Longhorns Advance In Big 12 Tournament With 3-2 Win Over West Virginia

The Texas Longhorns Survive and Advance With 3-2 Big 12 Tournament Win Over the West Virginia Mountaineers

Matt Galatzan | May 29, 2021

After dropping their opening game of the Big 12 baseball tournament 5-1 to the West Virginia Mountaineers on Wednesday afternoon, the Texas Longhorns stayed alive on Thursday with a 4-1 win over the Oklahoma Sooners.

On Friday night at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Texas continued their march to a Big 12 Tournament title, taking down West Virginia with a 3-2 win, and advancing to face the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday afternoon.

Trey Faltine got things started for the Longhorns, scoring off of a Jacob Watters wild pitch, putting Texas up 1-0 in the bottom of the third inning.

West Virginia would then take the lead in the top of the fifth inning when Matt McCormick singled through the left side to drive home two runs, and give the Mountaineers a 2-1 lead.

Texas then took control of the game for the final time in the bottom of the sixth inning, after Silas Ardoin doubled down the right-field line, driving in Douglas Hodo and Trey Faltine to put the Longhorns up 3-2.

Redshirt freshman pitcher Pete Hansen got the win for the Longhorns, striking out nine of the 27 batters he faced in 6.2 innings, and moving to 8-1 on the season, while freshman Tanner Witt would get the save, going 2.1 innings with four strikeouts.

The Longhorns and Cowboys will face off at 12:30 PM CT at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. Texas will have to take down Oklahoma State in two consecutive games to advance to the Big 12 Championship on Sunday.

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Published May 29, 2021

MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.