TEXAS (45-19) at EAST CAROLINA (45-19)
June 10-12, 2022
Where: Clark-LeClair Stadium
Time: Friday at 11 a.m. CT; Saturday at 11 a.m. CT; Sunday TBA (if crucial)
TV: ESPN2
Radio: 104.9 FM The Horn/1260 AM
Live stats: NCAA.StatBroadcast.com
NCAA Super Regional Appearances (final): twelfth (2021)
All-Time Super Regional Record: 21-7
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS
FRIDAY–Texas LHP Pete Hansen (11-1, 3.08) vs. East Carolina LHP C.J. Mayhue (5-1, 2.82)
SATURDAY–Texas LHP Lucas Gordon (7-1, 2.36) vs. East Carolina TBA
SUNDAY (if crucial)–Texas TBA vs. East Carolina TBA
THE MATCHUPS—Texas heads on the street for the NCAA Greenville Super Regional to face No. 8 nationwide seed East Carolina at Clark-LeClair Stadium. The Longhorns will play simply their third street Super Regional and the primary for the reason that 2005 season. The 2005 Texas workforce defeated Ole Miss in three video games earlier than happening to win this system’s sixth nationwide championship. The Longhorns swept Florida State within the 2003 Tallahassee Super Regional of their solely different street tremendous. East Carolina is making its third-consecutive Super Regional and seventh total. Friday’s sport would be the first assembly between Texas and East Carolina.
A LOOK AT THE LONGHORNS—Texas swept its technique to the NCAA Austin Regional Championship with wins over Air Force and Louisiana Tech, whereas outscoring the groups 26-6. Skyler Messinger earned Regional Tournament MVP honors in his first profession postseason video games. Messinger batted .778 with a double, 4 RBI and 5 runs scored. In the regional, Texas fielded 1.000 and compiled a employees ERA of two.00. The Longhorns head into the Greenville Super Regional having gained 14 of the final 17 video games. Texas leads the Big 12 with a .317 workforce batting common and a program report 118 homers, whereas the pitching employees is first within the league with a 4.05 ERA. The Longhorns are additionally the nation’s prime fielding workforce with a .987 fielding proportion.
BOMB SQUAD—Texas has shattered this system report for many residence runs in a season, smashing 118 bombs in 64 video games this season. The residence run complete leads the Big 12 and ranks fifth nationally. Last season Texas hit 68 homers in 67 video games, the fourth-most by a Longhorn workforce. The earlier program report was 81, set in 2010. Texas has 32 multiple-homer video games, together with 12 three-homer video games, six four-homer video games and 4 five-homer video games. Five totally different Longhorn gamers have hit 10-plus homers for the primary time in program historical past.
EL REY—Ivan Melendez grew to become Texas Baseball’s residence run king with 30 blasts this season, surpassing Kyle Russell’s 28 homers in 2007 for this system report. With his unbelievable season up to now Melendez was named the Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Year, the fourth Longhorn to win the award following Brooks Kieschnick (1993), Scott Bryant (1989) and Greg Swindell (1986). Melendez leads the nation with 30 homers, 90 RBI, an .895 slugging proportion and 204 complete bases. He ranks fourth nationally with a .522 on-base proportion and 10 with a .404 batting common. He grew to become the fourth Longhorn to be named the Big 12 Player of the Year and the primary since Kody Clemens in 2018. Melendez, additionally a unanimous First Team All-Big 12 choice, is tied with Brooks Kieschnick with 43 profession residence runs.
ALL-AMERICANS—Ivan Melendez was named to the Collegiate Baseball All-America First Team, whereas Pete Hansen and Murphy Stehly had been named to the second workforce. Hansen was additionally named as certainly one of 5 finalists for the College Baseball Foundation’s National Pitcher of the Year award. Hansen is 11-1 this season with a 3.08 ERA and 112 strikeouts in 99 1/3 innings pitched. He has solely walked 18 batters and held opponents to a .214 batting common in opposition to. Stehly is batting .372 with 22 doubles, 17 homers and 55 RBI. His 96 hits this season rank sixth nationally, whereas his 171 complete bases are the sixteenth most within the nation.
ALL-BIG 12 HONORS—Ivan Melendez led a complete of 9 gamers named to All-Big 12 groups this season. Catcher Silas Ardoin, outfielder Murphy Stehly and beginning pitcher Pete Hansen joined Melendez on the primary workforce. Infielders Trey Faltine and Skyler Messinger and beginning pitcher Lucas Gordon landed on the second workforce. Outfielder Douglas Hodo III and designated hitter Austin Todd had been named Honorable Mention.
MURPH DOG—Murphy Stehly has had an excellent season on the plate, batting .372, rating sixth within the nation with 96 complete hits and sixteenth with 171 complete bases. Stehly additionally has 22 doubles, one triple and 17 homers. He has successful in 54 of his 63 video games performed and has 28 video games with a number of hits, together with simply the sixth three-homer sport in Texas Baseball historical past. He had a 20-game hitting streak earlier this season, which is tied for the fourth-longest in program historical past. His versatility has additionally been on show, enjoying first base, second base, third base and proper subject all through the season.
IMMEDIATE IMPACT—Texas struck gold final season with the addition of graduate switch Mike Antico from St. John’s. The outfielder grew to become the primary participant in Big 12 historical past to hit 10 homers and steal 40 bases in a season. This season the Longhorns added grad switch Skyler Messinger from Kansas and he has produced. The similarities have been putting, as each gamers had a sluggish begin to their Texas careers. Through Antico’s first 26 video games final season, he was batting simply .202 earlier than happening to bat .273 and touchdown on the All-Big 12 second workforce. For Messinger, he was batting simply .192 after his first 16 video games performed however over his final 46 video games he has raised his batting common as much as .370. Messinger has hit 10 residence runs this season, after having simply six in his 4 years at Kansas. He has additionally been nice defensively at third base with solely three errors in 156 defensive probabilities this season.
HOME SWEET HOME—Texas went 27-7 this season on the pleasant confines of UFCU Disch-Falk Field. During the common season, Texas performed a complete of 34 video games at residence and 30 video games away from UFCU Disch-Falk Field. In residence video games, Texas had a workforce batting common of .340 and a .990 fielding proportion. The Longhorns have additionally averaged 6,918 followers in attendance at residence this season, the fifth-highest common attendance within the nation.
OWN THE DISCH—A big a part of the Longhorns success beneath head coach David Pierce has come right down to dominating at residence. Since 2017 Texas has produced a 148-40 (.787) report at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, together with a 27-7 mark this season. Since the stadium opened in 1975, Texas has gone 1580-400-3 at residence for a .798 successful proportion. The fan base has additionally accomplished an excellent job of constructing the Disch a troublesome place to play. In 34 residence video games this season Texas averaged 6,918 followers in attendance, which is a program report. With the exception of final season’s restricted capability because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas has led the Big 12 in attendance for 15-consecutive seasons.
BACK-TO-BACK JACKS—Texas has hit back-to-back residence runs on 10 totally different events this season. The power-hitting duo of Ivan Melendez and Murphy Stehly have gone back-to-back 4 instances. The Longhorns have additionally hit three-straight homers in a sport this season, on May 1 in opposition to Oklahoma State.
FLASHING THE LEATHER—Trey Faltine and Mitchell Daly have shaped an unbelievable center infield duo, anchoring the highest protection within the Big 12 with a .987 fielding proportion. This season, Daly leads the Big 12 lead with 182 assists, whereas Faltine is second with 173. Last season Faltine led the Big 12 with 203 assists, whereas Daly was second with 178.
INFIELD HIT MACHINE—Throughout his profession on the Forty Acres, Eric Kennedy has used his pace as a way to get on base. With seven infield singles (three bunt) this season, Kennedy now has 58 profession infield singles (31 bunts). Last season he had 27 infield singles, together with 16 bunt hits.
HEAR ‘EM—In partnership with Learfield IMG College, Texas video games will likely be broadcast on the Austin Radio Network, totally on 104.9 The Horn and AM 1260. Craig Way handles major play-by-play duties alongside Roger Wallace. This season followers will even hear evaluation from Longhorn greats Keith Moreland, Ty Harrington and Nathan Thornhill all through the season.