time series with the Longhorns holding a 27-14 advantage. UT is just 11-6 against OSU in Stillwater and lost two of the last three road meetings back over May 3-5, 2013. The two teams have split the last eight contests with the Horns winning two of three last season in Austin (April 25-27).
- The Longhorns seem comfortable playing away from the friendly confines of McCombs Field, boasting an 10-3 mark in true away games in 2015. Texas has out-hit the opposition as a team during road contests by a remarkable .342 to .251, and won NINE in a row from March 14-April 24, tying for the third-longest road winning streak in program history. This year's squad also equaled the 2014 & 2011 teams for the best road record through the first 11 games in program history at 10-1. NO TEXAS TEAM HAS EVER WON MORE THAN 11 ROAD GAMES IN A SINGLE SEASON. The 2014, 2011, 2009 and 2005 teams all won 11 contests.
- Sophomore shortstop Devon Tunning has been prolific this year as Texas' lead-off hitter, reaching a remarkable 60.9 percent of the time when starting an inning (42-of-69 times). She's also reached successfully in Texas' very first at-bat of a game ON 30 OCCASIONS and reached base safely in 40 of 46 total games this season. Recently, she's become a power threat at the dish as the Montgomery, Texas, native registered a pair of two-HR performances at Texas State and vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Tunning is one of only two Longhorns players to have recorded a multi-HR effort this season (Randel Leahy is the other) and now owns a career-high five HR's in 2015.
- Sophomore Stephanie Wong has solidified her starting position in left field by leading the Longhorns in hitting at a career-high .361 overall. The Austin, Texas, native has already managed a streak of reaching safely in a career-best 18 straight games this year and has now reached safely in 37 of 46 total games in 2015.
- Since managing the first of her program-record stretch of five straight games with a HR back on March 28 at No. 22 Kansas, junior center fielder Lindsey Stephens has been en fuego at the plate. Over the last 16 games, Stephens is batting .377 (20-for-53) with 12 runs scored, three triples, SEVEN HR's and a team-best 18 RBI while slugging at an .887 clip. With 14 HR's in 2015, tied for the fifth-most in any season in Longhorns history, Stephens is now just four HR's from tying Taylor Hoagland's school mark of 18 set back during the 2012 campaign.
- It's proven to be a remarkable year for the Longhorns' offense with two outs in an inning as UT has registered 39 percent (97 of its 246 total RBI) of its total RBI output with two retired in a frame. The trend continued last weekend as Texas managed all seven of its RBI during its series at Texas Tech with two outs.
- If you look at this year's statistics, it's pretty obvious that Texas loves to jump on teams right from the start. UT enters its series at Oklahoma State having scored in the first inning in 12 of its last 18 contests. The Longhorns have scored 66 runs during the first inning (25 percent of its total runs), the most of any single frame, and 138 of its total tallies (52 percent) over the opening three innings. UT is 21-2 in games where it scores at least once in the first inning.
- UT hasn't shied away from playing some of the best teams in the nation in 2015 and has had solid success in those contests. Texas now owns a 6-6 mark against ranked squads this year with victories over No. 16 Arizona State, No. 8/7 Georgia, No. 12 UCLA and No. 22 Kansas (three wins). That tough schedule has helped lead to a No. 28 ranking in the most recent release of the NCAA's Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) on April 20, a tool used to select and seed teams for the NCAA Tournament Field of 64. UT reached a season-high of No. 20 in the April 6 RPI release. Texas can boast of seven wins over top 34-rated RPI squads, UCLA (seven), Georgia (15), Kansas (18-three wins), Arizona State (20), and Northwestern (34).
- The Longhorns' offense has now hit five total grand slams this season (second most in a single season in Texas history), trailing only the eight hit by the 2013 team for the most in school history.
- Texas is playing a remarkable 30 regular season games on a television network in 2015 with contests over a combination of the Longhorn Network, SEC Network, SEC Network+, Jayhawk TV/ESPN3, FOX Sports Net and ESPN2. The Longhorns enter this weekend's series at Oklahoma State with a 20-7 record thus far on the tube this season.
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