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Texas Tech designated hitter Ty Coleman (10) takes the field before the Red Raiders' series opener Friday against Baylor. In five games last week, Coleman had eight hits, including three home runs and four doubles. He drove in seven runs and scored 10.
Texas Tech designated hitter Ty Coleman (10) takes the field before the Red Raiders' series opener Friday against Baylor. In five games last week, Coleman had eight hits, including three home runs and four doubles. He drove in seven runs and scored 10.

The Texas Tech baseball team plays the first of four road games Tuesday when the Red Raiders visit Abilene Christian University in a non-conference matchup at 6:05 p.m. at Crutcher Scott Field.

Tech is 29-13 and 8-7 in the Big 12. The Red Raiders are coming off winning twice in a three-game series against Baylor.

On Monday, Tech moved up three spots to No. 15 in the weekly poll of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. The other Big 12 teams in the poll are No. 21 West Virginia (29-11, 8-4), No. 24 Oklahoma State (28-13, 11-7) and No. 26 Texas (27-15, 8-7).

Abilene Christian is 25-14 and 10-8 in the Western Athletic Conference. The Wildcats dropped two of three over the weekend in a WAC series against UT-Rio Grande Valley.

The scheduled starting pitchers are Tech righthander Zane Petty (2-0, 5.02 earned-run average) and Max Huffling (3-1, 4.13), a 6-foot-9 lefthander for ACU. In two games last year against the Red Raiders, Huffling threw six shutout innings, allowing two hits, no walks and striking out 11.

Tech first baseman Gavin Kash came out of the weekend second in NCAA Division I in runs batted in with 67 and tied for second in home runs with 20. He leads the Big 12 in those offensive categories and four others.

Red Raiders third baseman Kevin Bazzell leads Division I in doubles with 22. Bazzell, batting .386 with four homers and 44 RBI, ranks third in the Big 12 in batting average, and he and second baseman Austin Green (.331-7-44) are tied for fourth in the conference in RBI.

ACU's top hitters include second baseman Garrett Williams (.369-1-29), center fielder Logan Britt (.336-10-32), left fielder Grayson Tatrow (.336-12-43) and catcher Tanner Tweedt (.314-8-30). Tatrow is tied for second in the WAC in home runs and tied for third in RBI. Britt ranks second in the conference in stolen bases with 21.

Tech plays at Kansas State (26-16, 9-6) in a conference series at 6 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

Football

Texas Tech offensive tackle Jack Tucker, running back Clazarion Campbell and kicker Gabe Showalter announced Monday they're having their names entered into the NCAA transfer portal. Campbell and Showalter were on the team as walk-ons.

In addition, national college football writer Mike Farrell reported that Tech defensive end L.B. Moore has his name in the transfer portal.

Tucker signed with Tech out of Argyle for the class of 2021, redshirted that year and didn't get into a game as a redshirt freshman this past season. He had not cracked the two-deep in the Red Raiders' offensive line. The team's first-team tackles are returning starters Monroe Mills and Caleb Rogers, and the second-team tackles are Matt Keeler and Ty Buchanan, also returnees.

Moore, part of Tech's signing class of 2020 out of Amarillo Tascosa, redshirted in the first of his three years in the program. The past two seasons, he played in four games and was credited with two tackles.

Showalter joined the Red Raiders in January as a walk-on from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where he made 8 of 10 field goals last season and earned NJCAA second-team all-America recognition.

Showalter made an extra point in Tech's spring game Saturday, but was behind Gino Garcia and Stone Harrington on the depth chart. Garcia made 3 of 3 field goals in the spring game, and Harrington made 2 of 2.

Campbell, a sophomore from Saginaw, carried four times for 20 yards in the spring game.

The NCAA established two transfer-portal windows: the first for 45 days beginning the day after College Football Playoff pairings are made in December and a second in the spring. The latter originally was set for May 1-15 and then changed from April 15-30.

Undergraduate players who want to transfer during the current window and be immediately eligible at their next school must have their names in the portal by April 30. There is an exception for graduate transfers, who can have their names entered into the portal at any time and be immediately eligible at a subsequent school.

Softball

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kasey Hamilton and Lizzy Ludwig scattered three hits apiece and Kansas beat Texas Tech 3-0 Monday in a Big 12 series finale, shutting out the Red Raiders for the second day in a row.

Hamilton (9-7) pitched four innings and Ludwig worked three innings for her fourth save. Each had three strikeouts. Ludwig threw a five-hit complete game Sunday in a 1-0 victory.

Lyric Moore and Aynslee Linduff doubled home the Jayhawks' first two runs in the first and fourth innings, and Olivia Bruno homered in the sixth.

Tech starter Kendall Fritz (10-6) went 5 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on seven hits. She struck out four and walked one.

Tech (30-19, 4-11) concludes the regular series with a home series this week against Oklahoma State. The games are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday at Rocky Johnson Field.

Kansas is 22-21 and 4-8.

Tech men's golf

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Texas Tech senior Ludvig Aberg shot 67-66 in Monday's first two rounds of the Big 12 tournament at Prairie Dunes and is in second place at 7 under par.

Aberg is two strokes behind Oklahoma State's Jonas Baumgartner, who shot 3-under 67 in the first round and birdied his last three holes in the second for 6-under 64. Oklahoma's Drew Goodman (67-70) is third at 3-under followed by his Sooners' teammates Patrick Welch (70-68) and Ben Lorenz (68-70) at 2-under.

Oklahoma is leading the tournament at 6-under, followed by Oklahoma State at 6-over, Texas Tech at 10-over, TCU at 16-over and Texas at 17-over.

Tech's Tyran Snyders (73-70) is tied for 14th in the 50-player field at 3-over. Calum Scott shot a pair of 72s for 4-over. Baard Skogen shot 74-76 and Matthew Comegys 81-76.

The 72-hole event continues with rounds Tuesday and Wednesday.

LCU women's golf

THACKERVILLE, Okla. ― Lubbock Christian University was in 13th place out of 14 teams after Monday's second round of the Lone Star Conference tournament at Winstar Golf Club.

LCU's Alexandra Escamilla (74-77) is tied for 30th in the 70-player field, and Lily Griffin (76-77) and Prestley Hammond (77-76) are tied for 40th. Rounding out the Lady Chaps' lineup are Kyra Schmuhl (81-85) and Aspen Escamilla (81-87).

Tech track & field

The Texas Tech men are No. 2 and the Texas Tech women re no. 22 in the weekly rating by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The men's ranking is unchanged from last week, and the women are in the top 25 for the first time this season.

The Red Raiders finish the regular season at home this weekend, hosting the Corky/Crofoot Shootout on Friday and Saturday at the Fuller Track Complex.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech roundup: ACU road game next up for Red Raiders