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04.13.2023 | Softball
Texas to return to Red & Charline McCombs Field for first time following seven-game road tilt
AUSTIN, TX – For the first time in 20 days, The University of Texas softball program will play a game in front of its home fans at Red & Charline McCombs Field when the Longhorns begin a three-game Big 12 Conference series against Kansas on Friday, April 14.
Friday night's game, which is presented by Clean Simple Eats, is scheduled to begin at 6:00 PM CT, whereas Saturday and Sunday's contests are slated for 4:30 PM and 12 PM, respectively.
All three conference games can be seen on Longhorn Network with David Saltzman and Cat Osterman in the booth. Andrew Haynes will have the game's action on the radio airwaves with the game being heard on 105.3 FM in Austin. Additionally, Sunday's game can also be heard on Sirius XM Big 12 Radio on channel 375.
LEADING OFF
- The Texas Longhorn offense will enter Friday night's game having hit at least one home run in all nine conference games so far this season.
- The nine-game streak is the longest span of consecutive conference games with at least one home run for the Longhorns under fifth-year head coach Mike White.
- The previous longest streak was a five-game span from April 9, 2021 at Iowa State to April 17, 2021 at Oklahoma.
- The nine-game streak is the longest span of consecutive conference games with at least one home run for the Longhorns under fifth-year head coach Mike White.
- If Texas scores at least one run against the Jayhawks during Friday's game, the Longhorns will have scored at least one run in all 44 games through this point of the 2023 season, tying the program record for consecutive games scoring at least one run in a single season.
- The 2014 team scored in 44 consecutive games from Feb. 6, 2014 at LSU to April 18, 2014 at Oklahoma to set the program record.
- With her next home run, Reese Atwood will become the first Longhorn softball true freshman student-athlete to hit 10-or-more home runs under fifth-year head coach Mike White.
- Atwood's current nine home runs are tied with Katie Cimusz' total from the 2022 season.
- Heading into the weekend series, Viviana Martinez will be looking to add to her team-leading 40 runs batted in.
- Martinez' 40 RBI are the most by a Texas softball true freshman student-athlete under fifth-year head coach Mike White.
- The previous mark was 38, set by Mia Scott during the 2022 campaign.
- Additionally, Martinez is one of just three Division I freshman softball student-athletes to have at least 40-or-more RBI at this point in the season.
- She is joined by Indiana's Taryn Kern (50) and UCLA's Megan Grant (42) on the plateau.
- Martinez' 40 RBI are the most by a Texas softball true freshman student-athlete under fifth-year head coach Mike White.
- Leighann Goode and Viviana Martinez combined 110 hits on the season are the most by a pair of Division I freshman softball student-athlete teammates.
- Goode (57) and Martinez (53) enter this weekend's series against the Jayhawks sitting in first and second place — among Division I freshmen — on the national hit leaderboard.
- First-year Longhorn Mac Morgan's active 12.0 scoreless inning streak is the second-longest streak by a Texas pitcher this season.
- Earlier this season, junior left-handed pitcher Estelle Czech tossed 15.0 straight innings of scoreless softball from March 1, 2023 against North Texas to March 11, 2023 against Wisconsin.
FOLLOW US
- For the latest information on the team, follow @TexasSoftball on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. General athletic news can also be found at @TexasLonghorns on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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