Jeff Howe

From a body type standpoint, I've compared Justus Terry to Lamarr Houston regarding former Longhorns. Gerry's Rashan Gary comp is good too.

If you make a clutch play against the Aggies, you're a made man.

FWIW, Myles didn't pitch against Texas on March 18.

It's now showing that it's available for those interested in getting one.

The backwards K hat available through Teagan Kavan's online merch store is already sold out. https://shoppatched.com/collections/teagan-kavan

Pat Hallmark pulls a swerve, going with Myles instead of Owens. Since UTSA is going with a lefty, I wonder if Schloss will go with Tommy Farmer over Jonah Williams in left field?

We're still waiting for the lineup to be posted, but the expected pitching matchup is Luke Harrison (5-1, 2.98 ERA) for Texas and Braylon Owens (7-2, 4.48 ERA) for UTSA. Owens faced six batters when the Roadrunners beat the Longhorns at Disch-Falk Field on March 18, 8-7. Owens struck out one and allowed one hit in 1.2 innings.

It's an 8 p.m. start between the Longhorns and the Roadrunners. The winner advances to the regional championship, while the loser plays an early game on Sunday against Kansas State, needing to win twice to reach a winner-take-all affair on Monday.

Down goes OU!

Two down…

Follow-up question: Didn’t Dexter Pittman used to be really fat?

New game: Take a drink every time Beth Mowins mentions Texas’ head-to-head record against OU.

End of 6: Texas 4, OU 2

BOOM!

Would love to see an insurance run or two.

End of 1: Texas 2, OU 0

Reese did her job. It’s a 2-0 lead for Texas on a sacrifice fly to left.

Mike White went with Teagan Kavan in the circle today. She allowed two singles in the top of the first, but she kept the Sooners off of the scoreboard.

The Longhorns get out of the jam. The Sooners strand two runners in the top of the first.

Texas is in a jam early. OU has runners on first and third with two outs in the top of the first.

How Friday’s 7-1 win over Houston Christian in the opening game of the Austin Regional unfolded went a lot like the 2025 season has played out for Texas. The Longhorns didn’t win with style points en route to capturing the SEC regular-season championship and the No. 2 overall national seed in the NCAA Tournament. The way Texas (43-12) grounded out wins, surpassing the most optimistic expectations for Jim Schlossnagle’s first season on the Forty Acres, was how it advanced into the winner’s bracket for a Saturday tilt with either UTSA or Kansas State. Offensively, the Longhorns righted the ship with only four strikeouts after fanning 10 more times in seven of their last 10 games, a stretch in which the Texas bats racked up 128 strikeouts. At the same time, the lone extra-base the Longhorns recorded against the Southland Conference Tournament champion Huskies was Will Gasparino’s fifth-inning RBI double to left field, which capped a five-run, six-hit frame. Texas didn’t mash the ball all over UFCU Disch-Falk Field. Instead, it took advantage of three Houston Christian (32-24) errors and manufactured more than enough runs to put itself one step closer to the program hosting a Super Regional for the first time since 2021. "You've got to give Parker Edwards credit," Schlossnagle said of the Huskies' starting pitcher. Edwards did his job, holding the Longhorns to one hit before Texas finally created separation in the fifth. "Any time you look on the roster, and you see a guy is a No. 1 starter for a team that's in a regional, and he's a senior, that just tells you he's been around the block," Schlossnagle said. "He's not going to be spooked. He's running it up there 95 [mph]. He had a good cutter going today. "Sometimes," he added, "it's OK for the other team to be good." Gasparino drew a four-pitch walk to lead off the third inning, stole second base, advanced to third on an infield chopper freshman phenom Jonah Williams turned into a single and scored when Ethan Mendoza was retired on a 6-3 groundout. Second baseman Jeremy Rader, who left the game with an undisclosed upper body injury after a violent fifth-inning collision with Williams, couldn’t handle a ground ball off Max Belyeu’s bat, bringing Williams home and putting the Longhorns in front for good. "Somebody needed to come up with a big hit," said Kimble Schuessler, whose two-run single highlighted the productive Texas fifth. "We were able to get some guys on base, and then were able to come up with that big hit." Schuessler’s decisive blow brought Williams home and allowed Mendoza to score, even though a play at the plate had to be reviewed before the second run could be officially tallied. After a bullet from right fielder Tevis Payne nailed Mendoza at the plate in the first inning, a second issue sliding into home nearly brought another Texas inning to an abrupt end. Schlossnagle was visibly upset with Adrian Rodriguez, who contributed to the chaos as the lone man in a home uniform in Mendoza’s line of vision as he tried to cross the plate in both situations. "If the ball is coming from right field, you've got to tell him to not just slide, but to get to the back side of home plate," Schlossnagle said. "The same thing when the ball is coming from left field. "That was a pretty inexpensive experience," he added. "It can be expensive real quick this time of year, so we have to be better." Rodriguez made up for it, though, bringing Schuessler home from second with an RBI single up the middle. Jalin Flores and Casey Borba made it three consecutive Texas singles, the latter bringing Rodriguez home before Gasparino ended the scoring. Friday’s win felt like a typical midweek game. Thankfully, the Longhorns got a similar result to their 12-2 seven-inning run-rule win over Houston Christian on April 8 by playing an error-free game in the field behind three pitchers — lefty Ethan Walker, Grayson Saunier and hard-throwing righty Hudson Hamilton — who scattered eight hits over nine innings, struck out six and issued only two free passes (a hit batter charged to Saunier and a walk charged to Hamilton). As for the offense, an unspectacularly solid performance is one Schlossnagle wants the Longhorns to build on as they continue a road they hope takes them to Omaha for an NCAA-record 39th time. "We got on them pretty good the last five or six days," Schlossnagle said. "We challenged the offense. It wasn't meant to build pressure. It was meant to hold it to a little bit of a higher standard. If you're going to be gritty about anything, have it be the preparation. Then, when the game gets here, you need to do the opposite: you have fun. I think, early on, everybody feels it. You haven't played in a week, and you want to score nine runs, and your coaches have been onto you about being a better offensive team. We put together some good swings, and how we end up with a north wind and Austin, Texas, on May 30, I'll never know. "I think if we had those balls carry out of the ballpark or something like that, we maybe feel a little bit better," he added. "But, 7-1? We'll take it and keep moving on." View full news story

Today's game felt like a typical midweek game. Nothing to write home about, but it got the job done.