Recapping the Midweek
BYU lost to Utah Valley at home 15-11 in a game played on Monday.
Texas Tech run-ruled Stephen F. Austin in 8 innings 16-4 in Lubbock.
UCF shoutout Jacksonville 6-0 on the road.
Cincinnati traveled to Louisville and lost 11-5.
West Virginia defeated Akron in Morgantown 6-2.
UTSA defeated Baylor 9-7 in Waco.
Oklahoma State shutout Wichita State 3-0 in Wichita.
Oklahoma shutout in-state foe Oral Roberts 10-0 in Norman.
Texas fell at home to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 4-1.
Houston hosted Lamar and ended the Cardinals 13-game win streak, then the longest active streak in the nation, 6-4.
Nebraska at No. 23 Kansas State was cancelled due to weather.
Saint Louis at Kansas was cancelled due to weather.
TCU did not have a midweek game scheduled.
Weekend Schedule
Texas (15-10, 4-3) at No. 23 Kansas State (17-6, 5-1)
Kansas (12-10, 4-5) at BYU (11-11, 4-5)
Oklahoma State (16-9, 3-3) at West Virginia (15-10, 4-2)
Houston (15-9, 4-5) at TCU (17-7, 2-7)
Texas Tech (18-7, 4-5) at UCF (16-6, 4-5)
Cincinnati (15-11, 3-3) at Baylor (8-16, 3-6)
Oklahoma will not play a Big 12 opponent this weekend.
League Notes
No. 23 Kansas State enters the weekend on a nine-game win streak.
Kansas pitcher Reese Dutton has won five-straight starts, the last four have been quality starts. Dutton is 5-1 with a 2.57 ERA this season.
Logan Maxwell has reached safely in 24-straight games for TCU, which dates back to last season. Maxwell’s .372 batting average leads the Horned Frogs and ranks 10th in the Big 12. Teammate Anthony Silva has reached safely in 15-straight games.
Oklahoma State ranks second in the Big 12 and ninth nationally with a 3.58 team ERA; Brian Holiday ranks fourth in the conference with a 1.87 ERA. Ten Cowboys pitchers own an ERA of 3.38 or lower.
Damian Bravo leads the Texas Tech offense with a .437 batting average, 16 doubles, 31 RBI, and 32 runs scored.
The Sooners are batting .310 as a team. Easton Carmichael leads the team with a .402 batting average and seven doubles. Michael Snyder leads the team with 33 RBI, five home runs and a .646 slugging percentage. Bryce Madron has been walked 20 times, which leads the team.
Jared Thomas is the leading hitter for the Texas Longhorns with a .416 batting average and he leads the Big 12 with 42 hits. Max Belyeu leads the team and Big 12 Conference with 10 home runs.
Houston first baseman Justin Murray has a season-long seven-game hit streak. Teammate Jake Rainess also has a five-game hit streak on the line entering the weekend.
Matt Prevesk is leading the UCF Knights with a .378 batting average. Prevesk also has six doubles, nine extra-base hits, 17 runs scored, and 17 RBI. Jack Zyska has the next best batting average at .321, to go with eight extra-base hits, and 20 runs scored. Andrew Sundean is batting .301 and leads the team with 10 extra-base hits and 25 RBI.
Cincinnati's Josh Kross ranks at the top of the Big 12 and second in the nation with 40 RBI and is tied for the Big 12 lead with 10 home runs.
After being no-hit on Friday night in Norman, the Mountaineers responded by scoring 17 runs on 21 hits the next day in a two-game sweep of the Sooners to win the series.
Baylor ace Mason Marriott is second in the Big 12 in innings pitched with 36 and tied for eighth with 39 strikeouts.
BYU left fielder Luke Anderson leads the team with a .349 batting average, 29 hits, 17 runs, and 5 doubles, which is tied for the team lead with teammate Crew Robinson.
Quoted
“I think the hardest part about injuries is to see your players get hurt and then see them have to adjust their lifestyle. When kids prepare for a season and put so much into it, when they get hurt it's a blow because emotionally everybody feels it. You want your players to succeed and be happy and chase the season they envision." - Oklahoma State Head Coach Josh Holliday on dealing with injuries as a coach and the effect they have on the team, on the Orange Power Coaches Show, Episode 25, March 26, 2024.
"You have every reason to go into this game with supreme confidence, because I have supreme confidence that we've got a better guy on the mound than they do today. 12 hours ago, we were down by 13, now we're at-bat in the first inning, we're in a tie game, so we got all the momentum going into this one." - West Virginia Head Coach Randy Mazey in a pre-game talk to his team before Saturday's first game, after being no-hit on Friday night.
"Yup. That was awesome." - Kansas Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald during an in-game interview on ESPN+ last weekend when right fielder Lenny Ashby made a great catch near the foul line.
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