Senior day on tap for Tech women's tennis team
Texas Tech will host TCU in the Red Raiders' last home match of the season at 3 p.m. Friday at the McLeod Tennis Center.
Before the match, Tech will recognize Olivia Peet for senior day. Peet, from Manchester, England, has played all five of her college seasons for the Red Raiders.
The match is the last of five consecutive at home for Tech (13-7, 3-3), which won the first three against No. 20 Kansas, Kansas State and Baylor and lost on Sunday to No. 9 Texas.
TCU (9-7, 1-5) has lost three in a row, falling to Kansas, Texas and Baylor, all at home.
Tech baseball
No. 19 Texas Tech takes a break from Big 12 play when the Red Raiders host North Dakota State in a three-game non-conference series at Dan Law Field/Rip Griffin Park. The series, originally singled as single games Thursday, Friday and Saturday, was pushed back a day because of winter weather-related travel issues for the the Bison.
Tech (20-9) and North Dakota State (7-20) are scheduled to play a game at 2 p.m. Friday and a doubleheader at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Friday's pitching matchup has Tech's Brendan Girton (2-0, 4.83 earned-run average) against North Dakota State's Cade Feeney (2-3, 5.91), both righthanders.
On Saturday, Tech will send lefthander Mason Molina (2-2, 4.37) and Trendan Parish (1-0, 4.97) against lefthander Max Loven (1-2, 10.86) and righthander Tristen Roehrich (2-4, 4.82).
North Dakota State has yet to play a home game this season. The Bison play the first of their 13 home games on April 18.
Tech women's golf
Big 12 women's teams will compete in a five-round conference match-play tournament for the first time on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Kierland Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Texas Tech is seeded fifth out of the nine teams.
The top four seeds are Texas, Baylor, Iowa State and Oklahoma State.
The same 18 holes will be played during each round using a combination of the Ironwood and Acacia courses. Ironwood 1 will be considered as hole No. 1, and Acacia 1 will be designated as hole No. 10.
Two rounds on Friday and the morning round on Saturday will consist of pool play with teams playing in threesomes. The top eight teams then advance to the semifinal round in championship and consolation brackets on Saturday afternoon. The championship and consolation matches are scheduled for Sunday morning.
Tech track & field
Texas Tech competes this weekend in Arizona's Jim Click Multis and Shootout at Drachman Stadium in Tucson, Arizona.
In addition to Arizona and Tech, teams from Oklahoma State, Minnesota, Nebraska and UCLA are entered along with additional individual entrants.
The Red Raiders are sending primarily their pole vaulters and throwers as well as a few track athletes.
"We kind of handpick people that didn't get to run (last week) at Texas Relays or maybe just had one round," Tech coach Wes Kittley said. "Florida the next week and California are going to be unbelievably tough, so we're going to just train this week with the group that really worked hard at the Texas Relays and run the ones that didn't get worked hard."
The other two meets Kittley referenced are the Bryan Clay Invitational April 13-15 in Azusa, California, and the Tom Jones Memorial April 14-15 in Gainesville, Florida.
Kittley said Sidney Sapp, the Big 12 champion outdoor in the women's high jump last year, likely will miss the outdoor season with the shin injury that kept her from competing in the Big 12 indoor championships.
Ruta Lasmane, the four-time first-team all-American in the triple jump, likely will compete for the first time in 2023 at Baylor's Michael Johnson Invitational April 21-22 in Waco, Kittley said. She's been out with a stress reaction in her back.
Tech softball
NORMAN, Okla. — Alex Storako pitched a three-hit shutout and top-ranked Oklahoma beat Texas Tech 3-0 in a Big 12 series opener Thursday night for its 26th victory in a row.
Storako (12-0) struck out four, walked one and lowered her earned-run average to 0.67.
The only hits she allowed were a leadoff single by Arriana Villa in the second inning, a two-out single by Kennedy Crites in the fifth and a leadoff double by Abbie Orrick in the sixth. Ellie Bailey drew a two-out walk in the sixth, but Storako got Peyton Blythe on a groundout to strand two.
Haley Lee homered off Maddie Kuehl (1-1) in the first, and Alyssa Brito hit a two-run double off Kendall Fritz in the fourth.
Oklahoma (34-1, 7-0) hosts Tech (28-13, 2-5) again at 6 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday.
Tech men's tennis
Eliot Spizzirri and Evin McDonald won in both doubles and singles, leading top-ranked Texas to a 5-2 victory against Texas Tech in a Big 12 match Thursday at the McLeod Tennis Center.
Texas (19-2, 3-0) won the best-of-three doubles point with wins from the teams of Spizzirri-Cleeve Harper and McDonald-Chih Chi Huang. Then UT's Spizzirri, Pierre-Yves Bailly, Siem Woldeab and McDonald won singles positions 1, 2, 3 and 6.
Reed Collier pulled Tech (12-8, 0-2) within 3-1 by beating Harper in straight sets, and Red Raiders freshman Lorenzo Esquici won the last match completed.
Tech hosts No. 2 TCU (19-1, 3-0) at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Basketball
Dave Campbell's Texas Basketball magazine recognized Lubbock Christain University forward Grace Foster as the all-Texas most valuable player for non-Division I programs this season.
Foster, a 6-foot-1 sophomore from Childress, averaged 16.4 points and 8.9 rebounds per game, leading the Lady Chaparrals to a 24-11 season and the round of 16 in the Division II NCAA Tournament.
She previously has been named player of the year for the Lone Star Conference and the two-conference NCAA South Central Region and an all-American by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and the D-II Conference Commissioners Association.
Four area players were honored on the women's all-Texas non-Division I team: Foster and Wayland Baptist forward Jenna Cooper-Jackson were two of the five players on the first team, LCU guard Maci Maddox was one of five players on the second team and Wayland forward Kaitlyn Edgemon was one of five on the all-defensive team.
LCU forward Rowan Mackenzie made the first unit on the men's all-Texas non-DI team. The 6-3 junior from Perth, Western Australia, averaged 19.5 points and 6.6 rebounds per game, leading the Chaps to a 19-12 season and the D-II NCAA Tournament.
LCU baseball
Chris Shull hit a pair of run-scoring singles and Jarred Gibson delivered a two-run double, helping Lubbock Christian University beat Texas A&M-Kingsville 9-4 Thursday in the opener of a four-game Lone Star Conference series at Hays Field.
Shull finished 3 for 4, and Carson Ogilvie, Eduardo Acosta and Nate Van Maanen had two hits apiece for LCU (19-15, 18-15), which moved within one game of fifth-place A&M-Kingsville (22-17, 21-16) in the conference standings. The two teams are scheduled for a doubleheader at 2 p.m. Friday and the series finale at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Texas Tech transfer Coleson Abel (1-1) threw four innings of scoreless middle relief for the victory. Abel struck out five while holding the Javelinas to one hit and two walks.
Shull pitched the first three innings, allowing three runs on four hits and striking out four. Tyler Manyo pitched the last two innings, allowing one unearned run on one hit.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: College sports roundup: Senior day on tap for Tech women's tennis team
