Texas Tech reveals 2023 baseball schedule
Texas Tech will play its first 10 games and 19 of its first 22 at home during the 2023 season. There are 37 home games on the schedule Tech released Thursday, and the Red Raiders will play five non-conference opponents who made the NCAA Tournament last season.
The Red Raiders open with four games against Gonzaga from Feb. 17-20, four games against Western Illinois from Feb. 24-26 and two games against Air Force on Feb. 28 and March 1.
The only early road trip is to the 23rd Shriners College Classic at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Tech is scheduled against Michigan at 3 p.m. March 3, Texas A&M at 7 p.m. March 4 and Rice at 7 p.m. March 5.
Then it's nine more home games between March 7 and March 19 against New Mexico, Iowa, UT-Arlington and Oklahoma State, the latter being the first three-games series in Big 12 play.
Mixed in during the Big 12 schedule, the Red Raiders have additional non-conference home games against Abilene Christian (April 4), North Dakota State (April 6-8), Grand Canyon (April 18-19) and Sam Houston State (May 5-7). They have additional non-conference road trips to New Mexico (March 28), Stanford (April 10-11), Abilene Christian (April 25),
Air Force, Michigan, Gonzaga, Grand Canyon and Stanford all made the NCAA postseason last spring with Stanford advancing to the College World Series for the second year in a row. The Cardinal made the CWS in 2021 by beating Tech in a super regional at Dan Law Field/Rip Griffin Park.
In Big 12 play, in addition to Oklahoma State, Tech hosts TCU (March 31-April 2), Baylor (April 21-23) and Kansas (May 18-20). The Red Raiders go to Texas (March 24-26), Oklahoma (April 14-16), Kansas State (April 28-30) and West Virginia (May 12-14).
Baseball
Texas Tech has postponed Friday's second game of the annual intrasquad Red-Black Series because of the weather forecast.
The three-game series got under way Thursday. The second game will be played at 2 p.m. Sunday with the time and date of the third game to be determined. The National Weather Service forecast for Friday in Lubbock calls for a high temperature of 50 degrees, north northeast wind at 20 miles per hour and an 80 percent of precipitation.
Cross country
Oklahoma State women's and men's teams will try to repeat as champions when Texas Tech hosts the Big 12 championships on Saturday at Lubbock Christian University's Chaparral Ridge.
The women's 6-kilometer race is scheduled for 10 a.m., followed by the men's 8-kilometer run at 11 a.m. Big 12 Now on ESPN+ will air both races.
Running on their home course last year in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State men won their 11th Big 12 team championship and second in a row, and the OSU women won their third Big 12 title. Iowa State and West Virginia finished second and third on the women's side and Iowa State and Texas were second and third on the men's.
The Tech women were eighth, the Tech men seventh.
The Tech teams most recently ran at Texas A&M's Arturo Barrios Invitational, where the men took fifth place out of 41 teams and the women finished 16th out of 38 teams. For the third meet in a row, Edward Rush and Halena Rahmaan were the Red Raiders' top finishers. Rush ran his 8K personal record, 23 minutes, 54.70 seconds, for sixth place individually. Rahmaan ran her 6K personal best, 22:06.40, for 72nd place in a field of 326.
Volleyball
AUSTIN — Logan Eggleston hit .565 with 13 kills and Molly Phillips hit .733 with 11 kills as No. 2 Texas swept Texas Tech 25-18, 25-7, 25-9 on Wednesday night in Big 12 volleyball at Gregory Gym.
Texas (16-1, 8-1) posted a season-high .506 attack percentage, held Tech (14-8, 3-6) to .090 hitting and beat the Red Raiders in three sets for the second time this season.
Kenna Sauer led Tech with 11 kills and eight digs. Alex Torres had 10 assists and six digs.
Madisen Skinner added nine kills for Texas.
Tech has lost four matches in a row, only one going to five sets. The Red Raiders are home for two matches next week, at 6 p.m. Wednesday against Baylor and at 1 p.m. Nov. 5 against TCU.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Tech sports roundup: Red Raiders' 2023 baseball schedule has 37 home games
