The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
36-24
Louisiana
42-19
Baseball season ends in NCAA College Station Regional
06.02.2024 | Baseball
The Longhorns were eliminated from the NCAA Regional with a 10-2 loss to Louisiana.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas Baseball was eliminated from the NCAA College Station Regional with a 10-2 loss to Louisiana on Sunday at Blue Bell Park.
The Longhorns end their season with a 36-24 overall record and the second-most home runs in program history with 112.
Ace Whitehead pitched outstanding for 6 2/3 innings, scattering seven hits and allowing just two runs. He struck out six batters to finish one shy of his career high.
Kimble Schuessler went 2-for-4 at the plate to cap of a great NCAA Regional with seven total hits, including three doubles and a homer. Casey Borba made his first start of the postseason and went 2-for-3 with the only Longhorn run scored.
Louisiana opened the scoring in the second inning with a two-out RBI single. Whitehead was able to get a strikeout to limit the damage to just one run.
Texas got the run right back in the bottom of the second, with Will Gasparino hitting an RBI single to drive in Casey Borba. The Longhorns would have hoped for more but the second double play of the game ended the threat.
The Ragin' Cajuns retook the lead in the third inning with another two-out RBI single to go up 2-1.
The Longhorns had an opportunity to score in the fifth inning after a two-out walk to Jalin Flores and a single by Schuessler but they were left on base. Texas got two more singles in the sixth inning but again failed to scratch out a run.
Louisiana tacked on several insurance runs in the eighth inning to put the game out of reach and end the Longhorns' season.
Texas scored a run in the eighth on an RBI single by Rylan Galvan to cut the lead to 9-2 and Louisiana scored one more run in the top of the ninth.
Schuessler was named to the NCAA College Station Regionall All-Tournament team after batting .538 with three doubles, one homer and four runs scored.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Chase Morgan (5-3)
L: Whitehead, Ace (4-2)
Batting:
2B: Duncan Pastore 1 ; Jose Torres 1
HR: Jr Bryan Broussard 1 ; Jose Torres 1
RBI: Jr Bryan Broussard 3 ; Lee Amedee 1 ; John Taylor 1 ; Duncan Pastore 1 ; Jose Torres 4
SH: Jr Bryan Broussard 1 ; John Taylor 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Trey LaFleur 2 ; Jr Bryan Broussard 1 ; Kyle DeBarge 1 ; Caleb Stelly 1 ; John Taylor 2 ; Duncan Pastore 1 ; Jose Torres 1 ; Conor Higgs 1
CS: Duncan Pastore 1
HBP: Trey LaFleur 1 ; Duncan Pastore 1
Batting:
RBI: Galvan, Rylan 1 ; Gasparino, Will 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Powell, Peyton 1 ; Borba, Casey 1
HBP: Service, Oliver 1 ; Duplantier, Jayden 1 ; Borba, Casey 1 ; Kennedy, Dee 1
