Longhorns Baseball Clinches Share of Big 12 Title After 12-2 Saturday Win

After a little help from the Kansas State Wildcats, the Texas Longhorns clinched a share of the Big 12 regular season title with a 12-2 win over West Virginia

Matt Galatzan | May 22, 2021

The No. 2 Texas Longhorns baseball team won a share of the Big 12 regular-season conference championship on Saturday night, after a 12-2 win over the West Virginia Mountaineers, and a little help from the Kansas State Wildcats.

Heading into the final game of the weekend, Texas trailed the TCU Horned Frogs by half a game in the Big 12 standings, needing a win over West Virginia, as well as an upset win from Kansas State to take a share of the title.

Kansas State would hold up their end of the bargain, upsetting the Horned Frogs with a walk-off three-run home run from catcher Chris Ceballos.

Back in Austin, the Longhorns fell behind early in the first inning to the Mountaineers 1-0. However, thanks to a big second inning from the Texas offense, the Longhorns took control and never looked back, racking up 15 hits and 12 runs over the final eight innings, and clinching a share of the Big 12 title.

Eric Kennedy led the way for the Longhorns, ending the day with three hits on four at-bats, with four RBI, while Mike Antico and Mitchell Daly also finished with three hits apiece.

On the mound, Pete Hansen went six innings, allowing just one run and two hits, while striking out six batters for his seventh win of the year.

The Longhorns (40-13, 17-7) will be the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Big 12 Conference Tournament in Oklahoma City.

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Published May 22, 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.