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05.02.2024 | Softball
Texas looks for first regular season championship since 2010 during three-game series in Lubbock
LUBBOCK, Texas – Entering the final weekend of the regular season, The University of Texas' softball program sits in prime position to win the 2024 Big 12 Conference regular season championship.
Eyeing a three-game sweep of seventh-place Texas Tech while first-place Oklahoma has a three-game series against third-place Oklahoma State, the Longhorns are slated to begin its series against the Red Raiders at 6 p.m. CT on Friday, May 3. Saturday and Sunday's games are scheduled for 1 p.m. Ct and 12 p.m. CT, respectively. All three softball games between UT and TTU will be available to stream on ESPN+.
TELEVISION: Chris Sylvester (play by play) will serve as the talent for the ESPN+ broadcasts throughout the weekend.
RADIO: Andrew Haynes can be heard with the series radio call at https://texas.leanplayer.com/.
LEADING OFF
- Just a single game back in the Big 12 Conference standings heading into the final weekend of the regular season, Texas (42-6, 20-4) will be looking for its first Big 12 regular season conference championship since 2010 as the Longhorns play a three-game series at Texas Tech that begins at 6 p.m. CT on Friday, May 3.
- UT can win an outright conference championship with a sweep of the Red Raiders and Oklahoma dropping multiple games to Oklahoma State over the weekend.
- The Longhorns could also share a conference championship with either the Sooners or Cowgirls pending this weekend's results:
- Oklahoma and Texas could share the championship if …
- The Longhorns sweep and Sooners win two of three games.
- Oklahoma State and Texas could share the championship if …
- The Cowgirls sweep and Longhorns win two of three games.
- Oklahoma and Texas could share the championship if …
- The Longhorns could also share a conference championship with either the Sooners or Cowgirls pending this weekend's results:
- UT can win an outright conference championship with a sweep of the Red Raiders and Oklahoma dropping multiple games to Oklahoma State over the weekend.
- Texas has not lost a conference series against Texas Tech since April 2015, when the Red Raiders took games two and three to clinch the three-game series.
- Since dropping those back-to-back games, the Longhorns have won 23 of the last 25 games, including the eight in a row, between the two programs.
- Under sixth-year head coach Mike White, Texas is 13-2 against Texas Tech.
- In games played in Lubbock, Texas, the Longhorns are 24-5 all time against the Red Raiders.
- Overall, Texas holds a 57-12 all-time record over Texas Tech.
- After breaking the program's single-season runs batted in (RBI) record on Saturday, April 27, Texas' sophomore Reese Atwood will look to set another single-season program record as the Sandia, Texas native is just one home run shy of tying Taylor Hoagland's single-season home run record (18) set throughout the 2012 season.
- Additionally, Atwood is just 16 total bases shy of tying Janae Jefferson's single-season total bases record (141) established during the 2022 campaign.
- A sweep of the three-game series by Texas would extend the Longhorns' current winning streak to 16 consecutive games, which would tie for the fifth-longest winning streak in the program's history.
- The 2003 team won 16 games in a row from Feb. 5, 2003 to Feb. 19, 2003.
- The program's longest winning streak is 24 — set during the 2006 season — and would require the 2024 Longhorns to sweep Texas Tech, win three consecutive games in the 2024 Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship and then three straight contests in a potential NCAA Austin Regional.
- The 2003 team won 16 games in a row from Feb. 5, 2003 to Feb. 19, 2003.
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