#6 Texas Baseball hammers #3 TCU 9-3 on Sunday to win series in Fort Worth

[HornSports Staff]

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The Longhorns and Horned Frogs battled it out on Sunday at Lupton Stadium in the rubber match after splitting Friday and Saturday matchups on the diamond. 

Left-hander Pete Hansen (6-1) pitched a masterful performance on Sunday, going seven innings and giving up just two hits and no runs for the Longhorns. 

Zack Zubia, who struck out with two men on base on Saturday afternoon to end the game, redeemed himself with a monster day.  Zubia went 3-5 at the plate with two home runs and four RBI, pacing the Texas offense to an eventual blowout of TCU on their home field.

Cam Williams also homered for the Longhorns and registered a 2-3 day at the plate with three RBI.

Texas got to Horned Frog starter Johnny Ray (5-2) early on, blasting three home runs in three innings before Ray was pulled after just 2 1/3 innings pitched.

After five innings Texas led 5-0 and added four more runs in the sixth to extend the lead to 9-0.  

TCU scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth on Bobby Goodloe's three-run homer but it wasn't enough.

With the series win over TCU, Texas is one game back of the Horned Frogs in the Big 12 standings.

Texas will face Texas Southern on Tuesday night at Disch-Falk before closing out the regular season against Rice and West Virginia next week.

 

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Losing the Tech series is looming large at this point