Road game at UNM next up for Tech
Texas Tech, having been swept in a three-game Big 12 baseball series over the weekend at Texas, will try to get back on track when the Red Raiders go to New Mexico for a non-conference game.
Tech (18-7) and UNM (14-8) square off at 3 p.m. CDT Tuesday at Santa Ana Star Field in Albuquerque. The teams met March 7 in Lubbock with the Red Raiders winning 6-3. New Mexico is 8-3 at home this season, and Tech is 1-5 in games played away from Lubbock.
Texas beat Tech 6-2, 6-5 and 9-8, winning the last two games in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the ninth. According Tech research, Red Raiders teams under Tim Tadlock had been swept in only four other series, in 2013 at Kansas State, in 2014 at Kansas, in 2015 at Cal State Fullerton and last year at TCU.
On Monday, Tech dropped five spots to No. 19 in the weekly poll of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. The other Big 12 teams in the ranking are Oklahoma State (20-5, 4-2) at No. 13, Texas (18-7, 3-0) at No. 24, West Virginia (18-6, 0-0) at No. 25 and TCU (15-9, 4-2) at No. 27.
Tech hosts TCU in a Big 12 series at 6:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Tech men's golf
PALM CITY, Fla. — Ludvig Aberg shot 10 under par for 36 holes, leading him and his Texas Tech team to three-stroke leads after Monday's first two rounds of the Valspar Collegiate tournament.
Aberg, No. 2 on the latest World Amateur Golf Ranking, shot 65-67. Closest behind him at 7-under are Houston's Wolfgang Glawe (70-65), North Carolina's David Ford (67-68) and Georgia Southern's Ben Carr (66-69).
Another stroke back is Tech's Tyran Snyders (72-64), who birdied six of his last seven holes and nine altogether in a 7-under second round.
Tech's Calum Scott (68-69) is tied for eighth at 5-under going into Tuesday's final round. Matthew Comegys (72-73) stands 3-over, and Jack Wall (72-78) is 8-over.
The combined 11-under second round put the Red Raiders atop the team leaderboard at 18-under. Then it's North Carolina at 15-under, Arizona State at 10-under and Florida State at 9-under. Texas and Ohio State are tied for fifth in the 16-team field at 5-under.
Tech track
The Texas Tech men are No. 7 in the first ranking of the outdoor season released Monday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The Red Raiders are scheduled to compete in the Texas Relays that run from Wednesday through Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: College sports roundup: Road game at UNM next up for Red Raiders
