***Texas vs. Rice Baseball - Game 1***

[HornSports Staff]

#6 Texas opens the 2015 season with a 4-game series against the #13 Rice Owls today (Friday, February 13th) at Rice.

Venue:  Reckling Park
Location:  Houston, TX
All-time Series: Texas leads Rice, 223-54-2

Projected starting pitchers:

FRIDAY (6:00 pm start time)
(Texas) Parker French vs. (Rice) Kevin McCanna

Related articles:

• Season Preview Part I - Returning Standouts (team defense and starters) - http://t.co/GEhtLihyZu
  
• Season Preview Part II - Plate Production (a look at the Texas offense) - http://t.co/lgHsafBCr2
  
• Season Preview Part III - Armed and Ready (pitching) - http://t.co/pADkgXJw2i
  

 

[Matt Cotcher]

http://youtu.be/3Syn7MYUUOI

 

[Matt Cotcher]

No. 6 Texas (0-0, 0-0 Big 12) at No. 13 Rice (0-0, 0-0 C-USA) • Feb. 13-15

Houston, Texas • Reckling Park 

Video: riceowls.com/collegesportslive/ (Requires subscription)

Live Stats: RiceOwls.com

Probable Starting Pitchers

FRIDAY – 6:00PM

Texas – Senior RHP, Parker French (last year: 7-5, 2.41)

Rice – Junior RHP, Kevin McCanna (last year: 8-3, 2.69)

SATURDAY – 12:00PM

Texas – Sophomore RHP, Kacy Clemens

Rice – Junior LHP, Blake Fox (last year: 12-0, 1.46)

SATURDAY (GAME 2) – 4:00PM

Texas – Sophomore LHP, Josh Sawyer (last year: 1-0, 5.59)

Rice – Freshman RHP, Ricardo Salinas

SUNDAY1 p.m.

Texas – Junior RHP, Chad Hollingsworth (last year: 4-0, 1.15)

Rice – Junior RHP, Austin Orewiler (last year: 1-0, 2.35)

SERIES INFO:

All-time Series: Texas leads, 223-54-2

The Longhorns won 3 of 4 matchups last season, including a 3-2 victory in 11 innings in the Houston Regional.

TEXAS NOTE:

Texas' 2014 recruiting class was ranked seventh-best in the nation by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. The Longhorns signed 10 players for the class of 2014, eight of which are from the state of Texas. Despite three of those being selected in the MLB Draft this summer (RHP Tyler Schimpf, C Michael Cantu, INF Travis Jones), all 10 players reported to campus. Of the 21 players signed in the last two years, 20 have joined the Longhorns on the 40 Acres.

On the new baseballs…

From the NCAA: "Flat-seamed baseballs launched out of a pitching machine at averages of 95 mph, a 25-degree angle and a 1,400 rpm spin rate traveled around 387 feet compared to raised-seamed baseballs that went 367 feet. Due to variables, not every trajectory hit with a flat-seamed ball will travel exactly 20 feet farther than a raised-seamed ball, but a 20-foot average difference is an approximate representation of what can be expected."

 

[streettopeschel]

Appropriate time to appreciate...

There have been NCAA postseason baseball for 68 years. UT has been in 56 of the tournaments.

68 College World Series and UT has been in 35 with 6 wins and 6 runners-up.

Four coaches since 1911 (with apologies to BCherry who took over 3 years during WWII) and all legends.

That boys and girls is a baseball program.

 

[joeywa]

Some early lineup info.

Rice:

8 Chandler

4 Stainback

6 Byrd

DH Reeves

3 C. Teykl

5 Gray

9 Warren

2 Kopycinski

7 Williamson

RHP McCanna

 

[joeywa]

Texas

7 Johnson

9 Shaw

6 CJ

4 Marlow

2 Tres

5 Boswell

DH Gurwitz

8 Stell

3 Jones

RHP French

 

[joeywa]

Note on Boswell & Gurwitz.  Boswell took IF practice and I hear he was looking fine. 

Gurwitz has been moved to the DH spot.  Stell has been put into CF in his place while Gurwitz nurses his minor injury.

 

[Matt Cotcher]

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[joeywa]

A few notes before we get going. 

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Hook Em!

 

[joeywa]

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Big Time-Kendall in the house!

 

[joeywa]

Aaron is on site with a camera. 

 

[joeywa]

Rice in white jerseys, white pants, blue leggings and caps

Texas in burnt orange jerseys, gray pants, burnt orange socks and caps

 

[joeywa]

And the season is officially here and I'm a bit giddy. 

Breezy night at Reckling. 

National Anthem coming up.

Rice has taken to the field.

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Ben Johnson took a first pitch strike on the first pitch of the season just to troll Slim.

 

[utisdabomb12]

Shaw with a nice swing. 

 

[joeywa]

T1

Johnson ®

0-1 take

0-2 fouled away

0-2 fouled away

K swinging at a pitch that jammed him

1 down

Shaw (L)

0-1 fouled back

0-2 swing

1-2 in

2-2 dirt

Double into LCF gap; that was a single for most but Shaw has some serious wheels and turned w/o hesitation.

Heady base running

CJ ®

CJ steps out as McCanna really watching Shaw

0-1 foul

Organ playing in the background

1-1 low & away

2-1 misses low

F9

Shaw tags and moves to 3B

2 down

Marlow (L)
0-1 misses a curve

0-2 swing

1-2 away

4-3

No score, 1 LOB headed B1

 

[utisdabomb12]

Nothing doing in the top of the 1st but Texas got some good swings in. 

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Nice work by McCanna to jump ahead of Marlow 0-2.

 

[joeywa]

Note: The fly ball that CJ hit was a solid liner that just stayed up for the RF.  Shaw ripped that double. 

Really not a bad effort by the Horns in T1.