Tech takes series win at Iowa State with 9-1 victory

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Texas Tech beat Iowa State 11-1 on Friday night behind two-hit pitching from Kendall Fritz (pictured) and then beat the Cyclones 9-1 on Saturday with Erna Carlin allowing two hits in five innings.
Texas Tech beat Iowa State 11-1 on Friday night behind two-hit pitching from Kendall Fritz (pictured) and then beat the Cyclones 9-1 on Saturday with Erna Carlin allowing two hits in five innings.

AMES, Iowa — A nine-run second inning was all Texas Tech needed to take down Iowa State 9-1 in five innings in the finale of a three-game Big 12 softball series Saturday.

The Red Raiders (21-10, 4-8) have won two straight games for the first time since downing Kansas on April 1-2. The Cyclones dropped to 21-21 overall and 2-7 in conference.

Erna Carlin (7-4) was masterful in the circle, allowing two hits and one run while striking out four in five innings. Abbie Orrick and Riley Ehlen provided the offensive production, each going 2-for-2 with Orrick hitting a three-run homer and Ehlen a two-run single.

Texas Tech scored nine runs in the second inning, a season-high, and its most since a 13-run inning on March 21, 2021 against Tarleton State.

The Red Raiders are set visit Abilene Christian at 5 p.m. Wednesday before heading to Waco for a three-game series against Baylor.

Carlin
Carlin

Women's golf

FORT WORTH — Cristina Tiglea secured a singles victory, capping off a 4-0 road sweep of TCU in a Big 12 regular-season finale Saturday.

Tech (14-9, 4-5) snapped a two-match losing streak.

Tiglea, a freshman from Milan, Italy, secured a 6-2, 6-1 victory while Metka Komac (6-2, 6-3), and Avelina Sayfetdinova (6-4, 6-1) earned singles wins to close out the sweep.

Texas Tech won the doubles point as Komac and Olivia Peet, along with the tandem of Tiglea and Margarita Skriabina secured wins.

Next up for Tech is the Big 12 tournament that starts Thursday in Fort Worth. Depending on the results of conference matches elsewhere this weekend, the Red Raiders could be the the fifth, sixth or seventh seed and play their first match of the tournament on Thursday or Friday.

Men's golf

Scott
Scott

PHOENIX — Texas Tech finished third the Thunderbird Collegiate that concluded Saturday at Papago Golf Course with Ludvig Aberg and Calum Scott both recording top-10 finishes individually.

The No. 7 Red Raiders posted a final round of 12-under to move up the leaderboard from fifth, where they started the day. No. 1 Oklahoma pulled away to win the team championship.

Tech finished the tournament at 22-under (285-273-272), while the Sooners were 31-under (278-273-270) followed by No. 4 Arizona State, who took runner-up at 26-under. ASU’s James Leow was the tournament medalist at 14-under after shooting 67-66-66 over the two days.

Aberg recorded his sixth top-10 finish of the season by shooting 10-under par and taking sixth overall. Scott shot 8-under to secure his first top-10. A freshman from Scotland playing in his ninth tournament, Scott finished ninth overall with a scorecard of 70-66-69 through the 54-hole event. Aberg posted 67-70-66 with his final round being a bogey-free.

The Red Raiders' next event is the Big 12 tournament April 25-27 in Trinity.

Track and field

Texas Tech freshman Brya Brewer set a personal record in the triple jump Friday at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, California, going 44 feet, 4 inches.

That mark ranks sixth in NCAA Division I this season, pending the results of meet elsewhere this weekend. Brewer was a state champion for Cedar Hill and the nation's top-ranked girls' high-school triple jumper last year.

Competing in the same meet in the men's long jump Friday, Tech's Jalen Seals went 25-9 1/4, good for seventh in Division I this season, pending results elsewhere this weekend.

Tech sent split squads to opposite coasts this week with part of the team at the Mt. SAC Relays and part at the Tom Jones Memorial hosted by Florida.

In the latter, Tech seniors Chloe Wall and Seasons Usual each placed second in their events. Wall cleared 14-1 3/4 in the pole vault, and Usual threw 185-7 in the discus.

In the men's discus, Tech senior Gabriel Oladipo got fourth with a mark of 188-1.

Among Tech's other top finishers were Ryleigh Redding, fifth in the women's pole vault (13-3 1/4), Sylvia Schulz, sixth in the women's 400-meter hurdles (58.49 seconds) and Garrett Wade, sixth in the men's javelin (220-5).

In the Olympic Development section of the 200 meters, former South Plains College sprinter Jereem Richards ran the second-fastest time in the world this year, a 20.12 in legal wind.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Carlin throws 5 strong innings as Texas Tech softball secures series win with 9-1 road win over Iowa State